Sorted Library

Sorted Library An independent library promoting nonlinear thinking. Our books are organized in small collections by members. Currently by Appointment.

"What are the stories that we tell ourselves about love and how our lives will turn out to be? How much do we challenge ...
07/21/2020

"What are the stories that we tell ourselves about love and how our lives will turn out to be? How much do we challenge previous norms and break from the template? I pulled from Fiction, Philosophy, Theater and more.” - A collection called Template by Len Yeh, @ Sorted Library

"I was seven when I first saw the Manhattan skyline. It was a quick thing from the car, a rise in the road. I was in the...
07/16/2020

"I was seven when I first saw the Manhattan skyline. It was a quick thing from the car, a rise in the road. I was in the backseat, and I just said, "Yes" inside my seven-year-old self and I moved to the city as soon as I could.” - A collection on The Way The City Moves Me by Alexandra Hadav Jacobs @ Sorted Library

"All these books try to find either a simple answer to a complex question or find themselves with a complex answer to wh...
05/12/2020

"All these books try to find either a simple answer to a complex question or find themselves with a complex answer to what from the outside seems like a simple matter. None of them has the definitive, satisfying one at end. Which is great. :) Let's keep searching. That is more fulfilling anyways." - A collection called Simply Impossible by Thoka Maer, @ Sorted Library

"Exploring artifice and deception, and the effect of these arts on enhancing, recasting, and renegotiating the "arrangem...
05/03/2020

"Exploring artifice and deception, and the effect of these arts on enhancing, recasting, and renegotiating the "arrangement of identity." Am I myself, pretending? Are these all facets of the self?" - A collection on Artifice by Tina Zhuo, @ Sorted Library

"As techonology becomes more intertwined in our daily lives, will it eventually take over? How? Will we have the skills ...
04/26/2020

"As techonology becomes more intertwined in our daily lives, will it eventually take over? How? Will we have the skills to survive? Can these books be read by robots to lean more about us?” - A collection on When Robots Take Over by Samantha Sumulong, . @ Sorted Library

"The art of transformation is a pure and blissful part of life." - A collection on The Temple of Life by Om Boogie. ...
04/18/2020

"The art of transformation is a pure and blissful part of life." - A collection on The Temple of Life by Om Boogie. @ Sorted Library

"This is as collection about the questions that we ask as we build our lives and the stories we tell when we look back u...
04/12/2020

"This is as collection about the questions that we ask as we build our lives and the stories we tell when we look back upon those lives. Some of the books are funny, some are classic, others are tragic, but they're all caught up in the work of making lives." - A collection on Women Making Lives by Megan Nesbeth, .nesbeth @ Sorted Library

"Amidst a week of news stories that go from bad to worse, this collection attempts to bring perspective to the moment th...
04/10/2020

"Amidst a week of news stories that go from bad to worse, this collection attempts to bring perspective to the moment through the lens of location, time and scale." - A collection called Zoom In / Zoom Out by Regan O'Connell, @ Sorted Library

"Books that refer to food in the collection, but are not about food." - A collection called Books That Are Not About Foo...
04/04/2020

"Books that refer to food in the collection, but are not about food." - A collection called Books That Are Not About Food by Heather Topcik, @ Sorted Library

"Architect Christopher Alexander writes in "The Timeless Way of Building" about spaces that become places, in the same w...
03/31/2020

"Architect Christopher Alexander writes in "The Timeless Way of Building" about spaces that become places, in the same way houses become homes, and routines become rituals. This collection is about the places and practices that help bring about those essential transformations from unknown to known, from strangers to relationships." - A collection on Places and Practices for Building Relationships by Killeen Hanson, @ Sorted Library

"This collection is about philosophy, rationalism, faith, and the human experience." - A collection on Worldviews by Dan...
03/25/2020

"This collection is about philosophy, rationalism, faith, and the human experience." - A collection on Worldviews by Dana Norris @ Sorted Library

"History tends to repeat itself, but yet we don't seem to learn from it. This collection attempts to make some sense of ...
03/14/2020

"History tends to repeat itself, but yet we don't seem to learn from it. This collection attempts to make some sense of why we are where we are." - A collection called We Know How It Happened But Not Why by Kenan Ali, .ali @ Sorted Library

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