Book Recommendations

Fiction

• Dune by Frank Herbert. 1965. 604 pp.
• The Once And Future King by T.H. White. 1958. 639 pp.
• Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe. 1719. 320 pp.
• Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card. 1994. 324 pp.
• Hart’s Hope by Orson Scott Card. 2003. 300 pp.
• A Planet Called Treason by Orson Scott Card. 1980. 299 pp.
• 1984 by George Orwell. 1949. 237 pp.
• Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. 1992. 480 pp.
• All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque. 1929. 296 pp.
• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut. 1969. 275 pp.
• Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy. 1985. 337 pp.
• The Other Wind by Ursula K. Le Guin. 2001. 211 pp.
• The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman. 2000. 467 pp.
• Taliesin by Stephen R. Lawhead. 1987. 496 pp.
• The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes. 2011. 150 pp.

Spirituality

• Lame Deer: Seeker of Visions by John Fire Lame Deer, Richard Erdoes. 1976. 352 pp.
• Zen: The Authentic Gate by Yamada Koun. 2015. 248 pp.
• Siddhartha by Herman Hesse. 1922. 152 pp.
• The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham. 1944. 314 pp.
• Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. 180. 254 pp.
• Tao: The Watercourse Way by Alan W. Watts. 1975. 134 pp.
• The Way of Zen by Alan W. Watts. 1957. 236 pp.
• Bhagavad Gita translated by Stephen Mitchell. 2000. 221 pp.
• Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu. Translated by Stephen Mitchell. 1989. 160 pp.
• No Man is an Island by Thomas Merton. 1955. 272 pp.
• Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl. 1946. 165 pp.
• Walden by Henry David Thoreau. 1854. 352 pp.
• Essential Muir by John Muir. Editted by Fred White. 2006. 131 pp.
• The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha translated by Bhikkhu Bodhi. 300 BCE. 1424 pp.
• The Wind is My Mother by Bear Heart. 1998. 288 pp.
• Death be Not Proud by John Gunther. 1998. 206 pp.
• Your Symphony of Selves by James Fadiman and Jordan Gruber. 2020. 434 pp

Life & Relationships

• Nonviolent Communication by Marshall B. Rosenberg. 1999. 220 pp.
• When the Past is Present: Healing the Emotional Wounds that Sabotage our Relationships by David Richo. 2008. 224 pp.
• Hold Me Tight by Dr. Sue Johnson. 2008. 300 pp.
• How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie. 1936. 288 pp.
• A Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi. 1645. 192 pp.
• The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt. 2012. 419 pp.
• Lying by Sam Harris. 2011. 47 pp.
• Mating in Captivity by Esther Perel. 2006. 272 pp.
• Hot Monogamy by Patricia Love, Jo Robinson. 1994. 310 pp.

Health & Self-Improvement

• Manage Your Energy, Not Your Time by by Tony Schwartz and Catherine McCarthy. 2007.
• Anticancer by David Servan-Schreiber. 2007. 274 pp.
• Starting Strength by Mark Rippetoe. 2011. 347 pp.
• Becoming a Supple Leopard by Kelly Starrett. 2013. 400 pp.
• 12 Rules for Life by Jordan B. Peterson. 2018. 448 pp.
• Tribe of Mentors by Timothy Ferris. 2017. 623 pp.
• How Life Imitates Chess by Gary Kasparov. 2001. 240 pp.
• Raw Nerve by Aaron Swartz.
• The Master Key System by Charles F. Haanel. 1912. 236 pp.

Writing, Thinking, & Leading

• On Writing Well by William Zinsser. 1976. 336 pp.
• Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. 1918. 105 pp.
• High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove. 1983. 272 pp.
• Leadership on the Line by Ronald A. Heifetz. 2002. 272 pp.
• The Leadership Pipeline: How to Build the Leadership-Powered Company by Ram Charan, Stephen Drotter, Jim Noel. 2000. 272 pp.

Financial Independence

• Your Money or Your Life by Vicki Robin and Joe Dominguez. 1992. 400 pp.
• The Simple Path to Wealth by J.L. Collins. 2016. 288 pp.
• The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham. 1949. 623 pp.

History

• World History by Irving L. Gordon. 1982. 300 pp.
• The Lessons of History by Will Durant and Ariel Durant. 1968. 119 pp.
• Why Don’t We Learn from History by B.H. Liddell Hart. 1972. 68 pp.
• Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari. 2011. 443 pp.
• The End is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses by Dan Carlin. 2019. 288 pp.

Mathematics

• Concepts of Modern Mathematics by Ian Stewart. 1975. 368 pp.
• Calculus by Michael Spivak. 1967. 670 pp.
• Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning by A.D. Aleksandrov, A.N. Kolmogorov, M.A. Lavrent’ev. 1963. 1120 pp.
• The Princeton Companion to Mathematics editted by Timothy Gowers, June Barrow-Green, Imre Leader. 2007. 1034 pp.

Science & Philosophy

• The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins. 1976. 360 pp.
• The Structure Of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn. 1962. 226 pp.
• Finite and Infinite Games by James P. Carse. 1986. 192 pp.
• Metaphors We Live By by George Lakoff, Mark Johnson. 1980. 276 pp.
• As We May Think by Vannevar Bush. 1945. 10 pp.
• Straw Dogs by John Gray. 2003. 246 pp.
• The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World by David Deutsch. 2011. 487 pp.
• The Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether, and the Unification of Forces by Frank Wilczek. 2008. 292 pp.
• Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality by Frank Wilczek. 2021. 272 pp.

Economics

• The Road to Serfdom by F. A. Hayek. 1944. 274 pp.
• Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell. 2000. 448 pp.
• Economic Facts and Fallacies by Thomas Sowell. 2007. 262 pp.
• The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels. 1848. 288 pp.
• Progress and Poverty by Henry George. 1879. 598 pp.
• Poor Economics by Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo. 2011. 320 pp.
• Zero to One by Peter Thiel, Blake Masters. 2014. 195 pp.
• Sacred Economics by Charles Eisenstein. 2011. 496 pp.