Reading

2026

  • Memory, History, ForgettingPaul Ricoeur
  • PiranesiSusanna Clark
  • So Long, See You TomorrowWilliam Maxwell
  • The Life of the MindHannah Arendt
  • This Precious LifeKhandro Rinpoche
  • The World Could be OtherwiseNorman Fischer
  • The Collected Stories of John McGahernJohn McGahern
  • Nonviolent CommunicationMarshall Rosenberg
  • Science and the Modern WorldAlfred North Whitehead
  • An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to IndependenceZeinab Badawi
  • The Lost World of the Dinosaurs: On the Trail of the Dinosaurs' Final SecretsArmin Schmitt
  • The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. HistoryNed Blackhawk
  • The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of the Donner PartyDaniel James Brown
  • Hunger Mountain: A Field Guide to Mind and LandscapeDavid Hinton
  • The Sovereignty of GoodIris Murdoch
  • Reflections on Silver River: Tokme Zongpo's Thirty-Seven Practices of a BodhisattvaKen McLeod
  • First LoveIvan Turgenev
  • The Alchemy of PsychologyJames Hillman
  • Train Dreams: A NovellaDenis Johnson
  • Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect ScienceAtul Gawande
  • A Trackless PathKen McLeod
  • The Three Pillars of Zen: Teaching, Practice, and EnlightenmentPhilip Kapleau
  • And Still I Rise: A Book of PoemsMaya Angelou
  • TimaeusPlato
  • Everything and More: A Compact History of InfinityDavid Foster Wallace
  • The Faraway NearbyRebecca Solnit
  • The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human WorldDavid Abram
  • Wanderlust: A History of WalkingRebecca Solnit
  • Amish Peace: Simple Wisdom for a Complicated WorldSuzanne Woods Fisher
  • Gödel's ProofErnest Nagel, James R. Newman, Douglas R. Hofstadter

2025

  • Gravity and GraceSimone Weil
  • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of TraumaBessel van der Kolk
  • Process-Relational Philosophy: An Introduction to Alfred North WhiteheadC. Robert Mesle
  • Pilgrim at Tinker CreekAnnie Dillard
  • In Praise of ShadowsJunichiro Tanizaki
  • The Diamond SutraRed Pine
  • Holy Rule of St. BenedictSaint Benedict of Nursia

2024

  • Mindful Living: A Collection of Teachings on Love, Mindfulness, and MeditationThích Nhất Hạnh
  • Fear and TremblingSøren Kierkegaard
  • The Passion According to G.H.Clarice Lispector
  • The PeregrineJ. A. Baker
  • To Bless the Space Between Us: A Collection of Invocations and Blessings John O'Donohue
  • The Courage to Be DislikedIchiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga
  • Awaiting GodSimone Weil
  • A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our BrainsMax Bennett
  • Black Elk: The Life of an American VisionaryJoe Jackson
  • Following Jesus: Finding Our Way Home in an Age of AnxietyHenri J. M. Nouwen
  • Quantum Computing Explained for Beginners: The Science, Technology, and ImpactPantheon Space Academy
  • AnathemNeal Stephenson
  • Open Mind, Open HeartThomas Keating
  • The Maniac (Unabridged)Benjamin Labatut
  • Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World: EssaysBarry Lopez
  • The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of RealityWilliam Egginton

2023

  • The Sayings of the Holy Desert FathersSaint Palladius
  • Man and His SymbolsCarl Jung
  • The Gnostic GospelsElaine Pagels
  • The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human ExperienceFrancisco J. Varela, Evan Thompson, Eleanor Rosch

2022

  • Notes from a Young Black Chef: A MemoirKwame Onwuachi, Joshua David Stein
  • The Poems of T. S. EliotT. S. Eliot
  • The Order of TimeCarlo Rovelli
  • The InformationJames Gleick
  • The Third PlateDan Barber
  • Permanent RecordEdward Snowden
  • Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the WorldJospeh Menn
  • Countdown to Zero DayKim Zetter
  • Working in PublicNadia Eghbal
  • DMT: The Spirit Molecule: A Doctor's Revolutionary Research into the Biology of Near-Death and Mystical ExperiencesRick Strassman
  • Decoding Jung's Metaphysics: The Archetypal Semantics of an Experiential UniverseBernardo Kastrup
  • DaemonDaniel Suarez
  • The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western WorldIain McGilchrist
  • Consilience: The Unity of KnowledgeEdward O. Wilson
  • Aion: Researches into the Phenomenology of the SelfCarl Jung
  • Exploring the Roots of ReligionRichard Rohr
  • The Hard Thing About Hard ThingsBen Horowitz
  • High Output ManagementAndy Grove
  • Lost and Founder: A Painfully Honest Field Guide to the Startup WorldRand Fishkin
  • The Long LonelinessDorothy Day
  • The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership FablePatrick Lencioni
  • How to Train a Wild Elephant & Other Adventures in Mindfulness: Simple Daily Mindfulness Practices for Living Life More Fully & JoyfullyJan Chozen Bays MD
  • Measure What MattersJohn Doerr
  • The 5AM ClubRobin Sharma
  • Dare to LeadBrené Brown
  • Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production SystemsBetsy Beyer, Chris Jones, Jennifer Petoff, Niall Richard Murphy
  • HorizonBarry Lopez
  • LandmarksRobert Macfarlane
  • The Monastic Heart: 50 Simple Practices for a Contemplative and Fulfilling LifeJoan Chittister
  • The RiverOlivia Laing
  • Annihilation: Southern Reach Trilogy, Book 1Jeff VanderMeer
  • Kahlil Gibran's Little Book of WisdomKahlil Gibran
  • Monolith to MicroservicesSam Newman
  • The Smell of Rain on DustMartin Prechtel
  • Radical WholenessPhilip Shepherd
  • The Practice of LojongTraleg Kyabgon, Ken Wilber
  • ExhalationTed Chiang
  • Desert Solitaire: A Season in the WildernessEdward Abbey
  • Christianity: The First Three Thousand YearsDiarmaid MacCulloch
  • Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates UsDaniel Pink
  • Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology OrganizationsNicole Forsgren
  • The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and ChangeCamille Fournier
  • Radical CandorKim Scott
  • Clean Architecture: A Craftsman's Guide to Software Structure and DesignRobert Martin (Uncle Bob)
  • Software Engineering at GoogleTitus Winters, Tom Manshreck, Hyrum Wright
  • Making Work VisibleDominica Degrandis
  • A History of Western PhilosophyBertrand Russell
  • Thich Nhat Hanh: Essential WritingsRobert Ellsberg, Thich Nhat Hanh

2021

  • The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood; Youth; DependencyTove Ditlevsen
  • All I CanSharon Van Etten
  • Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the VikingsNeil Price
  • The Brothers KaramazovFyodor Dostoevsky
  • The Autobiography of Malcom XMalcom X
  • The Gospel of ThomasAttributed to Thomas
  • Centering Prayer and Inner Awakening (Unabridged)
  • Up From SlaveryBooker T. Washington
  • Staff EngineerWill Larson
  • Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative PrayerRichard Rohr
  • A Still Forest Pool: The Insight Meditation of Achaan Chah : Quest BookAjchaan Chah, Jack Kornfield, Paul Breiter
  • Essence of the Upanishads: A Key to Indian SpiritualityEknath Easwaran
  • The Book of DisquietFernando Pessoa
  • Searching for Stars on an Island in MaineAlan Lightman
  • The Story of Human LanguageJohn McWhorter
  • Emily Dickinson: Poems and LettersEmily Dickinson
  • More than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth and BeliefBernardo Kastrup
  • An Introduction to Information Theory: Symbols, Signals and NoiseJohn P. Pierce
  • Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable SystemsMartin Kleppmann
  • Fundamentals of Software Architecture: An Engineering ApproachMark Richards, Neal Ford
  • Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History (Unabridged)Robert D. Kaplan
  • DemianHerman Hesse
  • American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert OppenheimerKai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin
  • The Autobiography of a Tibetan MonkPalden Gyatso, Tsering Shakya (translator)
  • Divine ComedyDante Alighieri
  • A Tale of Two CitiesCharles Dickens
  • ConfessionsAugustine of Hippo
  • Philosophical InvestigationsLudwig Wittgenstein
  • The Magic MountainThomas Mann
  • Passage MediationEknath Easwaran
  • Original Goodness: A Commentary on the BeatitudesEknath Easwaran
  • The Red Book: A Reader's Edition: PhilemonCarl Jung
  • Just ThisRichard Rohr
  • Nordic Tales: Folktales from Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, and Denmark
  • Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer AgeMichael Hiltzik
  • The Soul of a New MachineTracy Kidder
  • The First Signs: Unlocking the Mysteries of the World's Oldest SymbolsGenevieve von Petzinger
  • Peace is Every StepThích Nhất Hạnh
  • The Bhagavad GitaUnknown
  • Sand County AlmanacAldo Leopold
  • The Living MountainNan Shepherd
  • The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell BerryWendell Berry
  • The Cloud of UnknowingAnonymous, translated by Carmen Acevedo Butcher
  • Revelations of Divine LoveJulian of Norwich
  • The Old Ways: A Journey on FootRobert McFarlane
  • Four Arthurian RomancesChrétien de Troyes
  • Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern IrelandPatrick Radden Keefe
  • Nicholas Black Elk: Medicine Man, Missionary, MysticMichael F. Steltenkamp
  • Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of MossesRobin Wall Kimmerer
  • The Wisdom JesusCynthia Bourgeault

2020

  • The Seven Storey MountainThomas Merton
  • Dead SoulsNikolai Gogol
  • The River of ConsciousnessOliver Sacks
  • Dangerous Mystic: Meister Eckhart's Path to the God WithinJoel F. Harrington
  • Gnosticism: From Nag Hammadi to the Gospel of Judas (Great Courses)David Brakke
  • New Seeds of Contemplation
  • Paradise LostJohn Milton
  • The Art of Living: Peace and Freedom in the Here and NowThích Nhất Hạnh
  • Wilderness EssaysJohn Muir
  • A Short Account of the History of MathematicsW. W. Rouse Ball
  • I'm Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen
  • The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral MindJulian Jaynes
  • Classics of Russian Literature (The Great Courses)Irwin Weil
  • Fathers and SonsIvan Turgenev
  • Memories, Dreams, ReflectionsC. G. Jung
  • Thinking, Fast and SlowDaniel Kahneman
  • To Build a FireJack London
  • Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous HackersAndy Greenberg
  • 21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Unabridged)
  • A Rare Recording of Marshall McLuhanMarshall McLuhan
  • Homo Deus: A Brief History of TomorrowYuval Noah Harari
  • Goodbye, Things: The New Japanese MinimalismFumio Sasaki
  • Economics, 3rd Edition (Great Courses)Timothy Taylor
  • The Dharma BumsJack Kerouac
  • Maya To Aztec: Ancient Mesoamerica Revealed (The Great Courses audio recordings)Edwin Barnhart
  • The Three-Body ProblemCixin Liu
  • Dress Your Family in Corduroy and DenimDavid Sedaris
  • Go Tell It On the MountainJames Baldwin
  • Principles: Life and WorkRay Dalio
  • Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
  • Rendezvous with RamaArthur C. Clarke
  • Emerson, Thoreau, and the Transcendentalist Movement (Great Courses)Ashton Nichols
  • Neuroscience: Learning More About the Human BrainBernardo Kastrup
  • On AnarchismNoam Chomsky
  • Ancient Civilizations of North America (The Great Courses audio recordings)Edwin Barnhart

2019

  • Ender's Game: Special 20th Anniversary EditionOrson Scott Card
  • CryptonomiconNeal Stephenson
  • As I Lay DyingWilliam Faulkner
  • 48 Laws of PowerRobert Greene
  • A Handbook for New StoicsPigliucci, Lopez
  • A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information AgeJimmy Soni, Rob Goodman
  • An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering ManagementWill Larson
  • Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in CBruce Schneier
  • BecomingMichelle Obama
  • Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teaching of PlantsRobin Wall Kimmerer
  • Collected FictionsJorge Luis Borges
  • Computer Networks, Fifth EditionAndrew S. Tanenbaum, David J. Wetherall
  • The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it MattersTom Nichols
  • The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology OrganizationsGene Kim, Patrick DuBois, John Willis, Jez Humble
  • Man's Search for MeaningVictor Frankl
  • ReworkJason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson
  • TCP / IP Illustrated, Volume 1: The ProtocolsKevin R. Fall, W. Richard Stevens
  • The Fellowship of the RingJ.R.R. Tolkien
  • The Laws of Human NatureRobert Greene
  • The Leader's GuideEric Ries
  • The Lean StartupEric Ries
  • Thinking in Systems: A PrimerDonella H. Meadows
  • Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital UniverseGeorge Dyson
  • A Farewell to ArmsErnest Hemingway
  • One Hundred Years of SolitudeGabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Company of One: Why Staying Small Is the Next Big Thing for BusinessPaul Jarvis
  • A Little Life: A NovelHanya Yanagihara
  • Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the WorldHaruki Murakami

2018

2017

  • 1984George Orwell
  • Anarchism and Other EssaysEmma Goldman
  • Middlesex (Unabridged)Jeffrey Eugenides