Reading List
I write because I read. This is a list of 30 books that have shaped my thinking.
Naturally, I don't agree with everything written in these books. In some cases, I would even challenge the core message. But they all at least provide an interesting frame. I hope it helps.
Philosophy
- Meaningness by David Chapman
- The Gay Science by Friedrich Nietzsche
- Pragmatism by William James
- I and Thou by Martin Buber
- The Human Condition by Hannah Arendt
- In Search of a Better World by Karl Popper
Science
- Behave by Robert Sapolsky
- The Evolving Self by Robert Kegan
- How Emotions Are Made by Lisa Feldman Barrett
- Creativity by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- Antifragile by Nassim Taleb
- Order Out of Chaos by Illya Prigogine & Isabelle Stengers
Literature
- The Road by Cormac McCarthy
- Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
- The Odyssey by Homer
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Hunger by Knut Hamsun
Culture & Technology
- The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker
- The History of Sexuality by Michel Foucault
- The Gutenberg Galaxy by Marshall McLuhan
- Breaking Smart by Venkatesh Rao
- Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital by Carlota Perez
- Notes of the Synthesis of Form by Christopher Alexander
Spirituality
- The Bhagavad Gita
- As One Is by Jiddu Krishnamurti
- Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
- The Buddha's Path to Deliverance by Nyanatiloka Thera
Biographies & Memoirs
- Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
- The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen
- Memories, Dreams, Reflections by Carl Jung
- The Snowball by Alice Schroeder