Below are some books I’ve read and now have a home on my bookshelf. If you’re interested in what I’m reading right now, you can find it on my About page.
Trickster Makes This World Mischief, Myth, and Art
by Lewis Hyde
Pablo Neruda Selected Poems
by Pablo Neruda
On Repentance and Repair
by Danya Ruttenberg
Theo of Golden
by Allen Levi
The Conquest of Bread
by Peter Kropotkin
Rejection
by Tony Tulathimutte
My Struggle:
by Karl Ove Knausgaard
The Ministry of Time
by Kaliane Bradley
Meditations in an Emergency
by Frank O'Hara
The Nutcracker And The Mouse-King
by E. T. A. Hoffmann
New Teeth
by Simon Rich
Notes on Being a Man
by Scott Galloway
A Christmas Memory
by Truman Capote
Without Feathers
by Woody Allen
Playful
by Cas Holman
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
by George Orwell
The Housekeeper and the Professor
by Yoko Ogawa
Down and Out in Paris and London
by George Orwell
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
How Big Things Get Done
by Bent Flyvbjerg
Design for the Real World
by Victor J. Papanek
The Odyssey
by Homer
You Are What You Read: A Practical Guide to Reading Well (Skills for Scholars)
by Robert DiYanni
What Are People For?
by Wendell Berry
The Year of Our Lord 1943: Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis
by Alan Jacobs
Tired of Winning: Donald Trump and the End of the Grand Old Party
by Jonathan Karl
Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
by Marshall McLuhan
Bargaining for Advantage: Negotiation Strategies for Reasonable People
by G. Richard Shell
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by J.R.R. Tolkien
Reimagined Worlds: Narrative Placemaking for People, Play, and Purpose
by Margaret Chandra Kerrison
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
by Italo Calvino
The Economic Naturalist: In Search of Explanations for Everyday Enigmas
by Robert H. Frank
Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play Element in Culture
by Johan Huizinga
The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations
by Christopher Lasch
Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It
by Richard V. Reeves
The Practice of Management
by Peter F. Drucker
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
by Liu Cixin
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
by Richard H. Thaler
The Shining (The Shining, #1)
by Stephen King
Dracula
by Bram Stoker
Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
by Theodor W. Adorno
Waiting for God
by Simone Weil
On Disobedience and Other Essays
by Erich Fromm
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
by Ocean Vuong
Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Woman Destroyed
by Simone de Beauvoir
Kierkegaard's Muse: The Mystery of Regine Olsen
by Joakim Garff
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto)
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
American Gods
by Neil Gaiman
Gravity and Grace
by Simone Weil
The Psychology of Money
by Morgan Housel
Coraline
by Neil Gaiman
Presence in the Modern World: A New Translation
by Jacques Ellul
The Remains of the Day
by Kazuo Ishiguro
And Then There Were None
by Agatha Christie
An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales
by Oliver Sacks
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
by Bessel van der Kolk
What Can a Body Do?: How We Meet the Built World
by Sara Hendren
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
by Cal Newport
Images of Organization
by Gareth Morgan
Wisdom's Wonder: Character, Creation, and Crisis in the Bible's Wisdom Literature
by William P. Brown
The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time, #1)
by Robert Jordan
Challenging Coaching: Going Beyond Traditional Coaching to Face the FACTS
by John Blakey
Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World
by Margaret J. Wheatley
Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame
by Charles Bukowski
Bioenergetics: The Revolutionary Therapy That Uses the Language of the Body to Heal the Problems of the Mind
by Alexander Lowen
Games People Play
by Eric Berne
Either/Or: A Fragment of Life
by Søren Kierkegaard
Orthodoxy
by G.K. Chesterton
The Poetry of Robert Frost
by Robert Frost
Modern Man in Search of a Soul
by C.G. Jung
ABC of Reading
by Ezra Pound
Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens
Paradise Lost
by John Milton
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
by Oliver Sacks
Children of Dune (Dune, #3)
by Frank Herbert
Purity of Heart is to Will One Thing: Spiritual Preparation for the Office of Confession
by Søren Kierkegaard
The Anti-Christ
by Friedrich Nietzsche
The Alchemist
by Paulo Coelho
Managing the Unknowable
by Ralph D. Stacey
Inner Gold: Understanding Psychological Projection
by Robert A. Johnson
When Narcissism Comes to Church: Healing Your Community From Emotional and Spiritual Abuse
by Chuck DeGroat
A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
by Miyamoto Musashi
The Curse of the Father: A Tale of Life After Loss
by Chad Daniel
The Training of the Twelve
by Alexander Balmain Bruce
A Little Book on the Human Shadow: A Poetic Journey into the Dark Side of the Human Personality, Shadow Work, and the Importance of Confronting Our Hidden Self
by Robert Bly
Imagine Church: Releasing Dynamic Everyday Disciples
by Neil Hudson
The Medium is the Massage
by Marshall McLuhan
The Five Most Important Questions You Will Ever Ask About Your Organization
by Peter F. Drucker
The Wisdom Commentary: Volume 1
by mike-murdock
The Rivers North of the Future: The Testament of Ivan Illich
by David Cayley
Who Rules the World? (American Empire Project)
by Noam Chomsky
The Great God Pan and Other Horror Stories
by Arthur Machen
A Short Life of Kierkegaard
by Walter Lowrie
Dialogue: The Art Of Thinking Together
by William Isaacs
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
by Pablo Neruda
Fear and Trembling
by Søren Kierkegaard
Tools for Conviviality
by Ivan Illich
The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing
by Merve Emre
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
by Trevor Noah
In the Vineyard of the Text: A Commentary to Hugh's Didascalicon
by Ivan Illich
Rich Dad, Poor Dad
by Robert T. Kiyosaki
The Street Photographer's Manual
by David Gibson
Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
by Michel Foucault
Tao Te Ching
by Laozi
To Have or to Be? The Nature of the Psyche
by Erich Fromm
How to Befriend Your Shadow: Welcoming Your Unloved Side by Monbourquette, John (2001) Paperback
by Jean Monbourquette
Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
by Cal Newport
The Flowers of Evil
by Charles Baudelaire
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Count of Monte Cristo
by Alexandre Dumas
Tree of Life, 3rd ed.: An Exploration of Biblical Wisdom Literature
by Roland Edmund Murphy
Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator
by Ryan Holiday
One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
by Herbert Marcuse
The Right to Useful Unemployment: And Its Professional Enemies
by Ivan Illich
Design: The Invention of Desire
by Jessica Helfand
Man and His Symbols
by C.G. Jung
Man's Search for Meaning
by Viktor E. Frankl
The Cross and the Switchblade
by David Wilkerson
God's Trombones
by James Weldon Johnson
God's Trombones
by James Weldon Johnson
The Externally Focused Quest: Becoming the Best Church for the Community
by Eric Swanson
The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't
by Robert I. Sutton
Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Theaetetus
by Plato
Celebration of Awareness: A Call for Institutional Revolution
by Ivan Illich
Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness
by Frederic Laloux
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
by Victor Hugo
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
by Hunter S. Thompson
1984
by George Orwell
The Life We're Looking For: Reclaiming Relationship in a Technological World
by Andy Crouch
The Prophets
by Abraham Joshua Heschel
The 5 Personality Patterns: Your Guide to Understanding Yourself and Others and Developing Emotional Maturity
by Steven Kessler
The Prophetic Imagination
by Walter Brueggemann
Dune (Dune, #1)
by Frank Herbert
Christian Discourses, etc: The Lilies of the Field and the Birds of the Air and Three Discourses At the Communion on Fridays
by Søren Kierkegaard
Breakfast of Champions
by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Beyond Good and Evil
by Friedrich Nietzsche
The Picture of Dorian Gray
by Oscar Wilde
Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
The Luxury Strategy: Break the Rules of Marketing to Build Luxury Brands
by Jean-Noël Kapferer
So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love
by Cal Newport
Concerning the Spiritual in Art
by Wassily Kandinsky
Dune Messiah (Dune #2)
by Frank Herbert
Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies
by Geoffrey B. West
New Teeth
by Simon Rich
New Teeth
by Simon Rich
The Pilgrim's Progress
by John Bunyan
The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion
by Mircea Eliade
Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
by Mihály Csíkszentmihályi
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
by Lewis Carroll
In Praise of Shadows
by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings
by Charles Dickens
How to Make Sense of Any Mess
by Abby Covert
