Books I’ve Read

2020
George Orwell – The Road to Wigan Pier
Barbara Kingsolver – The Poisonwood Bible
Aldous Huxley – The Perennial Philosophy
Massimo Pigliucci – How to Be a Stoic
Schopenhauer – Essays and Aphorisms (Second readthrough)
Edmund Husserl – Ideas
Ludwig Wittgenstein – Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Joseph LeDoux – The Deep History of Ourselves
Carlo Rovelli – The Order of Time
Annaka Harris – Conscious
2019
Bertrand Russell – The Problems of Philosophy
Emile Coue – Self Mastery through Conscious Autosuggestion
Richard Dawkins – The Selfish Gene
Victor Frankl – Man’s Search for Meaning
George Orwell – Animal Farm
Hegel – The Phenomenology of Spirit
Albert Camus – the Fall
Albert Camus – Exile and the Kingdom (The Adulterous Wife; The Renegade, or a Confused mind; The Voiceless; The Guest; Jonas, or The Artist at Work; The Growing Stone)
Laurence B. Brown – The Eighth Scroll
Martin Heidegger – Being and Time
Jean Paul Sartre – Nausea
Albert Camus – The Plague
Albert Camus – The Rebel
Aldous Huxley – The Island
Albert Camus – The stranger
Aldous Huxley – Heaven and Hell
Aldous Huxley – The Doors of Perception
C.G. Jung – The Archetypes and The Collective Unconscious (Book 9 in collected Works)
Albert Camus – The Myth of Sisyphus
Cicero – On Duties
Eckhart Tolle – The Power of Now
Aristotle – Nicomechean Ethics (2nd read through)
2018
Campbell, Joseph – The Hero With a Thousand Faces
Neumann, Erich – The Origins and History of Consciousness 
Papaji, Sri H. W. L. Poonja – the Truth Is
Charles Darwin – The Origin of Species
Sam Harris – Waking up
Sam Harris – The Moral Landscape
Sam Harris – Freewill
Jordan Peterson – 12 Rules for Life
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn – The Gulag Archipelago (Abridged version) 
George Orwell – 1984
Aldous Huxley – Brave New World
Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, Douglas Abrams – Book of Joy
2017
Sam Harris – Letter To A Christian Nation
Sam Harris – The End of Faith 
Buddha – Suttanipata
Buddha – Anguttara Nikaya
Buddha – Samyutta Nikaya
Buddha – Majjhima Nikaya 
2016
Buddha – Dingha Putka
Daniel Klein – Every time I find the meaning of life, they change it
The Avesta 
Dalai Lamma – Ethics for the new Millenium
Kahlil Gibran – The Prophet 
Epictetus – The Discourses, Fragments, Enchiridion
Herman Melville – Bartelby The Scrivener
Seneca – Letters from a Stoic
Marcus Aurelius – Meditations
Descartes – Rules for the Direction of the Mind, Discourse on the Method, Meditations on First Philosophy, Principles of Philosophy, The Passions of the Soul, The Search After Truth
Immanuel Kant – Groundwork of the metaphysic of morals 
The Upanishads
Arthur Schopenhauer – The World as Will and Representation
Robert Rosen – Life Itself
Napoleon Hill – Think and Grow Rich
Dale Carnegie – HTWFAIP
Thomas Merton – New Seeds of Contemplation
2015
Morihei Ueshiba – The Art of Peace 
Arthur Schopenhauer – Essays and Aphorisms
St Augustine – City of God
Friedrich Nietzsche – Thus Spoke Zarathustra
The Bhagavad Gita
Dhammapada – Buddha 
Brian Greene – The Fabric of the Cosmos
Chanakya – Chanakya Niti Shastra
Sun Tzu – The Art of War
Friedrich Nietzsche – Beyond Good and Evil, On the Genealogy of Morals, Twilight of the Idols, The Antichrist, Ecce Homo (
Anton LaVey – The Satanic Bible
Brian Greene – The Elegant Universe
Qur’an
Gabriel Garcia Marquez – One Hundred Years of Solitude
Ayn Rand – The Virtue of Selfishness
Sigmund Freud – The Interpretation of Dreams 
Aristotle – Categories, On Interpretation, Prior Analytics, Posterior Analytics, Topics, On Sophistical Refutations, Physics, On the Heavens, On the Soul, Metaphysics, Nicomachean Ethics, Politics, Rhetoric and Poetics
Ayn Rand – Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology
Sigmund Freud – Civilization and Its Discontents
Plato – Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Phaedrus, Symposium, The Republic
Ayn Rand – Atlas Shrugged
(60th book this year)
Ibn Tufayl – Hayy Ibn Yaqzan
Genevieve Pauson – Kundalini and the Chakras
Richard Brodie – Virus of the Mind 
Mark Pagel – Wired for Culture 
Galileo Galili – The Essential Galileo (Collection of his books)
Thomas Milton – Paradise Lost
Ayn Rand – Anthem
Ayn Rand – The Fountainhead
Mencius – Mencius Works
I Ching (Book of Changes)
Nag Hammadi Scriptures
Lawrence LeShan – Alternate Realities
Geshe Sonam Rinchen – The Thirty-Seven Practices of the Bodhisattvas
Herman Hesse – Siddhartha
Paulo Coelho – The Alchemist
Michael Roach – The Diamond Cutter
Harold Bayley – The Lost Language of Symbolism
Frank Amthor – Neuroscience for Dummies
Malcolm Gladwell – Outliers
Scott Peck – The Road Less Traveled
Ghandi – All Men are Brothers
Ray Kurzweil – The Age of Spiritual Machines
Robert Greene – 33 Strategies of War
Charles Capps – The Tongue A Creative Force
Lee Strobel – The Case for Faith
Various Authors – British and American Poetry Book
K’ung Chi – Doctrine of the Mean
Tsang Chun – The Great Learning
The Holy Bible
Lao Tzu – Tao Te Ching
Confucius – Confucian Analects
Veronica Ross – Divergent
Stephen Knight – The Brotherhood
Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason – The Rule of Four
Dan Brown – Angels and Demons
Richard Matheson – I am Legend
Alice Sebold – The Lovely Bones
William Cooper – Behold, A Pale Horse
Charles William King – The Gnostics and Their Remains
John Michael Greer – The Element Encyclopedia of Secret Societies 
Machiavelli – The Prince
Henry David Thoreau – The Portable Thoreau, Walden
James Douglass – JFK and the Unspeakable
Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins. – Left Behind Series 1-6 
James Patterson – Saving the World
Tucker Max – I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell
M.J. Rose – The Reincarnationist
Tony Ballante – Recursion
Michael Crichton – Jurassic Park
Greg Isles – Footprints of God 
Mary Shelley – Frankenstein
Fyodor Dostoevsky – The Brothers Karamazov 
Charles Dickens – David Copperfield
Charles Dickens – Little Dorrit
Charles Dickens – Great Expectations
Before 2015 (inconclusive)
William Shakespeare – Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare – Much Ado About Nothing
William Shakespeare – Hamlet
Voltaire – Candide 
Virgil – The Aeneid
The Thousand and One Nights
Sophocles – Oedipus the King
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – Sherlock Holmes
Scott Westerfield – The Uglies Series (Uglies / Pretties / Specials / Extras)
Shelly Silverstein – Where the Sidewalk Ends
Robert Louis Stevenson – Treasure Island
Roahl Dahl – Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Rick Riordan – The Lightning Thief
Randall Munroe – What if 
Paolini – Eragon Trilogy
Nathaniel Hawthorne – Scarlet Letter
Maurice Sendak – Where the Wild Things Are
Mark Twain – Tom Sawyer
Marjane Satrapi – Persepolis
Margaret Mitchell – Gone With the Wind
Margaret Atwood – A Handmaid’s Tale
Lois Lowry – The Giver 
Leo Buscaglia – Way of the Bull
Laura Ingalls Wilder – Little House on the Prairie 
Khaled Hosseini – The Kite Runner
Katherine Paterson
Joseph Conrad – Heart of Darkness
John Steinbeck – Of Mice and Men
John Krakauer – Into the Wild
Johnathon Stroud – The Bartimaeus Trilogy
JK Rowling – Harry Potter Series
JD Salinger – Catcher in the Rye
Homer – The Odyssey
Homer – The Iliad
Harper Lee – To Kill a Mockingbird
Gilgamesh
Geoffrey Chaucer – The Canterbury Tales
F Scott Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby
Euripides – Madea
Erin Hunter – Warriors Series
Dorena Rode – The Twelve Steps as a Path to Enlightenment
Dante Alighieri – Inferno
Dan Brown – The Da Vinci Code
CS Lewis – The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe
Chinua Achebe – Things Fall Apart
Cassie Brown – Standing Into Danger
Brian Jacques – Redwall Series
Bram Stoker – Dracula
Beowulf
Art Spiegelman – Maus