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
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