Recommended Reading

This list will find itself modified from time to time in order to reflect both new readings that I find personally significant or to revisit old ones that I'd not necessarily considered significant before. The list is not comprehensive and does not include every book that I've read. In fact, it includes a few pieces taken from web-based articles and audio CD's marketed as accompaniment to printed books. Given the lack of space and flexibility in formatting this list, I can only give you the name and author of each book, but I did divide the list by genre prior to pasting it in here. These books - to a greater or lesser degree - have all held a personal significance for me. I hope you enjoy and learn from them as much as I have.

Wade
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Title/Author

American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

Ferguson, Craig

Appetite for Life: The Biography of Julia Child

Fitch, Noel Riley

Recollections: An Autobiography

Frankl, Victor

Martin Buber: An Intimate Portrait

Hodes, Aubrey

Memories, Dreams, Reflections

Jung, Carl & Jaffe, Aniela

My Share of the Task: A Biography/Memoir

McChrystal, Stanley

John Adams

McCullough, David

Biography/Memoirs of Childhood and Youth

Schweitzer, Albert

Touch the Top of the World: A Blind Man's Journey to Climb Farther than the Eye Can See: My Story

Weihenmayer, Erik

Night

Weisel, Elie

Americanization of Benjamin Franklin, The

Wood, Gordon

Letters of Martin Buber, The: A Life of Dialogue

Buber, Martin (edited by Nahum N. Glatzer)

Man’s Search for Meaning

Frankl, Victor

Meetings: Autobiographical Fragments

Buber, Martin

Open-Focus Brain, The: Harnessing the Power of Attention to Heal Mind and Body

Fehmi, Lee

Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind

Suzuki, Shunryu

Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism

Trungpa, Chogyam

Journey without Goal: The Tantric Wisdom of the Buddha

Trungpa, Chogyam

Lion's Roar, The: An Introduction to Tantra

Trungpa, Chogyam

Psychotherapy East & West

Watts, Alan

Way of Zen, The

Watts, Alan

Science of Enlightenment, The

Young, Shinzen

On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not

Burton, Robert

Self Comes To Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain

Damasio, Antonio

On Intelligence

Hawkins, Jeff & Blakeslee, Sandra

Accidental Mind, The: How Brain Evolution Has Given Us Love, Memory, Dreams, and God

Linden, David J.

Image, The: A Guide to Pseudo-Events In America

Boorstin, Daniel

Progress Paradox, The: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse

Easterbrook, Greg

ANYTHING

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens

Hitchens, Christopher

Age of American Unreason, The

Jacoby, Susan

Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal

Schlosser, Eric

Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market

Schlosser, Eric

Dalai Lama, The: A Policy of Kindness

Piburn, Sidney, D.

10 Books Every Conservative Must Read: Plus Four Not to Miss and One Impostor

Wiker, Benjamin

Beyond Religion: Ethics for a Whole World

HH the Dalai Lama

Legacy of Ashes: A History of the CIA

Weiner, Tim

Tipping Point, The: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

Gladwell, Malcolm

Godless: The Church of Liberalism

Coulter, Ann

How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must): The World According to Ann Coulter

Coulter, Ann

Conservatives Without Conscience

Dean, John W.

What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America

Frank, Thomas

Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right

Franken, Al

Pure Goldwater

Goldwater, Barry & Dean, John W.

Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal and Selling the Iraq War

Isikoff, Michael & Corn, David

Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power

Maddow, Rachel

Moral Man And Immoral Society: A Study In Ethics And Politics

Niebuhr, Reinhold

Wisdom of Forgiveness, The: Intimate Journeys and Conversations

HH the Dalai Lama & Chan, Victor

Family, The: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power

Sharlet, Jeff

Universe in a Single Atom, The: The Convergence of Science and Spirituality

HH the Dalai Lama

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America

Ehrenreich, Barbara

Lexus and the Olive Tree, The: Understanding Globalization

Freidman, Thomas

World Is Flat, The: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century

Freidman, Thomas

13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown

Johnson, Simon & Kwak, James

Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World

Lewis, Michael

Wealth of Nations, The

Smith, Adam

Omnivore's Dilemma, The: A Natural History of Four Meals

Pollan, Michael

Another Country

Baldwin, James

I, Judas

Caldwell, Taylor

Crime and Punishment

Dostoevsky, Fyodor M.

Middlesex

Eugenides, Jeffrey

Siddhartha

Hesse, Herman

Private Biography/Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, The

Hogg, James

Jacob’s Hands

Huxley, Aldous & Isherwood, Christopher

A Prayer For Owen Meany: A Novel

Irving, John

In One Person

Irving, John

Dead, The

Joyce, James

Of Human Bondage

Maugham, W. Somerset

Magician, The

Maugham, W. Somerset

Razor’s Edge, The

Maugham, W. Somerset

Night Listener, The

Maupin, Armistead

Ice Storm, The: A Novel

Moody, Rick

Human Stain, The: A Novel

Roth, Philip

Sleep of Reason, The

Snow, C.P.

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Solzhenitzyn, Alexander

Art of Racing in the Rain, The

Stein, Gary

Koko

Straub, Peter

Celestial Navigation

Tyler, Anne

Day: A Novel

Weisel, Elie

Soul of a Bishop

Wells, H.G.

Dr. Neruda's Cure for Evil

Ygesias, Rafael

Tree of Smoke: A Novel

Johnson, Denis

It Can’t Happen Here

Lewis, Sinclair

Oath, The: A Novel

Weisel, Elie

Millennium Trilogy, The: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire & The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest

Larson, Steig

Don't Know Much About History, Anniversary Edition: Everything You Need to Know About American History but Never Learned

Davis, Kenneth C.

ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING by…

Sedaris, David

Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny

Wright, Robert

Drunkard's Walk, The: How Randomness Rules Our Lives

Mlodinow, Leonard

Black Swan, The: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

Taleb, Nassim

Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease

Moalem, Sharon

Pain Chronicles, The: Cures, Myths, Mysteries, Prayers, Diaries, Brain Scans, Healing, and the Science of Suffering

Thurstrom, Melanie

Hero With a Thousand Faces, The

Campbell, Joseph

Power of Myth, The

Campbell, Joseph & Moyers, Bill

Kalevide, The

Goble, Lou

Odyssey, The

Homer

Iliad, The

Homer

Exeter Book, The

Krapp, George P., et al (translators)

Cuculian Trilogy, The: The Coming, Triumph, and Passing of Cuculian

O'Grady, Stanley

Book of Job, The

Unknown (read by Peter Coyote)

Beowulf

Unknown (translated by Burton Raffel

Hrafnkel's Saga and Other Icelandic Stories

Unknown (translated by Hermann Palsson)

Body Has a Mind of Its Own, The: How Body Maps in Your Brain Help You Do (Almost) Everything Better

Blakeslee, Sandra

Socrates

Brickhouse, Thomas C.

I and Thou

Buber, Martin

Way of Response, The: Martin Buber Selections from his Writings

Buber, Martin

Architecture of Happiness, The

de Botton, Alain

Consolations of Philosophy, The

de Botton, Alain

Meditations On First Philosophy

Descartes, Rene

Meaning Of It All, The: Thoughts Of A Citizen-scientist

Feynman, Richard

Pleasure of Finding Things Out, The: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman

Feynman, Richard

Dream of Reason, The: A History of Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance

Gottlieb, Anthony

Philosophical Dictionary

Voltaire

Complete Essays of Montaigne, The

Montaingne, Michel de

Descartes' Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict between Faith and Reason

Short, Russel

Unnatural Lottery, The: Character and Moral Luck

Card, Claudia

Reverence for Life: The Ethics of Albert Schweitzer for the Twenty-First Century

Meyer, Marvin

Theory of Moral Sentiments, The

Smith, Adam

Moral Sense, The

Wilson, James Q.

Marriage of Sense and Soul, The: Integrating Science and Religion

Wilber, Ken

Descartes Error

Damasio, Antonio

Piers Plowman

Langland, William (translated by E. Talbot Donaldson)

Epic of Gilgamesh, The

Sandars, N.K. (translator)

Authoritarians, The

Altemeyer, Bob

Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us

Hare, Robert

On Combat: The Psychology and Physiology of Deadly Conflict in War and Peace

Grossman, Lt. Col. Dave

On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society

Grossman, Lt. Col. Dave

Science of Evil, The: On Empathy and the Origins of Cruelty

Baron Cohen, Simon

Noonday Demon, The: An Atlas of Depression

Solomon, Andrew

Sociopath Next Door, The

Stout, Marth

Love’s Executioner

Yalom, Irving

Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions

Ariely, Dan

Snakes In Suits: When Psychopaths Go To Work

Barbia, Paul & Hare, Robert

Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior

Braff, Ori & Ron

Influence (aka. Influence: Science and Practice and Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion)

Cialdini, Robert

Gift of Fear, The

de Becker, Gavin

Emotional Awareness: Overcoming the Obstacles to Psychological Balance and Compassion

Ekman, Paul & HH the Dalai Lama

Stumbling on Happiness

Gilbert, Daniel

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

Gladwell, Malcolm

What the Dog Saw

Gladwell, Malcolm

Emotional Intelligence

Goleman, Daniel

How Doctors Think

Groopman, Jerome

Righteous Mind, The: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion

Haidt, Johathan

Nurture Assumption, The: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do

Harris, Judith Rich

Self Illusion, The: How the Social Brain Creates Identity

Hood, Bruce

Thinking Fast and Slow

Kahneman, Daniel

Better Angels of Our Nature, The: Why Violence Has Declined

Pinker, Steven

Blank Slate, The: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

Pinker, Steven

Wisdom of Crowds, The: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations

Surowiecki, James

Irrationality

Sutherland, Stuart

Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts

Tarvis, Carol & Aronson, Eliot

Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness

Thaler, Richard H.

Carl Rogers: Dialogues : Conversations With Martin Buber, Paul Tillich, B.F. Skinner, Gregory Bateson, Michael Polanyi, Rollo May, and Others by Martin Buber & Carl Rogers, et al

Rogers, Carl & Buber, Martin

Existence by Rollo May & Ernst Angel

May, Rollo & Angel, Ernst (editors)

Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America

Whitaker, Robert

Stuff of Thought, The: Language as a Window into Human Nature

Pinker, Steven

Middle Passage, The

Hollis, James

Don't Think of an Elephant!: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate--The Essential Guide for Progressives

Lakoff, George

Political Mind, The: Why You Can't Understand 21st-Century American Politics with an 18th-Century Brain

Lakoff, George

Your Erroneous Zones

Dyer, Wayne

Denial of Death, The

Becker, Ernest

Varieties of Religious Experience, The

James, William

Ego Tunnel, The: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self

Metzinger, Thomas

How Can I Get Through to You?: Closing the Intimacy Gap Between Men and Women

Real, Terrence

I Don't Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression

Real, Terrence

God Delusion, The

Dawkins, Richard

Did Jesus Exist?: The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth

Ehrman, Bart

Forged: Writing in the Name of God--Why the Bible's Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are

Ehrman, Bart

God's Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question--Why We Suffer

Ehrman, Bart

Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible (And Why We Don't Know About Them)

Ehrman, Bart

Misquoting Jesus

Ehrman, Bart

Lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot, The: A New Look at Betrayer and Betrayed

Ehrman, Bart

Sacred and The Profane, The: The Nature of Religion

Eliade, Mircea

Religion for Atheists: A Non-believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion

de Botton, Alain

Letter to a Christian Nation

Harris, Sam

End of Faith, The: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

Harris, Sam

Moral Landscape, The: How Science Can Determine Human Values

Harris, Sam

God Is Not Great

Hitchens, Christopher

Rage Against God, The: How Atheism Led Me to Faith

Hitchens, Peter

Letter From a Christian Citizen

Wilson, Douglas

Fundamentalist Agenda, The

Loehr, Davidson

Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo

Carrol, Sean

On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection, or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life

Darwin, Charles

Entanglement

Aczel, Amir

God's Equation: Einstein, Relativity, and the Expanding Universe

Aczel, Amir

Edge of Physics, The: A Journey to Earth's Extremes to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe

Ananthaswamy, Anil

E=mc~2: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation

Bodanis, David

Relativity: The Special and the General Theory

Einstein, Albert

Age of Entanglement, The: When Quantum Physics Was Reborn

Gilder, Louise

Fabric of the Cosmos, The: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality

Greene, Brian

A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing

Krauss, Lawrence M.

Uncertainty: Einstein, Heisenberg, Bohr, and the Struggle for the Soul of Science

Lindley, David

Sun in a Bottle: The Strange History of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Thinking

Seife, Charles

Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea

Seife, Charles

Martian Chronicles, The

Bradbury, Ray

Speaker for the Dead

Card, Orson Scott

Stranger In a Strange Land

Heinlein, Robert

Dune

Herbert, Frank

Cloud Atlas: A Novel

Mitchell, David

Black Evening

Morell, David

Spiral Dynamics Integral

Beck, Don

What Do You Care What Other People Think: Further Adventures of a Curious Character

Feynman, Richard

Outliers: The Story of Success

Gladwell, Malcolm

Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior Grandin, Temple & Johnson, Catherine