I get asked to recommend books from time to time, so I figured I would start by recommending the books I’ve read so far this year:
- What is Zen
- The Tao of Physics
- Bhagavad Gita : A New Translation
- The Wisdom of Joseph Campbell
- The Dream of Reason: A History of Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance
- The Divine Comedy, Part 2: Purgatory
- The Story of Philosophy: From Plato to Voltaire and the French Enlightenment
- The Story of Philosophy: From Kant to William James and the American Pragmatists
- America’s Secret War : Inside the Hidden Worldwide Struggle Between the United States and Its Enemies
- Hegemony or Survival? : America’s Quest for Global Dominance
- Gilgamesh : A New English Version
- The Five People You Meet in Heaven
- The Middle Way: The Story of Buddhism
- Mind Wide Open : Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life
- The Art of Happiness at Work
- Principle Centered Leadership
- The 7 habits of Highly Effective People : 15th Anniversary Edition
- The Inferno of Dante : Bilingual Edition
- Awakening the Buddha Within : Tibetan Wisdom for the Western World
- The Virtue of Selfishness
- Siddhartha
- The Art of Seduction
- The Annotated Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
And, here’s my reading list from last year. It’s not as many as I’ve read in even half of the time because it took me almost 6 months to read Ulysses. I still don’t know what that book is about.
- The Millionaire Next Door
- The Mystery of the Aleph : Mathematics, the Kabbalah, and the Search for Infinity
- The 12th Planet
- Death by Meeting: A Leadership Fable
- The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive: A Leadership Fable
- The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable
- The Hero with a Thousand Faces
- The Fabric of the Cosmos
- Ulysses Annotated
- Moby Dick
- The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror
- The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
- Understanding Islam: An Introduction to the Muslim World
June 22nd, 2005 at 8:25 am
Matt, Matt, Matt -
you need some diversity in your reading list. Lessons can be learned in a myriad of ways.
- East of Eden, Steinbeck
- Don Quixote, Cervantes (still funny & timely after 400 years)
- Where the Sidewalk Ends, Silverstein
August 20th, 2005 at 7:47 pm
about Ulysses; If you read some 700 pages you would somehow know “what this book is about”, otherwise was it a decisive move on your part to “finish” this book. what made you follow thru? i myself attempted many times, yet..