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