This page highlights my ongoing reading list and book recommendations.
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Book Recommendations & Reading List
350+ Books on My Reading List
To see my full reading list, check out this Google Spreadsheet or click the image below.
None of us will read every book out there in our lifetimes. The current average lifespan in the US is 79 years old. Subtract your age from 79. Then multiply that number by the average number of books you read in a year. That’s roughly how many books you have left to read in your life. But, we may not get the full 79 years. So, follow Thoreau’s advice: “Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.”
50+ Book Recommendations
📚 Lifelong Learning & Deeper Development Book Recommendations:
Pair with: Sloww Stage Support: How do I learn for life?
- ⭐ How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler | Book Summary
- ⭐ Transformative Dimensions of Adult Learning by Jack Mezirow | Book Summary
- ⭐ Ego Development Theory by Susanne Cook-Greuter | Paper Summary 1, 2
- ⭐ Postautonomous Ego Development by Susanne Cook-Greuter | Book Summary
- 👍 Integral Psychology by Ken Wilber | Book Summary
- 👍 How to Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens | Book Summary 1, 2
- 👍 Make It Stick by Peter Brown, Henry Roediger III, and Mark McDaniel | Book Summary
- 👍 Learning in Adulthood by Sharan Merriam & Lisa Baumgartner | Book Summary
- 👍 Understanding and Promoting Transformative Learning by Patricia Cranton | Book Summary
- 👍 A Synthesizing Mind by Howard Gardner | Book Summary
- 👍 First Person Action Research by Judi Marshall | Book Summary
- 👍 Introduction to Interdisciplinary Studies by Allen Repko, Rick Szostak, & Michelle Phillips Buchberger | Book Summary
- 👍 The Farther Reaches of Human Nature by Abraham Maslow | Book Summary 1, 2, 3, 4
- 👍 SQ21 (Spiritual Intelligence) by Cindy Wigglesworth | Book Summary
- 👍 Raise a Genius! by László Polgár | Book Summary
🌎 Intentional Living Book Recommendations:
Pair with: Sloww Stage 1: How do I design a lighter lifestyle?
- ⭐ Early Retirement Extreme by Jacob Lund Fisker | Book Summary
- 👍 In Praise of Slowness by Carl Honore | Book Summary
- 👍 Voluntary Simplicity by Duane Elgin | Book Summary
- 👍 The Quest of the Simple Life by William J. Dawson | Book Summary 1, 2
- 👍 The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo | Book Summary
- 👍 The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel | Book Summary
- 👍 Atomic Habits by James Clear | Book Summary
- 👍 Essentialism by Greg McKeown | Book Summary
- 👍 The Pathless Path by Paul Millerd | Book Summary
- 👍 The Almanack of Naval Ravikant by Eric Jorgenson | Book Summary
🧭 Life Purpose Book Recommendations:
Pair with: Sloww Stage 2: How do I find deeper purpose?
- ⭐ Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl | Book Summary 1, 2
- 👍 The Power of Myth with Joseph Campbell | Series Summary
- 👍 Yes to Life by Viktor Frankl | Book Summary
- 👍 A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle | Book Summary
- 👍 Let Your Life Speak by Parker Palmer | Book Summary
🧠 Mental Mastery Book Recommendations:
Pair with: Sloww Stage 3: How do I master the mind?
- ⭐ On the Freedom of the Will by Arthur Schopenhauer | Essay Summary
- ⭐ The Master and His Emissary by Iain McGilchrist | Book Summary
- ⭐ Livewired by David Eagleman | Book Summary
- ⭐ The Art of War by Sun Tzu (Michael Nylan Version) | Book Summary
- ⭐ Creating Freedom by Raoul Martinez | Book Summary
- 👍 Determined by Robert Sapolsky | Book Summary
- 👍 Conscious by Annaka Harris | Book Summary
- 👍 Whole Brain Living by Jill Bolte Taylor | Book Summary
- 👍 Free Will by Sam Harris | Book Summary
- 👍 Guinea Pig B by Buckminster Fuller | Book Summary
- 👍 Things That Bother Me by Galen Strawson | Book Summary
- 👍 Analytic Idealism in a Nutshell by Bernardo Kastrup | Book Summary
- 👍 The Lessons of History by Will & Ariel Durant | Book Summary 1, 2
- 👍 The Inner Game of Tennis by W. Timothy Gallwey | Book Summary
- 👍 Poor Charlie’s Almanack by Peter Kaufman & Charlie Munger | Book Summary
- 👍 Super Thinking by Gabriel Weinberg & Lauren McCann | Book Summary
- 👍 The Great Mental Models Volume 1 by Farnam Street | Book Summary
- 👍 The Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe by Steven Novella | Book Summary
- 👍 The Extended Mind by Annie Murphy Paul | Book Summary
- 👍 A Calendar of Wisdom by Leo Tolstoy | Book Summary
- 👍 This is Water by David Foster Wallace | Book Summary
- 👍 How to Live by Derek Sivers | Book Summary
- 👍 On The Shortness Of Life by Seneca | Book Summary
- 👍 As a Man Thinketh by James Allen | Book Summary
☯️ Spiritual Seeing Book Recommendations:
Pair with: Sloww Stage 4: How do I see beyond mind?
- ⭐ Thought as a System by David Bohm | Book Summary
- ⭐ Awareness by Anthony De Mello | Book Summary
- ⭐ Being Aware of Being Aware by Rupert Spira | Book Summary
- ⭐ Be As You Are by Ramana Maharshi | Book Summary
- ⭐ On Having No Head by Douglas Harding | Book Summary
- ⭐ Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu (Stephen Mitchell Version) | Book Summary
- 👍 Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse | Book Summary
- 👍 The Untethered Soul by Michael Singer | Book Summary
- 👍 Be Here Now by Ram Dass | Book Summary
- 👍 The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle | Book Summary
- 👍 The Way to Love by Anthony de Mello | Book Summary
- 👍 Spiritual Enlightenment by Jed McKenna | Book Summary
- 👍 Being Myself by Rupert Spira | Book Summary
- 👍 Who Am I? by Sri Ramana Maharshi | Book Summary
- 👍 Know Yourself by Ibn Arabi & Balyani | Book Summary
- 👍 The Science of the 1st Person by Douglas Harding | Book Summary
- 👍 Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind by Shunryu Suzuki | Book Summary
- 👍 Experiencing God Directly by Marshall Davis | Book Summary
- 👍 The Practice of the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence & Marshall Davis | Book Summary
- 👍 The Book by Alan Watts | Book Summary
- 👍 The Art of Contemplation by Alan Watts | Book Summary
- 👍 Waking Up by Sam Harris | Book Summary
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