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Reading List & Book Recommendations
“Books are the training weights of the mind.” — Epictetus
450+ 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
“Sit in a room and read—and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time.” — Joseph Campbell
📚 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 | 🔒 How to Apply It
- ⭐ Transformative Dimensions of Adult Learning by Jack Mezirow | Book Summary | 🔒 How to Apply It
- ⭐ Ego Development Theory by Susanne Cook-Greuter | Paper Summary 1, 2 | 🔒 How to Apply It
- 👍 How to Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens | Book Summary 1, 2 | 🔒 How to Apply It
- 👍 Make It Stick by Peter Brown, Henry Roediger III, and Mark McDaniel | Book Summary | 🔒 How to Apply It
- 👍 Learning in Adulthood by Sharan Merriam & Lisa Baumgartner | Book Summary | 🔒 How to Apply It
- 👍 Understanding and Promoting Transformative Learning by Patricia Cranton | Book Summary | 🔒 How to Apply It
- 👍 First Person Action Research by Judi Marshall | Book Summary
- 👍 The Art of Learning by Josh Waitzkin | Book Summary
- 👍 Introduction to Interdisciplinary Studies by Allen Repko, Rick Szostak, & Michelle Phillips Buchberger | Book Summary | 🔒 How to Apply It
- 👍 The Farther Reaches of Human Nature by Abraham Maslow | Book Summary 1, 2, 3, 4 | 🔒 How to Apply It 1, 2
- 👍 SQ21 (Spiritual Intelligence) by Cindy Wigglesworth | 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 | 🔒 How to Apply It
- 👍 In Praise of Slowness by Carl Honore | Book Summary | 🔒 How to Apply It
- 👍 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 | 🔒 How To Apply It
- 👍 Essentialism by Greg McKeown | Book Summary | 🔒 How To Apply It
🧭 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 | 🔒 How to Apply It
- 👍 Yes to Life by Viktor Frankl | Book Summary | 🔒 How to Apply It
- 👍 A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle | Book Summary 1, 2, 3 | 🔒 How to Apply It
- 👍 Let Your Life Speak by Parker Palmer | Book Summary | 🔒 How to Apply It
- 👍 The Almanack of Naval Ravikant by Eric Jorgenson | Book Summary | 🔒 How to Apply It
- 👍 The Pathless Path by Paul Millerd | Book Summary | 🔒 How to Apply It
🧠 Mental Mastery Book Recommendations:
Pair with: Sloww Stage 3: How do I master the mind?
- ⭐ 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
- ⭐ Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows | Book Summary | 🔒 Premium Summary
- ⭐ Creating Freedom by Raoul Martinez | Book Summary | 🔒 How to Apply It
- 👍 Determined by Robert Sapolsky | Book Summary | 🔒 Premium Synthesis
- 👍 Conscious by Annaka Harris | Book Summary
- 👍 Whole Brain Living by Jill Bolte Taylor | Book Summary
- 👍 Free Will by Sam Harris | Book Summary | 🔒 How to Apply It
- 👍 The Lessons of History by Will & Ariel Durant | Book Summary 1, 2 | 🔒 How to Apply It
- 👍 The Inner Game of Tennis by W. Timothy Gallwey | Book Summary | 🔒 Premium Summary
- 👍 Poor Charlie’s Almanack by Peter Kaufman & Charlie Munger | Book Summary
- 👍 Super Thinking by Gabriel Weinberg & Lauren McCann | Book Summary | 🔒 Premium Summary
- 👍 The Great Mental Models Volume 1 by Farnam Street | Book Summary
- 👍 The Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe by Steven Novella | Book Summary | 🔒 Premium Summary
- 👍 The Extended Mind by Annie Murphy Paul | Book Summary
- 👍 A Calendar of Wisdom by Leo Tolstoy | Book Summary | 🔒 How to Apply It
- 👍 This is Water by David Foster Wallace | Book Summary | 🔒 How to Apply It
- 👍 How to Live by Derek Sivers | Book Summary | 🔒 How to Apply It
- 👍 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 | 🔒 How to Apply It
- ⭐ Being Aware of Being Aware by Rupert Spira | Book Summary | 🔒 How to Apply it
- ⭐ Be As You Are by Ramana Maharshi | Book Summary | 🔒 How to Apply it
- ⭐ On Having No Head by Douglas Harding | Book Summary | 🔒 How to Apply it
- ⭐ Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu (Stephen Mitchell Version) | Book Summary
- 👍 Waking Up by Sam Harris | Book Summary
- 👍 Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse | Book Summary
- 👍 The Untethered Soul by Michael Singer | Book Summary | 🔒 How to Apply it
- 👍 Be Here Now by Ram Dass | Book Summary | 🔒 How to Apply it
- 👍 The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle | Book Summary | 🔒 How to Apply It
- 👍 The Way to Love by Anthony de Mello | Book Summary
- 👍 Spiritual Enlightenment by Jed McKenna | Book Summary | 🔒 How to Apply it
- 👍 Being Myself by Rupert Spira | Book Summary | 🔒 How to Apply it
- 👍 Who Am I? by Sri Ramana Maharshi | Book Summary | 🔒 How to Apply it
- 👍 Know Yourself by Ibn Arabi & Balyani | Book Summary
- 👍 The Science of the 1st Person by Douglas Harding | Book Summary | 🔒 How to Apply it
- 👍 Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind by Shunryu Suzuki | Book Summary | 🔒 How to Apply it
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