Reading List

As part of my ongoing self-education, I have been continually designing my own curriculum on ecology, social change, psychology and awakening. On this page I will list books I have read recently and found worthy of recommending.

Currently reading:

• Journey of the Heart – John Wellwood

Recent Reads (2023-):

• “Active Hope” by Joanna Macy & Chris Johnstone
• “The Myth of Normal” by Gabor Mate
• “Reverse Meditation” by Andrew Holocek

Recommended Reads (2011-2022):

My bedside bookshelf of books to be read in the near future…

• How to Be Yourself – Ellen Hendrickson
• Kitchen Confidential – Anthony Bourdain
• Status Anxiety – Alain De Botton
• Unless – Carol Shields
• The Book of Negroes – Lawrence Hill
• My Grandfather’s Blessings – Rachel Naomi Remen
• Happiness – Will Ferguson
• Buddha’s Brain – Rick Hanson
• Stillness Speaks – Eckhart Tolle
• World Made by Hand – J.H. Kuntsler

• My Lessons With Kumi – Michael Colgrass
• Room – Emma Donoghue
• Solitude – Anthony Storr
• The Tao of Liberation: Exploring the Ecology of Transformation – Mark Hathaway & Leonardo Boff
• The Monkey Wrench Gang – Edward Abbey
• Power vs Force – David R. Hawkins
• A Path with Heart – Jack Kornfield
• Eye of the I: That From Which Nothing is Hidden – David R. Hawkins
• The Twelfth Insight – James Redfield
• Making Time – Steve Taylor
• Waking From Sleep – Steve Taylor
• Wake Up Now – Stephen Bodian
• My Ishmael – Daniel Quinn
• Zorba the Greek – Nikos Kazantzakis
• Jonathan Livingston Seagull – Richard Bach

Recommended Reads (Pre-2011):

• Paradise Built in Hell – Rebecca Solnit
• Lamb – Christopher Moore
• The Novice – Stephen Schettini
• Living Deeply – Schlitz, Vieten, Amorok
• Beyond the Breath – Marshall Glickman
• A New Earth – Eckhart Tolle
• Stillness Speaks – Eckhart Tolle
• Turning the Mind into an Ally – Sakyong Mipham
• The Wisdom of Insecurity – Alan Watts
• Become What You Are – Alan Watts
• Man’s Search for Meaning – Viktor Frankl
• The Places that Scare You – Pema Chodron
• When Things Fall Apart – Pema Chodron
• The Wisdom of No Escape – Pema Chodron
• Taking the Leap – Pema Chodron
• Ordinary People as Monks and Mystics – Marsha Sinetar
• Satipatthana – The Direct Path to Realization – Analayo
• Thoughts Without a Thinker – Mark Epstein
• The Happiness Hypothesis – Jonathan Haidt
• World Religions – Huston Smith
• Nonviolent Communication – Marshall Rosenburg
• In the Absence of the Sacred – Jerry Mander
• My Name is Chelis and I’m in Recovery from Western Civilization – Chelis Glendinig
• Radical Simplicity – Jim Merkel
• Change the World – Robert Quinn