Books I’ve Read

Classic Literature

  • Island by Aldous Huxley

  • 1984 by George Orwell

  • The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

  • To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

  • Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

  • Lord of the Flies by William Golding

  • Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

  • The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • The Pearl by John Steinbeck

  • Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

  • Animal Farm by George Orwell

  • Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

  • The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

  • Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

  • Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky

  • The Stranger by Albert Camus

  • The Fall by Albert Camus

  • The Odyssey by Homer

  • Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

  • Macbeth by William Shakespeare

  • Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

  • Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

  • The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

  • Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

  • Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

  • 12 Angry Men by Reginald Rose

  • This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Psychology

  • The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks

  • Group Psychology and Analysis of the Ego by Sigmund Freud

  • The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker

  • The Drama of the Gifted Child by Alice Miller

  • The Undiscovered Self by Carl Jung

  • The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt

  • Neuropsychedelia by Nicolas Langlitz

  • Biased by Jenifer Eberhardt

  • Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell

  • Winning Arguments by Stanley Fish

  • Evil by Julia Shaw

  • Decolonizing Therapy by Jennifer Mullan

Biography/Memoir

  • The Soul of a Butterfly by Muhammad Ali

  • Tuesday’s with Morrie by Mitch Albom

  • Have a Little Faith by Mitch Albom

  • Tattoos on the Heart by Gregory Boyle

  • Shortest Way Home by Pete Buttigieg

  • Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

  • Night by Elie Wiesel

  • Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

  • The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates

  • Where Tomorrows Aren’t Promised by Carmelo Anthony

  • KG A-Z by Kevin Garnett

  • Walking to Listen by Andrew Forsthoefel

  • We Are All the Same by Jim Wooten

  • King Leopold’s Ghost by Adam Hochschild

  • The Speech by Gary Younge

  • Toughness by Jay Bilas

  • Brother, I’m Dying by Edwidge Danticat

  • Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

  • Lebron, Inc. by Brian Windhorst

  • The Stranger in the Woods by Michael Finkel

History

  • Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi

  • Blackshirts and Reds by Michael Parenti

  • Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari

  • A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn

  • A People’s History of the World by Chris Harman

  • The Assassination of Julius Caesar by Michael Parenti

  • The Success and Failure of Picasso by John Berger

  • We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates

  • Spiritual Socialists by Vaneesa Cook

  • The Grouchy Historian by Ed Asner

  • On Tyranny by Tim Synder

Science/Environmentalism

  • Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark

  • Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

  • Blessed Unrest by Paul Hawken

  • Genome by Matt Ridley

  • The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins

  • Gaia by James Lovelock

  • Not a Scientist by Dave Levitan

  • Novacene by James Lovelock

  • Fat Nation by Jonathen Engel

  • Born to Rewild by Manda Kalimian

Essays/Collections

  • The American Spirit by David McCullough

  • Bill Moyers Journal: The Conversation Continues by Bill Moyers

  • Moyers on America by Bill Moyers

  • Couldn’t Keep It to Myself by Wally Lamb

  • This is Water by David Foster Wallace

Contemporary Fiction

  • The Giver by Lois Lowry

  • The Dispossessed by Ursula le Guin

  • Planet of Exile by Ursula le Guin

  • Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom

  • For One More Day by Mitch Albom

  • First Phone Call from Heaven by Mitch Albom

  • The Next Person You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom

  • The Time Keeper by Mitch Albom

  • Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley

  • The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein

  • Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

  • Go Ask Alice (Anonymous)

  • The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

  • Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

  • Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult

  • The Humans by Matt Haig

  • The Girl Who Sang to the Buffalo by Kent Nerburn

  • The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

  • That was Then This is Now by S.E. Hinton

  • A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J Gaines

  • War Horse by Michael Morpurgo

  • The Cay by Theodore Taylor

  • Big Guns by Steve Israel

  • A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines

  • The Shack by William P. Young

  • Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

  • Silence by Shusaku Endo

  • What is the What by Dave Eggers

  • I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb

  • Dear Martin by Nic Stone

  • The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore

  • Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

  • Death Sentence by Maurice Blanchot

  • House of Incest by Anais Nin

  • Rabbit Run by John Updike

Life Strategy

  • The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**ck by Mark Manson

  • Everything is F**cked by Mark Manson

  • Make Your Bed by Admiral William H. McRaven

  • Give and Take by Adam Grant

  • How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

  • The Art of Happiness by Dalai Lama

  • Crucial Conversations by Kerry Patterson et al.

  • Think Again by Adam Grant

  • The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek

  • The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

  • A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle

  • The Name of God is Mercy by Pope Francis

  • Peace of Mind by Joshua L. Liebman

  • Peace Tales by Margaret Read MacDonald

  • Be Happy by Dalai Lama

  • Be Angry by Dalai Lama

  • The Gumbo Coalition by Marc Morial

  • Go-giver by Bob Burg

  • Small Graces by Kent Nerburn

  • How to Love by Thitch Nahn Hahn

  • How to Relax by Thitch Nahn Hahn

Philosophy

  • Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu (Derek Lin translation and Jane English translation)

  • Zhunagzhi by Zhunagzhi

  • The Jefferson Bible by Thomas Jefferson

  • The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley

  • Heaven and Hell by Aldous Huxley

  • A Theory of Everything by Ken Wilber

  • Tao of Leadership by John Heider

  • The Perennial Philosophy by Aldous Huxley

  • Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

  • Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

  • The Soul of the Marionette by John Gray

  • Feline Philosophy by John Gray

  • The Seven Types of Atheism by John Gray

  • Straw Dogs by John Gray

  • The Silence of Animals by John Gray

  • The Immortalization Commission by John Gray

  • Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche

  • The Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche

  • Other Minds by Peter Godfrey-Smith

  • The Socrates Express by Eric Weiner

  • A Man’s Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl

  • Being Mortal by Atul Gawande

  • Walden and Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

  • Utilitarianism By John Stuart Mill

  • God: A Biography by Jack Miles

  • After the Smoke Clears by Mark Allman

  • Symbolism: Its Meaning and Effects by Alfred North Whitehead

  • The Culture of Narcissism by Christopher Lasch

Politics, Economics, Sociology, Social Theory

  • The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

  • Modern Crisis by Murray Bookchin

  • Socialism: Utopian and Scientific by Friedrich Engels

  • The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon

  • Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon

  • Don’t think of an Elephant by George Lakoff

  • Who Rules America (8th Edition) by G. William Domhoff

  • State and Revolution by Vladimir Lenin

  • The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

  • The Black Panther Party Service to the People Programs by The Black Panther Party

  • Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson

  • The Bottom Billion by Paul Collier

  • Manufacturing Consent by Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman

  • Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall

  • Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism by Vladimir Lenin

  • Against Empire by Michael Parenti

  • Strangers in Their Own Land by Arlie Russell Hochschild

  • The War on Normal People by Andrew Yang

  • Reform or Revolution by Rosa Luxemburg

  • Trust: America’s Best Chance by Pete Buttigieg

  • Capital in the 21st Century by Thomas Piketty

  • Utopia for Realists by Rutger Bregman

  • Post-Scarcity Anarchism by Murray Bookchin

  • Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism by Richard Wolff

  • The Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin

  • Mutual Aid by Peter Kropotkin

  • The Age of Migration by Stephen Castles and Mark J. Miller

  • Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? by Martin Luther King Jr.

  • Billionaire Wilderness by Justin Farrell

  • Black Movements in America by Cedric J. Robinson

  • Streets of Gold by Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan

  • So Rich, So Poor by Peter Edelman

  • False Dawn by John Gray

  • David Walker’s Appeal by David Walker

  • World Systems Analysis by Immanuel Wallerstein

  • 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari

  • So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

  • Change: How to Make Big Things Happen by Damon Centola

  • Evicted by Matthew Desmond

  • Our Class by Chris Hedges

  • New Leviathans by John Gray

  • The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs

  • Dancing in the Streets by Barbara Ehrenreich

  • The Essential Emma Goldman by Emma Goldman

  • The Right to Sex by Amia Srinivasan

  • Days of War Nights of Love by CrimethInc.

  • Health Communism by Artie Vierkant and Beatrice Adler-Bolton

Education

  • Excellent Sheep by William Deresiewicz

  • Paths to Success by Dr. Edwin Louis Cole

  • College by Andrew Delbanco

  • Privilege by Shamus Khan

  • The University in Chains by Henry Giroux

Anthropology

  • The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow

  • Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman

  • The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner

  • Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber