Reading List

Long Quiet Highway: Waking Up In America – Natalie Goldberg

Karate-Do, My Way Of Life – Gichin Funakoshi

Sex At Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, And What It Means For Modern Realtionships – Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha

Ninja: 1000 Years of the Shadow Warrior – John Man

Hidden in Plain Sight: Tracing the Roots of Ueshiba Morihei’s Power – Ellis Amdur

Old School: Essays on Japanese Martial Traditions – Ellis Amdur

American Born Chinese – Gene Luen Yang

Steve Jobs – Walter Isaacson

The Art of Learning – Josh Waitzkin

The War of Art – Steven Pressman

Illusions – Richard Bach

Steal Like an Artist – Austin Kleon

Bones of the Master – George Crane

Bird by Bird – Anne Lamott

The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho

The Anthologist – Nicholson Baker

Batman: The Court of Owls – Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo

Vonnegut: Letters – Kurt Vonnegut, Edited by Dan Wakefield

Batman: The City of Owls – Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo

The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Meditations: A New Translation – Marcus Aurelius and Gregory Hays

Consider the Lobster and Other Essays – David Foster Wallace

God Clobbers Us All – Poe Ballantine

Vagabonding – Rolf Potts

Logicomix – Apostolos Doxiadis, Christos H. Papadimitriou, Alecos Papadatos, and Annie Di Donna

Siddhartha – Herman Hesse

The Missing Piece – Shel Silverstein

One Red Paperclip – Kyle MacDonald

The Power of Habit – Charles Duhigg

Coltrane: The Story of a Sound – Ben Ratliff

David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants – Malcolm Gladwell

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience – Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi

The Man Who Quit Money – Mark Sundeen

The Creative Habit: Learn it and Use it for Life – Twyla Tharp

Without Getting Killed or Caught: The Life and Music of Guy Clark – Tamara Saviano

Primacy of the Ear – Ran Blake

Unit 731 Testimony – Hal Gold

Choose Yourself: Be Happy, Make Millions, Live the Dream – James Altucher

The Little Book of Talent: 52 Tips for Improving Your Skills – Daniel Coyle

The Lone Samurai: The Life of Miyamoto Musashi – William Scott Wilson

Hidden Lineage: The Ninja of the Toda Clan – Sean Askew

The Practice of Practice – Jonathan Harnum

The Inner Game of Music – Barry Green and W. Timothy Gallwey

The Death of Expertise – Tom Nichols

Universal Harvester – John Darnielle

The Fermata – Nicholson Baker

The Courage to be Disliked – Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga

The Drama of the Gifted Child – Alice Miller

12 Rules for Life – Jordan B. Peterson

No More Mr. Nice Guy – Dr. Robert A. Glover

Greenlights – Matthew McConaughey

Leonardo – Serge Bramly

Thomas Jefferson – Jon Meacham

The Sparrow – Maria Doria Russell

Night Train – Martin Amis

Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now – Jaron Lanier

How to Live on 24 Hours a Day – Arnold Bennett

The Colour of Magic – Terry Pratchett

Bounce – Matthew Syed

A Place of My Own – Michael Pollan 

The Fault in Our Stars – John Green 

Redshirts – John Scalzi 

Dune – Frank Herbert

Game of Thrones – George R. R. Martin

Foundation – Isaac Asimov

Little Brother – Cory Doctorow

Deep Work – Cal Newport

All Systems Red – Martha Wells

The Martian – Andy Weir

The Magicians – Lev Grossman

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Philip K. Dick

The Time Machine – H. G. Wells

War of the Worlds – H. G. Wells

The Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka

Ordinary Men – Christopher R. Browning

House of Suns – Alastair Reynolds

The Three-Body Problem – Cixin Liu

There is no Antimemetics Division – qntm

Lost Christianities – Bart Ehrman

Lost Scriptures – Bart Ehrman

How Proust Can Change Your Life – Alain de Botton