books I've read

2024

1. A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
2. Unseen Beings by Erik Jampa Andersson
3. The Employees by Olga Ravn
4. The Good Life by Robert Waldinger, Marc Schulz

2023

1. Unmasking Autism ••••
2. The machine stops EM forster ••••
3. Existence - David Hinton
4. Energy Medicine ••••
5. The Path Between Us ••••
6. Shubeik Lubeik
7. Poverty, By America ••••
8. Inciting Joy ••••
9. The Immortal King Rao A Novel •••
10. Not Too Late ••••
11. The Last Catastrophe — creative, thought-provoking, well-written speculative fiction, exploring the ramifications of our climate future. my favorite genre! ••••
12. Cheap Land Colorado •••••
13. There Are No Accidents •••••
14. A Time Before Crack
15. How to be an Anticapitalist in the 21st century ••••

2022

1. Pastoral Song/English Pastoral •••••
2. Reality+
3. The Lathe of Heaven - Ursula K. LeGuin
4. People from My Neighborhood
5. Secret to Superhuman Strength - Alison Bechdel ••••
6. We Were Made For These Times - Kaira Jewel Lingo
7. Mutual Aid - Dean Spade •••••
8. The Sea of Tranquility
9. The Book of Delights •••••
10. Helgoland

2021

1. The City We Became - N.K. Jemisin •••
2. Ministry for the Future - Kim Stanley Robinson ••••
3. A Wizard of Earthsea - Ursula K. Leguin ••••
4. The Overstory - Richard Powers ••••
5. From Fixation to Freedom - Jaxon Bear ••••
6. Coming to Our Senses •••
7. A Long way to a small, angry planet •••
8. No Mud, No Lotus - Thich Nhat Hahn ••••
9. Nourishing Wisdom ••
10. Living Ayurvedically ••••
11. Whole Body Barefoot
12. Piranesi - Susanna Clarke ••••

2020

1. Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead - Olga Tokarczuk •••••
2. In Love with the World - Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche •••••
3. Everyday Chinese Medicine - Mindi K. Counts ••••
4. You Were Born For This - Chani Nicholas •••
5. Carefree Dignity - Tsoknyi Rinpoche ••••
6. Keep It Moving - Twyla Tharp
7. The Ash Family - Molly Dektar •••
8. Moonbeams of Mahamudra - Trans. Elizabeth Callahan
9. A thousand small sanities •••
10. The Fifth Season ••••
11. Breath by James Nestor ••••
12. Better Backyard ••••
13. Trick Mirror ••••

2019

1. Universal Love by Alexander Weinstein •••
2. Open Heart, Open Mind by Tsoknyi Rinpoche •••••
3. Capital City by Samuel Stein •••
4. The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes by Jamyang Norbu ••••
5. How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell ••••
6. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari ••••
7. Kids These Days by Malcolm Harris •••
8. Palaces for the People •••

2018

1. Training in Tenderness by Dzigar Kongtrül •••••
2. On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden ••••
3. A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles •••••
4. Barracoon by Zora Neale Hurston
5. American Character by Colin Woodard
6. Quiet by Susan Cain
7. The Logic of Faith by Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel
8. The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt ••••
9. The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie
10. Natural Causes by Barbara Ehrenreich
11. Sunny’s Nights by Tim Sultan
12. Change Your Schedule, Change Your Life by Suhas Kshirsagar
13. Nutrition Stripped by McKel Hill
14. Reading People by Anne Bogel
15. The Accusation by Bandi ••••
16. The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down by Haemin Sunim
17. Goodbye, Things by Fumio Sasaki

2017

1. Where We Stand by bell hooks
2. Ten Tales from Tibet by Lama Lhakpa Yeshe
3. Enlightened Vagabond by Matthieu Ricard •••••
4. The Golden House by Salman Rushdie
5. Pushkin Hills by Sergei Dovlatov
6. Laurus by Eugene Vodolazkin •••••
7. East of the West by Miroslav Penkov
8. Shambhala by Chögyam Trungpa
9. Never Turn Away by Rigdzin Shikpo •••••
10. Ishmael by Daniel Quinn •••••
11. Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
12. Freedom Is a Constant Struggle by Angela Y. Davis •••••
13. Nawabdin Electrician by Daniyal Mueenuddin
14. Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ••••
15. Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan ••••

2016

1. Rilke’s Book of Hours by Rainer Maria Rilke
2. Numbers in the Dark by Italo Calvino
3. The Intelligent Heart by Dzigar Kongtrül III
4. The Road Home by Ethan Nichtern
5. When Helping Hurts by Steve Corbett
6. Reflections on Silver River by Ken I McLeod
7. On Eastern Meditation by Thomas Merton
8. Autobiography of a Corpse by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
9. The Hundred Thousand Songs by Milarepa
10. The Hand of Poetry by Coleman Barks
11. The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
12. The Stranger by Alexander Blok
13. The Ruba’iyat of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyám
14. Mornings in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa
15. Lost in Translation by Ella Frances Sanders
16. Memories of Muhammad by Omid Safi
17. The Arab of the Future by Riad Sattouf
18. How to Believe in God by Clark Strand