Books I’ve Read

    • Island by Aldous Huxley

    • Eyeless in Gaza 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

    • Faust by Goethe

    • 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

    • Horse by Geraldine Brooks

    • 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

    • Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

    • Death Sentence by Maurice Blanchot

    • House of Incest by Anais Nin

    • Rabbit Run by John Updike

    • James by Percival Everett

    • A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

    • 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

    • Black Marxism 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

    • Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil and Wicked Traffic of the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species by Ottobah Cugoano

    • 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

    • The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli

    • Anarchism by Daniel Guerin

    • Marxism, Freedom, and the State by Mikhail Bakunin

    • Marxism and Socialism by G.V. Plekhanov

    • Horizontalism: Voices of Popular Power in Argentina Edited by Marina Sitrin

    • The Disrupted Workplace by Benjamin Snyder

    • Society of the Spectacle by Guy deBord

    • Are Prisons Obsolete by Angela Davis

    • 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

    • Native Religions of North America by Ake Hultkrantz

    • After the Smoke Clears by Mark Allman

    • Symbolism: Its Meaning and Effects by Alfred North Whitehead

    • The Culture of Narcissism by Christopher Lasch

    • Radical Mindfulness by James Rowe

    • Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson

    • Being and Time by Martin Heidegger

    • How We Walk by Matthew Beaumont

    • Seduction by Jean Baudrillard

    • Women’s Reality by Anne Wilson Schaef

    • Become What You Are by Alan Watts

    • The Agony of Eros by Byung-Chul Han

    • The Art of Loving by Eric Fromm

    • Ion by Plato

    • The World as Will and Representation Volume II by Arthur Schopenhauer

    • The Republic by Plato

    • On the Shortness of Life by Seneca

    • Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi

    • Blackshirts and Reds by Michael Parenti

    • The Terrorism Trap 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

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

    • Group Psychology and Analysis of the Ego by Sigmund Freud

    • Civilization and its Discontents by Sigmund Freud

    • The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker

    • Escape from Evil 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

    • The Psychic Life of Power by Judith Butler

    • Decolonizing Therapy by Jennifer Mullan

    • 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

    • Fragments of An Anarchist Anthropology by David Graeber

    • Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber

    • A Pocket History of Human Evolution by Francois Savatier and Silvana Condemi

    • The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers

    • Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark

    • Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

    • The Nature of Nature by Enric Sala

    • Blessed Unrest by Paul Hawken

    • Genome by Matt Ridley

    • The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins

    • Gaia by James Lovelock

    • Notes on Complexity by Neil Theisse

    • The Tao of Physics by Fritjof Capra

    • Not a Scientist by Dave Levitan

    • Novacene by James Lovelock

    • The Revenge of Gaia by James Lovelock

    • Fat Nation by Jonathen Engel

    • Born to Rewild by Manda Kalimian

    • 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

    • 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

    • Becoming Story by Greg Sarris

    • A World to Win: The Life and Works of Karl Marx by Sven-Eric Liedman

    • Ben and Me by Eric Weiner

    • 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

    • How to Connect by Thitch Nahn Hahn

    • How to Smile by Thitch Nahn Hahn

    • An Apology for Idlers by Robert Louis Stevenson

    • The Creative Act by Rick Rubin

    • 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