Books I’ve Read
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      - 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 
 
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      - 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 
 
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      - 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 
- The Case for Community Wealth Building by Joe Guinan and Martin O’Neil 
- The Revolution Will Not be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex edited by INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence 
 
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      - 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 
- The Burnout Society by Byung-Chul Han 
- Poststructuralism: A Very Short Introduction by Catherine Belsey 
- Double Truth by John Sallis 
- Ecco Homo by Friedrich Nietzsche 
- Capitalism and the Death Drive by Byung-Chul Han 
- Cool Memories by Jean Baudrillard 
- Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power by Byung-Chul Han 
- Postmodernism: A Very Short Introduction by Christopher Butler 
- Simulations by Jean Baudrillard 
- Vita Contemplativa by Byung-Chul Han 
- Heidegger: A Very Short Introduction by Michael Inwood 
 
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      - 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 
 
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      - 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 
- Listen, Little Man! by Wilhelm Reich 
 
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      - 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 
 
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      - 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 
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn 
- More Everything Forever by Adam Becker 
- World as Self, World as Lover by Joanna Macy 
 
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      - 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 
- Deschooling Society by Ivan Illich 
 
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      - 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 
- King: A Life by Jonathan Eig 
 
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      - 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 
- Stillness Speaks by Eckhart Tolle 
- Being Peace by Thitch Nahn Hahn 
 
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      - 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 
- Soul Sanctuary by John Anguila 
 
