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Favorite Fiction

• Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
• Master and Margarita by Bulgakov
• Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
• 100 Years of Solitude by Marquez
• Baudolino by Umberto Eco
• The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
• Magister Ludi by Hesse
• Narcisssus and Goldmund by Hesse
• Steppenwolf by Hesse
• The Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone
• House of Spirits by Isabel Allende
• The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
• Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins
• Balthasar and Blimunda by Saramago
• The Hummingbird's Daughter by Urrea
• Poisonwood Bible by Kingsolver
• Time Traveller's Wife by Niffenegger
• American Gods by Neil Gaimon
• Barkskins by Annie Proulx
• Overstory by Richard Powers
• The Dark Tower Series by Steven King
• Killing Commandatore by Murakami

Favorite Theory and Rebelliousness

• Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
• Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon
• On Evil by Eagleton
• After Theory by Eagleton
• After Capitalism by Schweickart
• The Coming Insurrection by the Invisible Committee
• The Rebel by Albert Camus
• Beyond Good and Evil by Nietzsche
• ​On Disobedience by Eric Fromm
• Discourse on Colonialism by Aimee Cesaire
• TAZ by Hakim Bey
• Trickster by Lewis Hyde
• Create Dangerously by Albert Camus
• Elite Capture Olefemi Taiwo

Favorite Psychology

• A Psychology of Being by Abraham Maslow
• On Becoming a Person by Carl Rogers
• Give and Take by Adam Grant
• Flow by Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi
• Flourish by Martin Seligman
• How Children Succeed by Paul Tough
• Power of Vulnerability by Brene Brown
• The Happiness Trap by Russ Harriss
• Introduction to Internal Family Systems by Schwartz
• Anger and Forgiveness by Martha Nussbaum
  

Favorite Anthropology

• Social Conquest of Earth by EO Wilson
• First Angelinos by McCawley
• 1491 by Charles Mann
• 1493 by Charles Mann
• Story of the Human Body by Lieberman
• Age of Empathy by Frans de Waal
• Sapiens by Yuval Harari
• Meaning of Life by EO WIlson
• ​The Dawn of Everything by Dave Graeber and Dave Wengrow

Favorite Science Fiction

• Accelerando by Charles Stross
• ​House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds
• ​Pushing Ice by Alastair Reynolds
• Dune Series by Herbert
• Cat's Cradle by Vonnegut
• Sirens of Titan by Vonnegut
• Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Adams
• ​Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
• Hyperion by Dan Simmons
• Illium by Dan Simmons
• Olympus by Dan Simmons
• Mistborn Series by Brandon Sanderson
• Cosmere Series by Brandon Sanderson
• Wax and Wayne Series by Brandon Sanderson
• Series by Craig Alanson
• Sun Eater Series by Chris Ruocchio
• ​Three Body Problem Series by Cixin Liu
• Accelerando by Charles Stross
• Bob Series by Dennis Taylor
  

Favorite Beginning of Infinity 

• The Romance of Reality by Bobby Azarian
  
• Reinventing the Sacred by Stuart Kauffman
  
• Earth in Human Hands by David Grinspoon
• Factfulness by Hans Rosling
• Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch
• Fabric of Reality by David Deutsch
• Better Angels of our Nature by Steven Pinker
• Non-Zero by Robert Wright
• Rational Optimist by Matt Ridley
• The Inevitable by Kevin Kelly
• Humankind: A helpful History by Rutger Bregman
• Human Purpose and TransHuman Potential by Ted Chu
• Utopia for Realists by Rutger Bregman
• Moral Ambition by Rutger Bregman
• The Prosperity Paradox by Christensens
• Age of Sustainable Development by Jeff Sachs

Favorite Endangered Species/Biodiversity

• Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams​
• Listed by Joe Roman
• 100 Heartbeats by Jeff Corwin
• Half Earth by EO Wilson
• Future of Life by EO Wilson
• Where the Wild Things Were by William Stolzenberg
• Wolfs Tooth by Eisenberg
• The Carnivore Way by Eisenberg
• Song of the Dodo by Quammen
• Monsters of God by Quammen
• Tangled Tree by Quammen
• Death of our Planet's Species by Martin Gorke
• Life in the Valley of Death by Rabinowitz
• Jaguar by Rabinowitz

​Favorite Neuroscience

• Being You by Anil Seth
  
• Consciousness by Graziano
• The Disordered Mind by Eric Kandel
• Phi by Giulio Tononi
• The Feeling of What Happens by Antonio Damasio

Favorite Spiritual Texts

• Why Buddhism is True by Robert Wright
• The Wisdom of Joseph Campbell
• The Tibetan Book of the Dead 
• Power of Vulnerability by Brene Brown
• The Ecstasy of Being by Joseph Campbell
• Power of Compassion by The Dalai Llama
• Peace is Every Step by Thich Naht Hahn
• Be Here Now by Ram Dass
  

Favorite Relationship Stuff

• How to Improve Your Marriage without Talking About It by Pat Love
• If You’re in my Office It’s Already Too Late by James Sexton

Favorite Big Books

• 1Q84 by Murakami
• Windup Bird Chronicle by Murakami
• A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
• Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra
• 2666 by Roberto Bolano
• War and Peace by Tolstoy
• Anna Karenina by Tolstoy
• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
• Reamde by Neal Stephenson
  
• Kafka on the Shore by Marukami
  

Favorite Creativity

• Make Your Art Everyday by Beth Pickens
• Your Art Will Save Your Life by Beth Pickens
• The Creative Act by Rick Rubin
• Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert
• War of Art by Steven Pressfield

Favorite Non-Fiction

• ​Figuring by Maria Popova
• Short History of Nearly Everything Bill Bryson
• Reading Lolita in Tehran by Nafisi
• Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman by Feynman
• What Technology Wants by Kevin Kelly
• The Tao of Physics by Fritjof Capra
• The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff
• Lost City of the Monkey God by Douglas Preston

Favorite General Science

• Panarchy by Hollings and Gunderson
• The Case Against Reality by Donald Hoffman
• Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
• Future of Life by EO Wilson
• Blank Slate by Steven Pinker
• Time, Love, Memory by Weiner
• Chaos by Gleick
• The Information by Gleick
• ​Growth by Vaclav Smil
• Scale by Geoff West
  

Favorite Poetry

• Collected Maya Angelou
• Cadastre by Aime Cesaire
• Collected Robinson Jeffers
• Wild God of the World by Robinson Jeffers
• Sunstone by Octavio Paz
• Collected Pablo Neruda
• Turtle Island by Gary Snyder
• Collected Borges
• Field Guide to the Haunted Forest by Jarod Anderson
  
• Love Notes from the Hollow Tree by Jarod Anderson
  
• In Search of Duende by Lorca
  

Favorite Bookstores

• ​Malaprops
• City Lights Bookstore
• The non-existent-anymore Acres of Books
• The non-existent-anymore Open
• The Last Bookstore
• ​Powells
• Vromans
  

Favorite Book Websites

• Book Riot
  
• Library Thing
• GoodReads

Favorite Environmental 

• Should Trees Have Standing by Stone
• Wizard and the Prophet by Charles Mann
• Doughnut Economics by Kate Raworth
• How Forests Think by Eduardo Kohn
• The Future We Choose by Figueres and Rivelt-Carnac
• Rambunctious Garden by Marris
• Sacred Balance by David Suzuki
• Blessed Unrest by Philip Hawken
• Breakthrough by Shellenberger and Nordhaus
• Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
• The Ecological Thought by Tim Morton
• Realist Magic by Tim Morton
• Hyperobjects by Tim Morton
• Wild Ones by Mooallem
• Whole Earth Discipline by Stewart Brand​
• Ecology of Commerce by Paul Hawken​
• Reindeer Chronicles by Judith Schwartz
• Conservation Revolution by Buscher and Fletcher
• Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet by Thich Naht Hahn                 
• The Intersectional Environmentalist by Leah Thomas
• Not The End of The World by Hannah Ritchie
• Carbon by Paul Hawken
• LoTek Series by Julia Watson
  

Favorite Art Books

• Heinrich Kley
• The Library of Esoterica Series by Jessica Hundley
  

Favorite Physics

• Entanglement by Amir Aczel
• Brief History of Time by Hawking
• Theory of Everything by Hawking
• Arrow of Time by Carroll
• The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene
• Higgs Boson and Beyond by Sean Carroll
• Just Six Numbers by Martin Rees

Favorite Philosophy

• Tim Morton
  
• Graham Harman
  
• Martha Nussbaum
  
• Sartre
• Nietzsche
• Camus
• Dennett
• Marcus Aurelius

Favorite Adventures

• The Serpent and the Rainbow by Wade Davis
• One River by Wade Davis
• Lost City of the Monkey God by Douglas Preston
  

Favorite Divine Masculinity

• King Warrior Magician Lover by Robert Moor and Douglass Gillette
• The Way of the Superior Man by David Deida

Favorite Choice Architecture

• Misbehaving by Richard Thaler
• How Change Happens by Cass Sunstein
• Nudge by Thaler and Sunstein
• Thinking Fast and Slow by Kahneman

Favorite Design

• Design for a Better World by Don Norman
• Pattern Language Series by Christopher Alexander
• Elements of Choice by Eric Johnson

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Book Places

• ​Tor House
• Neruda's House
• City Lights
• The Bourgeois Pig

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Favorite Movies and Shows (I don't know where else to put these)

• Lord of the Rings Trilogy
• Hobbit Trilogy
• Firefly
• The Expanse
• The Wire
• Top Gear
• Indiana Jones
• Game of Thrones series
• Bourne Movies
• Heat
• Sicario