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2026 Reading List
A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness
Michael Pollan
Odyssey (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #4)
Stephen Fry
The Maniac
Benjamín Labatut
A Philosophy of Software Design
John Ousterhout
Wanderings in India and other sketches of life in Hindostan
John Lang
Indian Nocturne
Antonio Tabucchi
When We Cease to Understand the World
Benjamín Labatut
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
Jon Krakauer
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Annie Dillard
Things Become Other Things: A Walking Memoir
Craig Mod
Art and Fear
David Bayles
How to Relax (Mindfulness Essentials, #5)
Thich Nhat Hanh
Consider The Lobster: Essays and Arguments
David Foster Wallace
The Master and Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov
Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology
Neil Postman
Bird by Bird
Anne Lamott
On the Calculation of Volume I
Solvej Balle
No Longer Human
Osamu Dazai
Cuentos completos
Jorge Luis Borges
Yoga: The Science of the Soul
Osho
Before I Forget
Tory Henwood Hoen
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez
The Door-to-Door Bookstore
Carsten Henn
More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #2)
Satoshi Yagisawa
Wolf in White Van
John Darnielle
Chasing the Monsoon
Alexander Frater
Leisure: The Basis of Culture
Josef Pieper
The Covenant of Water
Abraham Verghese
The Things They Carried
Tim O'Brien
Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones
James Clear
How Reading Changed My Life
Anna Quindlen
Read
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Haruki Murakami
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #1)
Satoshi Yagisawa
Going After Cacciato
Tim O'Brien
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
J.K. Rowling
Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth about Reality
Brad Warner
Tidy First?: A Personal Exercise in Empirical Software Design
Kent Beck
The Day of the Jackal
Frederick Forsyth
Architecting for Scale: High Availability for Your Growing Applications
Lee Atchison
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Mark Haddon
Under the Net
Iris Murdoch
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
James Nestor
The Metamorphosis and Other Stories
Franz Kafka
Em and the Big Hoom
Jerry Pinto
The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance
W. Timothy Gallwey
This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
David Foster Wallace
Narcissus and Goldmund
Hermann Hesse
The Nose (Penguin Little Black Classics, #46)
Nikolai Gogol
Snow Country
Yasunari Kawabata
Kafka on the Shore
Haruki Murakami
A Heart Full of Peace
Joseph Goldstein
The Book of Kindness: How to Make Others Happy and Be Happy Yourself
Om Swami
Silence: The Power of Quiet in a World Full of Noise
Thich Nhat Hanh
Notes from Underground
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
Zen Keys: A Guide to Zen Practice
Thich Nhat Hanh
The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
Eckhart Tolle
Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion
Sam Harris
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
Shunryu Suzuki
As a Man Thinketh
James Allen
The Dhammapada
Eknath Easwaran
The 4 Pillar Plan: How to Relax, Eat, Move, Sleep Your Way to a Longer, Healthier Life
Rangan Chatterjee
The Sign of the Four (Sherlock Holmes, #2)
Arthur Conan Doyle
Doing Good Better: Effective Altruism and a Radical New Way to Make a Difference
William MacAskill
Digital Minimalism: On Living Better with Less Technology
Cal Newport
As You Think: Second Edition
James Allen
Black Box Thinking: Marginal Gains and the Secrets of High Performance
Matthew Syed
When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi
Ready Player One
Ernest Cline
Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships (Nonviolent Communication Guides)
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Rework
Jason Fried
Everything That Remains: A Memoir by The Minimalists
Joshua Fields Millburn
Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life
Joshua Fields Millburn
Who Will Cry When You Die?: Life Lessons From The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
Robin Sharma
The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
Robin Sharma
Into the Wild
Jon Krakauer
When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi
Zen in the Art of Archery: Training the Mind and Body to Become One
Eugen Herrigel
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
Cal Newport
Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered
Austin Kleon
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
Austin Kleon
Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad (Austin Kleon)
Austin Kleon
The Stranger
Albert Camus
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl
Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse
The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho
The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka
1984
George Orwell
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
Mitch Albom
The Last Lecture
Randy Pausch
The Order of Time
Carlo Rovelli
The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation
Thich Nhat Hanh
A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1)
Arthur Conan Doyle
Nan Yar - Who am I?
Ramana Maharshi
On Confidence
The School of Life
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
Douglas Adams
Norse Mythology
Neil Gaiman
Convenience Store Woman
Sayaka Murata
The Graveyard Book
Neil Gaiman
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
Hans Rosling
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
Malcolm Gladwell
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
Patrick Lencioni
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Complete Maus
Art Spiegelman
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
J.K. Rowling
The Prophet
Kahlil Gibran
Want to Read
Human Acts
Han Kang
The Rings of Saturn
W.G. Sebald
Immigrant, Montana
Amitava Kumar
Speak, Memory
Vladimir Nabokov
So Long, See You Tomorrow
William Maxwell
They Came Like Swallows
William Maxwell
The Complete Persepolis
Marjane Satrapi
They Called Us Enemy
George Takei
On Inequality
Harry G. Frankfurt
Gilgamesh: A New English Version
Anonymous
Song of Solomon
Toni Morrison
Nationalism
Rabindranath Tagore
Sesher Kobita, the Last Poem
Rabindranath Tagore
Beautiful World, Where Are You
Sally Rooney
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ernest Hemingway
A Time Outside This Time
Amitava Kumar
The Blue Book: A Writer's Journal
Amitava Kumar
The Emigrants
W.G. Sebald
Greek Lessons
Han Kang
Dewdrops on a Lotus Leaf: Zen Poems of Ryokan
Ryōkan
I Hate the Internet
Jarett Kobek
Essays
George Orwell
State Building
Francis Fukuyama
In Service of the Republic: The Art and Science of Economic Policy
Vijay Kelkar
Strategy: A History
Lawrence Freedman
The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human
V.S. Ramachandran
The Tale of Genji
Murasaki Shikibu
Mahabharata Unravelled: Lesser-Known Facets of a Well-Known History
Ami Ganatra
Neverwhere (London Below, #1)
Neil Gaiman
How To Live When A Loved One Dies
Thich Nhat Hanh
We Are the Romani People
Ian Hancock
Several Short Sentences About Writing
Verlyn Klinkenborg
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Alfred Döblin
Memoirs of Hadrian
Marguerite Yourcenar
Zorba the Greek
Nikos Kazantzakis
Godan
Munshi Premchand
Collected writings
R.K. Laxman
The Collected Short Stories of Ivan Turgenev
Ivan Turgenev
How to Read and Why
Harold Bloom
The Closing of the American Mind
Allan Bloom
The Overcoat
Nikolai Gogol
Beyond Good and Evil
Friedrich Nietzsche
Critique of Pure Reason
Immanuel Kant
The Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx
Being and Time
Martin Heidegger
Candide
Voltaire
Walden or, Life in the Woods
Henry David Thoreau
The Myth of Sisyphus
Albert Camus
Meditations on First Philosophy
René Descartes
Philosophical Investigations
Ludwig Wittgenstein
The Analects
Confucius
The Birth of Tragedy
Friedrich Nietzsche
Utilitarianism
John Stuart Mill
A Treatise of Human Nature
David Hume
The Consolation of Philosophy
Boethius
Either/Or: A Fragment of Life
Søren Kierkegaard
The World as Will and Representation, Volume I
Arthur Schopenhauer
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
John Locke
The Will to Power
Friedrich Nietzsche
The Conquest of Happiness
Bertrand Russell
Civilization and Its Discontents
Sigmund Freud
Critique of Practical Reason
Immanuel Kant
The Hero With a Thousand Faces
Joseph Campbell
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
Praise of Folly
Erasmus
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
Mark Fisher
The World as Will and Representation, Volume II
Arthur Schopenhauer
Why Buddhism Is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment
Robert Wright
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Richard Bach
The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway
The Cancer Code : A Revolutionary New Understanding Of A Medical Mystery
Jason Fung
Hacking APIs: Breaking Web Application Programming Interfaces
Corey J Ball
The School of Life: An Emotional Education
Alain de Botton
Loving-Kindness in Plain English: The Practice of Metta
Henepola Gunaratana
Essays on Indic History (Lesser Known History of India Book 1)
Vijender Sharma
The Small-town Sea
Anees Salim
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Dale Carnegie
Ghachar Ghochar
Vivek Shanbhag
The Book of Man
Osho
Nightfall
Isaac Asimov
Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words
David Whyte
The Dispossessed
Ursula K. Le Guin
Continuous Discovery Habits: Discover Products that Create Customer Value and Business Value
Teresa Torres
SYSTEMANTICS. THE SYSTEMS BIBLE
John Gall
Staff Engineer: Leadership Beyond the Management Track
Will Larson
Meetings With Remarkable Men
G.I. Gurdjieff
How to Think More Effectively: A guide to greater productivity, insight and creativity (Work series)
The School of Life
Thinking in Systems: A Primer
Donella H. Meadows
The Difficulty of Being Good: On the Subtle Art of Dharma
Gurcharan Das
India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy
Ramachandra Guha
The Complete Guide to Fasting: Heal Your Body Through Intermittent, Alternate-Day, and Extended Fasting
Jason Fung
City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
William Dalrymple
The God of Small Things
Arundhati Roy
Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon
Colin Bryar
Product-Led Growth: How to Build a Product That Sells Itself (ProductLed Library Book 1)
Wes Bush
The Other Shore: A New Translation of the Heart Sutra with Commentaries
Thich Nhat Hanh
Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness
Frederic Laloux
The Fountainhead
Ayn Rand
Men Without Women
Haruki Murakami
Being Aware of Being Aware (The Essence of Meditation Series)
Rupert Spira
The Way of Zen
Alan W. Watts
Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
William Gibson
V for Vendetta #1
Alan Moore
The Prince
Niccolò Machiavelli
The Art of War
Sun Tzu
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Neil Gaiman
A Confederacy of Dunces
John Kennedy Toole
Mindfulness in Plain English
Henepola Gunaratana
Autobiography of a Yogi
Paramahansa Yogananda
Inferno
Dante Alighieri
Einstein’s Dreams
Alan Lightman
Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
Thich Nhat Hanh
Eating Animals
Jonathan Safran Foer
Sophist (Hackett Classics)
Plato
On Certainty
Ludwig Wittgenstein
The Odyssey
Homer
The Iliad
Homer
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
Dante Alighieri
The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten: 100 Experiments for the Armchair Philosopher
Julian Baggini
Education and the Significance of Life
J. Krishnamurti
Civil Disobedience and Other Essays
Henry David Thoreau
On Love
Alain de Botton
Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre
Walter Kaufmann
The Wisdom of Life
Arthur Schopenhauer
The Trial
Franz Kafka
Essays and Aphorisms
Arthur Schopenhauer
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness
Epictetus
Ethics
Baruch Spinoza
Leviathan
Thomas Hobbes