Performance and Learning
Stealing Fire – Steven Kotler & Jamie Wheal
The Rise of Superman – Steven Kotler
Self-Improvement
Ikigai – Victor Garcia & Franscec Miralles
Zen: The Art of Simple Living – Shunmyo Masuno
History
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome – Mary Beard
The Second Sex – Simone de Beauvoir
The Anarchy – William Dalrymple
The Making of the Atomic Bomb – Richard Rhodes
(Auto)biographies, Memoirs
Lincoln – David Herbert Donald
A Moveable Feast – Ernest Hemingway
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big – Scott Adams
Mind Master – Viswanathan Anand
Classic Essays
Self Reliance and Other Essays – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Philosophy
Master Dogen’s Shobogenzo (5 volumes) – Gudo Nishijima, Chodo Cross
Dogen’s Extensive Record – Taigen Dan Leighton, Shohaku Okumura
Essential Teachings of Zen Master Hakuin – Norman Waddell
Daodejing (or Tao Te Ching) – Lao Tzu
On Writing
Writing down the Bones – Natalie Goldberg
Letters to a Young Poet – Rainer Maria Rilke
Steering the Craft – Ursula K. Le Guin
Zen in the Art of Writing – Ray Bradbury
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