Reading List

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one. – George R.R. Martin

Summer 2016

• A Tale for the Time Being – Ruth Ozeki
• Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami

Spring 2016

• Philosophy of Mind – Jaegwon Kim
• So Good They Can’t Ignore You – Cal Newport
• Confucian Thought: Selfhood as Creative Transformation – Tu Wei-Ming
• Confucius Analects: With selections from Traditional Commentaries – Edward Slingerland
• Tao Te Ching  – Lao Tzu, Stephen Addiss
• The Little Prince [pdf]- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
• Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind – Shunryu Suzuki

Winter 2015

• Improv Wisdom: Don’t Prepare, Just Show Up – Patricia Ryan Madson (one of the best books I’ve read in my life, I highly recommend it!)
• How to Network – Tam Pham
• Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art – Stephen Nachmanovit

Fall 2015

• The Tipping Point – Malcolm Gladwell
• Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End – Atul Gawande
• The Charisma Myth – Olivia Fox Cabane

Summer 2015

• In Defense of a Liberal Education – Fareed Zakaria
• Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions – Edwin A. Abbott
• Moonwalking with Einstein – Joshua Foer
• Excellent Sheep – William Deresiewicz

Spring 2015

• Internal Time: Chronotypes, Social Jet Lag, and Why You’re So Tired – Till Roenneberg
• Sleep – Haruki Murakami (Japanese short story)
• Siddhartha – Hermann Hesse

Winter 2014

• How to Play the Piano Despite Years of Lessons: What Music Is and How to Make It at Home – Ward Cannel
• What Every BODY is saying – Joe Navarro
• 1984 – George Orwell