Welcome to my domain for book reflections, ponderings, and what I’m currently reading.

Favorite Books on Writing, Creativity, and Inspiration:

The Practice, by Seth Godin

Man’s Search for Meaning, by Viktor E. Frankl

Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave, by Ryan Holiday

The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible, by Charles Eisenstein

Show Your Work! 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered, by Austin Kleon

Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? by Seth Godin

The Writing Life, by Annie Dillard

The War of Art, by Steven Pressfield

The Artist’s Journey, by Steven Pressfield

If You Want to Write, by Brenda Ueland

The Buddha and the Badass, by Vishen Lakhiani

To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction, by Phillip Lopate

Think Like a Monk, by Jay Shetty

Zen in the Art of Writing, by Ray Bradbury

Inner Engineering: A Yogi’s Guide to Joy, by Sadhguru

Reading Like a Writer, by Francine Prose

Bird by Bird, by Anne Lamott

Favorite Nonfiction on Travel and Place:

To Shake the Sleeping Self, by Jedidiah Jenkins

Down and Out in Paris and London, by George Orwell

A Moveable Feast, by Ernest Hemingway

Iberia, by James A. Michener

The World Is My Home, by James A. Michener

Walden, by Henry David Thoreau

The Lady and the Monk, by Pico Iyer

The Pilgrimage, by Paulo Coelho

Shark Drunk, by Morten Stroksnes

World Travel: An Irreverent Guide, by Anthony Bourdain

All-time Favorite Nonfiction Books: 

The Immortality Key, by Brian C. Muraresku

Greenlights, by Matthew McConaughey

Washington: A Life, by Ron Chernow

The Common Reader, by Virginia Woolf 

The Diary of a Young Girl, by Anne Frank

Maps of Meaning, by Jordan B. Peterson

12 Rules for Life, by Jordan B. Peterson

Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life, by Jordan B. Peterson

The My Struggle Series, by Karl Ove Knausgaard

Autumn, by Karl Ove Knausgaard

Can’t Hurt Me, by David Goggins

Sapiens, Homo Deus, & 21 Lessons for the 21st-Century, by Yuval Noah Harari

Leonardo da Vinci, by Walter Isaacson

Benjamin Franklin: An American Life, by Walter Isaacson

The World of Yesterday, by Stefan Zweig

Erasmus of Rotterdam, by Stefan Zweig

Montaigne, by Stefan Zweig

The Surrender Experiment, by Michael A. Singer

The Untethered Soul, by Michael A. Singer

Shoe Dog, by Phil Knight

Kitchen Confidential, by Anthony Bourdain

The Greatest Empire, by Emily Wilson

All-time Favorite Fiction Books: 

Dune, by Frank Herbert

The Name of the Wind, by Patrick Rothfuss

Siddhartha: a Novel, by Hermann Hesse

1Q84, by Haruki Murakami

The Source, by James Michener

Of Human Bondage, by W. Somerset Maugham

Inferno, by Dan Brown

The Odyssey, by Homer

The Aeneid, by Virgil

A Time for Everything, by Karl Ove Knausgaard

A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens

East of Eden, by John Steinbeck

War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy

Tai-Pan, by James Clavell

Shogun, by James Clavell

The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway

For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway

A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel, by Amor Towles

Spring Snow, by Yukio Mishima

The Magus, by John Fowles

Shibumi, by Trevanian

The Pillar of the Earth Series, by Ken Follett

The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho

The Nightingale, by Kristin Hannah

Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, & Inheritance, by Christopher Paolini

Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley