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

Favorite books on writing & creativity:

The Practice, by Seth Godin

Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? by Seth Godin

The War of Art, by Steven Pressfield

The Artist’s Journey, by Steven Pressfield

If You Want to Write, by Brenda Ueland

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

Zen in the Art of Writing, by Ray Bradbury

Reading Like a Writer, by Francine Prose

Bird by Bird, by Anne Lamott

All-time favorite nonfiction books: 

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

Greenlights, by Matthew McConaughey

Washington: A Life, by Ron Chernow

The Buddha and the Badass, by Vishen Lakhiani

Down and Out in Paris and London, by George Orwell

The Common Reader, by Virginia Woolf 

Think Like a Monk, by Jay Shetty

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

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

The My Struggle Series, by Karl Ove Knausgaard

The World Is My Home, by James Michener

Walden, by Henry David Thoreau

Can’t Hurt Me, by David Goggins

A Moveable Feast, by Ernest Hemingway

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

The Lady and the Monk, by Pico Iyer

The Pilgrimage, by Paulo Coelho

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

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, and the rest of the Inheritance series, by Christopher Paolini

Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley