Recommended Reading
In the interest of full disclosure, these are Amazon affiliate links. I will earn a few pennies if you click through and make a purchase. All titles are books I’ve read and that come to me off the top of my head as exceptionally entertaining or deeply thought provoking. This list will always be a work in progress. Overall, it’s quite the grab bag, ranging from the metaphysical to the murder mystery. Where I reference series I read, I’ve linked to the first book.
Adam, Eve, and the Serpent: Sex and Politics in Early Christianity
Art of Living: The Classical Mannual on Virtue, Happiness, and Effectiveness (Plus)
Blackberry Winter: My Earlier Years
Care of the Soul : A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life
The Creators: A History of Heroes of the Imagination
Dragon Hunter: Roy Chapman Andrews and the Central Asiatic Expeditions
The Eternal Darkness: A Personal History of Deep-Sea Exploration
Guilty Pleasures (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter: Book 1)
The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Bollingen Series)
The Hungry Ocean: A Swordboat Captain’s Journey
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime
Joseph Campbell: A Fire in the Mind
A Kiss of Shadows (Meredith Gentry, Book 1)
The Last River: The Tragic Race for Shangri-la
Letters from a Stoic (Penguin Classics)
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
Making the Mummies Dance : Inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology (P.S.)
Meditations (Penguin Classics)
A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose (Oprah’s Book Club, Selection 61)
Old Bones (A Gideon Oliver Mystery)
The Passion of the Western Mind: Understanding the Ideas that Have Shaped Our World View
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Harper Perrennial Modern Classics)
The Pillars of the Earth (Deluxe Edition) (Oprah’s Book Club)
The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
Storm Front (The Dresden Files, Book 1)
The Terrible Hours: The Greatest Submarine Rescue in History
Too Close to the Sun: The Audacious Life and Times of Denys Finch Hatton
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life’s Greatest Lesson
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet
A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age
