Reading List

As those of you who know me know, I'm a total closet philosopher. My obsession with philosophy, religion, nature, culture, has not gone on pause for a year while I'm here in Austria. Before leaving i sent myself two boxes of 25 books. My mission is to finish them before I leave. Seeing as how I keep buying new books, the list has fluxed to 29. Here it is.

1. The Courage to Create - Rollo May
2. The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks and Giants of the Ocean - Susan Casey
3. On the Road - Jack Kerouac
4. Eat, Pray, Love - Elizabeth Gilbert
5. It's not how good you are, it's how good you want to be - Paul Arden
6. What the Dog Saw - Malcom Gladwell
7. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert Pirsig
8. The Secret - Rhonda Byrne
9. SAVOR - Thich Nhat Hanh
10. How it is - V.F. Cordova
11. Dark Green Religion - Bron Taylor
12. Global Shift: How a new worldview is transforming humanity - Edmund J. Bourne
13. The Autobiography of St. Teresa of Avila 
14. The Spell of the Sensuous - David Abram
15. Human Experience: philosophy, neurosis, and the elements of everyday life - John Edward Russon
16. Awareness: the key to living in balance - Osho  
17. The heart of Dōgen's Shōbōgenzō - Dogen, Masao Abe, Norman Waddell
18. The Present Age - Søren Kierkegaard  
19. The Ethics of Ambiguity - Simone de Beauvoir 
20. Landscapes of dissent: guerrilla poetry & public space- Jules Boykoff and Kaia Sand
21. The Road Less Travelled - M. Scott Peck
22. The Upanishads - Juan Mascaró 
23. Why I am so Wise - Friedrich Nietzsche 
24. Radical Hope - Jonathan Lear
25. The Way of the Buddha: The Illustrated Dhammapada - Rubin Museum of Art, F. Max Muller
26. TAKU - Karen Bell and Janet Shelfer 
27. The Bhagavad Gita - Juan Mascaró, Simon Brodbeck
28. Salzburg für Anfänger - Herbert Rosendorfer
29. Der Teufel von Mailand - Martin Suter

Last Read: #2, The Wave... by Susan Casey. HIGHLY recommended. Gave me goose bumps, made me gasp, and made me want to keep the ocean close. 

Now Reading: # 3, On The Road - Jack Kerouac.