Books I’m reading, or books I’ve read that I highly recommend :) If you want to read them too, I ask that you please not buy them from Amazon.
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, by Robin Wall Kimmerer
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction, by Gabor Maté
A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster, by Rebecca Solnit
Ishmael, by Daniel Quinn
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Currently reading
The Encultured Brain: An Introduction to Neuroanthropology, by Daniel H. Lende and Greg Downey (Eds.)
Up next
Dawn, by Octavia E. Butler
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, by David Graeber and David Wengrow
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, by Arundhati Roy
Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California’s Natural Resources, by M. Kat Anderson
Spirituality
A Course in Miracles, by Helen Schucman (scribe)
Tao Te Ching, by Lao Tzu
The Four Agreements, by don Miguel Ruiz
Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth, by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee (Ed.)
The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety, by Alan Watts
Psychology
Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma, by Peter A. Levine
Healing Collective Trauma: A Process for Integrating Our Intergenerational and Cultural Wounds, by Thomas Hübl
How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain, by Lisa Feldman Barrett
Pocket Guide to Interpersonal Neurobiology: An Integrative Handbook of the Mind, by Daniel J. Siegel
No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model, by Richard Schwartz
My Name is Chellis and I’m in Recovery from Western Civilization, by Chellis Glendinning
The Globalisation of Addiction: A Study in Poverty of the Spirit, by Bruce Alexander
Political/Social Issues
Jackson Rising: The Struggle for Economic Democracy and Black Self-Determination in Jackson, MS, by Kali Akuno and Ajamu Nangwaya
The Ecology of Freedom: The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy, by Murray Bookchin
Justice as Healing: Indigenous Ways, by Wanda D. McCaslin (Ed.)
Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World, by Jason Hickel
Anarchy Works: Examples of Anarchist Ideas in Practice, by Peter Gelderloos
A Dual Power Reading List, compiled by ROAR Magazine
My favorite fiction
The House of the Spirits, by Isabel Allende
The God of Small Things, by Arundhati Roy
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, by Haruki Murakami
The Overstory, by Richard Powers
The Sirens of Titan, by Kurt Vonnegut
Lullaby, by Chuck Palahniuk