My Favorite Books

I am a voracious reader. On this page, you can see listed some of my favorite books that I have read and recommend highly (along with an occasional film or audio product that I also listed here) organized by categories.

I don’t agree with every idea in every item listed. But they played a role in my development.

This page used to feature these books in the form of an embed of my Amazon aStore. But Amazon shut down that service. So I’ve re-listed them according to the category structure that I used to use in the aStore.

You may also want to check out my book reviews, see books I want to read in the future, Funny Books and my unqualified (and extremely incomplete) list of books I have read.

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Overall Favorite Books

Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure by Daniel Quinn

Keeping the Love You Find: A Single Persons Guide to Achieving Lasting Love by Harville Hendrix

Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples, 20th Anniversary Edition by Harville Hendrix

The Power of Appreciative Inquiry: A Practical Guide to Positive Change by Diana Whitney and Amanda Trosten-Bloom

Internal Family Systems Therapy by Richard C. Schwartz

Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of the Mind by David M. Buss

Please Understand Me II: Temperament, Character, Intelligence by David Keirsey

Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life by Marshall Rosenberg

Ishmael by Daniel Quinn

The Inner Child Workbook: What to do with your past when it just won't go away by Cathryn L. Taylor

Personality Types: Using the Enneagram for Self-Discovery by Don Richard Riso and Russ Hudson

The Wisdom of the Enneagram: The Complete Guide to Psychological and Spiritual Growth for the Nine Personality Types by Don Richard Riso and Russ Hudson

Fixing Elections: The Failure of America's Winner Take All Politics by Steven Hill

Letters from a Nut by Ted L. Nancy

A Language Older Than Words by Derrick Jensen

Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization by Derrick Jensen

Endgame, Vol. 2: Resistance by Derrick Jensen

The Sociopath Next Door by Martha Stout

Political Ponerology (A Science on the Nature of Evil Adjusted for Political Purposes) by Andrew M. Lobaczewski

The Evolution of Cooperation: Revised Edition by Robert Axelrod

Psychology

Books on psychology are organized in subcategories below.

Positive Psychology

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

The Evolving Self: A Psychology for the Third Millennium by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

What Happy People Know: How the New Science of Happiness Can Change Your Life for the Better by Dan Baker

Destructive Emotions: A Scientific Dialogue with the Dalai Lama by Daniel Goleman

Destructive Emotions: How Can We Overcome Them?: A Scientific Dialogue with the Dalai Lama (Audio CD) by Daniel Goleman

Humanistic Psychology

Toward a Psychology of Being, 3rd Edition by Abraham Maslow

The Carl Rogers Reader

Transpersonal Psychology

Beyond the Brain: Birth, Death, and Transendence in Psychotherapy by Stanislav Grof

Evolutionary Psychology

The Two Million-Year-Old Self by Anthony Stevens

Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of the Mind by David M. Buss

Good Natured: The Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other Animals by Frans de Waal

Introducing Evolutionary Psychology by Dylan Evans and Oscar Zarate

Exiles from Eden: Psychotherapy from an Evolutionary Perspective by Kalman Glantz

The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature by Geoffrey Miller

Evolutionary Psychiatry, second edition: A New Beginning by Anthony Stevens

The Human Zoo: A Zoologist's Classic Study of the Urban Animal by Desmond Morris

The Evolving Self: A Psychology for the Third Millennium by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Personality Psychology

Please Understand Me II: Temperament, Character, Intelligence by David Keirsey

The Introvert Advantage: How Quiet People Can Thrive in an Extrovert World by Marti Olsen Laney

The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You by Elaine Aron

Personality Types: Using the Enneagram for Self-Discovery by Don Richard Riso and Russ Hudson

The Wisdom of the Enneagram: The Complete Guide to Psychological and Spiritual Growth for the Nine Personality Types by Don Richard Riso and Russ Hudson

Systems-Based Psychology

Internal Family Systems Therapy by Richard C. Schwartz

Borderline Personality Disorder

The Stop Walking on Eggshells Workbook: Practical Strategies for Living with Someone Who Has Borderline Personality Disorder by Randi Kreger

Understanding the Borderline Mother: Helping Her Children Transcend the Intense, Unpredictable, and Volatile Relationship by Christine Ann Lawson

Search For The Real Self: Unmasking The Personality Disorders Of Our Age by James F. Masterson, M.D.

Get Me Out of Here: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder by Rachel Reiland

Evil Genes: Why Rome Fell, Hitler Rose, Enron Failed, and My Sister Stole My Mother's Boyfriend by Barbara Oakley

The Illusion of Love by David Celani

I Hate You, Don't Leave Me: Understanding the Borderline Personality by Jerold J. Kreisman, M.D. and Hal Straus

Narcissistic Personality Disorder

The Wizard of Oz and Other Narcissists: Coping with the One-Way Relationship in Work, Love, and Family by Eleanor Payson

Search For The Real Self: Unmasking The Personality Disorders Of Our Age by James F. Masterson, M.D.

Psychopathy/Sociopathy

The Sociopath Next Door by Martha Stout

Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work by Paul Babiak and Robert D. Hare

The Corporation

Evil Genes: Why Rome Fell, Hitler Rose, Enron Failed, and My Sister Stole My Mother's Boyfriend by Barbara Oakley

Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us by Robert D. Hare

Political Ponerology (A Science on the Nature of Evil Adjusted for Political Purposes) by Andrew M. Lobaczewski

The Mask of Sanity: An Attempt to Clarify Some Issues About the So Called Psychopathic Personality by Hervey M. Cleckley

Personal Improvement

Books on personal improvement are organized in subcategories below.

Memory Improvement

Kevin Trudeau's Mega Memory: How to Release Your Superpower Memory in 30 Minutes Or Less a Day by Kevin Trudeau

Mega Memory (Audio CD) by Kevin Trudeau

Time Management Improvement

First Things First by Stephen Covey

Finding Your Strengths and Direction

Who Do You Think You Are? by Dr. Nick Isbister and Dr. Martin Robinson

Please Understand Me II: Temperament, Character, Intelligence by David Keirsey

What Color Is Your Parachute? 2019: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers by Richard N. Bolles

Inner Child Tools and Knowledge

The Inner Child Workbook: What to do with your past when it just won't go away by Cathryn L. Taylor

The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self, Revised Edition by Alice Miller

Liberating the Adult Within: How to Be a Grown-Up For Good by Helen Kramer

The Seashell People: Growing Up in Adulthood by Martha Horton

Healing the Shame that Binds You by John Bradshaw

Homecoming: Reclaiming and Championing Your Inner Child by John Bradshaw

Emotional Skill Improvement

Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ by Daniel Goleman

Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life by Marshall Rosenberg

Destructive Emotions: A Scientific Dialogue with the Dalai Lama by Daniel Goleman

Destructive Emotions: How Can We Overcome Them?: A Scientific Dialogue with the Dalai Lama (Audio CD) by Daniel Goleman

Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)

The Structure of Magic, Vol. 1: A Book About Language and Therapy by Richard Bandler and John Grinder

The Structure of Magic II: A Book About Communication and Change by Richard Bandler and John Grinder

Patterns of the Hypnotic Techniques of Milton H. Erickson, M.D., Vol. 1 by Richard Bandler and John Grinder

Frogs into Princes: Neuro Linguistic Programming by Richard Bandler and John Grinder

Trance-Formations: Neuro-Linguistic Programming and the Structure of Hypnosis by Richard Bandler and John Grinder

Time for a Change by Richard Bandler

Neuro-linguistic Programming for Dummies by Romilla Ready and Kate Burton

Relationship Improvement

Books on relationship improvement are organized in subcategories below.

Romantic Relationship Initiation

How to Get the Women You Desire into Bed by Ross Jeffries

The Mystery Method: How to Get Beautiful Women Into Bed by Mystery

Romantic Relationship Improvement/Recovery

Keeping the Love You Find: A Single Persons Guide to Achieving Lasting Love by Harville Hendrix

Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples, 20th Anniversary Edition by Harville Hendrix

How to Break Your Addiction to a Person: When and Why Love Doesn't Work, and What to Do About It by Howard Halpern

Finally Getting It Right by Howard Halpern

Facing Love Addiction: Giving Yourself the Power to Change the Way You Love by Pia Mellody

The Journey from Abandonment to Healing: Turn the End of a Relationship into the Beginning of a New Life by Susan Anderson

Parenting Improvement

Giving The Love That Heals: A Guide for Parents by Helen LaKelly Hunt

Communication Improvement

Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life by Marshall Rosenberg

Crucial Confrontations: Tools for Resolving Broken Promises, Violated Expectations, and Bad Behavior by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan and Al Switzler

Cultural Philosophy & Science

Ishmael by Daniel Quinn

The Story of B by Daniel Quinn

My Ishmael by Daniel Quinn

Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure by Daniel Quinn

Providence: The Story of a Fifty-Year Vision Quest by Daniel Quinn

A Language Older Than Words by Derrick Jensen

The Culture of Make Believe by Derrick Jensen

Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization by Derrick Jensen

Endgame, Vol. 2: Resistance by Derrick Jensen

The Human Zoo: A Zoologist's Classic Study of the Urban Animal by Desmond Morris

Walden : An Annotated Edition by Henry David Thoreau

Culture Jam: How to Reverse America's Suicidal Consumer Binge--And Why We Must by Kalle Lasn

Evolutionary Science

The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition by Richard Dawkins

The Evolution of Cooperation: Revised Edition by Robert Axelrod

Philosophy

Books on philosophy are organized in subcategories below.

Philosophy of Quality

Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals by Robert M. Pirsig

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by Robert M. Pirsig

Skepticism

How We Believe: Science, Skepticism, and the Search for God by Michael Shermer

Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time by Michael Shermer

Taoist Philosophy

Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu

Buddhist Philosophy

Destructive Emotions: A Scientific Dialogue with the Dalai Lama by Daniel Goleman

Destructive Emotions: How Can We Overcome Them?: A Scientific Dialogue with the Dalai Lama (Audio CD) by Daniel Goleman

Poetry

The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran

Humor

Letters from a Nut by Ted L. Nancy

More Letters from a Nut by Ted L. Nancy

Extra Nutty! Even More Letters from a Nut! by Ted L. Nancy

Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People by P.J. O'Rourke

Jerky Boys 2 by Jerky Boys

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents America (The Book) Teacher's Edition: A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction by Jon Stewart and the Writers of the Daily Show

Fiction

Books of fiction are organized in subcategories below.

Dystopian Fiction

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Animal Farm by George Orwell

1984 by George Orwell

Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut

Utopian Fiction

Island by Aldous Huxley

Political Fiction

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Philosophical Fiction

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by Robert M. Pirsig

Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals by Robert M. Pirsig

Siddhartha: A Novel by Hermann Hesse

Other Fiction

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

Politics

Fixing Elections: The Failure of America's Winner Take All Politics by Steven Hill

No Debate: How the Republican and Democratic Parties Secretly Control the Presidential Debates by George Farah

10 Steps to Repair American Democracy by Steven Hill

Stupid White Men...And Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation! by Michael Moore

Crashing the Party: Taking on the Corporate Government in an Age of Surrender by Ralph Nader

The Conscience of a Liberal: Reclaiming the Compassionate Agenda by Paul Wellstone

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents America (The Book) Teacher's Edition: A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction by Jon Stewart and the Writers of the Daily Show

Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore

Political Ponerology (A Science on the Nature of Evil Adjusted for Political Purposes) by Andrew M. Lobaczewski

Personal Finance

Your Money or Your Life: 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence by Vicki Robin and Joe Dominguez

I Will Teach You To Be Rich by Ramit Sethi

Biography & Autobiography

Memories, Dreams, Reflections by Carl Jung

The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Providence: The Story of a Fifty-Year Vision Quest by Daniel Quinn

Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson by Mitch Albom

Gandhi: An Autobiography - The Story of My Experiments With Truth

The Conscience of a Liberal: Reclaiming the Compassionate Agenda by Paul Wellstone

Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave Written By Himself

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Mozart: A Cultural Biography by Robert W. Gutman

Faith of My Fathers by John McCain

The Life of Isaac Newton by Richard S. Westfall

Hitler: The Pathology of Evil by George Victor

Naturalist by Edward O. Wilson

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

A Sorrow in Our Heart: The Life of Tecumseh by Allan W. Eckert

Music Theory

Lies My Music Teacher Told Me by Gerald Eskelin

Systems Thinking and Sciences

The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of the Learning Organization by Peter Senge

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell

Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick

Internal Family Systems Therapy by Richard C. Schwartz

Appreciative Inquiry

The Power of Appreciative Inquiry: A Practical Guide to Positive Change by Diana Whitney and Amanda Trosten-Bloom

The Thin Book of Appreciative Inquiry by Sue Annis Hammond

Adventure

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer

Books by Derrick Jensen

A Language Older Than Words by Derrick Jensen

The Culture of Make Believe by Derrick Jensen

Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization by Derrick Jensen

Endgame, Vol. 2: Resistance by Derrick Jensen

Welcome to the Machine: Science, Surveillance, and the Culture of Control by Derrick Jensen and George Draffan

Walking on Water: Reading, Writing and Revolution by Derrick Jensen

Listening to the Land: Conversations about Nature, Culture and Eros by Derrick Jensen

Books by Daniel Quinn

Ishmael by Daniel Quinn

The Story of B by Daniel Quinn

My Ishmael by Daniel Quinn

Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure by Daniel Quinn

Providence: The Story of a Fifty-Year Vision Quest by Daniel Quinn

If They Give You Lined Paper, Write Sideways by Daniel Quinn

Tales of Adam by Daniel Quinn

Books by Ralph Nader

Crashing the Party: Taking on the Corporate Government in an Age of Surrender by Ralph Nader

The Good Fight: Declare Your Independence and Close the Democracy Gap by Ralph Nader

The Ralph Nader Reader by Ralph Nader

In Pursuit of Justice: Collected Writings 2000-2003 by Ralph Nader

Civic Arousal by Ralph Nader

Unsafe at Any Speed: The Designed-in Dangers of the American Automobile by Ralph Nader

The Seventeen Traditions: Lessons from an American Childhood by Ralph Nader

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