Reading
Books I've given five stars on Goodreads. No ranking within — order is alphabetical by author.
Fiction
- Brave New World / Brave New World Revisited — Aldous Huxley (1932)
- The Carpet Makers — Andreas Eschbach (1995)
- The Time Traveler's Wife — Audrey Niffenegger (2003)
- Accelerando — Charles Stross (2005)
- Jane Eyre — Charlotte Brontë (1847)
- City — Clifford D. Simak (1952)
- The Rise of Endymion — Dan Simmons (1997)
- Endymion — Dan Simmons (1996)
- Divine Comedy: Inferno — Dante Alighieri (1321)
- The Tartar Steppe — Dino Buzzati (1940)
- Ready Player One — Ernest Cline (2011)
- History of the Kings of Britain — Geoffrey of Monmouth (1136)
- Decameron — Giovanni Boccaccio (1349)
- The Leopard — Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1958)
- The Best of H.P. Lovecraft — H.P. Lovecraft (1963)
- Kafka on the Shore — Haruki Murakami (2002)
- Iliad — Homer (-800)
- Odyssey — Homer (-800)
- Invisible Cities — Italo Calvino (1972)
- Wide Sargasso Sea — Jean Rhys (1966)
- Stoner — John Williams (1965)
- Circe — Madeline Miller (2018)
- Memoirs of Hadrian — Marguerite Yourcenar (1951)
- The Neverending Story — Michael Ende (1979)
- The Crimson Petal and the White — Michel Faber (2002)
- Wolf Brother (Chronicles of Ancient Darkness, #1) — Michelle Paver (2004)
- Eleanor & Park — Rainbow Rowell (2012)
- Attachments — Rainbow Rowell (2012)
- Cathedral — Raymond Carver (1983)
- Conan The Cimmerian — Robert E. Howard (1932)
- Prose Edda — Snorri Sturluson (1220)
- A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle) — Ursula K. Le Guin (1968)
- Tehanu / Tales from Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle) — Ursula K. Le Guin (2001)
- Antilia, sui mari della stregoneria — Yuri Zanelli
Philosophy & Thought
- The World As I See It — Albert Einstein (1934)
- Zhuangzi (selections) — Chuang-Tzu (2007)
- Anarchy in Action — Colin Ward (1981)
- Enchiridion — Epitteto (125)
- Fragments — Heraclitus (-501)
- Tao Te Ching — Lao Tzu (-350)
- Hua Hu Ching — Lao Tzu (-350)
- Meditations — Marcus Aurelius (180)
- Il sorriso segreto dell'essere — Mauro Bergonzi (2011)
- 365 Tao: Daily Meditations — Ming-Dao Deng (1992)
- Philosophy as a Way of Life — Pierre Hadot (1981)
- 101 Zen Stories — Senzaki Nyogen (1919)
- What the Buddha Taught — Walpola Rahula (1959)
Non-Fiction
- The Watercourse Way — Alan W. Watts (1975)
- Flame and Crimson: A History of Sword-and-Sorcery — Brian Murphy (2020)
- The Songlines — Bruce Chatwin (1987)
- Analytical Psychology: Its Theory and Practice — C.G. Jung (1989)
- Gods, Graves and Scholars — C.W. Ceram (1949)
- Reads Like a Novel — Daniel Pennac (1992)
- Three Stones Make a Wall — Eric H. Cline (2017)
- Ilios: The City and Country of the Trojans — Heinrich Schliemann (1875)
- The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind — Julian Jaynes (1976)
- Quantum Physics for Poets — Leon M. Lederman (2010)
- Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking — Susan Cain (2012)
- The Wave in the Mind — Ursula K. Le Guin (1975)
Poetry & Other
- Taoist Texts — Fausto Tomassini (1977)
- Gitanjali — Rabindranath Tagore
- I Ching: The Book of Changes — Richard Wilhelm (-850)
- Poems — Sappho (-550)
Other
- The Fall of Hyperion — Dan Simmons (1990)
- Hyperion — Dan Simmons (1989)
- Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind — Hayao Miyazaki (1995)
- Corto Maltese: A Ballad of the Salt Sea — Hugo Pratt (1967)
- If on a winter's night a traveler — Italo Calvino (1979)
- Selected Poems — Rabindranath Tagore (1998)
- The Nibelungenlied — Unknown (1200)