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)