Life On A B-I7

I lean toward non-fiction and poetry, contemporary novels don’t do much for me, but I haven’t completely ruled out fiction. There is some fiction on my Lifetime Reading Plan, so tackling a work of fiction is bound to happen sooner or later. Reading is a great way to keep your mind flexible and engaged.

January

Gitanjali
A Collection of Indian Poems by Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore

Nine Lives
In Search of the Sacred in Modern India by William Dalrymple

Rumi’s Little Book of Life
The Garden of the Soul, the Heart, and the Spirit translated by Maryam Mafi and Azima Melita Kolin

Joy Ride by Kristen Jokinen
Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
Stuck by Yoni Appelbaum
How Emotionally Mature Are You? by The School of Life
Turning to Stone by Marcia Bjornerud
Greek Philosophy by Helen Gagatsu
Merlins Tour of the Universe by Neil DeGrasse Tyson
The Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday
The Traveling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa
The Creative Act by Rick Rubin
The Cat Who Taught Zen by James Norbury
My Friends by Fredrik Backman
Beartown by Fredrik Backman
Stillness is the Key by Ryan Holiday
The Hollow Crown by Eliot A. Cohen
Walking in Wonder by Adam Segel-Moss (Cliff Dancer)
Raising Hare A Memoir by Chloe Dalton
The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles
On Quality by Robert M. Pirsig
How to Write a Sentence and How to Read One by Stanley Fish
Abbey in America Edited by John A. Murray
Shadows on the Koyukuk by Sidney Huntington
Flaubert A Life by Geoffrey Wall

I’m calling this my Lifetime Reading Plan. This is a place to occasionally come when I’m looking for a reading project. If something speaks to me here I’ll pick it up, if not, perhaps then another day. It gives me satisfaction to have a plan and this list is an inspiration.

Titles

The Magic Mountain
Buddenbrooks
Les Miserables
The Return of the Native
Essays
The Third Policeman
Letters to Eckermann
Lord Jim
Hamlet
King Lear
Moby Dick
The Sun Also Rises

Authors

Whitman
Thoreau
Twain
Joseph Campbell
Gary Snyder
Annie Dillard
Basho
Cervantes
Homer
John Muir
Chekhov
Dostoyevsky
Camu
Beckett
Nietzsche

Masters
Zen, Muslim, Taoist, Hassidic, Hindu