Favorite Books and Media

Favorite books and online media that have sparked reflections on finding meaning in life and ways to navigate living in our world.

Fantasy & Fairytale:

• The Lord of the Rings Trilogy

• The Hobbit

• The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

• Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery

Poetry:

• Haiku: Classic Japanese Short Poems by Hart Larrabee

• The Narrow Road to the Interior and Hojoki by Matsuo Basho

Other Fiction:

• Animal Farm by George Orwell

• Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

• Cane by Jean Toomer

• When the Emperor was Divine by Julie Otsuka

• You Are Eating an Orange. You are Naked. by Sheung-King

Philosophical Texts:

• Walden by Henry David Thoreau

• Striking Thought’s: Bruce Lee’s Wisdom for Daily Living

• Mere Christianity by CS Lewis

• On Liberty & Other Essays by John Stuart Mill

• On the Social Contract by Jean-Jaques Rousseau

• Founding Documents of the United States

  • The Declaration of Independence

  • The Federalist Papers

  • The United States Constitution & the Bill of Rights

Religious Texts:

• The Tanakh (Old Testament)

• The New Testament: specifically, the Gospels

• Rumi’s Masnavi & The Quran

• The Upanishad’s

• The Dhammapada

• The Bhagavad Gita

• Tao Te Ching

Non-Fiction:

• Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela

• Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

• World Religions by John Bowker

• What is Islam? by Shahab Ahmed

• Ritual by Dimitris Xygalatas

• Mistakes Were Made (but Not By Me) by Carol Tavris

• House of Cards by Robyn M. Dawes

• Ten Things I Wish You Knew About Your Child’s Mental Health by Billy Garvey

• 50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology by Scott O. Lilienfeld & Steven Jay

• Building a Life Worth Living by Marsha M. Linehan

• The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley

Online Media:

• Einzelgänger: https://www.youtube.com/@Einzelg%C3%A4nger

• ReligionForBreakfast: https://www.youtube.com/@ReligionForBreakfast

• Daily Stoic: https://www.youtube.com/@DailyStoic

• Alex O’Connor (Cosmic Skeptic): https://www.youtube.com/@CosmicSkeptic

Podcasts:

• Within Reason with Alex J. O’Connor

• Philosophize This! with Stephen West

• The Panpsycast with Jack Symes, et. al.

• Decoding the Gurus with Christopher Kavanagh & Matthew Browne

• Science Fictions with Tom Chivers & Stuart Ritchie

• Very Bad Therapy with Ben Fineman & Caroline Wiita