This list contains inspiring, thought-provoking, entertaining, and informative books I’ve read. The best books I read usually come from personal recommendations, so feel free to suggest any gems you stumble across!

  • Adams, Douglas (1986) The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
  • Adams, Scott (2001) God’s Debris
  • Adams, Scott (2004) The Religion War
  • Barr, James (1993) The Garden of Eden and the Hope of Immortality
  • Bloom, Harold and David Rosenberg (2005) The Book of J
  • Bohren, Craig (2001) Clouds in a Glass of Beer: Simple Experiments in Atmospheric Physics
  • Campbell, Joseph (1949) The Hero with a Thousand Faces
  • Campbell, Joseph (1986) The Inner Reaches of Outer Space: Metaphor as Myth and as Religion
  • Campbell, Joseph (1988) The Power of Myth
  • Crossan, John (1994) Jesus:A Revolutionary Biography
  • Crossan, John (1995) Who Killed Jesus? Exposing the Roots of Anti-Semitism in the Gospel Story of the Death of Jesus
  • Dennett, Daniel (1995) Darwin’s Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
  • Diamond, Jared (1999) Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
  • Diamond, Jared (2005) Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
  • Eliade, Mircea (1957) The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion
  • Foucault, Michel (1976) The History of Sexuality: An Introduction
  • Friedman, Richard (1997) Who Wrote the Bible?
  • Geisel, Theodore (1971) The Lorax
  • Gould, Stephen (1999) Rocks of Ages
  • Hawking, Stephen (1988) A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes
  • Henderson, Bobby (2006) The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
  • Hesse, Hermann (1922) Siddhartha
  • Jastrow, Robert (1977) Until the Sun Dies
  • Jastrow, Robert (1978) God and the Astronomers
  • Kendall, Carol (1959) The Gammage Cup
  • Kidder, Tracy (1981) The Soul of a New Machine
  • Kitcher, Philip (1982) Abusing Science: The Case Against Creationism
  • Lakoff, George (1990) Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal About the Mind
  • Markides, Kyriacos (1995) Riding with the Lion: In Search of Mystical Christianity
  • Markides, Kyriacos (2001) The Mountain of Silence: A Search for Orthodox Spirituality
  • Markides, Kyriacos (2005) Gifts of the Desert: The Forgotten Path of Christian Spirituality
  • Malory, Thomas (1485) Le Morte d’Arthur
  • Moore, Christopher (2002) Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal
  • Morris, Desmond (1967) The Naked Ape: A Zoologist’s Study of the Human Animal
  • Morris, Desmond (1969) The Human Zoo
  • Morris, Desmond (1971) Intimate Behavior
  • Morris, Desmond (2004) The Naked Woman: A Study of the Female Body
  • Morris, Desmond (2004) The Nature of Happiness
  • Pirsig, Robert (1974) Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
  • Popper, Karl (1934) The Logic of Scientific Discovery
  • Popper, Karl (1963) Conjectures and Refutations
  • Quinn, Daniel (1992) Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
  • Quinn, Daniel (1996) The Story of B
  • Quinn, Daniel (1997) My Ishmael: A Sequel
  • Quinn, Daniel (2000) Beyond Civilization: Humanity’s Next Adventure
  • Quinn, Daniel (2005) Tales of Adam
  • Wrangham, Richard and Dale Peterson (1996) Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence