- Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow – Gabrielle Zevin
- Doppelganger – Naomi Klein
- Breaking Bread with the Dead – Alan Jacob
- The Little Drummer Girl – John LeCarré
- The Mountain Poems of Stonehouse – Red Pine and Stonehouse
- Master Dogen’s Zazen Meditation Handbook – Eihei Dogen
- Zen – the First Thousand Years – Red Pine
- Stonehouse’s Poems for Zen Monks – Red Pine
- Trusting the Mind – Red Pine
- Breath – James Nestor
- Double or Nothing – Kim Sherwood
- A Spy Like Me – Kim Sherwood
- Movement Matters – Katy Bowman
- Red Team Blues – Cory Doctorov
- The Bezzle – Cory Doctorov
- Listen – Michael Faber
- Slow Horses (#1) – Mike Herron
- Dead Lions (#2) – Mike Herron
- The List (#2.5) – Mike Herron
- Real Tigers (#3) – Mike Herron
- Joe Country (#6) – Mike Herron
- London Rules (#5) – Mike Herron
- Spook Street (#4) – Mike Herron
- Slough House (#7) – Mike Herron
- Bad Actors (#8) – Mike Herron
- Standing by the Wall – Mike Herron
- A Tale for the Time Being – Ruth Ozeki
- The Singularity – Dino Buzzati
- Cloud Cuckoo Land – Anthony Doerr
- Work – Robert A. Caro
- Playground – Richard Powers
- Karla’s Choice – Nick Harkaway
- Die Herzlichkeit der Vernunft – Ferdinand Von Schirach & Alexander Kluge
- To Catch a Thief – David Dodge
- The Dawn of Everything – David Graeber & David Wengrow
- And the Roots of Rhythm Remain – Joe Boyd
Books I especially enjoyed appear in bold type. Of those 36 books 2 were audiobooks, 3 were paper books, and the rest were ebooks. 18 of the books were borrowed from the public library.
For 2025, as one recommendation: Vita Contemplativa: In Praise of Inactivity, by Byung-Chul Han.
You might appreciate it more in German (since the author wrote it in German originally) by the title Vita contemplativa: oder von der Untätigkeit | Eine Kritik an unserer Leistungsgesellschaft
(Since I cannot read German, I had to read the translation.)
I think you would appreciate the author’s thesis in either case.
Thanks Steve. I found the German version on Kindle. Judging by the first few pages it’ll be a nice companion to “The Dawn of Everything”.
I’m very interested in what you think after you are done.
Hope you find it interesting and engaging.