A friend wanted suggestions on interesting books of various genres to read that point towards the need for / explain spirituality. I prepared a list of modern day books (means I did not include many of the classics that were written millennia ago) that helped me. Here it is, in no particular order:
1.) Case against the global economy and for a turn towards the local - edited by Jerry Mander
2.) Everyone loves a good drought - P. Sainath
3.) Confronting Consumption - MIT Press
4.) Ishmael - Daniel Quinn
5.) Hind Swaraj - M.K. Gandhi
6.) Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh - Helena Norberg Hodge
7.) Power of Now - Eckhart Tolle
8.) One straw revolution - Masanobu Fukoka
9.) Economy of permanence - J.C. Kumarappa
10.) Happiness hypothesis - Jonathan Haidt
11.) Happiness - Mathew Ricard
12.) Dialogue with death - Eknath Eshwaran
13.) Think on these things - J. Krishnamurthi
14.) Freedom from the known - J. Krishnamurthi
15.) One minute wisdom, One minute nonsense - Anthony de Mello
16.) Song of the bird, Prayer of the frog - Anthony de Mello
17.) Call to love - Anthony de Mello
18.) Stop sleep walking through life - Devdas Menon
19.) Flow - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
20.) Leadership and self deception - Arbinger Institute
21.) Anatomy of peace - Arbinger institute
22.) Tao of Physics - Fritjof Capra
23.) Synthesis of Yoga - Aurobindo
24.) Elephant whisperer - Anthony Lawrence
25.) Gorillas in the mist - Dian Fossey
26.) Legacy of Luna - Julia Hill
27.) A new earth - Eckhart Tolle
28.) Small is beautiful - E.F. Schumacher
29.) The Razors edge - Somerset Maugham
30.) Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Richard Bach
31.) Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
32.) Prophet - Kahlil Gibran
33.) Awakening of Intelligence - J. Krishnamurthi
34.) Left to Tell - Immaculee Ilibagiza
35.) Peace is every step - Thich Nhat Hanh
36.) Summerhill - A.S. Neill
37.) Madman - Kahlil Gibran
38.) Animal Farm - George Orwell
39.) Guru Vachaka Kovai - Muruganar
40.) Ancestors Tale - Richard Dawkins
41.) Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
42.) Karma Yoga / Gnana Yoga - Swami Vivekananda
43.) Talks with Sri Ramana Maharishi - Munagala Venkataramiah
2 comments:
Thanks for the compilation!
I am the friend who asked for this compilation. Thanks Parth!
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