Otherworldly
Table of Contents
Fiction
Novels and stories that stayed with me. Some are philosophical without being philosophy textbooks. Some are just brutal and beautiful on their own terms.
- A Fine Balance
- A Little Life
- Blind Owl
- Crime and Punishment
- East of Eden
- Einstein’s Dreams
- Infinite Jest
- Labyrinths
- Lolita
- No Exit
- Nausea
- Notes from the Underground
- On Earth We Are Briefly Gorgeous
- Siddhartha
- Steppenwolf
- The Brothers Karamazov
- The Catcher in the Rye
- The Grapes of Wrath
- The Idiot
- The Invention of Solitude
- The Lost Daughter
- The Picture of Dorian Gray
- The Plague
- The Sound and the Fury
- The Stranger
- The Tell-Tale Heart
- Then We Came to the End
- To the Lighthouse
- Too Loud a Solitude
Philosophy
When I am talking about Philosophy, don’t confuse it with Theology. I have a love affair with life, not with beliefs.
- Affective Neuroscience
- Age of Reason
- Beyond Good and Evil
- Dialogues concerning Natural Religion
- Either/Or
- Enlightenment Is Your Nature
- Escape from Freedom
- Existentialism is a Humanism
- Famine, Affluence and Morality
- Letters to a Young Poet
- Man’s Search for Meaning
- My Experiments with Truth
- On the Genealogy of Morality
- On the Shortness of Life
- One Hundred Poems of Kabir
- Pointers to Non-Duality
- Sophie’s World
- Sun and Steel
- Tao Te Ching
- The Book of Mirdad
- The Cynic Philosophers: from Diogenes to Julian
- The Essays
- The Essential Rumi
- The Feminine Mystique
- The Mind-Body Problem
- The Myth of Sisyphus
- The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory
- The Prophet
- The Right to Oblivion: Privacy and the Good Life
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
- Why I am an Atheist
- Talmud
These have been wonderful reads and have exposed me to a new me!
Life
Psychology, identity, parenting, work, love, aging, and the messy business of being a person.
- A Life’s Work: On becoming a Mother
- All About Love
- Courage to be Disliked
- Flow
- Love (Stendhal)
- Several Short Sentences About Writing
- Stories We Live By
- The Burnout Society
- The Defining Decade
- The Gardener and the Carpenter
- The Monarchy of Fear
- The Surrender Experiment
- The Tail End
- The Upside of Irrationality
- Tuesdays with Morrie
- Wild Problems
Some wonderful talks: