Otherworldly

Fiction, philosophy, and life reads that stayed with me. Some rewired how I think. Some just hit harder than they had any right to.

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

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:

• Achieving your childhood dreams
• Building a Life