Recommended Reading/Non-fiction
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Biographies
Autobiographies | ||||
Literary | ||||
 Life on the Mississippi ( ) by Mark Twain |
 Down and Out in Paris and London ( ) by George Orwell |
 Wind, Sand and Stars ( ) by Antoine de Saint-Exupery |
 A Moveable Feast ( ) by Ernest Hemingway |
 Speak, Memory ( ) by Vladimir Nabokov |
| More Literary Autobiographies | ||||
| Diary ( ) of Lady Murasaki | ||||
| Childhood Years: A Memoir ( ) by Junichiro Tanizaki | ||||
| What I Talk About When I Talk About Running ( ) by Haruki Murakami | ||||
| Diaries ( ) of Franz Kafka | ||||
| Safe Conduct ( ) by Boris Pasternak | ||||
| A Country Doctor's Notebook ( ) by Mikhail Bulgakov | ||||
| Headed for the Blues: A Memoir ( ) by Josef Skvorecky | ||||
| Memoir of Hungary, 1944-1948 ( ) by Sandor Marai | ||||
| A Little Learning: The First Volume of an Autobiography ( ) by Evelyn Waugh | ||||
| A Little Learning: The First Volume of an Autobiography ( ) by Rudyard Kipling | ||||
| Memoirs of My Life ( ) by Edward Gibbon | ||||
| My Life and Hard Times ( ) by James Thurber | ||||
| Condundrum ( ) by Jan Morris | ||||
| Six Records of a Floating Life ( ) by Shen Fu | ||||
| Confessions of an English Opium-Eater ( ) by Thomas de Quincey | ||||
| My Days ( ) by R.K. Narayan | ||||
| The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian ( ) by Nirad C. Chaudhuri | ||||
| My Struggle ( ) by Karl Ove Knausgård | ||||
| A Journey Round My Skull ( ) by Frigyes Karinthy | ||||
| My Father and Myself ( ) by J.R. Ackerley | ||||
| Chronicles of My Life: An American in the Heart of Japan ( ) by Donald Keene | ||||
| The Autobiography ( ) of William Carlos Williams | ||||
| My Life In CIA: A Chronicle of 1973 ( ) by Harry Mathews | ||||
| Diaries ( ) of Witold Gombrowicz | ||||
| Prisoner of Love ( ) by Jean Genet | ||||
| Sisters by a River ( ) by Barbara Comyns | ||||
| On Overgrown Paths ( ) by Knut Hamsun | ||||
| My Life ( ) by Lyn Hejinian | ||||
| The Year of Magical Thinking (2005) by Joan Didion | ||||
| Pages From the Goncourt Journals (1896) by Edmond and Jules de Goncourt | ||||
| Homage to Catalonia ( ) by George Orwell | ||||
| Going Solo (1986) by Roald Dahl | ||||
| If This Is a Man ( ) by Primo Levi | ||||
| Storm of Steel ( ) by Erst Jungern | ||||
| The Periodic Table ( ) by Primo Levi | ||||
| Living to Tell the Tale ( ) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez | ||||
| Ecce Homo ( ) by Friedrich Nietzsche | ||||
| The Life of Henry Brulard ( ) by Stendhal | ||||
| The Great Fire of London ( ) by Jacques Roubaud | ||||
| The Autobiography ( ) of William Butler Yeats | ||||
| The Autobiography ( ) of G.K. Chesterton | ||||
| I, Asimov: A Memoir ( ) by Isaac Asimov | ||||
Historical | ||||
 The Pillow Book ( ) by Sei Shonagon |
 The Autobiography ( ) of Benjamin Franklin |
 The Autobiography ( ) of Malcolm X |
 Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! ( ) by Richard Feynman |
 Goodbye to All That ( ) by Robert Graves |
| More Historical Autobiographies | ||||
| The Book of My Life ( ) by Girolamo Cardano | ||||
| My Childhood ( ) by Maxim Gorky | ||||
| As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams ( ) by Lady Sarashina | ||||
| The Confessions ( ) of Lady Nijo | ||||
| Gossamer Years: The Diary of a Noblewoman of Heian Japan ( ) by Mother of Michitsuna | ||||
| The Baburnama: Memoirs (1530) of Babur | ||||
| The Memoirs (1795) of Catherine the Great | ||||
| Lost Splendor: The Amazing Memoirs of the Man Who Killed Rasputin (1953) by Felix Yusupov | ||||
| Narrative of the Life (1845) of Frederick Douglass | ||||
| The Diary ( ) of Samuel Pepys | ||||
| The Autobiography ( ) of William Tecumseh Sherman | ||||
| The Journal ( ) of George Fox | ||||
| The Story of My Life (1903) by Helen Keller | ||||
| The Autobiography ( ) of Ulysses S. Grant | ||||
| The Autobiography (1563) of Benvenuto Cellini | ||||
| The Letters ( ) by Vincent van Gogh | ||||
| The Secret Life (1942) of Salvador Dali | ||||
| Daybook: The Journey of an Artist (1982) by Anne Truitt | ||||
| The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait ( ) by Frida Kahlo | ||||
| Normal Rockwell ( ) by Normal Rockwell | ||||
| Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood (2001) by Oliver Sacks | ||||
| The Autobiography (1887) of Charles Darwin | ||||
| Naturalist (1994) by Edward O. Wilson | ||||
| The Double Helix (1968) by James D. Watson | ||||
| Memories, Dreams, Reflections (1963) by Carl Jung | ||||
| An Unquiet Mind (1995) by Kay Redfield Jamison | ||||
| Memoirs of My Nervous Illness (1902) by Daniel Paul Schreber | ||||
| The Diary of a Young Girl (1944) by Anne Frank | ||||
| Memoirs of an Infantry Officer (1930) by Siegfried Sassoon | ||||
| Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1922) by T.E. Lawrence | ||||
| Cider with Rosie (1959) by Laurie Lee | ||||
| Story of My Life (1774) by Giacomo Girolamo Casanova | ||||
| Mr Nice (1996) by Howard Marks | ||||
| Geisha: A Life ( ) by Mineko Iwasaki | ||||
Essays | ||||
Classic Essays | ||||
 Essays in Idleness ( ) by Yoshida Kenko |
 The Anatomy of Melancholy ( ) by Robert Burton |
 The Complete Essays ( ) by Mark Twain |
 The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays ( ) by Charles Baudelaire |
 In Defense of Sanity: The Best Essays ( ) by G.K. Chesterton |
| Further Classic Essays | ||||
| Essays ( ) by Francis Bacon | ||||
| The Complete Essays ( ) by Michel de Montaigne | ||||
| Selected Essays ( ) by Samuel Johnson | ||||
| A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig and Other Essays ( ) by Charles Lamb | ||||
| Walden ( ) by Henry David Thoreau | ||||
| The Essential Writings ( ) by Ralph Waldo Emerson | ||||
| The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose ( ) by Oscar Wilde | ||||
| Essays ( ) by Robert Louis Stevenson | ||||
Modern Essays (English Language) | ||||
 A Collection of Essays ( ) by George Orwell |
 Geography of the Imagination ( ) by Guy Davenport |
 We Tell Ourselves Stories In Order to Live ( ) by Joan Didion |
 The Portable Dorothy Parker ( ) by Dorothy Parker |
 An Elemental Thing ( ) by Eliot Weinberger |
| Further Modern Essays (English Language) | ||||
| Early and Later Essays ( ) by W.B. Yeats | ||||
| Selected Essays ( ) by Virginia Woolf | ||||
| Selected Essays ( ) by T.S. Eliot | ||||
| Selected Essays ( ) by D.H. Lawrence | ||||
| Kokoro ( ) by Lafcadio Hearn | ||||
| Essays ( ) by E.B. White | ||||
| Against Interpretation and Other Essays ( ) by Susan Sontag | ||||
| Dreamers of Dreams: Essays on Poets and Poetry ( ) by John Simon | ||||
| Huxley and God: Essays on Religious Experience ( ) by Aldous Huxley | ||||
| Mystery and Manners ( ) by Flannery O'Connor | ||||
| Literary Essays ( ) by Ezra Pound | ||||
| In Favor of the Sensitive Man, and Other Essays ( ) by Anais Nin | ||||
| Portraits and Observations: The Essays ( ) by Truman Capote | ||||
| The Best of Myles ( ) by Flann O'Brien | ||||
| A Jacques Barzun Reader ( ) by Jacques Barzun | ||||
| Reflections on Exile ( ) by Edward W. Said | ||||
| The Vintage Mencken ( ) by H.L. Mencken | ||||
| Due Considerations: Essays and Criticism ( ) by John Updike | ||||
| Shaking a Leg: Collected Journalism and Writings ( ) by Angela Carter | ||||
| Fame & Folly: Essays ( ) by Cynthia Ozick | ||||
| The Donald Richie Reader ( ) by Donald Richie | ||||
| Dreamer of Dreams ( ) by John Simon | ||||
| On Histories and Stories ( ) by A.S. Byatt | ||||
| Wormholes: Essays and Occasional Writings ( ) by John Fowles | ||||
| Finding a Form ( ) by William H. Gass | ||||
| An Elemental Thing ( ) by Eliot Weinberger | ||||
Modern Essays (non-English Language) | ||||
 Selected Non-Fictions ( ) by Jorge Luis Borges |
 A Barthes Reader ( ) by Roland Barthes |
 Six Memos for the Next Millennium ( ) by Italo Calvino |
 Less Than One: Selected Essays ( ) by Joseph Brodsky |
 Campo Santo ( ) by W.G. Sebald |
| Further Modern Essays (non-English Language) | ||||
| Visions of Excess ( ) by Georges Bataille | ||||
| Species of Spaces and Other Pieces ( ) by Georges Perec | ||||
| Leters, Numbers, Forms: Essays ( ) by Raymond Queneau | ||||
| Selected Essays ( ) by Zhou Zuoren | ||||
| Selected Bilingual Essays ( ) by Lin Yutang | ||||
| Illuminations: Essays ( ) by Walter Benjamin | ||||
| The Selected Prose ( ) by Fernando Pessoa | ||||
| Myself With Others: Essays ( ) by Carlos Fuentes | ||||
| The Labyrinth of Solitude ( ) by Octavio Paz | ||||
| The Spirit of Prague ( ) by Ivan Klima | ||||
| Encounter: Essays ( ) by Milan Kundera | ||||
| How to Travel with a Salmon & Other Essays ( ) by Umberto Eco | ||||
| Anathemas and Admiraitions ( ) by E.M. Cioran | ||||
| Passing By: Selected Essays ( ) by Jerzy Kosinski | ||||
| Other People's Trades ( ) by Primo Levi | ||||
| Nobody's Home ( ) by Dubravka Ugresic | ||||
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General Non-Fiction | ||||
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| More General Non-Fiction | ||||
| The God Delusion ( ) by Richard Dawkins | ||||
| How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading ( ) by Mortimer J. Adler | ||||
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Philosophy
Religion | ||||
Western Religion | ||||
 Torah ( ) by Moshe Rabbenu (Moses Our Teacher/Rabbi) |
 The Bible ( ) by God |
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Eastern Religion | ||||
 Upanishads |
 Daodejing ( ) by Laozi, trans. by Edmund Ryden |
 Moon on a Dewdrop ( ) by Dogen |
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| Primary Texts | Transmission of Light ( ) by Zen Master Keizan | |||
| Lankavatara Sutra ( ) trans. by Red Pine | ||||
| Heart Sutra ( ) trans. by Red Pine | ||||
| Diamond Sutra ( ) trans. by Red Pine | ||||
| Dhammapada ( ) trans. by Gil Fronsdal | ||||
| The Bhagavad Gita ( ) trans. by Eknath Easwaran | ||||
| Basic Writings ( ) of Zhuangzi | ||||
| Basic Writings ( ) of Xunzi | ||||
| Writings ( ) of Mencius | ||||
| The Analects ( ) of Confucius, trans. by Raymond Dawson | ||||
| Literature, Poetry, etc | The Aleph and Other Stories ( ) by Jorge Luis Borges | |||
| All About H. Hatter ( ) by G.V. Desani | ||||
| The Conference of the Birds (12th century) by Farid ud-Din Attar | ||||
| The Rubaiyat (12th century) of Omar Khayyam | ||||
| Secondary & Tertiary Resources | Fifty Eastern Thinkers ( ) by Diane Collinson, Kathryn Plant and Robert Wilkinson | |||
| Selected Writings ( ) of Meister Eckhart | ||||
| The Self-Disclosure of God ( ) by William C. Chittick | ||||
| The Gospel in Brief ( ) by Leo Tolstoy | ||||
| Zen Buddhism: Selected Writings ( ) by D.T. Suzuki | ||||
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Travel Literature | ||||
General Travels | ||||
 The Travels ( ) by Ibn Battutah |
 The Journals ( ) of Captain James Cook |
 Collected Travel Writing ( ) by Evelyn Waugh |
 Travels With Herodotus ( ) by Ryszard Kapuscinsk |
 The Way of the World ( ) by Nicolas Bouvier |
| More General Travels | ||||
| From the Meadows of Gold ( ) by Mas'udi | ||||
| Voyages and Discoveries ( ) by Richard Hakluyt | ||||
| South: The Endurance Expedition ( ) by Ernest Shackleton | ||||
| The Last Grain Race ( ) by Eric Newby | ||||
| Pecked to Death by Ducks ( ) by Tim Cahill | ||||
| Yoga For People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It ( ) by Geoff Dyer | ||||
Travels in Europe | ||||
 Ibn Fadlan and the Land of Darkness ( ) by Ibn Fadlan |
 The Innocents Abroad ( ) by Mark Twain |
 Black Lamb and Grey Falcon ( ) by Rebecca West |
 A Time of Gifts ( ) by Patrick Leigh Fermor |
 The Rings of Saturn ( ) by W.G. Sebald |
| More Travels in Europe | ||||
| Guide to Greece (2nd century) by Pausanias | ||||
| A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland ( ) by Samuel Johnson | ||||
| A Sentimental Journey ( ) by Laurence Sterne | ||||
| Letters from England ( ) by Voltaire | ||||
| Italian Journey: 1786:1788 (1788) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | ||||
| Travel Pictures ( ) by Heinrich Heine | ||||
| Letters from Russia ( ) by Adolphe de Custine | ||||
| Winter Notes on Summer Impressions ( ) by Fyodor Dostoevsky | ||||
| Sakhalin Island ( ) by Anton Chekhov | ||||
| D.H. Lawrence and Italy ( ) by D.H. Lawrence | ||||
| Mani: Travels in the Souther Peloponnese ( ) by Patrick Leigh Fermor | ||||
| The Silent Traveler in London ( ) by Chiang Lee | ||||
| Stones of Aran: Labyrinth ( ) by Tim Robinson | ||||
| The Colossus of Maroussi ( ) by Henry Miller | ||||
| Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere ( ) by Jan Morris | ||||
| In Siberia ( ) by Colin Thubron | ||||
| Fado ( ) by Andrzej Stasiuk | ||||
Travels in Asia | ||||
 The Travels (13th century) of Marco Polo |
 Narrow Road to the Deep North (1689) by Matsuo Basho |
 Seven Years in Tibet (1951) by Heinrich Harrer |
 Arabian Sands (1959) by Wilfred Thesiger |
 The Snow Leopard 1978) by Peter Matthiessen |
| More Travels in Asia | ||||
| The Travels ( ) of Sir John Mandeville | ||||
| An Ottoman Traveller: Selections from the Book of Travels ( ) by Evliya Celebi | ||||
| Unbeaten Tracks in Japan ( ) by Isabella L. Bird | ||||
| The Malay Archipelago ( ) by Alfred Russel Wallace | ||||
| A Secret Pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina ( ) by Richard Burton | ||||
| Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan ( ) by Lafcadio Hearn | ||||
| The Southern Gates of Arabia ( ) by Freya Stark | ||||
| A Time to Keep Silence ( ) by Patrick Leigh Fermor | ||||
| A Barbarian in Asia ( ) by Henri Michaux | ||||
| Peking Story: The Last Days of Old China ( ) by David Kidd | ||||
| Hindoo Holiday ( ) by J.R. Ackerley | ||||
| A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush ( ) by Eric Newby | ||||
| The Inland Sea ( ) by Donald Richie | ||||
| The Lost Heart of Asia ( ) by Colin Thubron | ||||
| Riding the Iron Rooster ( ) by Paul Theroux | ||||
| The Great Railway Bazaar ( ) by Paul Theroux | ||||
| City of Djinns ( ) by William Dalrymple | ||||
| Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue (1963) by Paul Bowles | ||||
Travels in Africa | ||||
 Travels in West Africa ( ) by Mary Kingsley |
 Out of Africa ( ) by Isak Dinesen |
 Green Hills of Africa ( ) by Ernest Hemingway |
 Journey Without Maps ( ) by Graham Greene |
 The Voices of Marrakesh ( ) by Elias Canetti |
| More Travels in Africa | ||||
| Travels in the Interior of Africa ( ) by Mungo Park | ||||
| Source of the Nile ( ) by Richard Burton | ||||
| The Naturalist on the River Amazons ( ) by Henry Walter Bates | ||||
| Travels in the Congo ( ) by Andre Gide | ||||
| North of South ( ) by Shiva Naipaul | ||||
| African Laughter ( ) by Doris Lessing | ||||
Travels in the Americas | ||||
 Travels in Alaska ( ) by John Muir |
 Travels With Charley: In Search of America ( ) by John Steinbeck |
 Kon-Tiki ( ) by Thor Keyerdahl |
 In Patagonia ( ) by Bruce Chatwin |
 An African in Greenland ( ) by Tete-Michel Kpomassie |
| More Travels in the Americas | ||||
| Chronicle of the Narvaez Expedition ( ) by Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca | ||||
| Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America ( ) by Alexander von Humboldt | ||||
| History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil ( ) by Jean de Lery | ||||
| The Journals ( ) of Lewis and Clark | ||||
| The Oregon Trail ( ) by Francis Parkman | ||||
| American Notes for General Circulation ( ) by Charles Dickens | ||||
| A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers ( ) by Henry David Thoreau | ||||
| Roughing It ( ) by Mark Twain | ||||
| Two Years in the French West Indies ( ) by Lafcadio Hearn | ||||
| Kabloona ( ) by Gontran de Poncins | ||||
| Here is New York ( ) by E.B. White | ||||
| The Lawless Roads ( ) by Graham Greene | ||||
| I See by My Outfit ( ) by Peter S. Beagle | ||||
| Coming in to the Country ( ) by John McPhee | ||||
| Into the Wild ( ) by Bill Bryson | ||||
| A Turn in the South ( ) by V.S. Naipaul | ||||
| The Old Patagonian Express ( ) by Paul Theroux | ||||
| The River Of Doubt ( ) by Candice Millard | ||||
Travel Anthologies | ||||
 A Book of Traveler's Tales edited by Eric Newby |
 Colonial American Travel Narratives |
 Travels in the Reich, 1933-1945: Foreign Authors Report from Germany |
 Unsuitable for Ladies: An Anthology of Women Travelers |
 Americans in Paris |
| More Travel Anthologies | ||||
| Travel Writing 1700-1830 | ||||
| Other Routes: 1500 Years of African and Asian Travel Writing | ||||
| Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing | ||||
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