Like a TV show where people sit on a couch and talk about their favourite books, except there’s no couch, no video, and no talking, just a list of books I can vouch for.
Not like one of these, though I can vouch that these book couches are very cool and they do actually work. [That’s an affiliate link, so if you buy a book seat through there I’ll get some money for a coffee, at no extra cost to you — most of the links on this page will do that.]
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Chaos, Creativity and Cosmic Consciousness by Rupert Sheldrake, Terence McKenna, and Ralph Abraham, a series of trialogues between the authors, transcribed from recordings made at The Esalen Institute.
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig is a classic of philosophical ficto-memoir that has inspired my own metaphysical adventures endlessly, and is one of the few books I’ve read more than once.
Fiction
The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree by Shokoofeh Azar, a brilliant magic-realist novel about the Islamic Revolution of 1979, and “a family caught in the maelstrom of post-revolutionary chaos and brutality that sweeps across an ancient land and its people”. I have a review I wrote somewhere on another computer, which I will publish here soon.
The Call by Peadar Ó Guilín, an almost literary genre-thriller about fairies seeking vengeance for being exiled from Ireland.
Kokoro 心 Heart 