Personal Library & Reviews

Welcome to Ricardo's library index. The library comprises actual books (not PDFs!) from all across the spectrum of fiction, and non-fiction, delving primarily into sci-fi, poetry, graphic novels, physics, psychology, philosophy, spirituality, and a tiny bit of esoteric stuff. From this library, I will occasionally publish book reviews with excerpts and reflections on the nuances of the literature found within each book and beyond. The following is a list of all current books updated October 2024, alphabetically sorted by Author first:

Abbott, Edwin A.

• Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

Adyashanti

• The Direct Way: Thirty Practices to Evoke Awakening

Alan Watts

• Nature, Man, and Woman

• The Way of Zen

• The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

• The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety

• In My Own Way: An Autobiography 1915–1965

• The Supreme Identity: An Essay on Oriental Metaphysic and the Christian Religion

• The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness

• Buddhism: The Religion of No-Religion

• The Collected Letters of Alan Watts

Aldous Huxley

• The Perennial Philosophy

• The Doors of Perception

Alexander Bennett (translator)

• The Complete Musashi: The Book of Five Rings and Other Works

Alexandra David-Neel

• Magic and Mystery in Tibet

• My Journey to Lhasa

• The Secret Oral Teachings in Tibetan Buddhist Sects

• Immortality and Reincarnation: Wisdom from the Forbidden Journey

Alfred Korzybski

• Manhood of Humanity: The Science and Art of Human Engineering

Andrew R. Gallimore

• Alien Information Theory

• Reality Switch Technologies

Anil Seth

• Being You: A New Science of Consciousness

Arthur C. Clarke

• Rendezvous with Rama

Bassui (translated by Arthur Braverman)

• Mud and Water: The Collected Teachings of Zen Master Bassui

Benjamin Graham

• The Intelligent Investor

Ben Bernanke

• Essays on the Great Depression

Bernardo Kastrup

• Why Materialism Is Baloney: How True Skeptics Know There Is No Death and Fathom Answers to Life, the Universe, and Everything

Blake Masters & Peter Thiel

• Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

Brian C. Muraresku

• The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name

Brené Brown

• Daring Greatly

Carl G. Jung

• Man and His Symbols

• Modern Man in Search of a Soul

• Seven Sermons to the Dead

• Memories, Dreams, Reflections

• The Undiscovered Self

• The Red Book: Liber Novus

• The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious

• Atom and Archetype: The Pauli/Jung Letters, 1932–1958

• The Black Books (7 Volumes)

Carlos Castaneda

• A Separate Reality

• Journey to Ixtlan

Carl Sagan

• Cosmos

Charles Bukowski

• Women

• The Pleasures of the Damned: Poems, 1951–1993

• Essential Bukowski: Poetry

Clifford V. Johnson

• The Dialogues: Conversations About the Nature of the Universe

Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert

• A Vast, Pointless Gyration of Radioactive Rocks and Gas in Which You Happen to Occur

David Bohm

• Wholeness and the Implicate Order

• The Undivided Universe: An Ontological Interpretation of Quantum Theory (with B.J. Hiley)

• The Ending of Time (with Jiddu Krishnamurti)

David Chalmers

• Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy

David J. Griffiths

• Introduction to Quantum Mechanics

David J. Luke & Rory Spowers (editors)

• DMT Dialogues: Encounters with the Spirit Molecule

David S. Rose

• Angel Investing: The Gust Guide to Making Money and Having Fun Investing in Startups

Douglas Harding

• On Having No Head: Zen and the Rediscovery of the Obvious

• The Man with No Head: Zen Teachings on the Illusion of Self (with Victor Lunn-Rockliffe)

Douglas R. Hofstadter

• I Am a Strange Loop

• Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

D.T. Suzuki

• Introduction to Zen Buddhism

• Essays in Zen Buddhism (First Series)

• Essays in Zen Buddhism (Second Series)

• Essays in Zen Buddhism (Third Series)

• Mysticism: Christian and Buddhist

• Outlines of Mahayana Buddhism

Eknath Easwaran (translator)

• The Upanishads

• The Bhagavad Gita

Erich Neumann

• The Origins and History of Consciousness

Ernest Hemingway

• For Whom the Bell Tolls

Erwin Schrödinger

• What Is Life? The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell

• My View of the World

Eugene M. Lifshitz (editor)

• Fundamental Theory of Physics: Classical Mechanics, Quantum Mechanics, Field Theory, and Statistical Mechanics

Frank Wilczek

• Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality

George Orwell

• 1984

Greg Egan

• The Best of Greg Egan

Hans Rosling

• Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

Haruki Murakami

• Sputnik Sweetheart

Hermann Hesse

• Siddhartha

H.P. Lovecraft

• At the Mountains of Madness (Graphic Novel adaptation by Gou Tanabe)

• The Music of Erich Zann (Graphic Novel adaptation by Steven Philip Jones and Aldin Baroza)

Isaac Asimov

• The Gods Themselves

• Foundation Trilogy

• Isaac Asimov: The Complete Stories Vol. 1

• Isaac Asimov: The Complete Stories Vol. 2

J.D. Salinger

• The Catcher in the Rye

James Lovelock

• Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence

Jason Mitchell (translator)

• Tao Te Ching

J. Paul Getty

• How to Be Rich

Jiddu Krishnamurti

• The Ending of Time (with David Bohm)

Jim Rogers

• A Gift to My Children: A Father's Lessons for Life and Investing

• Street Smarts: Adventures on the Road and in the Markets

John C. Bogle

• The Little Book of Common Sense Investing

John Green

• Looking for Alaska

John C. Lilly

• The Center of the Cyclone: An Autobiography of Inner Space

• The Deep Self: Consciousness Exploration in the Isolation Tank

Jorge Luis Borges

• The Library of Babel

• The Aleph and Other Stories

Joseph Campbell

• The Hero with a Thousand Faces

• The Portable Jung (editor)

Kim Stanley Robinson

• Aurora

• The Ministry for the Future

Kosho Uchiyama Roshi

• Opening the Hand of Thought: Foundations of Zen Buddhist Practice

Lee Smolin

• Einstein’s Unfinished Revolution: The Search for What Lies Beyond the Quantum

Max Tegmark

• Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Matthew Walker

• Why We Sleep

Miyamoto Musashi (translated by Alexander Bennett)

• The Complete Musashi: The Book of Five Rings and Other Works

Murray Stein

• Jung's Map of the Soul: An Introduction

Nagarjuna (translated by Jay L. Garfield)

• The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way: Nagarjuna’s Mulamadhyamakakarika

Olaf Stapledon

• Star Maker

Philip K. Dick

• Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said

• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Philip Goff

• Galileo’s Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness

Philip J. Klaff

• Pitch Anything: An Innovative Method Method for Presenting, Persuading, and Winning the Deal

Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite

• The Works of Dionysius the Areopagite

• The Mystical Theology and the Divine Names

Rachel Nuwer

• I Feel Love: MDMA and the Quest for Connection in a Fractured World

Ram Dass

• Be Here Now

• Words of Wisdom

• You Are The Universe

Ray Kurzweil

• The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology

Red Pine (Bill Porter)

• The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

Rick Rubin

• The Creative Act: A Way of Being

Robert Edward Grant

• Philomath: Philosophical Inquiry into Mathematics

Robert A. Monroe

• Journeys Out of the Body

Robert L. Forward

• Dragon's Egg

Rudy Rucker

• The Fourth Dimension

Rupert Spira

• The Nature of Consciousness: Essays on the Unity of Mind and Matter

Sean Carroll

• Space, Time, and Motion

• Quanta and Fields: Foundations of Quantum Field Theory

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

• I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Stanislav Grof

• The Way of the Psychonaut: Encyclopedia for Inner Journeys

Stephanie Palmer

• Good in a Room: How to Sell Yourself (and Your Ideas) and Win Over Any Audience

Stephen Hawking

• A Brief History of Time

Steven Pinker

• The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

Sun Tzu

• The Art of War

Thor Heyerdahl

• Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific in a Raft

Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzner, & Richard Alpert (Ram Dass)

• The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead

Vladimir Nabokov

• Lolita

Walter Russell

• The Universal One

• The Secret of Light

• The Russell Cosmogony: Foundations of a New Science

Wayne Barlowe

• God’s Demon

William James

• The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature

Wolfgang Pauli & Carl G. Jung (edited by C.A. Meier)

• Atom and Archetype: The Pauli/Jung Letters, 1932–1958

Yuval Noah Harari

• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Zhuangzi (translated by Burton Watson)

• Zhuangzi: The Complete Writings