[* highly recommended if you're into it, but YMMV]
- Judith Lasater, Ike Lasater, "What We Say Matters"
- Cal Newport, "How to Become a Straight A Student"
- * Kate Grenville, "A Secret River"
- * Suzanne Collins, "The Hunger Games"
- Roger Lowenstein, "Buffet"
- Suzanne Collins, "Catching Fire"
- Suzanne Collins, "Mockingjay"
- Helen Garner, "Monkey Grip"
- Raven, "Biology"
- Haruki Murakami,"What I Talk About When I Talk About Running"
- Don Riso & Russ Hudson, "Wisdom of the Enneagram"
- * John Jeremiah Sullivan, "Pulphead"
- * Gilbert Strang, "Linear Algebra"
- * James Le Fanu, "The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine"
- * George Megalogenis, "The Australian Moment"
- James Joyce, "Dubliners"
- Ken Wilber, "Integral Spirituality"
- Karen Salzberg, "Lovingkindness"
- Stephen Batchelor, "Confessions of a Buddhist Atheist"
- Fiona Maddocks, "Hildegard of Bingen"
- Ken Wilber, "Integral Life Practice"
- John Stillwell, "Naive Lie Algebra"
- * Jonathan Haidt, "Righteous Minds"
- Rumi, "Quatrains"
- Hui Neng, "Platform Sutra"
- Stephen Batchelor, "Buddhism without Beliefs"
- * Hilary Mantel, "Bring up the bodies"
- Alice Pung, "Growing up asian in Australia"
- Robin Waterfield, "Diving the Spoils"
- David Smith, "Dharma mind, worldly mind"
- Montaigne, "Essais I"
- Jeremy Duns, "Song of Treason"
- * Koun Yamada, "Mumon's Gateless Gate"
- Duns, "The Moscow Option"
- * David McKay, "Information Theory and Bayesian Analysis
- Alberts et al., "Essential Biology of the cell"
- Edward O. Wilson, "The Social Conquest of Earth"
- * Desalle and Tattersall, "The Brain"
- Gibbon, "History of Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol I ".
- Helen Garner, "The Spare Room"
- Letters of Abelard and Heloise
- Thomas Cleary, "Dogen's Shobogenzo"
- Dogen, Shobogenzo 13 essays
- * Bob Myers, "First Dogen Book"
- Muriel Barbery, "L'Elegance du Hérisson"
- Jarret Walker, "Human Transit"
- Cal Newport, "So Good They Can't Ignore You"
- * P.D. Smith, "A Guide for the Urban Age"
- * Justine Levy, "Mauvaise Fille"
- * Peter Watson, "The German Genius"
- John Medina, "Brain Rules"
- * Junot Diaz, "This is how you lose her"
- Tim Ferris, "4-hour chef"