On nature, community and sustainability
- Cosmos by Carl Sagan (skimmed through)
- Small Wonder by Barbara Kingsolver
- In the Shadow of Man by Jane Goodall
- Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
- The Living Planet by David Attenborough
- The Hunt For the Golden Mole by Richard Girling
- How Not to Die by Michael Greger
- Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut
- Birdie by Tracey Lindberg
- Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
- Honoring Your Ancestors: A Guide to Ancestral Veneration by Mallorie Vaudoise
- The Diversity of Life by Edward O. Wilson
- Birds of a Lesser Paradise by Megan Mayhew Bergman
- Under the Sea-Wind by Rachel Carson
- Highway Cats by Janet Taylor Lisle
- The Forest People by Colin M. Turnbull
- Life on the Golden Horn by Mary Wortley Montagu
- Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould
- Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown
Mind maps and enlightenment
- Self & Others by R.D. Laing
- Grist for the Mill by Ram Dass
- Depression and the Body by Alexander Lowen, M.D.
- A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees by Yoshida Kenkō
- Human Heredity by C.O. Carter
- Demian by Hermann Hesse
- The Road Less Traveled by M. Scott Peck M.D.
- After the Ecstasy, the Laundry: How the Heart Grows Wise on the Spiritual Path by Jack Kornfield
- Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
- Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
- Essays and Aphorisms by Arthur Schopenhauer
- A Separate Reality by Carlos Castaneda
- Religion For Atheists by Alain de Botton
- Be Here Now by Ram Dass
- The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
- Zen Flesh, Zen Bones by Paul Reps
- Fear and Trembling by Søren Kierkegaard
- Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
- Phenomenology of Spirit by Hegel
- Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
- Letters from a Stoic by Seneca
Culture and romance
- The Selected Poems of Federico Garcia Lorca
- We are the People Our Parents Warned Us Against by Nicholas van Hoffman
- I Sent a Letter to My Love by Bernice Rubens
- Full Bloom: The Art and Life of Georgia O'Keefe by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp
- Beneath the Underdog by Charles Mingus
- Among the Bohemians by Virginia Nicholson
- In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan
- The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard
- Modern Nature by Derek Jarman
- On the Road by Jack Kerouac
- Astral Weeks: A Secret History of 1968 by Ryan H. Walsh
- Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born Beautiful by Ayi Kwei Armah
- A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
- Autonauts of the Cosmoroute by Julio Cortázar
- The Portable Sixties Reader by Ann Charters
- Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
- Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
- Role Models by John Waters
- The Bass Saxophone by Josef Škvorecký
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me by Richard Fariña
- Carsick: John Waters Hitchhikes Across America by John Waters
- Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror by John Ashbery
- Bel-Ami by Guy de Maupassant