Recommended Reading

AGING & AGEISM

  • This chair rocks : a manifesto against ageism / Ashton Applewhite

  • Second Wind: navigating the passage to a slower, deeper, and more connected life / Dr. Bill Thomas

  • The longevity economy : unlocking the world's fastest-growing, most misunderstood market / Joseph F. Coughlin

  • Agewise : fighting the new ageism in America / Margaret Morganroth Gullette

  • Never say die : the myth and marketing of the new old age / Susan Jacoby

  • Elderhood : redefining medicine, life, and aging in America / Louise Aronson

SPIRITUALITY 

  • A new earth : awakening to your life's purpose / Eckhart Tolle

  • The power of now : a guide to spiritual enlightenment / Eckhart Tolle

  • Man's search for meaning / Viktor E. Frankl

  • Just so : money, materialism, and the ineffable, intelligent universe / Alan Watts

  • The book : on the taboo against knowing who you are / Alan Watts

  • Comfortable with uncertainty : 108 teachings on cultivating fearlessness and compassion / Pema Chödrön

  • Broken open : how difficult times can help us grow / Elizabeth Lesser

  • The divine within / Aldous Huxley


WOMEN & GENDER

  • Cassandra speaks : when women are the storytellers, the human story changes / Elizabeth Lesser

  • Down girl : the logic of misogyny / Kate Manne

  • Why does patriarchy persist? / Carol Gilligan, Naomi Snider

  • The genius of women : from overlooked to changing the world / Janice Kaplan

  • Visionary women : how Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters changed our world / Andrea Barnet

  • Invisible women : data bias in a world designed for men / Caroline Criado Perez

  • Entitled : how male privilege hurts women / Kate Manne

  • x + y : a mathematician's manifesto for rethinking gender / Eugenia Cheng

  • Strongmen : Mussolini to the present / Ruth Ben-Ghiat

  • Data Feminism / Catherine D'Ignazio  Lauren F. Klein 

ECONOMICS

  • Winners take all : the elite charade of changing the world / Anand Giridharadas

  • Doughnut economics : seven ways to think like a 21st century economist / Kate Raworth

  • Reimagining capitalism in a world on fire / Rebecca Henderson

TECH

  • The age of surveillance capitalism : the fight for a human future at the new frontier of power / Shoshana Zuboff
    Life 3.0 : being human in the age of artificial intelligence / Max Tegmark

  • Brotopia : breaking up the boys' club of Silicon Valley / Emily Chang

  • The smartphone society : technology, power, and resistance in the new gilded age / Nicole Aschoff

  • Technically wrong: sexist apps, biased algorithms, and other threats of toxic tech / Sara Wachter-Boettcher

  • How to do nothing : resisting the attention economy / Jenny Odell



HEALTH & WELLBEING

  • Lost connections : uncovering the real causes of depression-- and the unexpected solutions / Johann Hari

  • The High Price of Materialism / Tim Kasser

  • The longing for less : living with minimalism / Kyle Chayka

  • Civilized to death : the price of progress / Christopher Ryan

  • Joyful : the surprising power of ordinary things to create extraordinary happiness / Ingrid Fetell Lee

  • The Soul of Money / Lynne Twist 


SCIENCE & CONSCIOUSNESS

  • Metazoa : animal life and the birth of the mind / Peter Godfrey-Smith

  • The pattern seekers : how autism drives human invention / Simon Baron-Cohen

  • The future of the mind : the scientific quest to understand, enhance, and empower the mind / Michio Kaku

  • The evolution of beauty / Richard O. Prum 

  • No self no problem  : how neuropsychology is catching up to Buddhism / Chris Niebauer 

  • Astrophysics for people in a hurry / Neil deGrasse Tyson

  • On repeat: how music plays the mind / Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis

  • Good chemistry : the science of connection, from soul to psychedelics / Julie Holland, MD

  • Science and spiritual practices : transformative experiences and their effects on our bodies, brains, and health / Rupert Sheldrake

  • Thoughts without a thinker : psychotherapy from a Buddhist perspective / Mark Epstein

  • Seven and a half lessons about the brain / Lisa Feldman Barrett

  • Chatter : the voice in our head, why it matters, and how to harness it / Ethan Kross

  • The highly sensitive person : how to thrive when the world overwhelms you / Elaine N. Aron, Ph. D

RACE

  • The sum of us : what racism costs everyone and how we can prosper together / Heather McGhee


MEMOIR / PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

  • Professional troublemaker : the fear-fighter manual / Luvvie Ajayi Jones

  • The practice : shipping creative work / Seth Godin

  • The Empathy Diaries / Sherry Turkle 

  • The lost art of connecting : the gather, ask, do method for building meaningful business relationships / Susan McPherson 

  • Hiding in the Bathroom: The Introverts Guide to Getting out there (when you’d rather stay home) / Morra Aarons-Mele  

  • What can I do? My path from climate despair to action / Jane Fonda