Books

I was never a disciplined reader at all.

It all started 2 years ago reading Brainpickings (one of the best places to find good authors and books that I know) and trying to build a reading habit starting with 10 pages of any book a day.

From that time my book list grew a lot and the topics of interest too. Here are some topics that I’m really into these days:

• Zen Buddhism - I’m really into Allan Watts
• Education - I’m really into Krishnamurti
• Psychology
• Health - my interests are mainly focused on chinese medicine, and as a tea appreciator I really believe that this little knowledge on chinese medicine is helping my healthy a lot

I really think I should add a small resume for each book that is on this list, so I’ll work on them from now. The books that I particularly liked are marked bold.

• This explains everything - John Brockman
• Brief Answers to the big questions - Stephen Hawking
• Tao - Allan Watts
• The way of zen - Alan Watts
• Education and the significance of Life - Jiddu Krishnamurti
• Become What you are - Alan Watts
• The Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Medicine - Maoshing Ni
• O Manual do Heroi - Sonia Hirsch
• Visions - Michio Kaku
• The Book: On the taboo against knowing who you are - Alan Watts
• A force for good - Daniel Goleman
• The book of joy - Dalai Lama
• The first and last freedom - Jiddu Krishnamurti
• Infinite Powers - Steven Strogatz
• Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the elements of Good Cooking - Samin Nosrat
• The book of life - Jiddu Krishnamurti
• Principles - Ray Dalio
• A little History of Economics - Niall Kishtainy
• Think on these things - Jiddu Krishnamurti
• Bushido - Inazo Nitobe
• The new better off - Courtney E. Martin
• The art of communicating - Thich Nhat Hanh
• Destructive Emotions - Daniel Goleman, Dalai Lama
• Atomic Habits - James Clear
• The meditative Mind - Daniel Goleman
• How Emotions are made - Lisa Feldman Barret
• Deep Work - Cal Newport
• The Obesity Code - Jason Fung
• Letters from a Stoic - Seneca
• Filosofia para corajosos - Luiz Felipe Ponde
• Answers from Aristotle - Massimo Pigliucci
• The Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
• The art of loving - Erich Fromm
• How to Love - Thich Nhat Hanh
• The art of listening - Erich Fromm
• Man and His Symbols - Carl Gustav Jung
• Einstein - Walter Isaacson
• Thinking, fast and slow - Daniel Kahneman
• Genius - James Gleick
• Plato, Not Prozak! - Lou Marinoff
• Thank you for being late - Thomas L. Friedman
• The one straw revolution - Masanobu Fukuoka
• On the Move: A life - Oliver Sacks
• Hackers and Painters - Paul Graham
• Modern Man in Search of a Soul - Carl Gustav Jung
• The sane society - Erich Fromm
• An Autobiography - M K Gandhi
• To Have or to be? - Erich Fromm
• Lao Tzu - Ursula K. Le Guin
• I and Thou - Martin Buber
• Conversas com um jovem professor - Leandro Karnal
• How to be a Stoic - Massimo Pigliucci
• The Listening Book: Discoverying your own music - W. A. Mathieu
• Wherever you go, there you are - Jon Kabat-Zinn
• Tribe of Mentors - Tim Ferriss
• Man’s Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl
• Debt - David Graeber
• Psychoanalysis and Zen Buddhism - Erich Fromm
• Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow - Yuval Noah Harari
• QUED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter - Richard P. Feynman
• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind - Yuval Noah Harari
• The Wave in the mind - Ursula K. Le Guin
• Out of my life and Thought: An Autobiography - Albert Schweitzer
• On the origin of species - Charles Darwin
• Intuition Pumps and Other tools for thinking - Daniel C. Dennett
• The Dream Machine - M. Mitchell Waldrop
• Stealing Fire - Steven Kotler
• The emperor of all maladies - Siddhartha Mukherjee
• The Wonderbox - Roman Krznaric
• From Zero to One - Peter Thiel
• The power of Habit - Charles Duhigg
• Empathy - Why it matters, and how to get it - Roman Krznaric
• Focus - Daniel Goleman
• It’s been a Good Life- Isaac Asimov
• inGenius: A Crash Course on Creativity - Tina Seelig
• The lean startup - Eric Ries