Greg Bigelow

Curiosity Timeline

A non-exhaustive list of books that reflect some of my curiosities at different points in my life. Inclusion in the list is neither agreement nor endorsement. Except for Gene Wolfe, in which case my highest recommendation is implicit.

  1. Redwall — Brian Jacques (series)
  2. Ender's Game — Orson Scott Card
  3. How to Become a Straight-A Student — Cal Newport
  4. Darwin's Dangerous Idea — Daniel C. Dennett
  5. The Selfish Gene — Richard Dawkins
  6. Freedom Evolves — Daniel C. Dennett
  7. The Inner Game of Tennis — W. Timothy Gallwey
  8. The Singularity Is Near — Ray Kurzweil
  9. What the Buddha Taught — Walpola Rahula
  10. Mindfulness in Plain English — Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
  11. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat — Oliver Sacks
  12. The Journals of Henry David Thoreau — Henry David Thoreau
  13. True Hallucinations — Terence McKenna
  14. Phantoms in the Brain — V. S. Ramachandran and Sandra Blakeslee
  15. Ethics — Baruch Spinoza
  16. Spinoza's Ethics: An Introduction — Steven Nadler
  17. Starting Strength — Mark Rippetoe
  18. A Thousand Plateaus — Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari
  19. The Invisibles — Grant Morrison (series)
  20. Gödel, Escher, Bach — Douglas R. Hofstadter
  21. Saga of the Swamp Thing, Book One — Alan Moore
  22. Anathem — Neal Stephenson
  23. The Pragmatic Programmer — Andrew Hunt and David Thomas
  24. Functional JavaScript — Michael Fogus
  25. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell — Susanna Clarke
  26. The Little Schemer — Daniel P. Friedman and Matthias Felleisen
  27. A Wizard of Earthsea — Ursula K. Le Guin
  28. Reasons and Persons — Derek Parfit
  29. The Mind Illuminated — Culadasa (John Yates)
  30. Washington Scrambles — Peggy Goldman
  31. Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha — Daniel M. Ingram
  32. Seeing That Frees — Rob Burbea
  33. Permutation City — Greg Egan
  34. Emptiness Dancing — Adyashanti
  35. A Fire Upon the Deep — Vernor Vinge
  36. A Path with Heart — Jack Kornfield
  37. Awake — Angelo DiLullo
  38. The Book of the New Sun — Gene Wolfe (series)
  39. Opening the Heart of Compassion — Martin Lowenthal and Lar Short
  40. The Precious Treasury of the Basic Space of Phenomena — Longchen Rabjam
  41. The Journey of Soul Initiation — Bill Plotkin
  42. The Book of the Long Sun — Gene Wolfe (series)
  43. Already Free — Bruce Tift

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