These are the books that changed my life. Chronologically.
When I walk into someone’s house for the first time, I always go straight to their bookshelf. Books are like tracks on the ground – you can read the story of a person’s intellectual development and belief system by scanning the titles on the shelf.
Below is my bookshelf. May these books be guides (or warnings!) on your journey towards regeneration.
All Books (Organized Chronologically)
2019- 2022
2014 – 2018: Terra Genesis
2010 – 2014: AppleSeed
- Business Model Generation – Alexander Osterwalder & Yves Pigneur
- I Will Teach you to be Rich – Ramit Sethi
- Harvard Business Review: Knowledge Management
- The Unlikely Peace at Cuchumaquic – Martin Prechtel
- The Tarim Mummies – Mallory & Mair
- Parzival – Wolfram von Eschenbach
- Reverence for Wood – Eric Sloane
- Secrets of the Talking Jaguar – Martin Prechtel
2008-2010: Master’s Degree
- The Four Hour Work Week – Tim Ferriss
- Developing the Leader Within You – John Maxwell
- 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing – Ries & Trout
- Human Side of Human Beings – Harvey Jackins
- United to End Racism – Rational Island
2004 – 2008: Permaculture
- Tree Crops: A Permanent Agriculture – J. Russell Smith
- A Pattern Language – Christopher Alexander et al
- Wild Apple and Fruit Trees of Central Asia – ed. Jules Janick
- Edible Forest Gardens – Jacke & Toensmeier
- Ishmael – Daniel Quinn
- Uncommon Fruits for Every Garden – Lee Reich
- The Apple Grower – Michael Philips
- The One Straw Revolution – Masanobu Fukuoka
- Spiral Dynamics – Cowan & Beck
- A Theory of Everything – Ken Wilber
- Permaculture: A Designers Manual – Bill Mollison
- Everyday Zen – Charlotte Joko Beck
2000 – 2004: College
- Eco-economy – Lester Brown
- The Botany of Desire – Michael Pollan
- On the Road – Jack Kerouac
- If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller – Italo Calvino
1996 – 2000: High School
- Sand County Almanac – Aldo Leopold
- The Narrow Road to the Deep North – Basho
- Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
- Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut
- Starship Troopers – Robert Heinlein
- Jitterbug Perfume – Tom Robbins
- Trout Fishing in America – Richard Brautigan
1982 – 1996: Early Years
- Tao the Ching – Lao Tzu tr. Stephen Mitchell
- Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
- S(he) – Saul Williams
- Ender’s Game – Orson Scott card
- The Earthsea Trilogy – Ursula K. Leguin
- Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
- Ming Lo Moves the Mountain – Arnold Lobel
- Calvin and Hobbes – Bill Waterson
- The Legend of Food Mountain