Reading List

Here’s a list of texts that I’ve found to be informative, inspiring, or otherwise useful in my own search for Truth.

I don’t believe in keeping this information behind a paywall; I intend on updating the list at various points - it will remain free to access.

You’ll find that it consists of texts ranging from comparative mythology, to theology, to various subgenres of fiction.

I hope that you find something of use to you, as you chart your own course towards greater degrees of life and liberty.

“Truth is a pathless land.”

- J. Krishnamurti

Fiction

Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield

Way of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman

All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J. R. R. Tolkien

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Angels in Iron by Nicholas C. Prata

Poetry and Drama

Idylls of the King by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach

Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri

"Dark Night of the Soul” by St. John of the Cross

“Invictus” by William Ernest Henley

Nonfiction

Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

The Art of Learning by Joshua Waitzkin

Kiss or Kill: Confessions of a Serial Climber by Mark Twight

Philosophy, Theology, and Myth

The Bible

The Philosophy of Freedom by Rudolf Steiner

The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell

Freedom from the Known by Jiddu Krishnamurti

Theologia Germanica by Unknown

The Cloud of Unknowing by Unknown

The Perennial Philosophy by Aldous Huxley

Zen Flesh, Zen Bones by Paul Reps

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

Representative Men by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Self-Reliance” by Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Way of a Pilgrim by Unknown

The Upanishads by Unknown

“On Detachment” by Meister Eckhart