music

• Michael Franti & Spearhead
• Leonard Cohen
• James Booker
• ABBA
• Motown

Spirituality & Religion – (favorites in bold)

• Between God and Man – an Interpretation of Judaism from the Writings of Abraham J. Heschel, by Fritz Rothschild, 1959 - wonder & awe
• Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, by Robin Wall Kimmerer
• Coming into Being, by William Irwin Thompson (1996), the extraordinary story of the ancient Great Goddess told, yes, by a man – the best
• Eye of the Heart – A Spiritual Journey into the Imaginal Realm, by Cynthia Bourgeault
• Help Thanks Wow – The Three Essential Prayers, by Anne Lamott
• History of God, by Karen Armstrong – any of her books
• I Heard God Laughing – Poems of Hope and Joy, by Hafiz and Daniel Ladinsky
• Learning to Walk in the Dark, by Barbara Brown Taylor
• Man is Not Alone, by Abraham Joshua Heschel – wonder & awe
• Radical Acceptance, by Tara Brach – the best
• Sand Talk – How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World, by Tyson Yunkaporta, PhD, Australian Aboriginal professor of Indigenous studies
• Seeing Through the World: Jean Gebser and Integral Consciousness, by Jeremy Johnson, 2019 
• The Book, by Alan Watts
• The Feeling Buddha, by David Brazier – emotions & the Four Noble Truths; extraordinary perspective on emotions
• The Holy Trinity and The Law of Three – Discovering the Radical Truth at the Heart of Christianity, by Cynthia Bourgeault
• The Meaning of Mary Magdalene, by Cynthia Bourgeault
• The Order of Time, by Carlo Rovelli, physics + prose = amazing
• The Prophet, by Kahlil Gibran
• The Tantric Jesus – Jesus Christ as God, Guru, and Self, by Robert Stuckey
• The Wild Edge of Sorrow – Rituals of Renewal and The Sacred Work of Grief, by Francis Weller 
• The Wisdom Pattern – Order DisOrder ReOrder, by Richard Rohr
• What is God?, by Jacob Needleman, PhD
• When Bad Things Happen to Good People, by Harold Kushner

History & Anthropology

• A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived – The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes, by Adam Rutherford - witty British geneticist
• A Mind of Its Own – a Cultural History of the Penis, by David M. Friedman
• Nine Lives - Mystery, Magic, Death and Life in New Orleans, by Dan Baum
• No god But God – The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam by Reza Aslan
• Pilgrims in Their Own Land, by Marty Martin, history of religion in America
• The Fourth Turning – An American Prophecy, by William Strauss
• The Half Has Never Been Told – Slavery & the Making of American Capitalism, by Edward E. Baptist
• The Regenerative Life – Transform Any Organization, Our Society, and Your Destiny, by Carol Sanford – seeing roles differently and understanding what your role truly is
• The Silk Roads – A New History of the World, by Peter Frankopan, British historian - the best
• The Trouble with Paradise – A Humorous Enquiry into the Puzzling Human Condition in the 21st Century, by Robin Lincoln Wood
• These Truths – A History of the US, by Jill Lepore

Great Novels

• Chronicles of Tao – The Secret Life of a Taoist Master, a novel, by Deng Ming-Dao
• The Forty Rules of Love – A Novel of Rumi, by Elif Shafak
• Cutting for Stone, by Abraham Verghese 
• The Library of the Unwritten (A Novel from Hell's Library), A.J. Hackwith
• The Midnight Library, by Matt Haig
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being, a novel by Milan Kundera; also a movie