Books about being human

Living Beyond the End of the World, Margaret Swedish  
The Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein  
Ornament of the World, Maria Rosa Menocal
Cultural Creatives, Paul Ray
The Rise of the Creative Class, Richard Florida
Breaking Ranks, Ronit Chacham
Better, Atul Gawand
The Hidden Connections, Fritjof Capra
Sketching User Experience, Bill Buxton
The Miners of Windber: the Struggles for New Miners for Unionization, Mildred Beik

 
Burning All Illusions, David Edwards, 1995 (Also published under the Title “Dare to be Human”)

Jonathan Livingstone Seagull, Richard Bach
Illusions, Richard Bach
One, Richard Bach

Holdfast: At Home in the Natural World, Kathleen Dean Moore
The Spell of the Sensuous, David Abram
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Jean-Dominique Bauby
Coming to Life, Polly Berrien Berends
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard
All Sickness is Homesickness, Dianne Connelly

Imagining Argentina, Thornton
Prophetic Imagination, Brueggeman

Crucial Conversations
The Way of the Peaceful Warrior  (series), Dan Millman

Books, tapes, online et al: anything by Esther and Jerry Hicks
The Alchemist, Paulo Coehlo
Creed for the Third Millennium, Colleen McCullough

Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen  
”Everything I have read by Parker Palmer and Frederick Buechner, nonfiction and fiction alike”

How We Became Human, Joy Harjo
Turning to One Another: Simple Conversations to Restoring Hope to the Future, Margaret Wheatley

The Sparrow, Mary Doria Russell

Bring Me the Rhinoceros, John Tarrant

The Secret, Rhonda Byrne
A New Earth, Eckhart Tolle
Loving What Is, Byron Katie

The Road Less Traveled, M. Scott Peck

Ishmael, Daniel Quinn
The Alchemist, Paolo Coelho
Women Who Run with Wolves, Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle
Turning to One Another, Meg Wheatley
Grace and Grit, Ken Wilber and Treya Killam Wilber
poetry of Neruda and Rumi
Coming Back to Life, Joanna Macy

On Being Human, Ashley Montague
Man’s Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl
I Am That, Nisargadatta Maharaj
Metta: The Practice of Loving Kindness, Nagabodhi

Tao Te Ching, Lao Tzu

Life is a Verb, Patti Digh

Care of the Soul, Thomas Moore

The Chalice and the Blade, Riane Eisler    
The Occult Significance of Forgiveness, Sergei Prokofiev.    
Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak  
The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier  and  Klay, Michael Chabon
Man on the Threshold, Bernard Lievegoed (and anything else this guy ever wrote)

Nineteen Eighty Four, George Orwell
Freedom in Exile: The Autobiography of the Dalai Lama of Tibet,  His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Winnie-the-Pooh, A. A. Milne

Le Petit Prince, Saint-Exupery (The Little Prince  in English)

Bible
Spiral Dynamics, Don Beck & Chris Cowan
Courage to Be, Paul Tillich

Winning Through Enlightenment : Mastery of Life, Volume I, Ron Smothermon

New and Selected Poems, Mary Oliver
Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke
I and Thou, Martin Buber
Ishmael, Daniel Quinn

Thou Shalt Not Be Aware, Alice Miller (also,  The Drama of the Gifted Child)
If This Is a Man, Primo Levi (in United State published as  Survival in Auschwitz)
The History of Childhood, Lloyd deMause    
The Emotional Life of Nations, Lloyd deMause

In a Different Voice, Carol Gilligan      
Island, Aldous Huxley

Beloved, Toni Morrison  
Tree of Knowledge, Huberto Maturana  
Eternal Echoes, John O’ Donohue  
Philosophy in a New Key: A Study in the Symbolism of Reason, Rite, and Art, Suzanne Langer  
Harold and the Purple Crayon, Crockett Johnson

The Fourfold Way, Angeles Arrien  
Harmful Advice  [Vrednye Sovety], Grigorii Oster (Oster is described as a children’s writer read by primarily by adults. His contrarian rhymes and poetry caused a huge uproar when he came out in print during Perestroika. Sadly, last time I checked he was not available in English”he also has a line of “Harmful Textbooks”)