Books

Recommended reading

Spirituality, philosophy, & psychology

• The Bhagavad Gita - Stephen Mitchell (Translator)
• The Bhagavad Gita - Eknath Easwaran (Translator)
• Tao Te Ching - Stephen Mitchell (Translator)
• The Shiva Purana - J. L. Shastri (Translator)
• The Life of Milarepa - Tsangnyön Heruka, Lobsang P. Lhalungpa (Translator)
• Autobiography of a Yogi - Paramahansa Yogananda
• Indian Philosophy - Richard King
• Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind - Shunryu Suzuki
• The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious - Carl Jung
• The Black Books - Carl Jung
• The Red Book - Carl Jung
• Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche, Walter Kaufmann (Translator)

Science, mathematics, & linguistics

• Mathematics for the Nonmathematician - Morris Kline
• The Alignment Problem - Brian Christian
• Music, Language, and the Brain - Aniruddh D. Patel
• Quantum: A Guide for the Perplexed - Dr. Jim Al-Khalili
• Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams - Matthew Walker PhD
• The Language Instict - Stephen Pinker
• Sapiens - Yuval Noah Harari

Programming

• The Pragmatic Programmer - David Thomas, Andrew Hunt
• The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values - Brian Christian

Music

• The Theory and Practice of Tone-Relations - Percy Goetschius
• Analog Days - Trevor Pinch, Frank Trocco

Non-Fiction

• Talking to Strangers - Malcolm Gladwell
• David and Goliath - Malcolm Gladwell
• The Perennial Philosophy - Aldous Huxley
• 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos - Jordan B. Peterson
• Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life - Jordan B. Peterson

Fiction

• The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
• Island - Aldous Huxley
• After Many a Summer Dies the Swan - Aldous Huxley
• Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut

Poetry

• The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Vol. 1
• Spring and All - William Carlos Williams
• Ahead of All Parting - Rainer Maria Rilke
• Nine Horses - Billy Collins

To get list

• Carl Jung Collected Works
• Karl Blossfeldt: Masterworks
• Homo Deus - Yval Noah Harari
• 21 Lessons for the 21st Century - Yval Noah Harari
• The Peter Principle - Laurence J. Peter, Raymond Hull
• Amusing Ourselves to Death - Neil Postman
• The Elements of Typographic Atyle - Robert Bringhurst
• Introduction to Post-Tonal Theory - Joseph N. Strauss

Recommended by friends

• Myth = Mithya - Devdutt Pattanaik
• Old Path White Clouds - Thich Nhat Hanh
• Teaching Yoga Adjusting Asana - Melanie Cooper
• Stoner - John Williams
• Confessions - Leo Tolstoy
• Breaking Open the Head - Daniel Pinchbeck
• Anything by Kurt Godel