Some books mentioned in my Fear, Fun and Filoz blog:
That strand of activity led me to more books on meditation, Buddhism and Zen, such as
The Wise Heart by Jack Kornfield
Coming to Our Senses by Jon Kabat-Zinn
The Mindful Brain by Daniel Siegel (this was available on Kindle. I have it on mine but it isn't now! Must be part of the fight between Amazon and publishers over price.)
Lately, two books have really been helping me:
Everyday Zen by Charlotte Joko Beck
The Mindful Path to Self Compassion by Christopher K. Germer
"This is Your Brain on Music" by the musician/scientist Daniel Levitin.
"Display of Quantitative Information" by Edward Tufte
Germaine Greer wrote The Obstacle Race about the desire of women painters to follow their interests and needs to paint but often falling in love and working for their emerging family instead.
I learned much from “Fighting for Life” by Walter Ong, a Jesuit scholar known worldwide for his insights into the effects on humans and their societies of the invention, spread and use of writing.
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much is about rare books and the trade in them
The World's Religions by the excellent Huston Smith
"Hand Wash Cold", the Zen book by Karen Miller
The Best Alternative Medicine by Kenneth R. Pelletier
Recommended by a physical therapist:
Age Defying Fitness: Making the Most of Your Body for the Rest of Your Life
Anatomy for Strength and Fitness Training: An Illustrated Guide to Your Muscles in Action
Senior Fitness Manual:
The Demon Under the Microscope by Thomas Hager
Mark Epstein in "Going On Being"
Langer’s Power of Mindful Learning
Langer’s Counterclockwise: Health and the Power of Possibility
"The View in Winter: Reflections on Old Age" by Ronald Blythe
The Tyranny of Words by Stuart Chase (1938)
"Language in Thought and Action" and other books by the man of many talents, S.I. Hayakawa
"A Million Miles in a Thousand Years" by Donald Miller
"Eat, Pray, Love", by Elizabeth Gilbert
Dr. Harvey Aronson in his Buddhist Practice on Western Ground
Robert May's "Sex and Fantasy"
Nel Noddings in Caring: A Feminine Approach to Ethics and Moral Education.
a little text with my tests and measurements class that I wrote myself
Alfie Kohn in Punished by Rewards
"Mennonite in a Little Black Dress"
"Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error" by Kathryn Schultz
that other excellent American woman Zen writer, Charlotte Beck
Bill Bryson’s lastest book, “At Home: A Short History of Private Life”
"Writing Down the Bones" - famous book on writing
Margaret Mead's Sex and Society
Jessie Barnard, Judith Bardwick, Germaine Greer - feminists who write well
Mark Epstein in "Going to Pieces without Falling Apart"
Charlie Chan stories by Earl Derr Biggers
Mark Epstein, in "Open to Desire"
Elizabeth Gilbert of “Eat, Pray, Love” on the subject of marriage: "Committed"
Marcus Borg’s The Heart of Christianity
my dissertation on decision theory.
"How to Be Sick" by Toni Bernhard
"Girls with Grandmother Faces" by Frances Weaver. Weaver was also the author of a book Lynn found inspiring years ago, "I'm Not as Old as I Used to Be"
"A Mind of Its Own: How Our Brain Distorts and Deceives" by Cordelia Fine
"The Hidden Brain" by S. Vedantam
Post-American World by Fareed Zakaria
Chris Argyris et al.'s "Action Science"
The first Jacques Barzun book I ever read was The House of Intellect
C.S. Lewis Mere Christianity and Screwtape Letters
Witold Rybczynski's "Waiting for the Weekend"
Tom Wolfe, The Right Stuff
Johns Hopkins neuroscientist David Linden emphasizes in The Accidental Brain
Melvin Konner in The Tangled Wing
Matthew Crawford's Shop Class As Soul Craft
Seven Sins of Memory by Daniel Schacter
"Style: An Anti-Textbook" by Richard A. Lanham