• The Politics of Jesus, A Pacifist Way of Knowing, and others (John Howard Yoder) (see Cosmik Debris)
• The Left Hand of Darkness and others (Ursula K. Le Guin)
• The Phenomenology of Spirit (Hegel)
• The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint Exupéry)
• Philosophical Investigations and On Certainty (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
• The Dark Tower Series, and related stories (Stephen King)
• The Social Construction of Reality (Peter L. Berger & Thomas Luckmann)
• The Titan Trilogy (John Varley)
• Modernity on Endless Trial (Leszek Kolakowski)
• The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood)
• The Sociological Tradition and The Quest for Community (Robert Nisbet)
• The World of Pooh (A. A. Milne)
• Totality and Infinity and others (Emmanuel Levinas)
• The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Stranger in a Strange Land, and others (Robert A. Heinlein)
• Phenomenology of Perception and others (Maurice Merleau-Ponty)
• The Hyperion/Endymion Series ( Dan Simmons)
• The Politics of Friendship (Jacques Derrida)
• The Sneetches and Other Stories (Dr. Seuss)
• The Great Divorce and The Last Battle (C. S. Lewis)
• Tao Te Ching (favorite translation: Stephen Mitchell)
• Systematic Theology and God The Problem (Gordon D. Kaufman)
• Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (Richard Rorty)
• The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
• Invitation to Sociology: A Humanistic Perspective (Peter L. Berger)
• The Missing Piece and others (Shel Silverstein)
• The God of Faith and Reason (Robert Sokolowski)
• Pragmatism and The Meaning of Truth (William James)
• World in Fragments and The Imaginary Institution of Society (Cornelius Castoriadis)
• The Five People You Meet in Heaven (Mitch Albom)
• Basic Writings (Martin Heidegger)
• The Sandman series (Neil Gaiman)

Some Other authors I love to read, but wouldn’t single out particular books at this point:
(This doesn’t include poets. My poetry page includes a list of poets I love to read.)

• George Santayana
• Judith Butler
• Georg Simmel
• George Herbert Mead
• Emile Durkheim
• José Ortega y Gasset
• Michel Foucault
• Joel Best
• Russell Kirk
• Bruno Latour
• John Dewey
• Sigmund Freud
• John D. Caputo
• Wendell Berry
• Josiah Royce
• Giorgio Agamben
• Michael Polanyi

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