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Reading list

  • Writer: Amanda Riddell
    Amanda Riddell
  • May 17, 2025
  • 2 min read

Updated: May 17, 2025

This is a list off the top of my head, rather than something deep. The Silk Roads - Peter Frankopan Musicophilia - Oliver Sacks Migrating Genders - Johanna Schmidt Patched: The History of Gangs in New Zealand - Jarrod Gilbert The Transformation of Intimacy - Anthony Giddens The Art of Loving - Erich Fromm Between Past and Future - Hannah Arendt (haven't finished it) The Republic - Plato (haven't finished it) The ABC of Relativity - Bertrand Russell Connections - James Burke Gödel, Escher, Bach and Surfaces and Essences - Hofstadter and Sander

How Emotions Are Made - Lisa Feldman Barrett DMT: The Spirit Molecule - Rick Strassman Altering Consciousness: multidisciplinary perspectives - Cardeña, Winkelman Stalking The Wild Pendulum - Itzhak Bentov The Matriarch and The Dream Swimmer - Witi Ihimaera Love's Labours Lost - William Shakespeare Two On A Tower - Thomas Hardy A Death In The Family - James Agee

Dubin's Lives - Bernard Malamud The End of Eternity - Isaac Asimov What Dreams May Come - Richard Matheson The Medieval Art of Love - Michael Camille Georges Seurat: The Drawings - Jodi Hauptmann Beyond The Visible: The Art of Odilon Redon - Jodi Hauptmann Wellington, Wellington: A History - Michael Fowler Figures Traced In Light - David Bordwell The Elements of Colour - Johannes Itten Screenwriting 101 - Film Crit Hulk On Directing - Alexander Mackendrick Music and the Power of Sound - Alain Danielou

Listen To This - Alex Ross Promethea - Alan Moore Maus - Art Spiegelman Rising Stars - J. Michael Straczynski Bone - Jeff Smith The Heading Dog Who Split In Half - Michael Brown


A Walk In The Woods - Bill Bryson

When Will Jesus Bring The Pork Chops? - George Carlin

Dave Gorman's Googlewhack Adventure - Dave Gorman A Season With Verona - Tim Parks Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell Freakonomics - Dubner, Levitt

The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand (in the trashy airport book section).


 
 
 

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