This is a list of non-fiction books which have greatly influenced me – making me see the world differently or act in it differently. They are listed chronologically according to when I first encountered them.

• 2022 – Sean Hewitt [2022]: All Down Darkness Wide. Jonathan Cape.
• 2022 – Stewart Copeland [2009]: Strange Things Happen: A Life with “The Police”, Polo and Pygmies.
• 2019 – Mary Le Beau (Inez Travers Cunningham Stark Boulton, 1888-1958) [1956]:  Beyond Doubt: A Record of Psychic Experience.
• 2019 – Zhores A Medvedev [1983]: Andropov: An Insider’s Account of Power and Politics within the Kremlin.
• 2016 – Lafcadio Hearn [1897]: Gleanings in Buddha-Fields: Studies of Hand and Soul in the Far East. London, UK: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Company Limited.
• 2015 – Benedict Taylor [2011]: Mendelssohn, Time and Memory. The Romantic Conception of Cyclic Form. Cambridge UP.
• 2010 – Hans Kundnani [2009]: Utopia or Auschwitz: Germany’s 1968 Generation and the Holocaust.
  London, UK: Hurst and Company.
• 2009 – J. Scott Turner [2007]:  The Tinkerer’s Accomplice: How Design Emerges from Life Itself. Harvard UP. (Mentioned here.)
• 2008 – Stefan Aust [2008]: The Baader-Meinhof Complex. Bodley Head.
• 2008 – A. J. Liebling [2008]: World War II Writings. New York City, NY, USA: The Library of America.
• 2008 – Pierre Delattre [1993]:  Episodes. St. Paul, MN, USA: Graywolf Press.
• 2006 – Mark Evan Bonds [2006]: Music as Thought: Listening to the Symphony in the Age of Beethoven.
  Princeton UP.
• 2006 – Kyle Gann [2006]: Music Downtown: Writings from the Village Voice. UCal Press.
• 2005 – Clare Asquith [2005]: Shadowplay: The Hidden Beliefs and Coded Politics of William Shakespeare. Public Affairs.
• 2004 – Igal Halfin [2003]: Terror in My Soul: Communist Autobiographies on Trial. Cambridge, MA, USA: Harvard UP.
• 2001 – George Leonard [2000]: The Way of Aikido: Life Lessons from an American Sensei.
• 2000 – Stephen E. Toulmin [1990]:  Cosmopolis:  The Hidden Agenda of Modernity. University of Chicago Press.
• 1999 – Michel de Montaigne [1580-1595]: Essays.
• 1997 – James Pritchett [1993]:  The Music of John Cage. Cambridge UP.
• 1996 – George Fowler [1995]:  Dance of a Fallen Monk: A Journey to Spiritual Enlightenment.
  Doubleday.
• 1995 – Chungliang Al Huang and Jerry Lynch [1992]:  Thinking Body, Dancing Mind.  New York: Bantam Books.
• 1995 – Jon Kabat-Zinn [1994]: Wherever You Go, There You Are.
• 1995 – Charlotte Joko Beck [1993]: Nothing Special: Living Zen.
• 1993 – George Leonard [1992]: Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment.
• 1992 – Henry Adams [1907/1918]: The Education.
• 1990 – Trevor Leggett [1987]:  Zen and the Ways. Tuttle.
• 1989 – Grant McCracken [1988]:  Culture and Consumption.
• 1989 – Teresa Toranska [1988]:  Them:  Stalin’s Polish Puppets.  Translated by Agnieszka Kolakowska. HarperCollins. (Mentioned here.)
• 1988 – Henry David Thoreau [1865]:  Cape Cod.
• 1988 – Rupert Sheldrake [1988]: The Presence of the Past: Morphic Resonance and the Habits of Nature.
• 1988 – Dan Rose [1987]: Black American Street Life: South Philadelphia, 1969-1971. UPenn Press.
• 1987 – Susan Sontag [1966]: Against Interpretation. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
• 1987 – Gregory Bateson [1972]: Steps to an Ecology of Mind. U Chicago Press.
• 1987 – Jay Neugeboren [1968]:  Reflections at Thirty.
• 1985 – Esquire Magazine Special Issue [June 1985]: The Soul of America.
• 1985 – Brian Willan [1984]: Sol Plaatje: A Biography.
• 1982 – John Miller Chernoff [1979]: African Rhythm and African Sensibility: Aesthetics and Social Action in African Musical Idioms. University of Chicago Press.
• 1981 – Walter Rodney [1972]: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa. Bogle-L’Overture Publications
• 1980 – James A. Michener [1971]: Kent State: What happened and Why.
• 1980 – Andre Gunder Frank [1966]:  The Development of Underdevelopment. Monthly Review Press.
• 1980 – Paul Feyerabend [1975]: Against Method: Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge.
• 1979 – Aldous Huxley [1945]:  The Perennial Philosophy.
• 1978 – Christmas Humphreys [1949]:  Zen Buddhism.
• 1977 – Raymond Smullyan [1977]:  The Tao is Silent.
• 1976 – Bertrand Russell [1951-1969]: The Autobiography.  George Allen & Unwin.
• 1975 – Jean-Francois Revel [1972]:  Without Marx or Jesus: The New American Revolution Has Begun.
• 1974 – Charles Reich [1970]: The Greening of America.
• 1973 – Selvarajan Yesudian and Elisabeth Haich [1953]:  Yoga and Health. Harper.
• 1972 – Robin Boyd [1960]: The Australian Ugliness.