- “The Circular Ruin,” Borges.
- The Universe in a Single Atom, Dalai Lama.
- The Woman Destroyed, Simone De Beauvoir.
- Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino.
- The Plague, Albert Camus.
- The Lover, Marguerite Duras.
- Sophie’s World, Jostein Gaarder.
- Humble Before the Void, Chris Impey.
- Middle Passage, Charles Johnson.
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera.
- Dao De Jing, Laozi.
- “Buffalo Gals, Won’t You Come Out Tonight,” Ursula K. Le Guin.
- Einstein’s Dreams, Alan Lightman.
- Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy.
- Beloved, Toni Morrison.
- Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Nietzsche (trans. Graham Parkes).
- The Quantum and the Lotus, Matthieu Ricard and Trinh Xuan Thuan.
- Pedro Páramo, Juan Rulfo.
- The Path of Return Continues the Journey, Thích Nhất Hạnh.
- Zhuangzi.
- Nothing Is Lost, Nolan W. K. Kim.
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