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The alternative magazine Utne Reader prepared "a smorgasbord
of books, movies, plays, telebvision shows, and works of music that broaden,
deepen, or define the experiemce of being alive.... We creared this list
out of thousands of recommendations from authors, activists, professors,
book club members, spiritual leaders, and bemused observers of the human
condition. It's offered not as a checklist to measure your intellectual
standing, but as an inspiration, to give you an incentive to pursue your
own blissful course of study." The section of the list labeled "Written
Works" is as follows. The works are arranged in loose chronological order
but sometimes with related titles ordered together.
| Isaiah | The Book of Isaiah (ca. 8th - 2nd centuries B.C.E.) |
| Various | The Zohar (ca. 1275) |
| Lao Tzu | Tao Te Ching (3rd century B.C.E.) |
| Chuang Tzu | Chuang Tzu (3rd century B.C.E.) |
| Thucydides | History of the Peloponnesian War (431-404 B.C.E.) |
| Hesiod | Works and Days (ca. 700 B.C.E) |
| Various | Mahabharata (ca. 400 B.C.E. - 200 C.E.) |
| Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj | I Am That |
| Marcus Aurelius | Meditations (ca. 2nd century) |
| Lucius Apuleius | The Golden Ass (ca. 2nd century) |
| Hildegarde of Bingen | Scivias (1141-1151) |
| Elaine Pagels | The Gnostic Gospels (1979) |
| Jalal ad-Din ar-Rumi | The Divan of Shams-i-Tabriz (13th century) |
| Margaret Smith | Rabi'a (1994) |
| Francois Rabelais | Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532-1546) |
| Wu Ch'eng-en | Monkey (or, Journey to the West) (1592) |
| William Shakespeare | Coriolanus |
| Samuel Johnson | Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler Essays (1750-1760) |
| Freya Stark | The Journey's Echo (1920s - 1960s) |
| William Blake | The Book of Unizen (1794) |
| Allen Ginsberg | Illuminated Poems (1996) |
| Jane Austen | Persuasion (1818) |
| Lady Murasaki | The Tale of Genji (ca. 1000) |
| Henry David Thoreau | Walden (1854) |
| Mary Oliver | New and Selected Poems (1992) |
| Walt Whitman | Song of Myself (1855) |
| Muriel Rukeyser | A Muriel Rukeyser Reader (1935-1976) |
| Leo Tolstoy | Anna Karenina (1875-77) |
| Alexander Herzen | My Past and Thoughts (1852-53) |
| Mohandas Gandhi | The Gandhi Reader (1900s - 1950s) |
| Paulo Freire, Myles Horton | We Make the Road by Walking (1990) |
| Encyclopedia Britannica | 11th edition (1910) |
| Bill Bryson | Made in America (1994) |
| Marcel Proust | Remembrance of Things Past (1913-1927) |
| E.M. Forster | Howard's End (1910) |
| Rainer Maria Rilke | Duino Elegies (1923) |
| Tu Fu | Poems (8th century) |
| Subcomandante Marcos | Shadows of Tender Fury (1995) |
| Pablo Neruda | Canto General (1938-1950) |
| Clarice Lispector | The Hour of the Star (1977) |
| James Agee, Walker Evans | Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941) |
| John Berger | Pig Earth (1979) |
| Gore Vidal | United States, Essays (1951-1990) |
| Howard Zinn | A People's History of the United States (1980) |
| Simone de Beauvoir | The Second Sex (1952) |
| Mary Daly | Gyn, Ecology (1978) |
| Ralph Ellison | Invisible Man (1952) |
| Nathaniel Mackey | Bedouin Hornbook, Djbot Baghostus's Run (1986-1993) |
| James Baldwin | Collected Essays (1955-1986) |
| Cornel West | Race Matters (1993) |
| Satyajit Ray | The Apu Trilogy (1955-1959) |
| Naguib Mahfouz | The Cairo Trilogy (1956-57) |
| Pramoedya Ananta Toer | The Buru Quartet (1969-1979) |
| John Sayles | The Secret of Roan Inish (1995) |
| Chinua Achebe | Things Fall Apart (1958) |
| Edward Said | Culture and Imperialism (1993) |
| Jane Jacobs | The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961) |
| Christopher Alexander, et al | A Pattern Language. 1977 |
| Rachel Carson | Silent Spring (1962) |
| Lynn Margulis, Dorion Sagan | What Is Life? (1995) |
| Thomas Kuhn | The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. (1962) |
| James Gleick | Chaos (1987) |
| Kenneth Rexroth | An Autobiographical Novel (1965) |
| Harvey Pekar | New American Splendor Anthology (1991) |
| Gabriel Garcia Marquez | One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) |
| Tony Kushner | Angels in America (1993) |
| Michael Murphy | Golf in the Kingdom. 1972 |
| E. F. Schumacher | Small Is Beautiful |
| Ivan Illich | Tools for Conviviality (1973) |
| Ursula Le Guin | The Dispossessed (1974) |
| Starhawk | The Fifth Sacred Thing (1993) |
| Leslie Marmon Silko | Ceremony (1977) |
| John G. Neihardt | Black Elk Speaks (1932) |
| Anais Nin | Delta of Venus (1977) |
| Margo Anand | The Art of Sexual Ecstasy (1989) |
| Mario Fo | Accidental Death of an Anarchist (1980) |
| Caryl Churchill | Cloud Nine (1981) |
| Pier Paolo Pasolini | Poems (1982) |
| Kenji Miyazawa | Spring and Asura (1924) |
| Riane Eisler | The Chalice and the Blade (1987) |
| Susan Griffin | Woman and Nature (1978) |
| Toni Morrison | Beloved (1987) |
| Zora Neale Hurston | Dust Tracks on a Road (1942) |
| August Wilson | Joe Turner's Come and Gone (1987) |
| Anna Deavere Smith | Twilight, Los Angeles 1992 |
| Jamaica Kincaid | A Small Place (1988) |
| Gloria Anzaldua | Borderlands, La Frontera (1987) |
| Noam Chomsky, Edward Herman | Manufacturing Consent (1988) |
| Charlotte Joko Beck | Everyday Zen (1989) |
| Sogyal Rinpoche | The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying (1993) |
| Viana La Place | Verdura - Vegetables Italian-Style (1991) |
| Erich Schiffmann | Yoga - The Spirit and Practice of Moving into Stillness (1996) |
| Julia Cameron | The Artist's Way (1992) |
| Brenda Ueland | If You Want to Write (1938) |
| Dorothy Allison | Bastard Out of Carolina (1992) |
| Sharon Olds | The Dead and the Living (1984) |
| James Hillman Ventura, Michael Ventura | We've Had a Hundred Years of Psychotherapy - and |
| Alice Miller | The Drama of the Gifted Child (1983) |
| Rupert Sheldrake | Seven Experiments That Could Change the World (1995) |
| mm Kulthum | Al-Ataal (1966) |
| David Abram | The Spell of the Sensuous (1996) |
| Fritjof Capra | The Web of Life (1996) |
| Paul Hawken | The Ecology of Commerce (1993) |
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