Sanctuary: A Meditation on Home, Homelessness, and Belonging
By: Zenju Earthlyn Manuel
4.36
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
A singular work of poetic prose exploring otherness and belonging—and what it means to be truly at …
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1. Fire Monks: Zen Mind Meets Wildfire at the Gates of Tassajara
By: Colleen Morton Busch
3.79
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The "vivid" and "electrifying" true story of how five monks saved the oldest Zen Buddhist monastery… read more
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- nonfiction
- zen
2. Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
By: Shunryu Suzuki , Huston Smith , Trudy Dixon , Richard Baker
4.21
Format: 138 pages, Paperback
“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.” So begins… read more
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"Waves are the practice of the water."-Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
"You do not say, “This is enlightenment,"-Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
"Sincerity itself is the railroad track."-Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
"Zen practice is to open up our small mind."-Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
3. Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
By: Octavia E. Butler
3.82
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
In 2025, with the world descending into madness and anarchy, one woman begins a fateful journey tow… read more
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4. The Marrow Thieves
By: Cherie Dimaline
3.97
Format: 234 pages, Paperback
In a futuristic world ravaged by global warming, people have lost the ability to dream, and the dre… read more
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"When we heal our land, we are healed also."-Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves
"I did have the longest hair of any of the boys... I braided it myself each morning, to keep it out of the way and to remind myself of things I couldn’t quite remember but that, nevertheless, I knew t…"-Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves
"We go to the schools and they leach the dreams from where our ancestors hid them, in the honeycombs of slushy marrow buried in our bones. And us? Well, we join our ancestors, hoping we left enough dr…"-Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves
"And I understood that as long as there are dreamers left, there will never be want for a dream. And I understood just what we would do for each other, just what we would do for the ebb and pull of th…"-Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves
5. There Is No God and He Is Always with You: A Search for God in Odd Places
By: Brad Warner
3.50
Format: 142 pages, Paperback
Can you be an atheist and still believe in God? Can you be a true believer and still doubt? Can Zen… read more
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- zen
6. The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning: How to Make Your Loved Ones’ Lives Easier and Your Own Life More Pleasant
By: Margareta Magnusson
3.59
Format: 251 pages, Hardcover
Funny, wise, and deeply practical, Swedish artist Margareta Magnusson offers advice on how to declu… read more
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7. An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
By: Kay Redfield Jamison
4.06
Format: 663 pages,
The personal memoir of a manic depressive and an authority on the subject describes the onset of th… read more
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8. A Heart as Wide as the World: Stories on the Path of Lovingkindness
By: Sharon Salzberg
3.47
Format: 1 pages, Paperback
The Buddhist teachings have the power to transform our lives for the better, says Sharon Salzberg, … read more
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9. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
4.04
Format: 226 pages, Hardcover
As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer as been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of sci… read more
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10. A Confederacy of Dunces
By: John Kennedy Toole , Walker Percy
3.89
Format: 394 pages, Paperback
Here is Ignatius Reilly: slob extraordinary, a mad Oliver Hardy, a fat Don Quixote, a perverse Thom… read more
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"Oh, Fortuna, you capricious sprite!"-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces
"Mothers got a hard road to travel, believe me."-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces
"The day before me is fraught with God knows what horrors."-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces
"Mother doesn't cook, Ignatius said dogmatically, She burns."-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces
11. One Dharma: The Emerging Western Buddhism
By: Joseph Goldstein
4.20
Format: 172 pages, Paperback
One of America's most respected Buddhist teachers distills a lifetime of practice and teaching in t… read more
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12. Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
By: Adrienne Maree Brown
3.65
Format: 192 pages,
Inspired by Octavia Butler's explorations of our human relationship to change, Emergent Strategyis … read more
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13. The Denial of Death
By: Daniel Goleman , Ernest Becker , Sam Keen
4.32
Format: 80 pages,
Winner of the Pulitzer prize in 1974 and the culmination of a life's work, "The Denial of Death" is… read more
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14. How to Eat (Mindfulness Essentials, #2)
By: Thich Nhat Hanh , Jason DeAntonis
4.20
Format: None pages, Paperback
Eating is a chance to return to the present moment. How to Eatis the second in Parallax's series of… read more
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15. Pay Attention, for Goodness' Sake: Practicing the Perfections of the Heart--The Buddhist Path of Kindness
By: Sylvia Boorstein
3.82
Format: 160 pages,
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16. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.58
Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition
1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more
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"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
17. Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
By: Katherine May
3.86
Format: 241 pages, Hardcover
An intimate, revelatory book exploring the ways we can care for and repair ourselves when life knoc… read more
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"The problem with “everything"-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
"Much to my regret, I have yet to befriend a robin."-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
"The only thing breaking me was pretending to be like everyone else."-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
"You need to live a life that you can cope with, not the one that other people want."-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
18. Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story
By: Bono
4.20
Format: 564 pages, Hardcover
Bono--artist, activist, and the lead singer of Irish rock band U2--has written a memoir: honest and… read more
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"Fame is a currency. I want to spend mine on the right stuff."-Bono, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story
"Wisdom is the recovery of innocence at the far end of experience"-Bono, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story
"I remain more suspicious of religion than most people who'd never darken the door of a church."-Bono, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story
"the only true way to be victorious is to surrender. To each other. To love. To the higher power."-Bono, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story
19. The Sweet Spot: The Pleasures of Suffering and the Search for Meaning
By: Paul Bloom
3.61
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
“This book will challenge you to rethink your vision of a good life. With sharp insights and lucid … read more
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20. The Ministry for the Future
By: Kim Stanley Robinson
3.88
Format: 563 pages, Hardcover
Established in 2025, the purpose of the new organization was simple: To advocate for the world's fu… read more
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"What's the monetary value of human civilization? Trying to answer that question proves you are a moral and practical idiot."-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
"Of course there is always resistance, always a drag on movement toward better things. The dead hand of the past clutches us by way of living people who are too frightened to accept change."-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
"It was so hard to imagine that a mind could be gone. All those thoughts that you never tell anyone, all those dreams, all that entire pocket universe: gone. A character unlike any other character, a …"-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
"Ideology, n. An imaginary relationship to a real situation. In common usage, what the other person has, especially when systematically distorting the facts. But it seems to us that an ideology is a n…"-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
21. Camp Zero
By: Michelle Min Sterling
3.21
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In a near-future northern settlement, a handful of climate change survivors find their fates intert… read more
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"Now Grant understood. College wasn't about books and ideas and new directions. It was slow annihilation."-Michelle Min Sterling, Camp Zero
"Why do men take so easily whatever they want? Because nothing will ever be enough, she realizes. The more a man possesses, the more he thinks he deserves."-Michelle Min Sterling, Camp Zero
22. Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good
By: Adrienne Maree Brown
4.25
Format: 441 pages, Paperback
How do we make social justice the most pleasurable human experience? How can we awaken within ourse… read more
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"In other words, I want an erotic that demands space be made for honest bodies that like to also fuck."-Adrienne Maree Brown, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good
"revolution cannot be created by conforming to existing roles in relationships already defined by the systems we want to overthrow."-Adrienne Maree Brown, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good
"Women and femmes who love money are free to be demanding. The world has tried to fool them into thinking that getting paid for care or sex “cheapens"-Adrienne Maree Brown, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good
"Money buys protection. It buys time off and privacy. And it buys nice, pretty shit. Money also buys food, housing, and health care. Getting paid enough to meet our needs—and more—feels good. I’m not …"-Adrienne Maree Brown, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good
23. Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto
By: Tricia Hersey
4.08
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Far too many of us have claimed productivity as the cornerstone of success. Brainwashed by capitali… read more
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24. And Then She Fell
By: Alicia Elliott
3.90
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A mind-bending, razor-sharp look at motherhood and mental health that follows a young Indigenous wo… read more
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"Nothing I do is done solely for me. Everything is done to elevate Steve or Dawn, in some way. I'm an afterthought in my own life."-Alicia Elliott, And Then She Fell
"A part of me wants to cry at this small request, because I know what that longing is like, what it means. I won't be there forever, but I will be there for her. For her sister. For her mother. I'll b…"-Alicia Elliott, And Then She Fell
25. Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit
By: Lyanda Lynn Haupt
4.04
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Deepen your connection to the natural world with this inspiring meditation, "a path to the place wh… read more
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26. Hunting by Stars
By: Cherie Dimaline
4.30
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A new story about hope and survival. Years ago, when plagues and natural disasters killed millions … read more
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27. Black and Buddhist: What Buddhism Can Teach Us about Race, Resilience, Transformation, and Freedom
By: Cheryl A. Giles
4.34
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Leading African American Buddhist teachers offer lessons on racism, resilience, spiritual freedom, … read more
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28. Ordinary Wonder: Zen Life and Practice
By: Charlotte Joko Beck
4.49
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Fresh and never-before published talks on the crux of Buddhist practice and how to uncover wonder i… read more
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29. Sanctuary: A Meditation on Home, Homelessness, and Belonging
By: Zenju Earthlyn Manuel
4.36
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
A singular work of poetic prose exploring otherness and belonging—and what it means to be truly at … read more
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30. Awakening Together: The Spiritual Practice of Inclusivity and Community
By: Larry Yang
4.39
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
“ Awakening Together combines the intimately personal, the Buddhist and universal into a loving, co… read more
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31. Sarasvati's Gift: The Autobiography of Mayumi Oda--Artist, Activist, and Modern Buddhist Revolutionary
By: Mayumi Oda
4.31
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The inspiring life story of pioneering feminist artist, activist, and Buddhist teacher Mayumi Oda t… read more
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