Novels - Fiction:

-          Mikhail Bulgakov – Master and Margarita

-          Mikhail Bulgakov – Heart of a dog

-          Mikhail Bulgakov - Morphine

-          Yaroslav Gashek – Good Soldier Shveik

-          Martin Amis – Time’s arrow

-          Gregory David Roberts – Shantaram

-          George Orwell – Animal Farm

-          George Orwell – 1984

-          Fyodor Dostoevsky – Karamazov Brothers

-          Fyodor Dostoevsky – Idiot

-          Nikolay Gogol – Night before Christmas

-          Nikolay Gogol – The government inspector

-          Miguel de Servantes – Don Quixote

-          Brothers Strugatsky – Monday begins on Saturday

-          Brothers Strugatsky – Hard to be a god

-          Ivan Turgenev – Mumu

-          Ray Brudbury – Dandelion wine

Historical drama:

-          Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn – Gulag Archipelago

-          Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn – One day of life of Ivan Denisovich

-          Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn – Cancer ward

-          Primo Levi – If this is a man

-          Primo Levi – The truce

-          Svetlana Aleksievich – The war within

-          Svetlana Aleksievich – Secondhand time

-          Svetlana Aleksievich – Voices of Chernobyl

-          Eugenia Ginzburg – Within the Whirlwind

Philosophy/psychology:

-          Victor Frankl – Man’s search for meaning

-          Carl Jung – The red book

-          Carl Jung – Memories, dreams, reflexions

-          Carl Jung – The archetypes and the collective unconscious

-          Carl Jung – Modern man in search of a soul

-          John Little/Bruce Lee – The Warrior withing

-          Nassim Taleb – Antifragile

-          Nassim Taleb – The black Swan

-          Nassim Taleb – Skin in the game

-          Albert Camus – The myth of the Sisyphus

-          Marcus Aurelius – Meditations

-          Sun Tzu – The art of war

-          Joseph Campbell – The hero of 1000 faces

-          Roger Neumann – The origins and history of consciousness

-          Seneca – Collection of essays

-          Friedrich Nietzsche – Beyond good and Evil

-          Aleksandr Luria – The man with a shattered world

-          Vaclav Havel – The power of the powerless

 

Spirituality:

-          Frank Ostaseski – 5 invitations

-          Michael Singer – The untethered soul

-          Ken Wilber – Integral meditation

-          Ken Wilber – Integral Buddhism

-          Lankavatara sutra

-          Don Richard Riso/Ross Hudson – The wisdom of the Enneagram

 

History:

-          William Shirer – The rise and fall of the Third Reich

-          Victor Sebestyen – Revolution 1989

-          Martin Amis – Koba the dread

-          Christopher Browning – The ordinary man

-          Anna Appelbaum – Red Famine

- Hannah Arendt - Eichmann in Jerusalem

 

Non-fiction:

-          Cal Newport – Deep work

-          Gary Keller – The one thing

-          Ben Goldacre – Bad science

-          Douglas Murray – The madness of crowds

-          Jordan Peterson – Maps of meaning

-          Jordan Peterson – 12 rules for life

-          Jordan Peterson – Beyond order

-          James Nestor – Breathe

-          Alan Levinovitz – Natural

-          David Eagleman – Livewired

-          Norman Doidge – The brain that changes itself

-          Norman Doidge – The brain’s way of healing

-          Lisa Feldman Barret – How emotions are made

-          Mark Manson – The subtle art of not giving a fuck

-          Julia Cameron – The artist’s way

Movement:

-          Blandine Galais-Germaine – Anatomy for movement

-          Moshe Feldenkrais – Embodied Wisdom

-          Moshe Feldenkrais – Awareness through movement

- Moshe Feldenkrais - Elusive Obvious

-          Anat Baniel – Move into life

-          Thomas Michaud – Human locomotion

-          Thomas Myers – Anatomy trains

-          Leonid Arkhaev – Gymnastics: how to create champions