Recommended Books
The following is a non-exhaustive list of books that to a particularly high degree has been influential on my project, and/or I wholeheartedly recommend. This page will be updated sporadically. The list is tentatively divided into non-fiction and fiction, though a finer division could certainly be more appropriate.
Non-Fiction
Hartmut Rosa - The Uncontrollability of the World
Alasdair MacIntyre - After Virtue
Shannon Valor - The AI Mirror
Maurice Merleau-Ponty - Phenomenology of Perception
Heraclitus - Fragments
Henri Bergson - The Creative Mind
Henri Bergson - Creative Evolution
William James - Pragmatism
William James - A Pluralistic Universe
William Ophuls - Immoderate Greatness: Why Civilizations Fall
Paul Karl Feyerabend - Conquest of Abundance: A Tale of Abstraction versus the Richness of Being
Paul Karl Feyerabend - Philosophical Papers, Vol 1: Realism, Rationalism and Scientific Method
Morris Berman - The Reenchantment of the World
Thomas S. Kuhn - The Last Writings of Thomas S. Kuhn: Incommensurability in Science
Thomas S. Kuhn - The Road Since Structure
Iain McGilchrist - The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World
Douglas R. Hofstadter - Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Jonathan Crary - Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World
Jason Hickel - Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
Federico Campagna - Technic and Magic: The Reconstruction of Reality
Donald D. Hoffman - The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes
Carlo Rovelli - Reality is Not What it Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity
Yanis Varoufakis - Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present
Ludwig Wittgenstein - Philosophical Investigations
Ludwig Wittgenstein - Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Ludwig Wittgenstein - Zettel
P. M. S. Hacker - Insight and Illusion
Michael Polanyi - Personal Knowledge : Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy
Torin Alter - Consciousness in the Physical World: Perspectives on Russellian Monism
Godehard Brüntrup - Panpsychism: Contemporary Perspectives
Graham Priest - Beyond the Limits of Thought
Jacques Derrida - Margins of Philosophy
David Bohm - Wholeness and the Implicate Order
Albert Einstein - Relativity: The Special and the General Theory
James T. Cushing - Philosophical Consequences of Quantum Theory: Reflections on Bell's Theorem
John S. Bell - Speakable and Unspeakable in Quantum Mechanics: Collected Papers on Quantum Philosophy
Richard Rorty - Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature
Noson Yanofsky - The Outer Limits of Reason: What Science, Mathematics, and Logic Cannot Tell Us
Friedrich Hayek - The Sensory Order: An Inquiry into the Foundations of Theoretical Psychology
David Deutsch - The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
Lee Braver - Groundless Grounds: A Study of Wittgenstein and Heidegger
Lee Braver - A Thing of this World
Bas van Fraassen - The Scientific Image
Bas van Fraassen - The Empirical Stance
David J. Chalmers - Metametaphysics: New Essays on the Foundations of Ontology
Mihály Csíkszentmihályi - Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Alan Watts - The Way of Zen
Aldous Huxley - Perennial Philosophy
Stephen Mitchell - The Enlightened Mind: An Anthology of Sacred Prose
Nāgārjuna - The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way: Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā
Eliot Deutsch - Advaita Vedanta: A Philosophical Reconstruction
Quentin Meillassoux - After Finitude: An Essay on the Necessity of Contingency
Joseph Tainter - The Collapse of Complex Societies
Vanessa Andreotti - Hospicing Modernity
Dougald Hine - At Work in the Ruins
Brendan Graham Dempsey - Metamodernism: Or, The Cultural Logic of Cultural Logics
Fiction
Robert M. Pirsig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Arguably non-fiction)
James Joyce - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace
Jorge Luis Borges - Ficciones
Cormac McCarthy - All the Pretty Horses
Cormac McCarthy - The Crossing
Cormac McCarthy - Cities of the Plain
Cormac McCarthy - Suttree
Cormac McCarthy - The Passenger
Cormac McCarthy - Stella Maris
Karl Ove Knausgård - Min Kamp / My Struggle (#1-6)
Karl Ove Knausgård - Morgenstjernen / The Morning Star
Karl Ove Knausgård - En Tid For Alt / A Time For Everything
Alan Moore - Jerusalem
Jon Fosse - Morgon og kveld / Morning and Evening
Frank Herbert - Dune
Dan Simmons - Hyperion
Mary Doria Russell - The Sparrow
Louis McMaster Bujold - The Curse of Chalion
Alastair Reynolds - Pushing Ice
John Williams - Stoner
John Fowles - The Magus
Herman Hesse - The Glass Bead Game
Stefan Zweig - Chess Story
Alexandre Dumas - The Count of Monte-Cristo