Reading List for Stories of the Way

Last Updated: 2019-07-25

Books I'll read in preparation for writing Stories of the Way...

Tao Te Ching Translations

• Bynner
• Carus
• Chen
• Cronk
• Feng and English
• Graham
• Henricks
• Ivanhoe
• Kimura
• Lau
• [x] Le Guin
• [x] Derek Lin
• Lin Yutang
• Lynn
• [x] Mair
• Wu

Chuang Tzu Translations

• Fung
• Graham
• [x] Watson
• Ziporyn

Philosophy, Science, History

• Allinson - Chuang Tzu for Spiritual Transformation
• Ames - Wandering at Ease
• Balfour - Taoist Texts
• Batchelor - After Buddhism
• Batchelor - Buddhism without Beliefs
• Batchelor - Confession of a Buddhist Atheist
• Baxter and Sagart - Old Chinese
• [r][x] Beckwith - Greek Buddha
• Bodde - Essays on Chinese Civilization
• Chan - Sourcebook in Chinese Philosophy
• Churchland - Conscience
• Churchland - Neurophilosophy
• Churchland - Touching a Nerve
• Cleary - The Essential Tao
• Cleary - Immortal Sisters
• Cleary - Wen-Tzu
• Crosby - The Measure of Reality
• Dehaene - Consciousness and the Brain
• Deng - Scholar Warrior
• Dong - Luxuriant Gems of the Spring and Autumn
• Faxian - Record of the Buddhistic Kingdoms
• Garfield - The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way
• Gibbs and Cheng - Lao-Tzu
• Graham - Yin-Yang and the Nature of Correlative Thinking
• Haier - Neuroscience of Intelligence
• Harvey - Introduction to Buddhism
• Harvey - Introduction to Buddhist Ethics
• Herrigel - Zen in the Art of Archery
• Heschel - The Sabbath
• Ivanhoe and Kjellberg - Essays on Skepticism
• Kalupahana - History of Buddhist Philosophy
• King - Buddha Nature
• Lafargue - The Tao of the Tao Te Ching
• Lakoff - Philosophy in the Flesh
• Lau and Ames - Yuan Dao
• Lee and Kim - Yin and Yang of Life
• [x] Derek Lin - The Tao of Daily Life
• Derek Lin - The Tao of Happiness
• Derek Lin - The Tao of Joy Every Day
• [x] Derek Lin - The Tao of Success
• Lin Yutang - The Chinese Way of Life
• [x] Lin Yutang - The Importance of Living
• [x] Lin Yutang - The Pleasures of a Nonconformist
• McGilchrist - The Master and His Emissary
• Mair - Experimental Essays on Chuang Tzu
• Mair - Notes Toward a Complete Translation
• Mair - Wandering on the Way
• Morgan - Tao the Great Luminant
• Nagarjuna - Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way
• Perin - The Demands of Reason
• Puett - To Become a God
• Radhakrishnan - Upanishads
• Rahula - What the Buddha Taught
• Roth - Original Tao
• Rutt - The Book of Changes
• Ryan and Deci - Self-Determination Theory
• Siderits - Buddhism as Philosophy
• Sim - Remastering Morals with Confucius and Aristotle
• Slingerland - Effortless Action
• Slingerland - Trying Not to Try
• Van Dijk - Ainoi, Logoi, Mythoi
• Vazquez - Reason in Check
• Watson - Mo Tzu
• Welch - Taoism
• Williams - Buddhist Thought
• Williams - Mahayana Buddhism
• Wong - Cultivating Stillness
• [x] Wong - Lieh-Tzu
• Wright - Why Buddhism is True
• Wu - Butterfly as Companion
• Xuanzang - Great Tang Records of the Western Regions
• Zafiropoulos - Ethics in Aesop's Fables
• Zimmer - Soul Made Flesh

Fiction, Fables, Parables, Poetry

• [x] Borges - Ficciones
• [x] Borges - Labyrinths
• [x] Chiang - Stories of Your Life
• Deng - Chronicles of Tao
• Dezso - Much Ado about Religion
• [x] Douglas-Klotz - Sufi Stories
• [x] Gaarder - Sophie's World
• Gibbs - Aesop's Fables
• [x] Gibran - The Prophet
• [r][x] Hesse - Siddhartha
• [x] Khan - Twenty Jataka Tales
• Le Guin - The Beginning Place
• Le Guin - The Birthday of the World
• Le Guin - Buffalo Gals
• Le Guin - Changing Planes
• [x] Le Guin - The Found and the Lost
• Le Guin - The Compass Rose
• Le Guin - A Fisherman of the Inland Sea
• Le Guin - Four Ways to Forgiveness
• [x] Le Guin - Orsinian Tales
• [x] Le Guin - Searoad
• [x] Le Guin - So Far So Good
• [x] Le Guin - Unlocking the Air
• [x] Le Guin - The Unreal and the Real
• [x] Le Guin - The Wind's Twelve Quarters
• [x] Lin Yutang - Famous Chinese Short Stories
• Müller - Buddhist Parables
• Olivelle - The Five Discourses on Worldly Wisdom
• Olivelle - The Pancatantra
• [r][x] Pirsig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
• [x] Shah - The Hundred Tales of Wisdom
• Shaw - The Jatakas
• Slabbert - Modern Tao Stories
• Towler - Tales from the Tao
• [x] Van Over - Taoist Tales
• [x] Wong - Seven Taoist Masters
• [x] Wong - Tales of the Taoist Immortals
• Yu - The Journey to the West

[x] denotes books I've read

[r] denotes books I need to re-read

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