It's a self-help book called Secrets of Divine Love. It helped me with clearing out so much in my life that I used to worry about. It is a slow read; otherwise, one gets bored other than that, I enjoyed each and every bit of it.

Torn between

It's a poem published in 1979 by the son of a physics Nobel prize winner, and it's about consciousness and artificial intelligence, and how they relate to mathematical proofs, music compositions (especially Baroque organ music) and visual art. It is full of self-references.

It's a twelve-episode science mystery called "TAOCP"... eagerly awaiting episode 4c! It's full of passion, hard facts, proofs, code fragments, even music scores and of course jokes.

- Lost Connections by Johann Hari (Life, Overcome depression) - 1946: The Making of the Modern World : Sebestyen, Victor (History, WWII) - Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency by Andy Greenberg was exceptionally well researched and told.

"The Baron in the Trees" by Italo Calvino.

Made to Stick by Chip and Dan Heath (its about why some ideas stick and other dies)

Middlemarch by George Eliot. Well worth a read, possibly the greatest English novel ever written.

Books: Siddartha: to think about myself and my changes/voyage through life.

  Half-time: to think what-the-hell-comes-next (only if you are 40+)(it won't resonate with a 20yo)

  Systemantics, Nexus: if you work in mega-big-corpos this will save your life

  Hold on to your kids, The anxious generation: if you got kids

  Strong Fathers Strong Daughters: (and mothers/sons) if you got kids (too Christian-y for my taste but an amazing 'manual' to manage the relationship with your kid(s))

  1984, Animal Farm, Gulag Archipelago: ...

  Light on Yoga: (also do practice yoga, it's good for most-if-not-all)

All the listed ones are books I read and read again every few years. They shaped me the first time I read them, keep me 'grounded'/taking stock/thinking the 'change' in me and my life. I see them as a 'check-diff' and how I have changed/evolved/devolved since the last time I read it/them.

Bṛhadāraṇyakopaniṣad, without a doubt. not for the faint of heart or the ignorant.