An essential overview of central sociological aspects of humanity. Prompting us to lifts our perspective by shining a light on what has affected our motivations and collective efforts.

We can learn a great deal from this fascinating perspective on how forests function like societies, where trees communicate, support one another, and rely on shared networks for survival.

Although offering few solutions beyond pledges for change, this demystifying book offers a clear and thorough understanding of how we arrived at our current economic system.

A brilliant look at how most of today’s economic and environmental problems stem from the enclosure movement, which severed most people’s access to land, food, and shared resources.

A grounded and wide-angled analysis of what’s gone wrong with capitalism and how realigning values and policy could restore it to serve human well-being. Thoughtful, clear and refreshingly pragmatic.

A compelling blueprint for how we might rethink consumption to stay within planetary boundaries. Clear, actionable, and definitely worth reading.

A timely and thought-provoking book on how society has been structured around meaningless work to sustain an artificial economy, built on the completely unnecessary illusion of scarcity.

The IDEO-background of my product design teacher inspired me to read this book, paving the way for my interest in service design.

A sharp, well-documented breakdown of how air travel became dehumanising by design. Offering rare clarity on what’s broken and how we’ve been conditioned to accept the status quo.

The only book you really ever need to read on spirituality. Few, if any, other works have been able to capture our understanding of spirituality and role as human beings as comprehensively.

If you are still on the fence about reincarnation, or the notion that we are in fact souls having a human experience, read this book.

A scientific look at how mind-altering substances shaped society and how our relationship with them was deliberately erased from public discourse.

A sobering reminder of how drugs have been used throughout history, and to what ends.

One of the first books I read that had great impact on me back in the 90s. I still read it every now and then to remind myself to keep a beginners mind.

This abbreviated version of the classic masterpiece is my favorite. The deeper spiritual insight one has, the more it reaches through. Only an hour long, it can be replayed as often as one needs a moment of reflection. I often listen to it while walking.