Some Books That Are Pretty Good

These are some of the books I've read that I enjoyed the most and highly recommend. I've divided the list into two sections: those about physics and everything else. I’ve also added a few short stores I’ve enjoyed.

Christianity and Religion

The Orthodox Way by Kallistos Ware

The Philokalia 

St. Seraphim, Wonderworker of Sarov, and His Spiritual Inheritance by Helen Kontzevitch

From Object to Icon: The Struggle for Spiritual Vision in a Pornographic World by Andrew Williams

Physics

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character) by Richard P. Feynman

Ideas and Opinions by Albert Einstein

A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking

Black Holes and Baby Universes by Stephen Hawking

The Black Hole War by Leonard Susskind

The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli

Three Roads to Quantum Gravity by Lee Smolin

Now: The Physics of Time by Richard A. Muller


Not Physics

The Conscious Mind by David Chalmers

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 

The Trial by Franz Kafka

Mastery by Robert Greene

The Elements of Style by William Strunk and EB White

On Writing by Stephen King

A Mind For Numbers by Barbara Oakley

Short Stories

The Nine Billion Names of God by Arthur C. Clark

The Swimmer by John Cheever