EC Top 25 Recommended Books

A publisher-curated shelf of twenty-five books that repay slow reading. Replace this fixture list with your real curation, then run npm run sync:vault.

1. Meditations — Marcus Aurelius
2. Letters from a Stoic — Seneca
3. The Odyssey — Homer (trans. Emily Wilson)
4. Walden — Henry David Thoreau
5. Leaves of Grass — Walt Whitman
6. The Prophet — Kahlil Gibran
7. Siddhartha — Hermann Hesse
8. The Little Prince — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
9. Gilead — Marilynne Robinson
10. The Year of Magical Thinking — Joan Didion
11. A Room of One's Own — Virginia Woolf
12. The Fire Next Time — James Baldwin
13. Braiding Sweetgrass — Robin Wall Kimmerer
14. The Overstory — Richard Powers
15. Piranesi — Susanna Clarke
16. Circe — Madeline Miller
17. The Book of Delights — Ross Gay
18. Devotions — Mary Oliver
19. The Collected Poems — Rumi (trans. Coleman Barks)
20. Four Quartets — T. S. Eliot
21. Man's Search for Meaning — Viktor Frankl
22. The Wisdom of Insecurity — Alan Watts
23. Wherever You Go, There You Are — Jon Kabat-Zinn
24. Atomic Habits — James Clear
25. The Creative Act — Rick Rubin

Keep what moves you. Preview freely on Enlightened Chronicle — then own it in your EC Vault, or unlock included works with Enlightened Reader membership.