This is by no means an exhaustive list, even of recent reading, for this life-long bookworm. 

What I share here are the works which seem to be most influencing my thought in recent years.

For a broader reading list, visit this page on the Peace and Social Concerns website of the Southeastern Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends.

Note: The image is Nautilus Color Wheel, by Jay Gross.

Faith and Practice

• Hafiz of Shiraz, 14th century Persian Sufi poet, exemplified by Daniel Ladinsky’s versions of selected poems, The Subject Tonight is Love

• Stephen Finlan, Problems with Atonement: The Origins of, and Controversy about, the Atonement Doctrine

• Frederick Buechner, Secrets in the Dark: A Life in Sermons

• Thomas Merton, New Seeds of Contemplation

• James Breech, The Silence of Jesus: The Authentic Voice of the Historical Man

• Richard Q. Ford, The Parables of Jesus: Recovering the Art of Listening
  

• James P. Carse, The Religious Case Against Belief

• Robert J. Miller, editor, The Complete Gospels: Annotated Scholars Version

• Douglas Gwyn
  • Apocalypse of the Word : The Life and Message of George Fox
  • The Covenant Crucified : Quakers and the Rise of Capitalism
  • Seekers Found : Atonement in Early Quaker Experience
  • Unmasking the Idols : A Journey Among Friends

• H. Larry Ingle, First Among Friends: George Fox & the Creation of Quakerism

• John Dominic Crossan
  • The Historical Jesus: The life of a Mediterranean Jewish peasant
  • Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography
  • The Birth of Christianity: Discovering what happened in the years immediately after the execution of Jesus
  • In Search of Paul: How Jesus’s Apostle Opposed Rome’s Empire with God’s Kingdom
  • God and Empire: Jesus Against Rome, Then and Now

• Karen Armstrong
  • The History of God
  • The Battle for God
  • Islam: A Short History
  • The Great Transformation: The World in the Time of Buddha, Socrates, Confucius and Jeremiah
• Wapola Rahula, What the Buddha Taught

• Katsuki Sekida, Zen Training: Methods and Philosophy

• Joyce and River Higginbotham
  • Paganism: An Introduction to Earth-Centered Religions
  • Pagan Spirituality: A Guide to Personal Transformation

Science and History

• Antonio Damasio
  • Descartes’ Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain
  • The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness
  • Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain

• Stephen Jay Gould
  • Bully for Brontosaurus
  • Dinosaur in a Haystack
  • The Lying Stones of Marrakech
  • Rocks of Ages

• Steven Pinker, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

• Jeremy W. Hayward, Perceiving Ordinary Magic: Science & Intuitive Wisdom

• Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

Fiction

• Kim Stanley Robinson
  • The Mars trilogy
  • The Years of Rice and Salt
  • The Science in the Capitol series
• William Gibson, the works

• Frank Herbert, the works, especially the six original Dune books
  [but not his son Brian, who inherited his daddy's notes but not his talent]

• Doris Lessing, the works, especially the Canopus in Argos series

• Neal Stephenson
  • Cryptonomicon
  • The Baroque Cycle
    • Quicksilver
    • The Confusion
    • The System of the World

• John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, the works
  [and kudos to his son Christopher, who inherited his daddy's notes and knew what to do with them]