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Books about Meditation

• The Mind Illuminated, Culadasa (John Yates)
• Meditation, the First and Last Freedom, Osho
• Foundations of Mindfulness, Eric Harrison
• The Science of Meditation, Goleman & Davidson
• The New Meditation Handbook, Kelsang Gyatso
• The Science of Enlightenment, Shinzen Young
• Beyond Mindfulness, Bhante Gunaratana

Books on Modern Spirituality

• A New Earth, Eckart Tolle
• The Power of Now, Eckart Tolle
• Letting Go, David Hawkins
• Stepping out of Self Deception, Rodney Smith
• A Path with Heart, Jack Kornfield
• A Course in Miracles, Helen Schucman
• Shambala, The Sacred Path of the Warrior, Chögyam Trungpa
• The Way of the Superior Man, David Deida
• The Way of the Shaman, Michael Harner
• Tales of Power, Carlos Castaneda
• The Kybalion, The Three Initiates
• Initiation into Hermetics, Franz Bardon
• Dreams of Awakening, Charlie Morley
• The Pearl Beyond Price, A.H. Almaas
• Diamond Heart, A.H. Almaas
• The Prophet, Khalil Gibran
• How to Love, Thich Nhat Hanh
• The Experience of No-Self, Bernadette Roberts
• Awake, It's Your Turn, Angelo Dilullo

Books on Neuroscience

• Mindsight, Daniel Siegel
• Mind Hacking, Sir John Hargrave
• Conscious, Annaka Harris
• Buddha's Brain, Rick Hanson
• The Brain's way of Healing, Norman Doidge
• 59 Seconds, think a little Change a Lot, Wiseman
• Thinking Fast and Slow, Kahneman
• The Tipping Point, Gladwell
• In an Unspoken Voice, Peter Levine

Classics of Eastern Spirituality

• Baghavad Gita
• Ashtavakra Gita
• Advahuta Gita
• Vasistha's Yoga, Rishi Vasistha
• The Upanishads
• Dao te Jing, Lao Tse
• The Yoga Sutras, Patanjali
• The Gift, Hafiz
• Zhuangzi, The Complete Works, Zhuangzi
• Asclepius, Hermes Trismegistus
• I Am That, Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
• The Path of Individual Liberation, Chogyam Trungpa
• The Collected Works of Ramana Maharshi
• The Tibetan Book of the Dead
• The Book of Balance and Harmony, Transl. Cleary
• The Ecstasy of Enlightenment, Transl. Cleary
• Secret of the Golden Flower, Transl. Cleary
• The Three Pillars of Zen, Philip Kapleau
• Master of Self Realization, Siddharameshwar Maharaj

Books on Yoga

• Autobiography of a Yogi, Parmahamsa Yogananda
• Raja Yoga, Swami Vivekananda
• Living with the Himalayan Masters, Sri Rama
• The Deeper Dimension of Yoga, Georg Feuerstein
• Inner Engineering, Sadguru
• The Path of Yoga, Osho
• The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep, Tenzin Wangyal Rimpoche
• Yoga of the Subtle Body, Tias Little

Books on Eastern Practices 

• The Tiger's Cave, Trevor Legget
• Zen Naikan, Leonardo Anfolsi Reiyo Ekai
• Martial Arts as Embodied Knowledge
• The Magus of Java, Danaos Kosta
• Internal Elixir Cultivation, James Coons
• T'ai Chi Ch'uan Ta Wen, Chen Wei-Ming
• Master Cheng's 13 Chapters on Tai Chi Chuan, Cheng Man-ch'ing
• Mind Over Mater, Shi Ming
• Kashmir Shaivism, Swami Lakshmanjoo
• Practicing the Great Perfection, Shecchen Gyaltsap Gyurme Pema Namgyal
• Rainbow Body and Resurecction, Francis Tiso

Books on Body Heatlh

• The Telomere Effect, Blackburn & Epel
• The Polyvagal Theory, Porges
• You are the Placebo, Joe Dispenza
• Clean, Junger & Greeven
• The Psilocybin Solution, Simon Powell
• Cure, Joe Marchant
• Advanced Buteyko, Artour Rakhimov
• A Comprehensive Guide to Daoist Neigong, Damo Mitchell
• Yang Family Seccret Transmisions, Douglas Wile

Books on Psychology and Mythicism

• Man's Search for Meaning, Victor Frankl
• The Art of Loving, Erich Fromm
• Psychology and Alchemy, Jung
• The Hero's Journey, Joseph Campbell
• The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Joseph Campbell
• King, Warrior, Magician, Lover, Gillette & Moore
• The laws of human Nature, Robert Greene
• Happy, Derren Brown
• The Structure of Magic, Bandler & Grinder
• A Life Worth Breathing, Max Strom
• Risking the Self, Diego Agullo
• The Doors of Perception, Aldous Huxley

Books on Self Improvement

• Mastery, George Leonard
• Claim Your Power, Mastin Kipp
• Personal Development for Smart People, Steve Pavlina
• High Performance Habits, Brendon Burchard
• Unbeatable Mind, Mark Divine
• Outliers, Gladwell
• Blink, Gladwell
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Steven Covey
• The Power of Habit, Charles Duigg
• Better than Before, Gretchen Rubin
• 12 Rules for Life, Jordan Peterson
• Power versus Force, Hawkins
• Levels of Energy, Dodson
• Stealing Fire, Kotler & Wheal
• Ego is the Enemy, Ryan Holiday
• The Silva Mind Control Method, Jose Silva
• The Code of the Extraordinary Mind, Vishen Lakhiani
• Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill
• The Power of your Subconscious Mind, Joseph Murphy
• Discipline Equals Freedom, Jocko Willink
• The Invisible Partners, John Sanford