2009 (24+)

• The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming, Masanobu Fukuoka (another prophet)
• Demian, Herman Hesse (a friend, re-read)
• The Lie, Alberto Moravia (brilliant)
• The little karoo, Pauline smith (distilled afrikaner)
• The painted bird, jerzy kosinsky
• Living afloat, Clare Allcard
• Head over heel, Chris Harrison (delightful)
• The Rubayat of Omar Khayam (finally, beautiful)
• The Outsider, A. Camus (re-read)
• Guide for the Perplexed , Schumacher
• Small is Beatifull , E.F. Schumacher (prophetic!)
• Catch-22 , Joseph Heller (brilliant, re-read)
• an ocean to cross, Liz & Pete Fordred
• Endless Sea, Amyr Klink
• Living to tell the tale, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• The Adventures of Serrafyn, L&L Pardey
• A world of my own, Robin Knox-Johnston
• Northwest Passage solo, David Scott Cowper
• Someone like you, Roald Dahl
• Typhoon, Conrad
• The Moment Of Astrology, Geoffrey Cornelius(re-read)
• Lila , Robert Pirsig(re-read & even better than before)
• The lonely sea and sky, Francis Chichester
• The illustrated longitude, Sobel & Andrews
• Secret life of bees, Sue Monk Kidd

2008 (9)

• Unbearable lightness of being, Milan Kundera (re-read, amazing)
• Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer
• the Sea, John Banville (very good middle part)
• Survive the Savage Sea, Dougal Robertson (intense)
• Blue Horizons, Beth Leonard
• Let my people go surfing, Yvon Chouinard
• David Copperfield , Charles Dickens
• Soul Stories, Gary Zukav
• The boat who wouldn't float, Farley Mowat (wonderful :)

2007 (25)

• Pacific Odyssey, Wendy Cornell
• The Quiet, Paul Wilson (merci, busy..)
• Dirk Gently's holistic detective agency, Douglas Adams
• The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid , Bill Bryson
• The kontiki expidition, Thor Heyerdahl (amaaazing)
• Offshore cruising encyclopedia, Dashews
• Island, Aldous Huxley (aaah)
• The Voyager's Handbook, Beth Leonard
• Offshore sailing, Bill Seifert & Spurr
• Sailing Alone around the world, Joshua Slocum
• Self-steering for sailing craft, JS letcher jr
• Skene's elements of yacht design, Dodd & Mead
• Fibreglass boats, Hugo du Plessis
• The complete motor yachtsman's manual, Loris Goring
• Start with a hull,Goring
• Yacht joinery and fitting, Mike Saunders
• Building your sailing cruser, Taylor
• From a bare hull, Maté
• [The sailing handbook. Fine yacht finishes, Butler & Butler. Smart DIY boat ideas, Bruce Bingham. The boatkeeper's project book, Bottomley. Glassfibre boat manual. Boat building techniques illustrated, R Bingham. etc...]
• Fitting out a fibreglass hull, Mike Collins
• Peter Heaton on sailing, Heaton
• Ocean voyaging, Parker
• Cruising rigs and Rigging, Ross Norgrove
• The ocean sailing yacht Handbook vol2, Donald Street
• The Zahir, Paolo Coelho (inspiring as always)

2006 (19+)

• Handbook of offshore cruising, Jim Howard
• One hand for yourself, one for the ship, Tristan Jones
• There be no dragons, Reese Palley (here the trouble intensified)
• The one straw revolution, Matsuo Fukuoda (started, beautiful practice)
• The I Ching, Richard Wilhelm (started)
• The yin yang chinese way of love, Charles Humana and Wang Wu
• Practical Astral projection, Yram (not finished)
• The way of the peaceful warrior, Dan Milliman
• Tantra Yoga - cybernetics of sex & love, Howard John Zitko
• Practical Yoga Psychology, Dr Rishi Vivekananda
• From Utopian Dreaming to Communal Reality, Bill Metcalf
• Towards the unknown, Osho
• Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul, Douglas Adams (delightfull and deliciously funny)
• Dreams, Suzie Holbeche (re-read, nice overview)
• Sex and the Spirit: Merging Heart and Soul in Love, John Selby
• Shantaram, Gregory Roberts (re-read)
• Five stages of the soul, Moody & Carrol (enlightenment overview 101 ;)
• The Runes of the earth, Stephen Donaldson (audiobook)
• The glassbead game, Herman Hesse (great)

2005 (27)

• Oh the things you can think, Dr suess (with Finn)
• The ultimate anti-career guide, Rick Jarrow (audiobook)
• July's people, Nadine Gordimer (good)
• Lolita, Vladimir Nabakof (audiobook, a masterpiece!)
• The Mastery of Love: A Practical Guide to the Art of Relationship, Miguel Ruiz (audiobook, powerful)
• The Tibetan book of living and dying, Sogyal Rinpoche (audiobook)
• His Dark Marterials Books I,II & III, Phillip Pullman (audiobook, thought provoking)
• A spy in the house of love, Anais Nin (very good)
• the smile at the foot of the ladder, Henry Miller
• Lord of the flies, William Golding
• An introduction to massage, Susan Mumford(busy..)
• Justine & The story of O, Guido Crepax (comic novel)
• Blankets, Craig Thompson (beautiful comic novel)
• Book of secrets, Deepak Chopra(excellent, secrets indeed)
• The Da Vinci code, Dan Brown
• 100 Strokes of the Brush Before Bed, Melissa P.
• Victory, Joseph Conrad(reread,close to my heart)
  Read this nice chapter or read these 3 chapters: 1 , 2 , 3 . It's Some of the best writing i have ever read:)
• Zen Poems, Manu Bazzano(editor)
• The Snow Leopard, Peter Matthiessen(re-read, in/on the roof of the world)
• Fantasia of/Physchoanalysis of the unconscious, DH Lawrence(re-read, far ahead of its time)
• Soul Mountain, Gao Xingjian
• The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women,Work,and Sexual Desire David Deida (needed this one,)
• Breakfast at Tiffany's, Truman Capote (good)
• The Girl who played Go, Shan sa
• Thus spake Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche(a masterpiece)
• Autobiography of a Yogi, Paramhansa Yogananda(extraordinary story)
• Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami

2004 (10)

• Shantaram, Gregory Roberts(a must read!!)
• Spanish shortstroies
• El don de Aguila, Carlos Casteneda
• The Lover, Marguerite Duras
• The Undiscovered Self, Carl Jung
• Pantaleón y las visitadoras, Mario Vargas Llosa(funny)
• Tales of Power, Carlos Castenada(very good)
• Veronica decide morir, Paulo Coelho
• Biografía de Che Guevara, ?
• Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower, William Blum(chilling eye opener)

2003 (16)

• Paula, Isabelle Allende(a must read. and i can read more advanced spanish!!)
• El Alchemista, Paolo Coelho
• The Book of illusions, Paul Auster
• Eleven Minutes, Paolo Coelho(brilliant)
• The life of Pi,Yann Martel
• A thousand and one nights(mesmerizing)
• To have and not have, Hemmingway
• Aunt Julia and the scriptwriter, Mario Vargas Llosa(lovely)
• The Perfumed Garden of the Shaykh Nefzawi(erotic)
• Journeys out of the body, Robert Monroe
• Dialogue with Death, Arthur Koestler
• El Principito, Antoine St Exupery
• The October country, Ray Bradbury(a master storyteller)
• The Constant Gardener, John Le Carre(intense)
• The Fight, Norman Mailer
• I know why the caged bird sings, Maya Angelou (amazing writer)

2002 (10)

• Juan Salvador Gaviota, R Bach(my first spanish book yihaa:)
• A Tale of Two cities, Charles Dickens
• In Cold Blood, Truman Capote (brilliant)
• Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stone, JK Rawling
• Nisa: The life and words of a !Kung woman, Marjorie Shostak(taught me a lot)
• Last Chance to see, Douglas Adams (very funny and true)
• A Philosophical Investigation, Philip Kerr
• Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernières(unfortunate ending)
• Message in a bottle, Nicholas Sparks
• Demian, Herman Hesse

2000-2002 (31+)

• Siddharta, Herman Hesse(thanks Lily:)
• Ancient Wisdom, Modern World, Dalai Lama
• The Moment Of Astrology, Geoffrey Cornelius(insightful)
• The Reflexive Universe, Arthur C Young(a genius)
• The Continuum Concept, Jean Liedloff(good ideas)
• Out of my mind, Richard Bach
• The Writer's voice, Dorian Haarhoff
• Memoirs of a geisha, ?
• Weaving the web, Tim Berners-Lee
• The Delta of Venus, Anais Nin
• Huckleberry Finn & Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain
• The Hitchikers' Guide to the galaxy Trilogy:), Douglas Adams
• Grace and Grit, ken wilber
• The poisonwood bible, Barbara Kingsolver
• Disgrace, J.M. Coetzee
• Transpersonal Development, Roberto Assagioli
• The Dilemma of psychology, L. LeShan
• The turning point, F. Capra
• Sex,Ecology,Spirituality:the spirit of evolution, Ken Wilber(opus magna)
• 1984, George Orwell(disturbing)
• Maps of the mind, C Hampden-turner
• Einstein's space and Van Gogh's sky, LeShan & Henry Margenau
• Organic Gardening, ?
• The Silva Mind Control method, Jose Silva
• The Medium, the mystic, and the Physicist, L. Leshan
• The Science of the Paranormal, Lawrence LeShan
• Peter Camenzind, Herman Hesse
• Introduction to Permaculture, Bill Molison
• The Wild Pendulum, I. Bentov
• Snakes of Souhtern Africa
• The Snow Leopard, Peter Matthiessen

1997-99 (64)

• Waiting for the barbarians, J.M. Coetzee
• Weep not child, Ngugi
• Fingerprints of the Gods, G. Hancock
• The Great gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
• A Moveable Feast, Hemmingway (what writing skill)
• The Old man and the sea, Hemmingway
• The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
• One hundred years of solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• The story of an african farm, Olive Schreiner(a masterpiece)
• The snows of Kilimanjaro, Hemmingway
• A Farewell to arms, Hemmingway
• Steppenwolf, Herman Hesse(in my top 5:)
• Yet being someone other, Lawrence vd Post
• Fantasia of the unconscious, DH Lawrence
• The optimum nutrition bible, P. Holford
• The Toa of Physics, F. Capra
• The tropic of capricorn, Henry Miller(a master)
• Embrace tiger return to mountain, Al Huang(magic)
• Hyperspace, M. Kaku
• Dreams, Suzie Holbeche
• Daisy Fay and the miracle man, Fanny Flag
• Snapshots from hell: the making of a MBA, Peter Robinson
• The wanderer, Herman Hesse
• Nausea, Satre
• With my soul among the lions, Garreth P.
• The Little Prince, Antione de Saint-Exupery(a wonder)
• The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostevsky(excellent)
• The Plague, Camus
• Dark side of the Sun, Terry Prachett
• You-Forever, Lopsang Rampa (Dec'97)
• Dr from Lhasa , Lopsang Rampa(true?)
• Relating, Liz Greene
• The Tao of Pooh & The Te of Piglet, (how simple the way)
• Attack of the Titans? , Terry Prachett?
• Ancient Body, Timeless mind, Deepak Chopra
• One , R. Bach
• Now zen , Charlotte Joko Beck(small little book says it all)
• Catch-22 , Joseph Heller
• Astrology,Psychology and the 4 Elements, S. Arroyo
• Astrology of Personality , Dane Rudhyar(the jung of astrology)
• Astrology:Science or Superstition , Eysenck
• The English Patient, Michael Ondaantje
• Monet:the artist speaks
• SuperNature , Lyall Watson?
• Discover Astral Projection , J. Brennen(i don't practise enough)
• The Madman , K. Gibran
• Like water for Chocolate(mmmmm!)
• Masai Dreaming , J. Cartwright
• Nothing by Chance , R. Bach(seems so)
• A Bend in the River , V.S. Naipol
• Charlie and the great glass elevator , R. Dahl
• The Outsider, A. Camus
• 54 Poems, e.e. cummings
• Running from Safety tapes, R. Bach & Leslie
• Biplane , R. Bach
• To kill a Mocking Bird , Harper Lee
• My Belief , Herman Hesse
• The Heart of the Hunter , Laurens v/d Post
• Broken Wings , K. Gibran
• The Impossible Journey , Maik Asher(across the sahara)
• Book of Laughter n Forgetting, M. Kundera
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being , Milan Kundera
• The Fire from within, Carlos Castenada
• The Last Wilderness , Nicholas Luard

1996 (22)

• Anna's Book , Fynn
• Candide, Voltiare
• KrishnaMurti: A Houndred Years , Evelyn Blau
• Loveletters, Kahlil Gibran(a masterpainter of words)
• Simba , Sangiro
• Galahad on Everest
• Heart of Darkness, Conrad
• Victory, Joseph Conrad(close to my heart)
  Read this nice chapter or read these 3 chapters: 1 , 2 , 3 . It's Some of the best writing i have ever read:)
• Life and Death of KrishnaMurti, Mary Luytens
• The Silent World , Jaques Coustau
• Wild Swans , Jung Chang(life's faces)
• Kry of the Kalahari, Mark and Delia Owens
• Guide for the Perplexed , Schumacher
• Small is Beatifull , E.F. Schumacher
• Narsiss & Goldmund , Herman Hesse
• Crossing the Shadow line, Andrew Eames
• The Celestine Prophecy, James Redfield
• Treasury of Kahlil Gibran
• Mister God this is Anna , Fynn
• Ecco Homo , Nietzche
• UH OH, Robert Fulgham
• I Dreamed of Africa, Kuki Gallman

1995 (8)

• The Drifters , James A. Michener
• Ghandiji, ?
• Build your own home, ?
• Love's Executioner and other tales of psychotherapy, Yalom(ditto)
• the man who mistook his wife for a hat, Oliver Sacks(manqifique)
• An Introduction to the history of psychology(great)
• Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Richard Bach
• Philosopy, Who needs it? , Ayn Rand

1994 (21+)

• Against Therapy, Jeffrey Masson
• African Silences, Peter Matthiesen
• Meeting Life, KrishnaMurti
• Zen & the art of Motorcycle Maintenance , Robert Pirsig(wow)
• Lila , Robert Pirsig
• Philosophy, the Basics , Nigel Warburton
• Hypnosis, A Gateway to better Health , Brian Roet
• Meeting Life, KrishnaMurti
• The Bridge Across Forever, R. Bach(dreams echo'd)
• Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostevsky
• Memories, Dreams n Reflections, Carl Jung(i've read it over and over)
• Illusions, R. Bach
• Personality theories: a comparitive analysis
• Perspectives on personality, Moller
• Atlas Shrugged, A. Rand
• Kim , Rudyard Kipling
• The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
• African Nights , Kuki Gallman
• Answer to Job, C. Jung(broke my shell of 'accepting belief')
• The Different Drum, M. Scott Peck
• Mountains of the moon, ?

1993 (9)

• Man's Search for Meaning, Victor Frankl
• A walk with a White Bushman, Laurens v/d Post
• Woman in the mists, Dian Fossey
• The Road less Travelled, M. Scott Peck
• Gorillas in the mist, ?
• Getting through to you, Alex Howard
• Your Erroneous Zones, D. Dyer
• Please Understand Me, Keirsey n Briggs
• Intro to Jung's Psychology, Anthony Storr

1992 (5?)

• Wordsmiths: an approach to short story study
• The Crucible, Arthur Miller(scary potential of narrowminded fear)
• Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
• Alexander the Great..
• Environmental science: sustaining the earth

1991 and back (48+)

• Origins Reconsidered, R. Leakey & R. Lewin
• On Becoming a Person, Carl Rogers
• The Art of Loving, Erich Fromm
• Jung and the story of our time, L. v/d Post
• Too Late the Phalarope, Allan Paton
• Why am i afraid to tell you who i am, John Powell
• Cry the Beloved Country, Allan Paton
• The Parsifal Mosaic, Robert Ludlum
• Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
• Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
• Chesapeake Bay, Michener
• Papillon, Henri Charriere
• Duncton Wood, W. Horwood
• What colour is your parachute, ?
• Lateral Thinking, Edward de Bono
• Thinking hats, Edward de Bono
• The power of one, B. Courteney?
• The World: an illustrated history
• Building Bridges not Walls(my life challenge)
• In God's Name/Church in Russia, David Yallop
• The Far Pavilions, MM Kaye
• Uit my Jong Dae, A. Schweitzer
• At work with Albert Schweitzer, L. Christensen
• India, Time/Life Books
• The Bible, various:)
• For the Brotherhood of Man, Kathryn Spink
• Clan of the Cave Bear series, J.M. Auel
• The Bourne Identity, Bourne Supremacy, Robert Ludlum
• Die Valskermbataljon , Heinz Konsalik
• Passage to India, E.M Forster
• 1st n 2nd Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Stephen Donaldson
• Mirror of her Dreams, A Man Rides through, Stephen Donaldson
• Dune series (7 books) , Frank Herbert
• My Life , Golda Meir
• Magician, Silverthorn, Darkness at Sethanon, Raymond Feist
• Evolution, Bone of Contention
• The Blind Watchmaker, Richard Dawkins
• The Day of the Jackal, Frederick Forsyth
• The Little Drummer Girl, John le Carre(unforgettable)
• Kane and Abel,First Among Equals, The Prodigal Daughter, Jeffrey Archer
• Albatross, The Defector, Evelyn Anthony

  1985-

Super movies

1984 (uk, Michael Radford)
Nobody knows  (japanese, d. Hirokazu Kore-eda)
 Down by law, Jim Jarmush
Punch drunk love, Paul Thomas Anderson (brilliant filmaking & acting) 
Samasara, Nalin Pan
The man without a past, Aki Kaurisamaki
Anything Else, Woody Allen
Lucia y el sexo, Julio medem(2001)
Vacas, Medem
La ardilla roja, Medem(93)
Amantes del circulo polar/Lovers of the arctic cirle, Medem
La fille sur le pont
Antonia's line/Memorias de Antonia(netherlands)
Leaving Las Vegas
Under the Sun(swedish)
The Fisher King
Requiem for a dream
Burnt by the sun(russian)
Jean de florette, Manon of the spring, Claude Berri
Cinema Paradiso, Giuseppe Tornatore
Before Sunrise/Sunset
The Matrix I
2001 space odysee, Kubrick & Clark
Shall we dance(japanese)
Frida(mexico)
The Color of Paradise(afghanistan)
Buena vista social club(cuba)
The Manchurian candidate(orignal version)
Dirty rotten scoundrels
Dune (movie)
The Crucible
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The English Patient
Eat, drink, man, woman(taiwan)
The lover/L'Amant, Jean-Jacques Annaud
Intimacy(british)
Il Postino(italian/british, Michael Radford)
Como agua para chocolate(mexican, d.Iñárritu)
Shadowlands, Richard Attenborough
Hable con Ella/talk to her, Almodovar
Todo sobre mi madre, Almodovar
Atame, Almodovar
Danzon(mexican?)
Amores perros(mexican)
Doctor Zhivago(british)
love and human remains
grand canyon
The Crying Game
The Mission
Salt on my skin ("he who loves with reason loves amiss")
In the Mood for Love, Wong Kar-Wai
Camille Claudel
Once were warriors
One flew over the cuckoo's nest
No country for old men
Lars and the real girl

To see list

the war photographer
once upon a time in the west
7 samurais
Mediteraneo
            

Music of the spheres

Leonard Cohen
Billy Holiday
Classical
John Lennon
Koos Du Plessis
Ali Farka Toure
Shakira
Lama Gyurme
Sade
Jennifer Warnes
Miles Davis
Ennio Morricone
Omara Portuondo
Queen
Sting
Cesaria Evora
Cat Stevens
Jamiroquai
Bob Marley
Nawang Khechog
Master Charles