Stephen Batchelor's Reading List

"One book I'd recommend is a book called Children of a Modest Star, subtitled Planetary Thinking for an Age of Crisis by Jonathan Blake and Niels Gilman, which is a wonderful reflection on how we need to imagine a form of governance that has executive authority beyond the nation…"

"Another book called Work Like a Monk by my friend Shokun Matsumoto... it's simple, it's down to earth and it's basically based around a hypothetical conversation between a business person living in the world and a priest living in a temple in Japan. It's really good."

"a book called The Second Body by an English uh woman novelist called Daisy Hildyard. It's an essay on what she calls the second body which is a highly imaginative way of understanding that our physical body... I found it was really really brilliant. I I read it a couple of times."