Marko Gajšt … Bookshelf
For anyone who enjoys reading, having a digital bookshelf (if not a physical one) is a fantastic idea. Creating a simple journal of authors, titles, along with ratings and notes can prove incredibly helpful for personal reflection. It not only assists in identifying areas where one can expand their reading horizons but also serves as a guide to revisit favorite authors in the future.
Here is my digital library. I want to emphasize that I enjoy exploring a variety of topics and that some of the authors on this list might be considered controversial. While I have preferences for certain authors over others, reading a book does not imply that I endorse or agree with any of the author’s views, even those expressed in a book listed.
When I tell people that I like to read, they often ask if I have any recommendations. The books listed below would certainly qualify. For most of them, I think they came into my life at the right time; that’s something we shouldn’t overlook or underestimate. We need to allow books to find us at the right time.
There are many more books I could include in this list - books that are not bad and have certainly given me something - but the resulting list would be too long. So I’ve chosen the ones that had the biggest impact.
Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
“They were cosy and comfortable in their little house made of logs, with the snow drifted around it and the wind crying because it could not get in by the fire.”
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
“He had made himself believe that he was going to get well, which was really more than half the battle.”
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you.”
L’enfant qui jouait avec la lune (Otrok ki se je igral z luno) by Lucien-Aimé Duval
Awareness by Anthony De Mello
“All revelations, however divine, are never any more than a finger pointing to the moon. As we say in the East, “When the sage points to the moon, all the idiot sees is the finger.”
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
“When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And When his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.”
Izpovedi (Memoirs of a Madman, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Father Sergius, Master and Man and A Confession) by Lev Nikolaevič Tolstoj
“Can it be that I have not lived as one ought?” suddenly came into his head. “But how not so, when I’ve done everything as it should be done?”
Lost Connections by Johann Hari
“What if depression is, in fact, a form of grief—for our own lives not being as they should? What if it is a form of grief for the connections we have lost, yet still need?”
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
“The danger of an adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort.”
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
“Home is behind, the world ahead, and there are many paths to tread through shadows to the edge of night, until the stars are all alight.”
Dracula by Bram Stoker
“I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul.”
When Google Met Wikileaks by Julian Assange
“The last forty years have seen a huge proliferation of think tanks and political NGOs whose purpose, beneath all the verbiage, is to execute political agendas by proxy.”
How the World Works (What Uncle Sam Really Wants, The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many, Secrets, Lies and Democracy and The Common Good) by Noam Chomsky
“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum—even encourage the more critical and dissident views.”
The Fall of Western Man by Mark Collett
“Western civilization and all the achievements it encompasses once held the world in awe, yet despite this, the West is in the midst of a moral and social decline.”

War God
Nights of the Witch
Tracers in the Dark
The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency
The Pillars of the Earth

The Office BFFs
Tales of The Office from Two Best Friends Who Were There
The Angel of Darkness

Emma

Chaos
Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties
The Alienist

Pride and Prejudice

Doom Guy
Life in First Person
Childhood's End

Underworld
The Mysterious Origins of Civilization
Sid Meier's Memoir!
A Life in Computer Games
Visionary
The Mysterious Origins of Human Consciousness (The Definitive Edition of Supernatural)
The Hidden Life of Trees
What They Feel, How They Communicate―Discoveries from A Secret World
Permanent Record

The Great Alone

Eat, Pray, Love
One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India, and Indonesia
James Moriarty, Consulting Criminal

No One Goes Alone

The Devil in the White City
Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
The War on the West
How to Prevail in the Age of Unreason
Digital Minimalism
Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
Brian's Winter

A Movie Making Nerd

Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings
The Rise and Fall of Sierra On-Line
85 Days in Slavyansk

Dune

America Before
A new investigation into the ancient apocalypse
Masters of Doom
How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
Good Vibes, Good Life
How Self-Love Is the Key to Unlocking Your Greatness
Harassment Architecture

A Night to Remember

The Divine Spark
Psychedelics, Consciousness, and the Birth of Civilization
Origins of the Sphinx
Celestial Guardian of Pre-Pharaonic Civilization
A Christmas Carol

The Immortality Key
The Secret History of the Religion with No Name
Little Women

The Untethered Soul
The Journey Beyond Yourself
Titanic
Voices From the Disaster
Hatchet

Murder on the Orient Express

Speechless
Controlling Words, Controlling Minds
Crime and Punishment

Fingerprints of the Gods
The Quest Continues
Dracula

True Hallucinations
Being an Account of the Author's Extraordinary Adventures in the Devil's Paradise
Practical Typography

The Call of Cthulhu

Magicians of the Gods
The Forgotten Wisdom of Earth’s Lost Civilization
Entangled Life
How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures
Mi, živi
We the Living

Journey to the Center of the Earth

Nežna je noč
Tender Is the Night

The Art of War

Charlotte's Web

The Night Ocean

A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings

Born on the Fourth of July

Recovery
Freedom from Our Addictions
The Man in the Case

Psihomagija
Psicomagia

The Secret Garden

Skrivnosti aboridžinskega zdravljenja
Potovanje znanstvenika z oddaljenim avstralskim plemenomSecrets of Aboriginal Healing
A Physicist's Journey with a Remote Australian Tribe
Videnja, potovanja in polne sobe
Visions, Trips, and Crowded Rooms
Who and What You See Before You Die
Misli ob kuhinjski mizi
The Little Book of Kitchen Table Wisdom

I'm OK – You're OK

Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics
A 10% Happier How-to Book

Lost Connections
Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solutions
Inner Engineering
A Yogi's Guide to Joy
The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari

The Stranger


A Pocket Guide to CSS3 layout modules


You Can Heal Your Life

Animal Farm
Linux is Badass
Slightly More Badass Edition (2014)
Sum
Tales from the Afterlives
The Elements of Style

Making Sense of NoSQL
A Guide for Managers and the Rest of Us
How Not To Die
Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease
Zadnja pomlad

The Public Domain
Enclosing the Commons of the Mind
Cvetje v jeseni

Bajke in povesti o Gorjancih

The Four Agreements
A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
Seven Years in Tibet

The Magic of Believing

Karma
A Story of Buddhist Ethics
How the World Works
Contents
- What Uncle Sam Really Wants
- The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many
- Secrets, Lies and Democracy
- The Common Good

A New Earth
Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
Volja do smisla
Osnove in raba logoterapijeThe Will to Meaning

You Want to Do What with PHP?

Functional Programming in PHP
A Php[architect] Guide

The Art of Unix Programming

No More Mr. Nice Guy

A Martian Odyssey

The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem

Svetinova Metka

Men on Strike
Why Men Are Boycotting Marriage, Fatherhood, and the American Dream - and Why It Matters
Why Science Is Wrong...
About Almost Everything


I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream

On Western Terrorism
From Hiroshima to Drone Warfare
When Google Met Wikileaks


The Myth of Male Power

Vinska modrost

Life After Life

At the Mountains of Madness

Zgodba o nevidnem človeku
The Invisible Man

The Science Delusion

Opičja šapa
The Monkey's Paw

The Science Delusion
Asking the Big Questions in a Culture of Easy Answers

The Happy Prince and Other Stories
Contents
- The Happy Prince
- The Nightingale and the Rose
- The Selfish Giant
- The Devoted Friend
- The Remarkable Rocket
- The Young King
- The Birthday of the Infanta
- The Fisherman and His Soul
- The Star-Child

The Devil's Delusion
Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions
Modrosti za današnji čas
Wisdom for Our Times

Dokazi o obstoju reinkarnacije in karme

Into The Wild

Izpoved
Contents
- Zapiski blazneža (Memoirs of a Madman)
- Smrt Ivana Iljiča (The Death of Ivan Ilyich)
- Oče Sergij (Father Sergius)
- Gospodar in hlapec (Master and Man)
- Izpoved (A Confession)
- Commentary by Lev Shestov
Ne ubijaj slavca
To Kill a Mockingbird
Tao medveda Puja
The Tao of Pooh

Vojna svetov
The War of the Worlds

Časovni stroj
The Time Machine

Rokopis iz Akre
Manuscript Found in Accra

Ali androidi sanjajo električne ovce?
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451
Frančišek Asiški in Igra z rožicami

Krasni novi svet
Brave New World

Kaj verujem?
Was ich glaube

Človek je več
Osupljiva pripoved o raziskovanju sveta in sebe
C. G. Jung in Hermann Hesse
Spomin na dvoje prijateljstevC. G. Jung and Hermann Hesse
A Record of Two Friendships

Komunistični manifest
The Communist Manifesto

Baržunasti zajček ali kako igrače oživijo
The Velveteen Rabbit (or How Toys Become Real)


Ples v krogu
Starodavne skrivnosti sibirske modrostiEntering the Circle

Operater
The Projectionist

Demian
Zgodba o mladosti Emila SinclairjaDemian
The Story of Emil Sinclair's YouthCantervilski duh
The Canterville Ghost

By the River Piedra I sat down and wept

Polet v globine
Duhovna pustolovščinaRunning from Safety
An Adventure of the Spirit
Iluzije
Prigode upornega mesijeIllusions
The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
George Byron
Contents
- Text in English parallel to Slovene translation
- Introduction by Aleš Berger
- Life and Work of George G. Byron

Priročnik bojevnika luči
Manual of the Warrior of Light

The Pilgrimage
A Contemporary Quest for Ancient Wisdom
Like the Flowing River
Thoughts and Reflections

Mir vsem bitjem
Vegetarijanska juhica za kokošjo dušoPeace to all beings

Lepota in duša
Kako doživetje lepega spreminja naše življenjeBeauty and the Soul

Peta gora
The Fifth Mountain

Demon in gospodična Prym
The Devil and Miss Prym

Knjiga o sreči
Sreča je v vas samihLe Livre du Bonheur

Umetnost sanjanja
The Art of Dreaming

Zmagovalec je sam
The Winner Stands Alone

Valkire
The Valkyries
Intervju z vampirjem
Interview with the Vampire

Prebijanje skozi duhovni materializem
Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism

Veronika se odloči umreti
Veronika Decides to Die

Čarovnica iz Portobella
The Witch of Portobello


Thiaooubska prerokba
Thiaoouba Prophecy

Moč prijaznosti
Nepričakovane prednosti sočutnega življenjaThe Power of Kindness

Zdaj! Resnično tvoj je samo ta trenutek
The Power of Now

Vrata brez vrat
Koani in zenovske zgodbe
Kako poiskati notranji mir
Learn to find inner peace

Imeti ali biti
To Have or to Be?

Spomini, sanje, misli
Memories, Dreams, Reflections
Devachanska raven
Theosophical Manual Nº6
The Devachanic Plane
Enajst minut
Eleven Minutes
Človek in njegova telesa
Man and His Bodies

Samokultura v luči okultizma
Self-culture
The Problem of Self-discovery and Self-realization in the Light of Occultism
Karma

Vse, kar moram vedeti, sem se naučil v vrtcu
All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

Hoditi po vodi
Die Fesseln Lösen
Einübung in Erfülltes LebenAstralna raven
Astral Plane

Mogoče (mogoče ne)
Premisleki iz skrivnega življenjaMaybe (Maybe Not)

Spoznavanje višjega jaza
Antropološki eseji
Slačilnica zgodovine

Prebujanje v svetlobo
Egipčanska knjiga mrtvih
Na zdravje!
Kaj lahko za svoje zdravje storite sami
Raziskovanje sanj
Vaš osebni vodnikA practical guide to dreamwork
Indijanska duša
Duhovno življenje Indijancev pred prihodom belcevThe Soul of the Indian: An Interpretation

Egipčanska knjiga mrtvih: papirus Ani
Zapisano 240 let pred n. št.The Papirus of Ani
The Egyptian Book of Dead
Ključ k teozofiji
The Key to Theosophy
Med ničem in večnostjo ali Zemlja, nebo in moja malenkost

Boben nesmrtnosti: kratka zgodovina zena I
Tibetanska knjiga življenja in umiranja
The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
Citati

Besede iz srca
O miru, splošni odgovornosti, sočutju in budizmuContents
- Human approach to peace in the world
- The global community and the need for universal responsibility
- Compassion and the individual
- An outline of the buddism of Tibet.

Besede dalajlam
Duhovno sporočilo za danes in jutriParoles des Dalaï-Lamas
Parapsihologija
Parapsychology

Klic divjine
The Call of the Wild

O iskanju ljubezni ali Z biciklom okoli sveta
On Search for Love or Around the World by Bicycle

Otrok, ki se je igral z luno
L'enfant qui jouait avec la lune

Popolna sprostitev
Sproščanje napetosti, premagovanje stresa, osvobajanje jazaLearn to Relax
Easing Tension, Conquering Stress, Freeing the SelfPrerokov vrt
The Garden of The Prophet

Pomen naključij v vašem življenju
Synchronicity and you

Človek in njegovi simboli
Man and His Symbols

Zadnje predavanje
The Last Lecture
Povabilo
The Invitation

Alkimist
The Alchemist

Potovanje okoli sveta v 80 dneh
Around the World in Eighty Days

Kljub vsemu rečem življenju da
Contents
- Ein Psychologe erlebt das Konzentrationslager
- Logotherapy in a nutshell

Skrivna glasba
Hidden music
Divji vrt

Gospodar prstanov
Kraljeva vrnitev (3)The Lord of the Rings
The Return of the King
Gospodar prstanov
Stolpa (2)The Lord of the Rings
The Two Towers
Gospodar prstanov
Bratovščina prstana (1)The Lord of the Rings
The Fellowship of the Ring
Žabja molitev
Meditativne zgodbeThe Prayer of the Frog

Etika za novo tisočletje
Ethics for the New Millennium

Živimo, ljubimo in se učimo
Living, loving & learning

Sedem korakov do večnosti
Seven steps to eternity
Meditacija
Človekova popolnost v Božjem zadovoljstvuMeditation
Man-perfection in God-satisfaction
Manj je lahko več
Preprosto življenjeWords on a simple life

Preprosto življenje
Vodnik za več uživanja in manj skrbiLiving the simple life
Na drugi strani
Nova doživetja na pragu smrtiDeath's door

Znanilec
Contents
- The forerunner
- The wanderer

Pot do sreče
Razmišljanje o smislu življenjaHow to practice
The way to a meaningful life
Zlate misli o življenju in zavedanju

Alkimistovo potovanje
Star sistem za novo doboThe Alchemist's Journey

Z razsvetljenjem do življenja
Winning Through Enlightenment

Ste že slišali tistega o Platonu
Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar

Minuta modrosti
One Minute Wisdom

Pogovori

Domovanje duše
The Seat of the Soul
Dhammapada: pot resnice
Dhammapada

Minuta nesmisla
One Minute Nonsense

Zavedanje
Awareness

Misli o življenju in zavedanju

Jaz, Buda
Me, Buddha

Preživela z volkovi
Misha: A Mémoire of the Holocaust Years

Južno od meje, zahodno od sonca
South of the Border, West of the Sun

1984
Nineteen Eighty-Four

Ljubezen in duhovna rast
The Road Less Traveled

Pravljice: druga knjiga

Pravljice

100% zdravi
100% Health

Imenovali so jo Dvoje src
Mutant Message Down Under

Prerok
The Prophet

Jonatan Livingston Galeb
Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Pravljice
Contents
- Märchen
- Traumfährte

Potovanje duš
Journey of Souls
Veter, pesek in zvezde
Wind, Sand and Stars

Dušne zgodbe
Soul Stories


Bistvo sveta

Deseto spoznanje
The Tenth Insight
Holding the Vision
Celestinska prerokba
The Celestine Prophecy

12 preprostih skrivnosti do sreče
12 Simple Secrets of Happiness

Mali princ
The Little Prince

Da Vincijeva šifra
The Da Vinci Code


Škandal
Scandal

Poroka
The Wedding

Morilec brez obraza
Faceless Killers

Skrivnosti sveta
Mysterious World

Naučite se Macromedia Flash MX v 24 urah

Naučite se Macromedia Dreamweaver MX v 24 urah

Enciklopedija skrivnosti
The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Unsolved Mysteries

Uvod v programiranje v programskem okolju Delphi


Smrt na Nilu
Death on the Nile

Visual Basic za aplikacije

Hišica v veliki hosti
Little House in the Big Woods

Namestimo Linux
