Books Bucket List

Read the Torah, the central religious text of Judaism consisting of the first five books of the Hebrew Bible

Read the Bhagavad Gita, a 700-verse Hindu scripture that is part of the Mahabharata epic

Major Kusanagi and Section 9 in Shirow's dense cyberpunk pages, with footnotes.

Neo-Tokyo, biker gangs and a psychic child; Otomo's six volumes the film only sketched.

Read the Tao Te Ching, an ancient Chinese text of Taoist philosophy

Read the Upanishads, ancient Sanskrit texts that form the philosophical foundation of Hinduism

Read Solaris, a classic science fiction novel by Stanisław Lem exploring themes of human psychology and alien contact

Explore magical realism by Gabriel García Márquez

A book with something real hidden behind it - Kit Williams buried a golden hare and painted the directions into Masquerade; people are still digging for later ones.

Cover to cover, not the two you do on a train: a book of nonograms, sudoku, kakuro or logic grids, finished to the last page.

An escape room you can do at the kitchen table: riddles that unlock the next page, and an answer key you are not supposed to open. Journal 29 and the EXIT books are the usual way in.

A red star approaches the Disc and Rincewind is the only one who can read the spell.

Rincewind guides the Disc's first tourist; the world arrives on the back of four elephants and a turtle.

A robot boy built by a grieving scientist; Tezuka, the god of manga, from 1952.

Guts, the Band of the Hawk and the Eclipse; Miura's dark fantasy, unfinished at his death.

A disgraced executioner pushes his son across Edo Japan in a cart of hidden blades.

Miyazaki's seven-volume manga of the toxic jungle and the princess who understands it; darker than the film.

A boy in Hiroshima on 6 August 1945, drawn by a survivor; the manga on the bomb.

Eckhart Tolle on the present moment and the voice in your head.

Kiyosaki's two fathers and assets versus liabilities; the personal finance book most people started with.

Begin with the end in mind; Covey's character-based self-help.

Allen's system of inboxes, next actions and weekly reviews; the productivity book.

Cal Newport on concentration as the skill of the century.