This year I read twenty books that earned my coveted 5-star rating. Here, in no particular order, are the ten I feel were the best of those twenty.
1. In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and The Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build A Perfect Language: Arika Okrent [review]
2. Neither [...]

Best of Andrew Davidson, Arika Okrent, Best Books of 2009, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Joseph Campbell, Kent Nerburn, Matthew Fox, Sarah Vowell, Steve Hagen, Waziyatawin

Minneapolis’ own Steve Hagen wrote Buddhism Plain & Simple in 1997 to provide an overview of the religion that was free of “the fetters and cultural trappings that have accumulated over twenty-five centuries” (5).
Buddhism Plain & Simple did live up to its name. Throughout the book, Hagen made it evident that Buddhism is about [...]

MN Authors, Non-Fiction Spirituality, Steve Hagen