David C. Korten, Change the Story, Change the Future: A Living Economy for a Living Earth (Oakland, CA: Berrett-Koehler, 2015).
A visionary blueprint for a new way of thinking and living on earth for a flourishing future.

Thomas Berry, The Great Work: Our Way Into the Future (New York: Three Rivers Press, 1999).
A penetrating and visionary account of the enormity of the challenge and opportunity facing humanity in the future.

Fritjof Capra and Pier Luigi Luisi, The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014).
A comprehensive and deeply insightful review of the systems view of life and its social and philosophical implications.

Evan Thompson, Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007).
A profound and thoughtful investigation into the philosophical and spiritual implications of systems thinking.

Stuart Kauffman, At Home in the Universe: The Search for Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995).
A mathematically oriented exploration of the cosmological implications of complexity that is also highly accessible to a lay reader.

James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science (New York: Penguin, 1987).
A highly readable account of complexity, introducing the characters and concepts of this new way of understanding the world.

Brian Goodwin, How the Leopard Changed Its Spots: The Evolution of Complexity (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001).
A thoughtful review of how systems thinking transforms our understanding of biology.