It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it ~ Oscar Wilde
Reading gives you the tools to ask the important questions, find your passion, and strengthen your ability to connect with others and the world. Here is a list of some books I have found enlightening and influential in my life:
- What is the What – Dave Eggers
- A New Earth – Eckhart Tolle
- The Drama of the Gifted Child – Alice Miller
- Peace Tales – Margaret Read MacDonald
- Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community – Martin Luther King Jr.
- The Socrates Express – Eric Weiner
- The Geography of Bliss – Eric Weiner
- The Five People You Meet in Heaven – Mitch Albom
- The First Phone Call from Heaven – Mitch Albom
- The Next Person You Meet in Heaven – Mitch Albom
- For One More Day – Mitch Albom
- Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
- Walking to Listen – Andrew Forsthoefel
- The Art of Happiness – His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Howard C. Cutler
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck – Mark Manson
- Everything is F*ucked – Mark Manson
- Meditations – Marcus Aurelius
- Tao Te Ching – Lao Tzu
- Factfulness – Anna Rosling Rönnlund, Hans Rosling, and Ola Rosling
- A Lesson Before Dying – Ernest J. Gaines
- The Tao of Leadership – John Heider
- Just Mercy – Bryan Stevenson
- Tattoos on the Heart – Fr. Greg Boyle
- The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho
- The Soul of a Butterfly – Muhammad Ali
- I Know This Much is True – Wally Lamb
- Couldn’t Keep it to Myself – Wally Lamb and the Women of York Correctional Institution
- Straw Dogs – John Gray
- The New Jim Crow – Michelle Alexander
- Humankind – Rutger Bregman
- Sapiens – Yuval Noah Harari
- 21 Lessons for the 21st Century – Yuval Noah Harari
- Blessed Unrest – Paul Hawken
- Being Mortal – Atul Gawande
- Other Minds – Peter Godfrey-Smith
- Siddhartha – Herman Hesse
- Bill Moyers Journal: The Conversation Continues – Bill Moyers
Also, feel free to check out my book “If Only We Knew” by following this link: https://www.ifonlyweknewbook.com