Of course, I can’t predict with any accuracy what book will change your life. But for what it’s worth, these twelve changed mine:
The Power of Myth, by Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers
We’ve had a Hundred Years of Psychotherapy and the World’s Getting Worse, by James Hillman and Michael Ventura
The Seven Storey Mountain, by Thomas Merton
My Life with the Saints, by James Martin, SJ
Waking Up, by Sam Harris
1Q84, by Haruki Murakami
The Sirens of Titan, by Kurt Vonnegut
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, by Robert Pirsig
The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho
Siddhartha, by Herman Hesse
Man’s Search for Meaning, by Victor Frankl
The Consolations of Philosophy, by Alain de Botton