My Most Important Books

“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book”.— John Green, The Fault is in our Stars

So many books I have felt this way about at the time of reading. Standouts that come to mind:

"The Varieties of Religious Experience" (James)
"In Search of the Miraculous" (Ouspensky)
"The Passion of the Western Mind"(Tarnas)
"Trauma and Recovery" (Herman)
"The Duino Elegies" (Rilke)
"Thoughts Without a Thinker" (Epstein)
"When Things Fall Apart" (Chodron)
"Mystical Hope" (Bourgeault)
"Leaves of Grass" (Whitman)
"The Power of Now" (Tolle)
"The Pearl Beyond Price" (Almaas)
"The Dark Sun" (Marlan)
"Love in the Time of Cholera" (Marquez)
"Theory of Eternal Life" (Collin)
"Memories, Dreams and Reflections" (Jung)
"The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying" (Sogyal Rinpoche)
The Bible—Psalms, Song of Solomon and The Book of Job.