You've got to read this book: 55 people tell the story of the book that changed their life

Jacquelyn Mitchard: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn / Betty Smith & Little Women / Louisa May Alcott --

Kenny Loggins: Siddhartha / Hermann Hesse & Autobiography of a Yogi / Paramahansa Yogananda --

Catherine Oxenberg: The Power of One / Bryce Courtenay --

Jim MacLaren: The Passion of the Western Mind: Understanding Ideas That Have Shaped Our World View / Richard Tarnas --

Wyland: The Silent World / Jacques Cousteau --

Lisa Nichols: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People / Stephen Covey --

Rafe Esquith: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Mark Twain & To Kill a Mockingbird / Harper Lee --

Chellie Campbell: When I Say No, I Feel Guilty / Manuel Smith --

Malachy McCourt: A History of India & a Mahatma Gandhi biography --

John St. Augustine: The Life and Teachings of the Masters of the Far East & Instant Replay: The Green Bay Diary of Jerry Kramer --

Sheryl Leach: The Power of Now / Eckhart Tolle --

Gay Hendricks: The Enchiridion (The Book of Life) / Epictetus --

Pierce O'Donnell: Profiles in Courage / John F. Kennedy --

Pat Williams: Veek, as in Wreck: The Chaotic Career of Baseball's Incorrigible Maverick / Bill Veeck --

Lou Holtz: The Magic of Thinking Big / David Schwartz --

Rudy Ruettiger: Psycho-Cybernetics / Maxwell Maltz --

Danny Edward Scott Casalenuovo: Chicken Soup for the Prisoner's Soul: 101 Stories to Open the Heart and Rekindle the Spirit of Hope, Healing and Forgiveness / Jack Canfield --

Farrah Gray: The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success / Deepak Chopra --

Louise Hay: The Game of Life and How to Play It / Florence Scovel Shinn --

Rhonda Byrne: The Science of Getting Rich / Wallace Wattles --

Mark Victor Hansen: Resurrection / Neville Goddard --

Michael E. Gerber: 100 Selected Poems by E.E. Cummings --

Tim Ferriss: How to make Millions with Your Ideas / Dan Kennedy & Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel / Rolf Potts --

Christiane Northrup, M.D.: Natives of Eternity / Flower Newhouse --

Doreen Virtue: Man's Search for Meaning / Viktor Frankl --

John Gray: The Science of Being and Art of Living / Maharishi Mahesh Yogi --

Philip Goldberg: Franny and Zooey / J.D. Salinger --

Bernie Siegel, M.D.: The Human Comedy / William Saroyan --

Dave Barry: Inside Benchley / Robert Benchley --

Sue Ellen Cooper: Space Trilogy ; The Great Divorce / C.S. Lewis --

EllynAnne Geisel: Gone with the Wind / Margaret Mitchell --

Earl Hamner: A History of Beekeeping, the King James version of the Bible, & The Time of Man / Elizabeth Madox Roberts --

Nancy Pearl: Space Cadet / Robert Heinlein --

Wally Amos: Love is Letting Go of Fear / Gerald Jampolsky --

Jack Canfield: Life After Life / Raymond Moody, M.D. --

Jim McCann: Scripts People Live / Claude Steiner (about Transactional Analysis, or how individuals interact) --

Larry Jones: Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret --

Debbie Macomber: various versions of The Bible --

Arielle Ford: Key to Yourself / Dr. Venice Bloodworth --

Michael Toms: The Creative Process / Brewster Ghiselin, ed. & Pleasures of Philosophy / Will Durant & Life of Johnson / James Boswell & A Guide to Rational Living / Albert Ellis --

Bob Young: Don Quixote --

Craig Newmark (of CraigsList): The Cluetrain Manifesto --

Kate Ludeman: Learning to Love Yourself / Gay Hendricks --

Amilya Antonetti: The Alchemist / Paulo Coelho --

Jim Guy: The Teachings of Buddha --

Gary Heavin: The Secret Kingdom / Pat Robertson --

Stephen Covey: Man's Search for Meaning / Viktor Frankl & A Guide for the Perplexed / E.F. Schumacher --

Maynard Webb: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People / Stephen Covey --

Marc Bekoff: Mutual Aid / Petr Kropotkin & On Aggression / Konrad Lorenz --

Max Edelman: Mein Kampf / Adolf Hitler --

Diane Wilson: The Hero with a Thousand Faces / Joseph Campbell --

Gary Erickson: The Legacy of Luna: The Story of a Tree, a Woman and the Struggle to Save the Redwoods / Julia Hill --

Mo Siegel: The Urantia Book (dinosaurs and Jesus all in one text, 2000+ pages) --

Doris Haddock (Granny D): Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words --

Lois Capps: The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time / Jeffrey Sachs.