1. The Power of One, Eckhart Tolle
2. The Hours, Michael Cunningham
3. Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer
4. The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold
5. The Climb, G. Weston Dewalt
6. The Long Emergency, James Howard Kunstler
7. A Beautiful Mind, Sylvia Nasar
8. The Prince of Tides, Pat Conroy
9. Into The Wild, Jon Krakauer
10. Reading the Bible Again for the First Time: Taking the Bible
Seriously But Not Literally, Marcus J. Borg.
Runners Up: The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell
The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown (loses a possible place on the top 10 for making plausible but unlikely claims)
The Astonishing Hypothesis, by Francis Crick
It's Not About the Bike, Every Second Counts, both by Lance Armstrong.
The Day of the Jackal, by Frederick Forsyth
On The Beach, Nevil Shute
The Beach, Alex Garland
The Return of the King, JRR Tolkien
Generation X, Douglas Coupland
Read long ago but not forgotten:
Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis
The Road Less Travelled, M. Scott Peck
7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen R. Covey
Prescribed books that I loved:
- War of the Worlds, Orson Welles
- Day of the Triffids, John Wyndham
- Wuthering Heights, Charlotte Bronte
- The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
- The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway
- My Family and other Animals, Gerald Durrell
- The Lord of the Flies, William Goldsmith
Suggest your favorite contemporary books.
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