100 Must-Read Life-Changing Books (Bloomsbury Good Reading Guides)

100 Must-read Life-Changing Books by Nick Rennison Novels which transform our ideas about human possibilities, biographies which celebrate the achievements of extraordinary individuals, polemical works of non-fiction which oblige us to alter our views of the world or of human society: all of us can remember reading at least one book which made us think about the world anew. Here, the author of the popular Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide , selects the very best books which may or may not have changed the world, but which have certainly changed the lives of thousands of people who have read them. Some examples of titles included: Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - a poignant recording of the author's triumph over the obstacles of being black and poor in a racist society. Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist. Santiago's meeting with the alchemist opens his eyes to the true values of life, love and suffering The Diary of Anne Frank Half a century later the story of a teenager coming to maturity in the most terrible of circumstances remains profoundly moving. Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet Gibran's poetic essays reveal his thoughts on everything in life from love and marriage to the enigmas of birth and death. Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Pirsig's narrator creates a philosophical masterpiece that has the power to change lives. Title page......Page 2 Copyright......Page 3 Contents......Page 4 About this book......Page 5 Introduction......Page 7 A-Z list of entries by author......Page 11 Isabel Allende......Page 14 Maya Angelou......Page 15 Margaret Atwood......Page 17 Marcus Aurelius......Page 18 Richard Bach......Page 20 Frances Hodgson Burnett......Page 21 Joseph Campbell......Page 23 Albert Camus......Page 24 Fritjof Capra......Page 26 Rachel Carson......Page 28 Carlos Castaneda......Page 29 Jung Chang......Page 31 Paolo Coelho......Page 33 Charles Darwin......Page 34 Richard Dawkins......Page 35 Simone De Beauvoir......Page 37 Jared Diamond......Page 38 Philip K. Dick......Page 40 Frederick Douglass......Page 41 Sebastian Faulks......Page 43 Anne Frank......Page 45 Victor Frankl......Page 46 Sigmund Freud......Page 47 Erich Fromm......Page 49 Jostein Gaarder......Page 50 Mohandas K. Gandhi......Page 52 Kahlil Gibran......Page 54 Jean Giono......Page 55 Malcolm Gladwell......Page 56 Daniel Goleman......Page 58 Germaine Greer......Page 60 G.I. Gurdjieff......Page 62 Alex Haley......Page 63 Stephen Hawking......Page 64 Joseph Heller......Page 66 Eugen Herrigel......Page 67 Hermann Hesse......Page 68 S.E. Hinton......Page 70 Douglas Hofstadter......Page 71 Aldous Huxley......Page 72 William James......Page 74 C.G. Jung......Page 76 Helen Keller......Page 77 Jack Kerouac......Page 79 Ken Kesey......Page 80 Martin Luther King......Page 81 Barbara Kingsolver......Page 83 Naomi Klein......Page 84 J. Krishnamurti......Page 85 Milan Kundera......Page 87 Dalai Lama......Page 88 Harper Lee......Page 90 Doris Lessing......Page 91 Primo Levi......Page 93 C.S. Lewis......Page 94 James Lovelock......Page 95 Malcolm X......Page 97 Nelson Mandela......Page 99 Nadezhda Mandelstam......Page 100 Gabriel Garcia Marquez......Page 101 Yann Martel......Page 103 Anne Michaels......Page 104 Alice Miller......Page 105 Dan Millman......Page 107 Toni Morrison......Page 109 Friedrich Nietzsche......Page 111 Michael Ondaatje......Page 112 Boris Pasternak......Page 113 M. Scott Peck......Page 115 Steven Pinker......Page 116 Robert M. Pirsig......Page 117 Sylvia Plath......Page 119 Annie Proulx......Page 120 James Redfield......Page 121 Luke Rhinehart......Page 123 Sogyal Rinpoche......Page 124 J.K. Rowling......Page 126 Antoine De Saint Exupéry......Page 128 J.D. Salinger......Page 129 Eric Schlosser......Page 130 E.F. Schumacher......Page 132 Ernest Shackleton......Page 133 Carol Shields......Page 135 Peter Singer......Page 137 Alexander Solzhenitsyn......Page 138 Art Spiegelman......Page 140 Henry David Thoreau......Page 141 J.R.R. Tolkien......Page 143 Leo Tolstoy......Page 144 Lao Tzu......Page 145 Sun Tzu......Page 147 Kurt Vonnegut......Page 149 Alice Walker......Page 150 Edmund White......Page 151 Elie Wiesel......Page 153 Jeanette Winterson......Page 155 Naomi Wolf......Page 156 Virginia Woolf......Page 157 Paramahansa Yogananda......Page 159 Gary Zukav......Page 160 We can all recall at least one book which made us see the world anew. Here, the author of the popular 'Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide' selects the very best books which may or may not have changed the world, but which have certainly changed the lives of thousands of people who have read them