Here's my personal list of books that have most impacted my life or been the most influential upon it, in some cases they have given complete paradigm shifts regarding my outlook on subjects or relations with the world and with others, and in others formed the way I think, or even express myself. A few I can't say I continue to subscribe to (Urantia and Jayne's in particular), but that does nothing to lessen the impact they had on me at that particular time in my life when I first read them. Granted in my case there are no fiction works included, but that is just me, but should I provide two fiction authors they would be Herman Hesse and Aldous Huxley. I'd love to see others' lists, non-fiction or fiction, and feel free to include any commentary on your selections as you see fit even though I haven't taken the time to do so...yet. I truly look forward to seeing yours as, well,...I love books!
Tao Te Ching - Lao Tsu
Magic: Black and White - Franz Hartman
Cosmic Consciousness: A Study in the Evolution of the Human Mind - Richard Maurice Bucke
Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman
Essays, 1st and 2nd Series - Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Dhammapada – sayings of the Buddha
The Urantia Book
Mysticism: The Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousness - Evelyn Underhill
Commentaries on Living - Jiddu Krishnamurti
The Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind - Julian Jaynes
You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation - Deborah Tannen
Reason and Emotion In Psychotherapy - Albert Ellis
The Lost Light: An Interpretation of Ancient Scripture – Alvin Boyd Kuhn
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Edward Gibbon
The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion - James Frazer