You've Got to Read This Book!: 55 People Tell the Story of the Book That Changed

<p>There's nothing better than a book you can't put down&#8212or better yet, a book you'll never forget. This book puts the power of transformational reading into your hands. Jack Canfield, cocreator of the bestselling <em>Chicken Soup for the Soul</em>^(R) series, and self-actualization pioneer Gay Hendricks have invited notable people to share personal stories of books that changed their lives. What book shaped their outlook and habits? Helped them navigate rough seas? Spurred them to satisfaction and success? </p><p>The contributors include Dave Barry, Stephen Covey, Malachy McCourt, Jacquelyn Mitchard, Mark Victor Hansen, John Gray, Christiane Northrup, Bernie Siegel, Craig Newmark, Michael E. Gerber, Lou Holtz, and Pat Williams, to name just a few. Their richly varied stories are poignant, energizing, and entertaining.Author and actor Malachy McCourt tells how a tattered biography of Gandhi, stumbled on in his youth, offered a shining example of true humility&#8212and planted the seeds that would help support his sobriety decades later. </p><p>Bestselling author and physician Bernie Siegel, M.D., tells how William Saroyan's <em>The Human Comedy</em> helped him realize that, in order to successfully treat his patients with life-threatening illnesses, I had to help them live&#8212not just prevent them from dying.</p><p>Actress Catherine Oxenberg reveals how, at a life crossroads and struggling with bulimia, a book taught her the transforming difference one perso