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Maybe th[ese] book[s] will change your life (2022)
- mdp2021 3y agoHarvard Professors Danielle Allen, Arthur C. Brooks, Jerome Groopman, Nancy Koehn and Susanna Siegel were asked which books «left them transformed». Individual responses included: -- The Bible -- Aristotle - Nicomachean Ethics; Politics; Rhetoric -- Ralph Ellison - Invisible Man -- Eugen Herrigel - Zen in the Art of Archery -- The Way of a Pilgrim -- Pirkei Avot (transl. "Ethics of Our Fathers" or "Fundamental Principles") -- Lev Tolstoy - The Death of Ivan Ilyich -- George Eliot - Middlemarch -- Roland Huntford - Shackleton -- Paul M. Angle (editor) - The Lincoln Reader -- Eckhart Tolle - The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment -- Plato - Republic -- Thomas Mann - Confessions of Felix Krull Justifications for the picks are present in the article.