Harvard Professors Danielle Allen, Arthur C. Brooks, Jerome Groopman, Nancy Koehn and Susanna Siegel were asked which books «left them transformed». Individual

Harvard 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.