Anonymous wrote:John Robbins - Diet for a New America

Twenty two years ago this completely changed the way I ate and I never went back.

John Robbins - Diet for a New America

The Road Less Traveled by M. Scott Peck.

First sentence: "Life is difficult." Such a simple truth that's not fully realized often until it's too late.

Black Swan
Immortality

People who are just listing the book, can you share how it changed your life or your views?

Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child by Gottman and Unconditional Parenting by Alfie Kohn. Unpacking my childhood raised by distant, authoritarian parents and realizing I could be different was incredibly freeing.

This sounds silly given the nonfiction recommendations here, but Maybe in Another Life by Taylor Jenkins Reid. It’s about a woman who makes a seemingly inconsequential decision and her life splits off into two very different scenarios (alternating chapters) based on what she does in that moment.

I think of it as philosophy disguised as contemporary fiction. I happened to read it several years ago before I made a big life decision that I was 50/50 on, and it gave me some peace.

Anonymous wrote:Being Mortal. It changed how I think we should deal with people who are nearing the end of our lives. It changed how I wrote my advance directive.

Loved this book. I will read anything Atul Gawande writes.

The Color of Money and the Color of Law

Such great suggestions here.

A Lesson Before Dying.

I cried for days.

Bible

The Psychology of Money - Morgan Housel.

Helped me to be stop the financial comparison's and relax about where I am in life. I'd consider this a DCUM must-read.

Mountains Beyond Mountains, Tracy Kidder's book about Paul Famer and Partners in Health.

Just mercy - Brian Stevenson

The power of New and The New Earth - Eckert Tolle (but I didn’t read a new earth I listened to a 7 part series he did explaining it)