Books That Have Changed My Life

Selections from Ralph Waldo Emerson, edited by Stephen Whicher.

• Walden, by Henry David Thoreau

• Hamlet, by William Shakespeare

• Inferno, by Dante

• Letters to a Young Poet, by Rainer Maria Rilke

• The Fire Next Time, by James Baldwin

• Collected Poems, by Wallace Stevens

• Habits of the Heart, by Robert Bellah, et al.

• David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens

• Moby Dick, by Herman Melville

• The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien

• The Enlightened Heart, edited by Stephen Mitchell

• Jazz Is, by Nat Hentoff

• Amusing Ourselves to Death, by Neil Postman

• A Gift from the Sea, by Anne Morrow Lindbergh