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

by Jack Canfield

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There's nothing better than a book you can't put down—or 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 Chicken Soup for the Soul® 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?

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—and planted the seeds that would help support his sobriety decades later.

Bestselling author and physician Bernie Siegel, M.D., tells how William Saroyan's The Human Comedy helped him realize that, in order to successfully treat his patients with life-threatening illnesses, "I had to help them live—not just prevent them from dying."

Actress Catherine Oxenberg reveals how, at a life crossroads and struggling with bulimia, a book taught her the transforming difference one person could make in the life of another—and why that person for her was Richard Burton.

Rafe Esquith, the award-winning teacher whose inner-city students have performed Shakespeare all over the world, recounts his deep self-doubt in the midst of his success—and how reading To Kill a Mockingbird strengthened him to continue teaching.

Beloved librarian and bestselling author Nancy Pearl writes how, at age ten, Robert Heinlein's science fiction book Space Cadet impressed on her the meaning of personal integrity and gave her a vision of world peace she'd never imagined possible. Two years later, she marched in her first civil rights demonstration and learned that there's always a way to make "a small contribution to intergalactic harmony."

If you're looking for insight and illumination—or simply for that next great book to read—You've Got to Read This Book! has treasures in store for you.

Synopsis:

Bestselling authors and transformational speakers Canfield and Hendricks invite notable people to share personal stories of books that have changed their lives. Contributors include Dave Barry, Stephen Covey, Malachy McCourt, and others.

Synopsis:

There's nothing better than a book you can't put down— or 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 Chicken Soup for the Soul® series, and self-actualization pioneer Gay Hendricks have invited notable people to share personal stories of books that changed their lives.

The contributors include Dave Barry, Stephen Covey, Rhonda Byrne, Malachy McCourt, Jacquelyn Mitchard, Mark Victor Hansen, John Gray, Christiane Northrup, Bernie Siegel, Craig Newmark, Michael E. Gerber, Lou Holtz, Pat Williams, and the authors themselves, to name just a few. If you're looking for insight and illumination— or for that next great book to read— You've GOT to Read This Book has treasures in store for you.

About the Author

Jack Canfield, America's Success Coach, is the cocreator of the Chicken Soup for the Soul® series, which includes 40 New York Times bestsellers, and coauthor with Gay Hendricks of You've GOT to Read This Book! An internationally renowned corporate trainer, keynote speaker, and popular radio and TV talk show guest, he lives in Santa Barbara, California.

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Laura Durbrow, August 2, 2009 (view all comments by Laura Durbrow)
Yes, You've GOT to read this book. Unfortunately, you've got to keep reading it until midnight, telling yourself that you're only going to read one more short chapter about how a book changed a life. Sadly, you will have to go out and buy this book many times to give to others to inspire them as it does you. Then, eventually, you will have to go buy all of the books that inspired the famous and successful people in these stories, because you've GOT to read those books too. Maybe you better NOT read this book.
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Deborah Fochler, August 22, 2007 (view all comments by Deborah Fochler)
This was given to me as a gift. Wow - was I shocked.
Celebrities tell which books have touched or changed their lives. The stories are wonderful, funny, sad, amazing, shocking and some a mixture of all these emotions and more. But, the best gift was the books -many of which I had not read. I made a list of them and have started reading them. They are all wonderful.
So, not only did I get a book to read now. I have a list of 55 to read in the future. A very welcome surprise and gift, for which I am extremely thankful.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780060891756
Subtitle:
55 People Tell the Story of the Book That Changed Their Life
Author:
Canfield, Jack
With:
Kline, Carol
Author:
Hendricks, Gay
Author:
by Jack Canfield and Gay Hendricks
Publisher:
Collins
Subject:
Inspiration & Personal Growth
Subject:
Personal Growth - General
Subject:
Motivational & Inspirational
Subject:
Books & Reading
Subject:
Motivational
Subject:
Books and reading
Subject:
Life change events
Publication Date:
September 2007
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
286
Dimensions:
9.00x6.10x.81 in. .93 lbs.

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