A book enables you to think and rethink. You can practice conceptualization more deeply in a book than you can in any other medium. Reading will lead you to integrate your own personality at the highest and most abstract level of organization because you will be learning to think.
Great books observe people, particularly those that involve interesting and profound character transformations. After all, the greatest of books are not about ordinary people during ordinary times in their lives — such ordinariness is not useful since we already know how to be ordinary. Talented writers create stories that distill and aggregate; they omit everyday, common material but include much excitement. Fiction is, therefore, a distillation of compelling experiences.
The following list is one of books that attend to the distillation process, with a few nonfiction additions included as well. They are…
