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

Canfield, Jack; Hendricks, Gay

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061119962 ISBN 13: 9780061119965

Publisher: Harper Large Print, 2006

Synopsis

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. Bestselling authors and transformational speakers Jack Canfield and Gay Hendricks have invited notable people to share personal stories of books that changed their lives. What book shaped their outlook? Helped them in tough times? Spurred them to 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, Pat Williams, and more. This fascinating and inspiring collection is guaranteed to change your own life—and add many wonderful titles to your list of must-read books!

About this title

About the Author:

Jack Canfield, America's #1 Success Coach, is the cocreator of the Chicken Soup for the Soul® series, which includes forty 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.

From Publishers Weekly:

Canfield, the brains behind the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, and Hendricks (Conscious Living) stay in the inspirational mode with this collection of dozens of entertainers, sports personalities, businesspeople, writers, environmentalists and activists telling up-by-their-bootstraps stories involving books. Some, like Dave Barry (inspired by humorist Robert Benchley) and Lou Holtz (David Schwartz's The Magic of Thinking Big) are well known. Other are recognizable for the products they've created: Craigslist founder Craig Newmark praises The Cluetrain Manifesto, which mirrored his own early belief in the power of the Internet. Among the more memorable contributions is that of 21-year-old Farrah Gray, who spent his early childhood on public assistance, read Deepak Chopra's The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success at age 11 and made his first million at 14. Two contributors—motivational speaker Lisa Nichols and eBay COO Maynard Webb—cite Stephen Covey's best-selling The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. Covey himself was uplifted by heady reading—Holocaust survivor Victor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning and E.F. Schumacher's A Guide for the Perplexed—both books, he says, affecting everything from his parenting to his teaching. It's a mixed bag, more uplifting than literary, but readers may find the book that turns them on the way these contributors were. (Sept.).
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About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Large Print
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0061119962
• ISBN 13: 9780061119965
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 512