Non Fiction (toward personal growth and therapeutic experience):
- Telling Secrets, Frederick Buechner
- Hope and Dread in Psychoanalysis, Stephen A. Mitchell
- Every Day Gets a Little Closer, Dr. Irvin Yalom
- Mama and the Meaning of Life, Dr. Irvin Yalom
- The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Joseph Campbell
- The Road Less Traveled, M. Scott Peck
- Passionate Marriage, David Schnarch
- The Drama of the Gifted Child, Alice Miller
- I don’t want to talk about it, overcoming the secret legacy of male depression, Terrence Real
- Iron John, Robert Bly (classic text about male initiation)
- Here All Dwell Free: Stories to heal the wounded Feminine, Gertrude Mueller Nelson
- Pilgram at Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard
- The Forgotten Language, Erich Fromm
- I and Thou, Martin Buber (Walter Kaufmann Translation)
Important Fiction:
- A Soldier of the Great War, Mark Helprin
- The Brothers K, David James Duncan
- My Name is Asher Lev, Chaim Potok
- The Moviegoer, Walker Percy
- Love in the Ruins, Walker Percy
- The Power and the Glory, Graham Greene
- Godric, Frederick Buechner
- Every Thing that Rises Must Converge, Flannery O'Conner
- The Son of Laughter, Frederick Buechner
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