Books can change lives.  Here, we've compiled a short list of inspirational books organized in categories below. 

Inspirational

• Just One Thing: Developing a Buddha Brain one simple practice at a time - Rick Hanson
• How Great People Turned Setbacks into Great Success - Laura Fitzgerald
• Heart of Fire - Lesia Stockall Cartelli
• Jacob The Baker - Noah Ben Shea

Life Skills

• The Slight Edge - Jeff Olson
• If Life is a Game, These are the Rules - Cherie Carter-Scott
• Being in Balance: 9 Principles for Creating Habits to Match Your Desires - Dr. Wayne Dyer
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People - Stephen Covey
• Living the Simple Life: A guide to scaling down and enjoying more - Elaine St. James (others: Simplify Your Life, Simplify Your Work Life)

Quick Reads

• The Last Lecture - Randy Pausch
• Learning to Dance in the Rain: The Power of Gratitude - Mac Anderson and BJ Gallager
• Don't Sweat the Small Stuff... and it's all small stuff - Richard Carlson

Fiction

• The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern
• Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
• Cutting for Stone - Abraham Verghese
• The Kin of Ata Are Waiting for You - Dorothy Bryant
• Dreams of Joy - Lisa See

Near Death, Dying, and Death

• Embraced by the Light - Betty Eadie
• Secrets of the Light: Lessons from Heaven - Dannion Brinkley
• Final Gifts: Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs, and Communication of the Dying - Maggie Callanan and Patricia Kelley
• Avalanche: Lessons of Love - Kris Ochoa-Keane and Stephanie Oddo
• The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven - Kevin and Alex Malarkey

RELIGIOUS

• The Greatest Salesman in the World - Og Mandino
• The Shack - Wm. Paul Young
• Joshua - Joseph Girzone (others: Joshua and the Children, Joshua in the Holy Land)
• The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom 
• A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
• Forever, Christian - Tina Traverse

Other

• Man's Search for Meaning - Victor Frankl
• Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
• The Prophet - Kahlil Gibran
• Illusions - Richard Bach (others: Jonathan Livingston Seagull, A Bridge Across Forever, One)
• Your Illustrated Guide to Becoming One with the Universe - Yumi Sakugawa
• A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose - Eckhart Tolle
• The Celestine Prophecy - James Redfield
• The Secret - Rhonda Byrne (others: The Magic, The Power)
• The Happiness Project - Gretchen Rubin
• Mind Over Medicine: Scientific Proof that you can Heal Yourself - Lissa Rankin, MD
• You Can Heal Your Life - Louise Hay
• The Alchemist - Paulo Coehlo
• October Snow - Jenna Brooks
• Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul - Jack Canfield
• A Guide to the Present Moment - Noah Elkrief