Sometimes a book, or even just a line, chapter or passage within a book can stick with us long after we’ve read its final page. We asked some of our favorite community members to tell us about a book that’s had a meaningful impact on them.

Katie Felber | Producer / Director / Healer

A book I read recently that has had an immense impact on my day-to-day life as a person in the creative arts is “Inner Engineering: A Yogi’s Guide to Joy,” by the one and only Sadhguru. Although I was brought up culturally Jewish, I’ve always found myself drawn towards Eastern modalities of thinking. Read more>> 

Lily Furniss | Visual Artist

I read and watched Watership Down, and it has a big impact on my current body of digital artworks. Not only is it this great cautionary tale of the negative role human development has on the environment, but I think the choice of having rabbits be the protagonists is very interesting. Read more>>  

Joshua Castro | Author, Poet, Lyricist, Musical Entertainer

The Great Gatsby. This Side of Paradise. The Beautiful & Damned. Pretty much anything by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It inducted me into the Jazz Age and really enthralled me. I love almost everything having to do with the Roaring Twenties. Particularly the fashions and dances but especially the music and comedy. Read more>>

Stephanie Galvez | Writer, Cancer Survivor/Advocate, Spartan Racer, Latina Small Business Owner, Business Consultant, Cohost and Producer

A book that changed my life is The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz, a 160-page Toltec practical guide to personal freedom. I added the page number for my non-avid readers, it’s a quick read. The author writes how following four agreements can help transform your mind and give you that “heaven on earth” mindset. Read more>>