Not a spiritual book, but when I was a kid, I read Heidi, and it transported me alright. Never read it again, and don’t even remember details of the story, but it moved me profoundly, and the memory of it still stirs me. 
Might be some association
The little Prince had an effect too.
Energy medicine by Donna Eden
The Field by Lynne McTaggart
Great question Meg. The standout book for me is definitely Autobiography of a Yogi. The amount of pure love within these pages is something I have yet to experience any other writing even come close to, and my life hasn’t been the same since my first time reading it.
A few others which really did it for me are:
Be Here Now - Ram Dass
Autobiography of a Spiritually Incorrect Mystic - Osho
The Bhagavad Gita
-Brett
Meg,
Have you seen this website? This gives calibrations for different types of media like music, books, movies. http://www.cmmdb.com
-Hunter
“Copied from my topic ‘I am That’ by Nisargadatta Maharaj under books, tapes and scriptures”
Just wanted to write a little bit about my experience with this book. I recently came across this title and picked it up in my local library in Dallas. I should say that the Q&A with Nisargadatta Maharaj had a profound effect on me. I was spell bound by some of the answers that he provided to the questions. His insight into the advaita philosophy cuts through layers of misconception like a sharp knife. And best of all there is no preaching or any other requirement to follow any tradition. And Nisargadatta does not claim of any super natural powers etc. and there is absolutely no mythologizing. I found that some of his answers reflected the same approach advocated by Ramana Maharishi in finding who we are. Nisargadata says that we should always stay with the feeling “I am”. I can not but wonder the significance of the mantra given in AYP “I AM” and the correlation that it has with Nisargadatta’s teaching.
Make sure to check out the reviews of this book in Amazon.com, (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/customer-reviews/0893860220/ref=cm_cr_dp_pt/105-3333229-3150826?ie=UTF8&n=283155&s=books). Some folks have written very good reviews for this book. And after reading the book, I feel that their opinions are not exaggerated at all. In my opinion this is a “must read” for people in the path of enlightenment.
I would also like to hear about the comments of other people in this forum who have read this book.
Currently
Easy Lessons for Ecstatic Living, by Yogani
The Alchemist, by Paulo Cuelho (sp?)
The Prophet, by Kahlil Gibran,
and
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? By Phillip K. Dick
I’ll check out Nisargadatta. I’m reading ‘Emptiness Dancing’ by Adyashanti. It has forever changed my understanding of enlightenment. I highly recommend his books to anyone who appreciates the clarity and no-nonsense approach of Yogani’s Enlightenment Series.
“Enlightenment is nothing more than the complete absence of resistance to what is. End of story.” -Adyashanti
I have been reading a book Real Love by Greg Baer… He and Katie seem to believe in the same thing… “When you argue with reality, you lose 100 percent of the time”.
Well, as many here already know I am a huge Katie fan (Byron Katie, “Loving what is”… for those not familiar with it… there is a nice summary here)… when there is a situation that could use some self inquiry… ask 4 questions and turn it around… Has been working great for me… What this book (Real Love) has helped me with, is to see my own getting/protecting behaviour. Once you learn to see your own unconscious reactions to situations… it’s almost like you can smile at it and let it dissolve… and once this happens… it is so much easier to “turn it around” (as we at the forum say…Katie it :)…) … its amazing… The more I can see my mind patterns … the more I see myself being freed from it…
This is Greg Baer’s website http://www.reallove.com/ and his blogs http://www.reallovecoaching.net/blog/greg/
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. I started reading The Hobbit last year and the creative humor quickly got me interested in the series. I love the author´s lively descriptions of the land of Middle Earth. It makes me feel right at home 
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I just finished Secrets of Wilder and I am currently reading Samyama by Yogani.
Both are great. I like the former because it talks more about the AYPs from the view point of someone who is practicing them and experiencing the results. I picked up some very helpful practice insights from it. I like the latter because it makes more clear some things about manifesting positive changes in daily life.
Also, I am reading The Path of Fire and Light by Swami Rama. The subtitle says it all:
Advanced Practices of Yoga. Lots of good info on subtle breathing.
One other: Raja Yoga by Selvarajan Yesudian and Elisabeth Haich. A great book, formerly entitled Yoga, Uniting East and West which explains Raja Yoga (steps 5-8 in particular) from both an eastern and western point of view. In fact, it teaches Yoga from a new testament perspective and Christianity from a yogic perspective. Pretty neat.
Byron Katie’s newwest book written with stephen mitchell is really really amazing!
“A Thousand Names For Joy” 
Nearly finished with “The Second Coming of Christ: The resurrection of the Christ Within You” A revelatory commentary on the original teachings of Jesus.
I’m reading “Journey of Souls” by Michael Newton, since a friend insisted that I read it and even got me the book.
Here’s the thing, I never believed in reincarnation and I’m starting to question my beliefs from some of the case studies I’ve read.
VIL
Have been reading an awesome book…
Witch of Portobello by Paulo Coelho
If you’d like to sample the book… you can read the first few chapters here…
http://en.paulocoelhoblog.com/witch-of-portobello/
Wow, that’s quite the undertaking; that 2 volume work is massive!
Recently finished:
Life After Death: The Burden of Proof by Deepak Chopra
Shogun by James Clavell (not spiritual but a fantastic story)
Currently Reading:
Divine Mercy by Sister Faustina
The Essence of the Bhagavad Gita by Swami Kriyananda
I am reading I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta by Nisargadatta Maharaj (Author), Sudhaker S. Dikshit (Editor), Maurice Frydman (Translator).
Also, I am reading Stories of Indian Saints: Translation of Mahipati’s Bhakta-Vijaya, a reprint of the edition published in Poona in 1933.
The Celestine Prophecy, by James Redfield.
Fiction, and his first work, from the reading of it. But I would recommend it.
(1) I read ‘The Tibetan book of Living and Dying’ by Sogyal Rinpoche few years back. It had profound spiritual effect on me. I dropped eating meat since then. May be its a coincidence, dont’t know. But its a very good book.
(2) I recently read ‘The Power of Now’ by Eckhart Tolle. Its a great book. I think I need to keep reading it again and again to practice the ‘Now’ on a regular basis. It was a great inspiration to me.
(3) Currently, I am reading ‘Finding Forgiveness’ by EILEEN R.BORRIS-DUNCHUNSTANG,ED.D.
Its a good book if you want to let go off suffering in your life.
Shanti,
I love that book of Coelho ! Actually I love all his books, but that one in special is a very good one.
Sat Nam
Neli
Finished reading “the spiritual brain”, a neuroscientists case for the existence of the soul. he takes on the likes of Richard Dawkins etc.
Really into the radhasoami sant mat kind of books at the moment. Kirpal Singh etc. Decent info here.
Mainly just the usual stuff - Yogananda, Vivekananda, Ennio Nimis.
The Autobiography of Hamid Bey “My experiences preceeding 5,000 burials”. Some interesting stuff in there. Mainly that of self-induced catalepsy by pressing on the carotid arteries in the neck and doing kechari mudra after lowering his heart rate. A fast for a whole day beforehand gets rid of toxins in the blood which helps the metabolism slow down. Once in trance the heart rate goes down to 4 bpm and respiration stops. He says it is vital to block air coming in otherwise death can result. In other words, don’t try this at home!
Someone that knew Hamid Bey told me he once went for a burial for a whole week in duration. I have a photograph of it.
When Bey is in self-induced samadhi he is unconscious except he sometimes has OBEs and other psychic experiences.