Books are noted to be a Man’s best friend. Reading books is a valuable habit that one must practice enlightening one’s mind and soul. Books enhance the imaginative power of the reader and inculcate patience within. Reading gives you a broad knowledge of everything and everyone surrounding you. When you learn to empathize with the characters in a book, you learn to realize people in real life as well. With reading one can acquire knowledge in different areas like cultures, arts, history, regions, and much more. Reading books develops one’s personality in a better way. It can help you learn new words and improve your vocabulary. One can improve one’s own performance and way of thinking and become a better person in every aspect. However, when you read, you can learn about the experiences of someone from a totally different era, or within a different social class; experience another ethnicity, gender, sexuality. All of this helps you to empathize with others. Through this paper, I would like to present my views about some insightful books and how they helped me to overcome obstacles in my life. The outcome of book reading is obviously thought-provoking and food for the soul, which benefits the reader to transform his personality from ego-driven to soul-driven.