A few years ago, on a bumpy flight home to Nashville, I was struck by the thought: What happens if I don't make it home tonight? What would that mean to my then seven-year-old son? Beyond financial security, what would I most want him to have? It wasn't a bigger inheritance. It was a handful of books. Not “great” books in a literary sense — just the few books that genuinely challenged and changed how I saw the world, other people, and myself. Thankfully, I did make it home th