Books where you gained lots of insight? Open to DMs?

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Can you list some books you gained a lot of insight from (or there were personal lessons you learned)? Maybe others have read those same books, and would love to discuss themes contained therein. Are you open to DMs over certain books' themes? How about exploring your favorite insights/personal lessons - these themes can be explored over DMs about specific mutually appreciated books. So it's like little mini book clubs over certain books, in DMs.

Note: I find it impossible to share the interesting things I find from the books I read, with NT people. When I ask what they're reading, it's the most banal tripe. I ask what insights did they gain? What lessons did they learn? They can't come up with anything. Can they at least summarize the main points made? No. Well what was the point of reading it? They know they liked it. That's the one thing they seem to know about what they read: that it was entertaining. And virtually nothing more.

For example, here are my favorites, I'd be willing to discuss in DMs:

Psychology:

• The Geography of Thought - Richard E Nesbitt
• The Village Effect - Susan Pinker
• Rule Makers, Rule Breakers - Michele Gelfand
• The Status Game - Wil Stor
• Folly of Fools - Robert Trivers

• Sapiens - Yuva Harari
• Enlightenment Now - Steven Pinker
• The Master and His Emissary - Iain McGilchrist
• The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins
• Cultish - Amanda Montell

• The Way of Chuang Tzu - translated by Thomas Merton
• Tao Te Ching - translated by Gia-Fu Feng & Jane English
• Zen Speaks - by Tsai Chih Chung (Author), Brian Bruya (Translator)

• The Mystique of Enlightenment - U.G. Krishnamurti
  

• Gem in the Lotus - Abraham Eraly
• Aesop's Fables
• "The Prince" - Machiavelli

• Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
• The Glass Bead Game - Hermann Heisse
• Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Richard Bach

• Man's Search for Meaning - Victor Frankl
• Infidel - Ayaan Hirsi Ali