Surprised By Joy, by C. S. Lewis

I believe that of all the C. S. Lewis books I've read--and I've read most--this is my favorite. I love his candor. I love his evolving sense of the divine. I love his passion for the literature and natural splendors that shaped his faith. Every conversion is idiosyncratic, and so particular to the individual that it cannot be shared in the broad sense. Yet, the path itself has characteristics that are recognizable by all who have tread it. We have all known the darkness of doubt. We have all suffered the humiliation of being different. We have all had glimpses of joy. Lewis' path is at once engagingly personal, and universally familiar.