The Alchemist
Author: Coelho, Paulo

The Alchemist is the magical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy, who travels in search of a worldly treasure and in the process has a fateful encounter with the alchemist.

The Magus of Java
Author: Coelho, Paulo

This wonderful book is the story of John Chang, a Taoist immortal, told through the eyes of a disciple. Chang is a direct heir to an ancient lineage of sages called the Mo-Pai. Through the years of apprenticeship, Kosta Danaos has witnessed many of the siddhi arts, or divine powers such as levitation, telekinesis, telepathy, pyrokinesis, and visits to the afterlife. A great thing about this book, it isn't just about the psi arts, it gives scientific explanations for those events which, heretofore, are often not explained logically.

The Red Lion: The Elixir of Eternal Life
Author: Szepes, Maria

Maria Szepes-Orsi's The Red Lion, is a novel about a man's search for the Elixir of Life and was written during the fire and hell of World War II. After the war, it was published in Budapest but was soon banned by the government. Following decades of hibernation, like the Phoenix rising from its ashes it took on a new life. It was translated into German and, in 1984 became "Book of the Month" in Germany, then in 1985 it won fourth place in the prestigeous Fritz Lasswitz award as the most interesting foreign novel. That year it was republished in Hungary, and all 58,000 copies were sold within weeks.