Many Lives Many Masters is the book that drew me in . I could not put it down and I even bought the audiobook. I bought an extra copy to lend others.
Personally, I would totally disregard a list that had Eben Alexander's Proof of Heaven on it. It was the top choice, too! In my opinion, it was a con job written by a much sued surgeon who needed a new day job, and thought he had found the perfect cash cow. Ian Stevenson's books tend to be quite dry, with the exception of European Cases of the Reincarnation Type, but certainly worth the time to read if you can stick with them. His predecessor Jim Tucker has written books that are much more readable. Brian Weiss' books are good, but he is totally into past life regression, which you said you did not want; and his last book, with his daughter, was too new-agey for me. I'll always see Carol Bowman's first book as being a classic, and definitely one of the best for childhood past life memories. She has an excellent bibliography, too. It's dated, but some of the older books on the topic are the best.
