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this is getting way off-topic
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Oh, I see.
Hasn't it been a bit off-topic from the very beginning? How do you imagine an inspiring novel would help a persona in his forties? Is it just luck of inspiration or serious socialising problems that he suffers? I would ask at least for a book that helps find/understand/decide my place in this life/world, sort of teaches wisdom, not like you say inspires. A proper age for becoming wiser and getting along without inspiration.
As for
truly inspiring novels, I know one, Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Buch (just don't know whether it works with foggies (was meant "old fogies"...) or might be of any use for them). Or Martin
Eden (Thanks to Humble
) by London.