books that have changed your life

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  • SkateboardFi
    SkateboardFi Posts: 1,322 Member
    Rumble Fish by S.E. Hinton, having grown up in a broken home and violence this range true to me as a kid and was the first book I read cover to cover.

    Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, Opened the world of Sci-Fi to me.


    that sounds interesting, and yessss i read brave new world. GREAT great book!
  • SkateboardFi
    SkateboardFi Posts: 1,322 Member
    The Catcher In The Rye

    yes, i read that book last summer, couldn't put it down!
  • littleleisha
    littleleisha Posts: 98 Member
    The Harry Potter series by JK Rowling...may sound childish but those books got me through a really rough time in my young teen years...and I continue to enjoy reading them to this day :)
  • liftingbro
    liftingbro Posts: 2,029 Member
    The Harry Potter series by JK Rowling...may sound childish but those books got me through a really rough time in my young teen years...and I continue to enjoy reading them to this day :)

    Jeeez, now I feel really old. Harry Potter books in your teens!
  • TDGee
    TDGee Posts: 2,209 Member
    Green Eggs and Ham.
  • taldie01
    taldie01 Posts: 378
    Ok well it didnt change my life per say but loved

    The English Patient

    Rum Diaries Hunter S Thompson

    The Sun Also Rises Hemmingway

    Not Wanted on the Voyage
  • Ajontheguitar
    Ajontheguitar Posts: 695
    The House of God- Samuel Shem

    A lot of medicine, but a perfect satire on the world. It's a great book.
  • MissO﹠A
    MissO﹠A Posts: 906 Member
    Divina Commedia - Dante Alighieri
    Aesop's Fables

    Two plays, but still influential...
    Inherit the Wind - Jerome Lawrence & Robert Edwin Lee
    Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller
  • jtsmou
    jtsmou Posts: 503 Member
    The Story of O
    The Poor Mans James Bond
    The Complete Books Of Knots
    The kama Sutra
    Atlas of Human Anatomy
    The Tao of Jeet Kune Do
    The Catalog Of Cruelty: An Illustrated Collection Of Ancient Restraints And Medieval Instruments Of Torture And Execution
    KUBARK Counterintelligence Interrogation
    The Little Engine That Could
  • foodforfuel
    foodforfuel Posts: 569 Member
    A Return to Love ~ Marriane Williamson

    ^^This. I think everyone in the world could benefit from reading this book. I have bought many, many copies to give away.
  • emd0019
    emd0019 Posts: 179 Member
    Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier



    That was an awesome book!
  • Ajontheguitar
    Ajontheguitar Posts: 695
    Divina Commedia - Dante Alighieri
    Aesop's Fables

    Two plays, but still influential...
    Inherit the Wind - Jerome Lawrence & Robert Edwin Lee
    Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller

    I majored in theatre :)
  • taso42_DELETED
    taso42_DELETED Posts: 3,394 Member
    Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, by Robert M. Pirsig
    Body for Life, by Bill Phillips
    Commodore 64 Programmers Reference Guide, by Commodore Computers
    Oh, the Thinks You Can Think!, by Dr. Seuss
  • TDGee
    TDGee Posts: 2,209 Member
    The House of God- Samuel Shem

    A lot of medicine, but a perfect satire on the world. It's a great book.
    Oh yeah!It should be required reading for anyone who is considering a career in healthcare.
  • lsd007
    lsd007 Posts: 435
    Green Eggs and Ham.

    Really? For me it was The Cat in the Hat.
  • MissO﹠A
    MissO﹠A Posts: 906 Member
    Divina Commedia - Dante Alighieri
    Aesop's Fables

    Two plays, but still influential...
    Inherit the Wind - Jerome Lawrence & Robert Edwin Lee
    Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller

    I majored in theatre :)

    Explains your weirdness and hence why we get along so well. ;D
  • lsd007
    lsd007 Posts: 435
    God's Debris.

    I was 16, it made me start thinking for myself.
  • Heather75
    Heather75 Posts: 3,386 Member
    Illusions - Richard Bach
    To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
    The Lorax - Dr. Seuss
  • CeejayGee
    CeejayGee Posts: 299 Member
    I'm glad you've posted this topic - gonna follow it. I don't wanna read a book if it won't change my life!
  • kathywoo10
    kathywoo10 Posts: 139 Member
    what are some books that completely altered your perspective or way of approaching life? i'm a ravenous book worm and i need some more books to read lol for me the top five are:

    1. Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
    2. The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
    3. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
    4. 1984 by George Orwell
    5. Assata by Assata Shakur

    Ishmael and Assata would be two of the ones on my list too! Also, a book called Borrowed TIme by Paul Monette which is the true story of a man in the 80's who is losing his lover to AIDS. I read it shortly after my mom passed away and it really made me feel less lonely.


    sounds interesting. and ishmael was AMAZING, i was really thrown off at the beginning upon finding out who ishmael was but it was profound the way he touched on basically every facet of human life. i hear there's sequels, i'd LOVE to check them out

    There are two other books that go with Ishmael, My Ishmael and The Story of B. Also, Daniel Quinn has written other GREAT books. I recommend After Dachau. Another book about race issues like Assata but more fun/satire is called White Boy Shuffle. I loved it!
  • SkateboardFi
    SkateboardFi Posts: 1,322 Member
    The Story of O

    i have wanted to read this, i ran across it because anne rice mentioned it in her book 'exit to eden' another book that changed my life, in another way LOL
  • letsdothis2010
    letsdothis2010 Posts: 190 Member
    1984 by George Orwell
    The Harry Potter Series...I grew up with these books and I was the same age as the characters. They've always made me happy to read :)
    Fahrenheit 451

    These are the ones that popped into my mind, but I think every good book changes you somehow.
  • kathywoo10
    kathywoo10 Posts: 139 Member
    The Stranger by Camus and anything by Jonathan Kozol
  • Angelabec
    Angelabec Posts: 505 Member
    The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkein

    First read as a child, and many times since.
  • SkateboardFi
    SkateboardFi Posts: 1,322 Member
    I'm glad you've posted this topic - gonna follow it. I don't wanna read a book if it won't change my life!

    no prob! i lovee books and i love getting recommendations because i always end up reading something i would have never picked up otherwise :)
  • SkateboardFi
    SkateboardFi Posts: 1,322 Member
    Green Eggs and Ham.

    Really? For me it was The Cat in the Hat.

    me too! it was the book i learned to read from, i still remember reading my first words..book's very meaningful to me lol
  • TS65
    TS65 Posts: 1,024 Member
    The latest one I have read is "Heaven is for Real" by Todd Burpo!! A MUST READ!!

    Loved this!

    For healthy books - I loved "Skinny Chicks Don't Eat Salad"
  • Danahimself
    Danahimself Posts: 279 Member
    The Tibetan Book of the Dead aka Liberation Through Hearing During The Intermediate State - W. Y. Evans-Wentz, Donald S. Lopez and C. G. Jung

    The Book of the Law Aleister Crowley

    The First Paul - Marcus J. Borg and John Dominic Crossan

    The Tao de jing
  • SkateboardFi
    SkateboardFi Posts: 1,322 Member
    ahhhh you guys are awesome! keep em coming!! :bigsmile:
  • mandeiko
    mandeiko Posts: 1,657 Member
    Tuesdays with Morrie

    This! Also, The Five People You Meet In Heaven. :) Also, For One Last Day. Okay anything Mitch Albom wrote.
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