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  • liftingbro
    liftingbro Posts: 2,029 Member
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    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.

    Reasons to Believe by Dr. Scott Hahn brought me into the Catholic Church.
  • phinners
    phinners Posts: 524 Member
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    Allen Carr's Easy Way to Quit Smoking.


    But I don't think that's what you meant!


    Watership Down, Richard Adams.
    Allen Carr changed my life too! Almost 500 days now :)
  • FearAnLoathing
    FearAnLoathing Posts: 4,852 Member
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    The Catcher In The Rye
  • montana_girl
    montana_girl Posts: 1,403 Member
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    Little House on the Prairie.... Life changing in the fact that book gave me my life long love of reading.

    The Stand by Stephen King
    A Stolen Life by Jacee Dugard
  • courtclerkkris
    courtclerkkris Posts: 173 Member
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    I am reading The Shack right now!!
  • u2fergus
    u2fergus Posts: 422 Member
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    The Bible
    "Silence" by Shisaku Endo
    "The Warden" and "Barchester Towers" by Anthony Trollope
    "Les Miserables" by Victor Hugo
    "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
    "Flying Hero Class" by Thomas Kenneally
    "Notes from the Underground" by Fyodor Dostoevsky
    "Anne of Green Gables" by L.M. Montgomery
    "Perelandra" by C.S. Lewis
    "Harry Potter" by J.K. Rowling

    I'm a bookworm... :)
  • idiocracy
    idiocracy Posts: 275 Member
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    The Bible
  • SkateboardFi
    SkateboardFi Posts: 1,322 Member
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    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
  • theba2il
    theba2il Posts: 548 Member
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    A Return to Love ~ Marriane Williamson
  • jlprovost
    jlprovost Posts: 109 Member
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    Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers

    This is my 3rd time reading it and it still has not gotten old. It's a must read.
  • SkateboardFi
    SkateboardFi Posts: 1,322 Member
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    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
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    The Catcher In The Rye

    yes, i read that book last summer, couldn't put it down!
  • littleleisha
    littleleisha Posts: 98 Member
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    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
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    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
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    Green Eggs and Ham.
  • taldie01
    taldie01 Posts: 378
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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.

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