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Name a book that's changed your life

lessismoreohio
lessismoreohio Posts: 910 Member
edited December 2024 in Motivation and Support
Name a book that's changed your life

For me, three come to mind.......in this order:

1. Bible
2. "Tao de Ching" by Lao Tzu
3. "How to Stop Worrying and Start Living" by Dale Carnegie
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  • pneschich
    pneschich Posts: 325 Member
    Atlas shrugged
  • Evamutt
    Evamutt Posts: 2,958 Member
    the Bible is still changing my life. Anything by CS Lewis. The christians secret to a happy life by Hannah W Smith & currently Oswald Chambers
  • AJ_G
    AJ_G Posts: 4,158 Member
    pneschich wrote: »
    Atlas shrugged

    Same here, that book is amazing, though I'm sure you'll get some people telling you your evil over it.
  • girlinahat
    girlinahat Posts: 2,956 Member
    In no particular order:

    The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark
    Bedtime for Francis
    Midwich Cuckoos
    Children of the Dust
    Zen and the art of Motorcycle Maintenance
    On the Road
    I Ching.
  • queenliz99
    queenliz99 Posts: 15,317 Member
    Noel_57 wrote: »
    Better Homes & Gardens Cookbook. I got a concussion when my wife threw it at me, when I complained about her meatloaf being too dry.

    <3
  • Ninkyou
    Ninkyou Posts: 6,666 Member
    LazSommer wrote: »
    Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.

    Same.
  • louann_jude
    louann_jude Posts: 307 Member
    Heaven is real
    The Bible
  • dbanks80
    dbanks80 Posts: 3,685 Member
    The Bible
  • melissa6771
    melissa6771 Posts: 894 Member
    Body for life, Bill Phillips
  • queenliz99
    queenliz99 Posts: 15,317 Member
    edited September 2016
    The World According to Garp, Irving, John
    1984, Orwell
    The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
  • Sabine_Stroehm
    Sabine_Stroehm Posts: 19,251 Member
    The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
    The Awakening (Kate Chopin)
    Siddhartha (Herman Hesse)
    In Defense of Food (Michael Pollan)
    Follow My Leader (when I was a kid)
    And, yes Harry Potter (when I was in my 30s)
  • AdamAthletic
    AdamAthletic Posts: 2,985 Member
    edited September 2016
    Mrs Brown's family handbook!

    Gawd knows why.. It was enlightenment of how to take sarcasm to entire new levels!


    That and 1001 chicken recipes book, that came in close second!
  • SweetP27
    SweetP27 Posts: 218 Member
    The Bible
    Are You There God - It's Me Margaret (as a tween)
    Redeeming Love
    Succulent Wild Women
    So many others but these come to mind first.
  • williams969
    williams969 Posts: 2,528 Member
    The Bible
    A Brave New World-Aldus Huxley
    The Diary of Anne Frank
    Dune-Frank Herbert
    The Stand--Stephen King
    The Old Man and the Sea-Ernest Hemingway

    And, although not books, Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie.
  • Hamsibian
    Hamsibian Posts: 1,388 Member
    The Quran, especially this year.
    Harry Potter
    Frankenstein
    Things Fall Apart
    Charlotte's Web (Yes, I'm Serious)
  • Nitroalley2
    Nitroalley2 Posts: 3,419 Member
    Playing ball on running water
  • KristaCatherine87
    KristaCatherine87 Posts: 56 Member
    "A Stolen Life" - Jaycee dugard
    " Unchained" - Mac Gober
    And not that it's changed my life but anything by Stephen King!! :smile:
  • Shana67
    Shana67 Posts: 680 Member
    1. Boundaries by John Townsend & Henry Cloud
    2. Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
    3. The Bible continues to change me and shape me on a daily basis :)
  • TR0berts
    TR0berts Posts: 7,739 Member
    2001: A Space Odyssey
  • MonkeyMel21
    MonkeyMel21 Posts: 2,396 Member
    Black Daggar Brotherhood. A pivotal moment in my adult life....
  • salembambi
    salembambi Posts: 5,585 Member
    Behold a Pale Horse
    Perception Deception
    The Book of Enoch
    The Book of Revelation
  • ElleBellesTheoBear
    ElleBellesTheoBear Posts: 67 Member
    edited September 2016
    Twilight :D:p
  • JDixon852019
    JDixon852019 Posts: 312 Member
    Level up your Life
  • Jessicac571
    Jessicac571 Posts: 16 Member
    The Clan of the Cave Bear. And even more so, the sequel, The Valley of Horses
  • valerialeek
    valerialeek Posts: 65 Member
    Sabine_Stroehm wrote: »
    The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
    The Awakening (Kate Chopin)
    Siddhartha (Herman Hesse)
    In Defense of Food (Michael Pollan)
    Follow My Leader (when I was a kid)
    And, yes Harry Potter (when I was in my 30s)

    Siddhartha lover here as well ❤️❤️❤️

  • amusedmonkey
    amusedmonkey Posts: 10,330 Member
    Sophie's World, if only for the fact that I read it as a teenager at a time of self discovery. It introduced me to worldviews I was not yet exposed to and helped shape the way I see the world as I grew up.
  • EvgeniZyntx
    EvgeniZyntx Posts: 24,208 Member
    Auto da Fe - a novel, by Elias Canetti - the situation around receiving and having that book led to my four daughters...






  • Neanbean13
    Neanbean13 Posts: 211 Member
    Where did I come from ?
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