books that have changed your life

SkateboardFi
SkateboardFi Posts: 1,322 Member
edited September 30 in Chit-Chat
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
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    sillygoose1977 Posts: 2,151 Member
    Life of Pi-Yann Martel
  • BeautifulScarsWECHANGED
    BeautifulScarsWECHANGED Posts: 749 Member
    Women, Food and God.
  • elambabe
    elambabe Posts: 28
    Women, Food and God.

    I would second this and "It's not what you're eating, it's what's eating you."


    BTW, I just finished "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett and LOVED it.
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    suzycreamcheese Posts: 1,766 Member
    jonathan livingston seagull
    zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance
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    2Heavy2Long Posts: 315 Member
    The Automatic Millionaire by David Bach
  • wonnder1
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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.
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    syates83 Posts: 87
    I don't follow it anymore but it did spark the healthy person inside of me...Skinny *****.
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    willowrush Posts: 3
    The Dogs of Babel. It is an odd book, but it really moved me. One of my favorites
  • Panda86
    Panda86 Posts: 873
    The Holy Bible.......... what? Well, it has! :smile:
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    Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
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    lisab42 Posts: 98 Member
    Tuesdays with Morrie
  • courtclerkkris
    courtclerkkris Posts: 173 Member
    The latest one I have read is "Heaven is for Real" by Todd Burpo!! A MUST READ!!
  • 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.
  • courtclerkkris
    courtclerkkris Posts: 173 Member
    Tuesdays with Morrie

    ALL of Mitch Albom's...Five People you Meet In Heave, Tuesdays with Morrie, For One More Day!!! They are all life changing!!
  • shallo
    shallo Posts: 353 Member
    Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz and On A Pale Horse by Piers Anthony. Weird choices probably but that's what they are.
  • Shrinking_Xtina
    Shrinking_Xtina Posts: 478 Member
    The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz.
  • jeanlake
    jeanlake Posts: 130 Member
    1. Anatomy of Peace
    2. Good to Great
    3. Self Mediation (graduate textbook, but terrific)
    4. anything from LuAnne Rice
    5. To Kill A Mockingbird
    6. One Hundred Dresses (4th grade read -- life changer)
    7. Book of favorite poetry
    8. The Shack
  • andreae13
    andreae13 Posts: 239 Member
    We the Living by Ayn Rand.....I couldn't stop crying at the end. I LOVE anything by her!!! Also We by Yevgeny Zamyatin was VERy interesting!!!!
  • Ajontheguitar
    Ajontheguitar Posts: 695
    The Great Gatsby- Fitzgerald
  • SkateboardFi
    SkateboardFi Posts: 1,322 Member
    great stuff, i'm gonna have a nice book list ahead of me, and yes, ayn rand is profound as well. has anyone read 'behold a pale horse'? i've heard great things!
  • liftingbro
    liftingbro Posts: 2,029 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.

    Reasons to Believe by Dr. Scott Hahn brought me into the Catholic Church.
  • phinners
    phinners Posts: 524 Member
    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
    The Catcher In The Rye
  • montana_girl
    montana_girl Posts: 1,403 Member
    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
    I am reading The Shack right now!!
  • u2fergus
    u2fergus Posts: 422 Member
    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
    The Bible
  • SkateboardFi
    SkateboardFi Posts: 1,322 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
  • theba2il
    theba2il Posts: 548 Member
    A Return to Love ~ Marriane Williamson
  • jlprovost
    jlprovost Posts: 109 Member
    Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers

    This is my 3rd time reading it and it still has not gotten old. It's a must read.
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