books that have changed your life
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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
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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Life of Pi-Yann Martel0
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Women, Food and God.0
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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.0 -
jonathan livingston seagull
zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance0 -
The Automatic Millionaire by David Bach0
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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.0 -
I don't follow it anymore but it did spark the healthy person inside of me...Skinny *****.0
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The Dogs of Babel. It is an odd book, but it really moved me. One of my favorites0
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The Holy Bible.......... what? Well, it has!
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Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier0
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Tuesdays with Morrie0
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The latest one I have read is "Heaven is for Real" by Todd Burpo!! A MUST READ!!0
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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.0 -
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!!0 -
Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz and On A Pale Horse by Piers Anthony. Weird choices probably but that's what they are.0
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz.0
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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 Shack0 -
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!!!!0
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The Great Gatsby- Fitzgerald0
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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!0
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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.0 -
Allen Carr changed my life too! Almost 500 days nowAllen Carr's Easy Way to Quit Smoking.
But I don't think that's what you meant!
Watership Down, Richard Adams. 0 -
The Catcher In The Rye0
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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 Dugard0 -
I am reading The Shack right now!!0
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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... 0 -
The Bible0
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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 out0 -
A Return to Love ~ Marriane Williamson0
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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.0
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