books that have changed your life

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  • shuttermom3
    shuttermom3 Posts: 6
    John Bingham The Courage to Start.
  • lucy1945
    lucy1945 Posts: 153
    Cinderella, when i was 6. it was the best book ever! Then i found out later only the first half of the book is true. So that sucks! hee hee.
  • missy_1975
    missy_1975 Posts: 244 Member
    If this is a man - Primo Levi
    Hands of Light - Barbara Ann Brennan
    The Web That Has No Weaver - Ted J Kaptchuk
    Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
    Imajica - Clive Barker (wrote my dissertaion on it)
    Dune - Frank Herbert - didn't change my life but have read it over half a dozen times!
    Easy Way - Allen Carr - off the cigs nearly 9 years!

    Fab thread, I love to read, going to have some interesting stuff to read in the future :smile:
  • MaryAnn678
    MaryAnn678 Posts: 182 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.

    FYI; new group started for Catholics if you haven't seen it.
  • jenhaze
    jenhaze Posts: 25 Member
    Weird by Craig Groeschel
  • Gyoza11
    Gyoza11 Posts: 143 Member
    A clockwork orange - Anthony Burges
    Good Omens - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
    Thief of time - Terry Pratchett

    I realize they're all fiction/fantasy but these are the books that made me think "wow" after finishing them. :D
  • RaeLB
    RaeLB Posts: 1,216 Member
    The Bible

    Lee Strobel - The Case for Christ

    Wess Stafford - Too Small to Ignore: Why the Least of These Matters Most

    Steven Gregory - The Devil Behind the Mirror: Globalization and Politics in the Dominican Republic

    Rebecca Popenoe - Feeding Desire: Fatness, Beauty, and Sexuality Among a Saharan People
  • BioQueen
    BioQueen Posts: 694 Member
    1) Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
    2) The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
    3) Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
    4) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
  • MaryAnn678
    MaryAnn678 Posts: 182 Member
    Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Mertan
    Joshua by Joseph Girzone....loved this book, a good perspective on religions and what would Jesus do if he was here on earth.
    You on a diet by Michael F. Roizen, MD and Mehmet C. Oz, MD good facts inside.
    Get Motivated by Tamara Lowe
    Also books by Nicholas Sparks
    And the Bible is a good everyday read for insight, prayer, and raising children, the New Testaments are my favorite, love hearing the words of Jesus.
  • Maria_t02
    Maria_t02 Posts: 73
    The Holy Bible!
  • dia77
    dia77 Posts: 410 Member
    You can change your life by Louise Hay
  • achampionsheart
    achampionsheart Posts: 1,020 Member
    1. THE WORD OF GOD
    2. HEAVEN IS FOR REAL
    3. HAVE A LITTLE FAITH-MITCH ALBOM
    4. FIVE PEOPLE YOU MEET IN HEAVEN-MITCH ALBOM
    5. ANY BOOK BY THE AUTHOR KAREN KINGSBURY AND CHARLES MARTIN
  • AliciaBeth78
    AliciaBeth78 Posts: 437 Member
    God's Debris.

    I was 16, it made me start thinking for myself.

    I was actually just about to say that one! Good call!
  • seehawkmomma
    seehawkmomma Posts: 815
    Looking For Alaska
  • hayskylar
    hayskylar Posts: 62
    The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky
  • MaximalLife
    MaximalLife Posts: 2,447 Member
    See You At The Top - Zeigler
    Eat That Frog - Tracy
    Awaken The Giant Within - Robbins
    First Things First - Covey
    Art Of War - Tzu
  • newCourtney
    newCourtney Posts: 168 Member
    Their Eyes Were Watching God-Zora Neale Hurston
    The Hunger Games series (didn't change my life, but definitely made me think)
    Rose Madder-Stephen King (teaches how strong a woman can be)
    Six Pillars of Self-Esteem-Nathaniel Branden (working through it now)
    Middlemarch-George Eliot (another good strong female book)
  • Cr357
    Cr357 Posts: 238
    To Kill a Mockingbird
    The Ox Bow Incident
    The Art of War
  • MaryDreamer
    MaryDreamer Posts: 439
    The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield, Conversations With God by Neale Donald Walsh and Dare to Be Yourself by Alan Cohen
  • packerfan1
    packerfan1 Posts: 93 Member
    The latest one I have read is "Heaven is for Real" by Todd Burpo!! A MUST READ!!
  • billyjoebob
    billyjoebob Posts: 72
    The Book of Mormon and the Bible. My favorite parts of each is the words of the Savior. These two books have changed my life the most. Other books are:

    Uncle Tom's Cabin
    Roots
    Diary of Anne Frank
    Little Women
    Anne of Green Gables (whole series)
    All Creatures Great and Small (whole series)
    Grapes of Wrath

    many others...
  • thelovelyLIZ
    thelovelyLIZ Posts: 1,227 Member
    The Great Gastby
    Love Wins
    The Misunderstood Jew
    The whole Harry Potter series was pivotal in my childhood. I was 11 when I read the first book and had just graduated high school when the last came out. I literally grew up with the characters.
  • RonneyKay
    RonneyKay Posts: 464 Member
    The Shack
    Conversations with God
    The 5 People you meet in Heaven
  • suelegal
    suelegal Posts: 1,281 Member
    Circle of Stones by Judith Duerk
    The Big Book
    A Course in Miracles
    The 7-Day Low-Carb Rescue and Recovery Plan
  • RonneyKay
    RonneyKay Posts: 464 Member
    The Big Book

    THIS!!!! :)
  • FitDC
    FitDC Posts: 63
    This is a fun topic! So many good and inspiration books. The Bible is the never ending story, always fresh but here are a few favorites.

    1. Prison to Praise - Merlin Carothers
    2. Wives of the Signers: The Women Behind the Signers of the Delcaration of Independence - Green & Barton
    3. They thought for Themselves - Sidney (Sid) Roth
    4. Conquest of the Mind - Elbert Willis
    5. New Thresholds of Faith - Kenneth E Hagin
    6. Through My Eyes - Tim Tebow, Nathan Whitaker
    7. George Washington Carver biography
    8. See you at the Top - Zig Ziglar
    9. The Doctor and the Word; God's Pathway for Healing - Reginald Cherry
    10. The Holy Bible
  • mmcorner
    mmcorner Posts: 154 Member
    My experiments with truth - Mahatma Gandhi
    The Monk who sold his Ferrari - Robin Sharma
  • abetterliv
    abetterliv Posts: 50 Member
    The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon..awesome book!!

    OMG I thought I was the only one who loved this book! This and The History of Love by Nicole Krauss are some of my favorites.

    Lets see...
    -Harry Potter hands down. I remember reading the first book when I was 6 but not being able to finish before the first movie came out, lol, but then going home right after the movie and finishing it. I never really liked to read before that.
    -LOTR, I can just get lost for weeks on end reading it.
    -Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer. I love this book so much, it really changed my perspective on loss and family, and will be one of those books that I will probably read a million times.

    unfortunately I don't get a lot of time to read books that aren't for school except during the summer, and lately all of the books I've been reading in school haven't been that great. They're classics and I appreciate their literary value but I guess the fact that I have to read them for school always somehow turns me off to them. They're are also a ton of teen books that I love but haven't changed my life, and then there are some books that I have loved but can't fully remember anything about them sometimes, haha
  • abetterliv
    abetterliv Posts: 50 Member
    Looking For Alaska
    This one too! I was actually going to start re-reading it today, haha.
  • KitTheRoadie
    KitTheRoadie Posts: 641 Member
    It's Not About The Bike - Lance Armstrong
    The Origin Of Species - Charles Darwin
    The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins
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