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  • shuttermom3
    shuttermom3 Posts: 6
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    John Bingham The Courage to Start.
  • lucy1945
    lucy1945 Posts: 153
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    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
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    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
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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.

    FYI; new group started for Catholics if you haven't seen it.
  • jenhaze
    jenhaze Posts: 25 Member
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    Weird by Craig Groeschel
  • Gyoza11
    Gyoza11 Posts: 143 Member
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    The Holy Bible!
  • dia77
    dia77 Posts: 410 Member
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    You can change your life by Louise Hay
  • achampionsheart
    achampionsheart Posts: 1,020 Member
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    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
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    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
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    Looking For Alaska
  • hayskylar
    hayskylar Posts: 62
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    The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky
  • MaximalLife
    MaximalLife Posts: 2,447 Member
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    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
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    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
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    To Kill a Mockingbird
    The Ox Bow Incident
    The Art of War
  • MaryDreamer
    MaryDreamer Posts: 439
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    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
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    The latest one I have read is "Heaven is for Real" by Todd Burpo!! A MUST READ!!

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