books that have changed your life
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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
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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.0 -
The Shack
Conversations with God
The 5 People you meet in Heaven0 -
Circle of Stones by Judith Duerk
The Big Book
A Course in Miracles
The 7-Day Low-Carb Rescue and Recovery Plan0 -
The Big Book
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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 Bible0 -
My experiments with truth - Mahatma Gandhi
The Monk who sold his Ferrari - Robin Sharma0 -
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, haha0 -
Looking For Alaska0
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It's Not About The Bike - Lance Armstrong
The Origin Of Species - Charles Darwin
The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins0 -
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
funny, you're the only other person who's heard of shadow of the wind!! his next one "the angles game" wasn't as good. totally agree about HP and LOTR. haven't heard of the others you mentioned but i will check them out since i also love some of your other choices.
recently finished the "hunger games" trilogy. also excellent-i think it has been mentioned here previously.0 -
One sticks out that changed my life recently (within the last six months):
Richard Dawkins - The God Delusion
Some others had effects that are more difficult to assess against the background noise of life's other experiences:
Robert M. Pirsig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Rainer Maria Rilke - Letters to a Young Poet
Stephen Hawking - A Brief History of Time
The principle author of AutoCAD wrote a diet book that I really like. It's free, too. What's interesting for me is that both the author and I studied mechanical engineering but ended up doing computer programming for a living.
John Walker - The Hacker's Diet: How to Lose Weight and Hair through Stress and Poor Nutrition
http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/0 -
The Power of Myth
A Prayer for Owen Meany
The Handmaid's Tale
Life of Pi0 -
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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.
I was going to say the same thing with Harry Potter. The series literally shaped who I am. :,)0 -
The Bible
Bait of Satan
Spiritual Authority
Power of positive Thinking
Creation0 -
Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman - I try to read this once every year.
Lord of the Rings
Dune
The Iliad
The Odyssey
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Many many more....0 -
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