Terry Pratchett discworld canon and P. G. Wodehouse Blandings back catalogue.. Both equal stress busting comfort and laughter, alongside unbeatable quality writing.
But also divergent. (I know a lot of people hate it). But the quote talking about wanting to be everything. Smart. Kind. Brave. Selfless and honest not just one, really changed how I feel about my self
“White Banners,” by Lloyd Douglas. It taught me that fighting life as if it were your enemy is just stupid–you need to put up white banners and, to some degree, just give in to it. I have to re-learn this lesson every few years, but the book definitely had its impact on me back in my teens.
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus. The perks of being a wallflower by Stephen chbosky. The catcher in the rye j. D. Salinger. 1984 by George Orwell. Brave New World by Albous Huxley. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman. The vigilante poets of Selwyn academy by Kate Hattemer. The stranger by Albert Camus. Orlando by Virginia Woolf. If I was your girl by Meredith Russo. Every Day and two boys kissing by David levithan. Looking for Alaska and paper Town’s by John Green. Robert Frost poetry. Mathew Arnold poetry. Emily Dickinson poetry. Speak by Lauren Halze Anderson. Shade of magic series by V. E. Schwab. Scott Pilgrim series by Brian Lee O’Malley. Being and Nothingness’ by Jean-Paul Sartre. Animal farm by George Orwell. The giver quartet by Lois Lowry. The wolves of Mercy Falls quartet by Maggie stiefvater. The picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu. Dr. Jeklle and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. The girl with the dragon tattoo by Stieg Larsson. Of mice and men by John Stienbeck. D. H. Lawrence poetry. Ezra Pound poetry. Giant days by John Allison. This one summer by Mariko Tamaki. The discovery of being by Rollo May. Ect.
The Bible first and foremost. Another book that had a great impact was You Mean I’m Not Lazy, Stupid, or Crazy? It’s geared toward adults with ADD/ADHD, and I grew up thinking I was all three of those.
So many have. ‘My father, maker of the trees’, and ‘a tale of time city’, and the mark of the lion trilogy, and ‘the desert flower’ books, and the refiners fire trilogy, ‘child c’ as well as ‘deliver me from evil’, and ‘the help’, and ‘the book thief’… and so many more….
When Rabbit Howls by Trudie Chase
Harry potter
James Herbert The Rats
“The Zahir” , “The Help” and “The Fourty Rules of Love”.
5 People You Meet In Heaven
Read this very recently. Was really not too bothered by it at all.
Harry Potter, It Ends With Us, Ugly Love, After…
The Shadow Lines, It Ends With Us, My Son’s Story, A Thousand Splendid Sons, Sunlight through a Broken Column
Percy jackson ❤
Terry Pratchett discworld canon and P. G. Wodehouse Blandings back catalogue.. Both equal stress busting comfort and laughter, alongside unbeatable quality writing.
Sophies World ( Jostein Gaarder ) and Goddesses Never Age ( Dr. Christiane Northrup )
Harry Potter.
But also divergent. (I know a lot of people hate it). But the quote talking about wanting to be everything. Smart. Kind. Brave. Selfless and honest not just one, really changed how I feel about my self
TRUST – Iyanla Vanzant!
LOTRs
The Alchemist! ❤️
Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
“White Banners,” by Lloyd Douglas. It taught me that fighting life as if it were your enemy is just stupid–you need to put up white banners and, to some degree, just give in to it. I have to re-learn this lesson every few years, but the book definitely had its impact on me back in my teens.
The hobbit
Divergent trilogy lol
Take it or leave it
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus. The perks of being a wallflower by Stephen chbosky. The catcher in the rye j. D. Salinger. 1984 by George Orwell. Brave New World by Albous Huxley. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman. The vigilante poets of Selwyn academy by Kate Hattemer. The stranger by Albert Camus. Orlando by Virginia Woolf. If I was your girl by Meredith Russo. Every Day and two boys kissing by David levithan. Looking for Alaska and paper Town’s by John Green. Robert Frost poetry. Mathew Arnold poetry. Emily Dickinson poetry. Speak by Lauren Halze Anderson. Shade of magic series by V. E. Schwab. Scott Pilgrim series by Brian Lee O’Malley. Being and Nothingness’ by Jean-Paul Sartre. Animal farm by George Orwell. The giver quartet by Lois Lowry. The wolves of Mercy Falls quartet by Maggie stiefvater. The picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu. Dr. Jeklle and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. The girl with the dragon tattoo by Stieg Larsson. Of mice and men by John Stienbeck. D. H. Lawrence poetry. Ezra Pound poetry. Giant days by John Allison. This one summer by Mariko Tamaki. The discovery of being by Rollo May. Ect.
Daaaanngg ???
Bible
Changing… continuously … with each book that I read !
The monk who sold his ferrari
Tar Baby by Toni Morrison.
All the books I have read !
The Very Hungry Caterpillar – I was little when I became a bookworm, so it was probably that book which made me love reading!
Throne of glass
Game of Thrones
Ahhhhh first the Bible and then two oldies, On the Beach and 1984. Also Captains and Kings…. Taylor Caldwell
A walk to remember
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viicktor Frankyl
Anne of Green Gables.
The Kite Runner
A Path with Heart
My family and other animals Gerald durrell
Eat Pray Love ????
Me too!!!
It is life changing right?
For sure!!
Well, there are many books, but the one I remember that set me on my path and made me get the job I always wanted was, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury.
The Children’s Book, AS Byatt. It solidified so many loves and broke my heart.
“For one more day”, “five people you meet in heaven”, and “Tuesday’s with Morrie”
Literary and personnel writings of Maxim Gorky , his influence so enormous on my life
“It ends with us”–Colleen Hoover
The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
A Right to be Merry.
THE HOLY BIBLE!
The Bible first and foremost. Another book that had a great impact was You Mean I’m Not Lazy, Stupid, or Crazy? It’s geared toward adults with ADD/ADHD, and I grew up thinking I was all three of those.
Flowers in the Attic. From a protected middle class environment, my first glimpse of cruelty in families
Flowers for Algernon which I read in high school.
Harry Potter and the goblet of fire
Every single one I read!
Harry Potter. My dad circled it on accident on the Scholastic paper. So happy he did cus who knows what my life would be like now if I wasn’t a reader
Demian.
A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving
One of my favorites.. John Irving is Great
Cider House Rules was my John Irving favourite so far (haven’t read Owen Meany. Yet)
I loved Cider House Rules also
To kill a mockingbird because it was the first book I read and after it I wanted to read every book out there
Harper Lee…
Conversation with God…
perfect by judith ncnaught
The Noticer by Andy Andrews. one of the best books i have ever read.
Changed my life? No. Made me wish I could change my life? Yes.
So many have. ‘My father, maker of the trees’, and ‘a tale of time city’, and the mark of the lion trilogy, and ‘the desert flower’ books, and the refiners fire trilogy, ‘child c’ as well as ‘deliver me from evil’, and ‘the help’, and ‘the book thief’… and so many more….