I would like to know What are the books that changed your life??
I would like to know What are the books that changed your life??
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I would like to know What are the books that changed your life??
Titan by Ron Chernow.
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Thus spoke Zarathustra- Nietzsche
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I have not had one definitive book that changed my life ,yet. I read for pure enjoyment so many books have made me love reading even more !
Harry Potter series. Love these books.
Homo Deus written by Yuval Harari.
Love reading…but no book has ever done that.
@Gillian Agree. Same here.
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Think Big by Napoleon Hill
The bible
Following
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Pastrix
Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers. So. Good.
Love this book so much. A friend loaned it to me and I fully expected it to be preachy. It was not and it’s one of my favorites.
@Jenny I know! It’s just beautiful. I read it at least once a year.
Exodus by Leon Uris
This was the first grown up book and I remember that I was in class and the teacher asked ‘are there any questions’ and I asked what was genocide… it hit me to the core x
Me too Barbara x
Flowers for Algernon. It’s gave me an affinity for those with special needs and I think, helped make me more tolerant and accepting.
No book has changed my life…..but books have. I was diagnosed with breast cancer and have read how some of the drugs used in treatment can affect one’s eyesight. If it means I can’t read…..I won’t take them. Books are life.
I have an auto immune disorder that is the leading cause of blindness. I have been lucky so far to not have had a big impact on vision, and I hope it stays that way!
@Jenny I pray for your eye health as well. I can’t imagine no longer having the ability to read. I have bought myself some braille instruction items, but…..
The Giver. Les Miserables. The portrait of Dorian Gray. Top 3.
Many. The most influential novels have been Catcher in the Rhye, To Kill a Mocking Bird, The Stranger, Frankenstein, Metamorphosis, Animal Farm, and the Glass Cassle. Besides that books like Selfih Gene, Sapiens, No God but God, Bird by Bird, Guns Germs and Steel, and many others from different fields.
In short every book that i have read so far, fiction or nonfiction, has given me some sort of perspective to see life theough.
Catcher in the Rye,Perks of being a Wallflower…
Fountain Head and The Atlas shrugged.. Second one more…
Dove by Robin Lee Graham. It’s a book about a 16 year old sailor who leaves California on a 24 foot sailboat in 1965 on a solo around the world voyage. I read it when I was a teenager in 1978. I’d never sailed before and finally got the chance in 1989. It has led to a lifetime love of sailing and my brother and I each have our own dreams of one day making our own voyages. (He read the book as a teen too).
Oliver Twist! I was six or so when my Mum read it to me and it got me into classics in general, Dickens in particular and interested in social justice! Seeing as these are some of my big interests, it certainly had a huge impact!
Worth reading
Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre has been a huge inspiration throughout my life. She’s been my role model ever since i read this book. Such a vulnerable yet strong woman within. I admire her!
Don Quixote by Cervaantes. This was written in 1607 and I suddenly realised there was a rich vein of reading metirial out there that goes back centuries
I read Le Miserables when I was 13. Imagine how that book would impress someone at that age. The most vivid part was when Jean Valjean carried Maris through the sewers after killing Javert.
A Man Called Ove and Before We Were Yours, so far