Suggest not more than two best books read ever that has influenced your life. Life is short..
Suggest not more than two best books read ever that has influenced your life..
Life is short…Want to finish some before good-bye..
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To Kill a Mocking Bird and A Tree grows in @Brooklynn
I would have said these too!
Me 3
Women Who Marry Houses l don’t remember who wrote the book tho. It was many years ago.
The secret by Rhonda Byrne
Man’s search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl
Pride and Prejudice and Gone With The Wind
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn!
One of my all-time favorites <3
It IS my all-time favorite!
@Martha mine too! i actually collect them!
@Karen, I have several copies. I have copies for lending and copies for keeping!
Love,love,love
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
Rebbe Nachman’s Wisdom & Meditation and Kabbalah by Aryeh Kaplan. These books are not for everyone but they helped me see the world differently.
He taught me how to deal with my ego.
anna franks’s diary…
All The Bright Places by Jennifer Niven and Teeth by Hannah Moskowitz
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz and Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow
1984 and the handmaid’s tale. Standard fare for a reason
A tree grows in Brooklyn , A Little Life
Happiness is a Serious Problem, Dennis Prager
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Love and Death in the American Novel
Poisonwood Bible by Kingsolver. Oryx and Crake by Atwood.
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
Beloved is one of most emotionally difficult books I’ve ever read. It’s also one of the best.
Same. I read it in high school, and it was my favorite then. I reread it after becoming a mother and it was an exponentially more profound experience, solidifying it as my all-time favorite.
Yes. To read it as a mother is particularly affecting.
Jane Eyre.
A Little Life
Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver and The Book of Joy by HIs Holiness the Dalai Lama, Arch Bishop Desmond Tutu with Douglas Abrams.
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs.
The Alexandria Quartet
White Oleander, by Janet Fitch
This one is on my TBR shelf.
A woman of substance by Barbara TAYLOR Bradford (whole series is terrific) I reread this about every 3 or 4 years.
The wizard of Oz, Be Free Where You Are.
‘Meditations’ by Marcus Aurelius and ‘The Book of Life’ by Jiddhu Krishnamurti
Reclaiming Our Health: Exploding the Medical Myth and Embracing the Source of True Healing by John Robbins and Sidewalk Oracles: Playing with Signs, Symbols, and Synchronicity in Everyday Life by Robert Moss
Jonathan Livingston a seagull.
By Richard back.. u will finish it in a day..
This book changed my whole outlook on everything. It’s a must. The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World https://www.amazon.com/dp/0399185046/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_tYrxAb6VYKDPN
Life of Pi. Changed my perspective regarding many things.
The Alchemist
When Breath Becomes Air and Man’s Search for Meaning
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulkes. It’s one of those books that moves you, inspires you, humbles you and breaks your heart ‘s little.
The Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread, by Don Robertson (as a teenager, this book made me want to be a writer) and Bird By Bird, by Anne Lamott (as an adult, this gave me some tools and encouragement to be a writer).
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo.
If Grace Is True: Why God Will Save Every Person, Philip Gully, et al.
Against Depression, Peter D. Kramer
The Five People you meet in heaven by Mitch Albom
Tuesday’s with Morrie
Interview with the Vampire
Skinny Bitch
To Kill a Mockingbird and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn .
2 of my absolute favorites,!
Also Marjorie Morningstar
The Mouse and His Child by Russell Hoban, The Horsecatcher by Mari Sandoz. Using all my willpower to only name two!
I cannot forgive by Rudolf Vrba & Mummys little Angels by Denise Williams
Peace Like a River (Robinson) Prayer for Owen Meany (Irving).
Gifts from the Sea – Anne Morrow Lindberg
the first and the present …
Lord of the flies
The Hiding Place and Church Choir Mysteries.
Life of Pi and Man’s Search For Meaning.
Man’s Search for Meaning is a gem!
White Oleander and Fahrenheit 451
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.
The 7 habits of highly effective people.
The Jewish Phenomenon
Sophie’s Choice and Lazarus is Dead.
Armadillo by William Boyd and Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler
Following
How about authors?
Just John Gardner’s books
And
Sheri Tepper’s.
There are more.. I read by author nowadays.
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Outliers by malcolm gladwell
The five people you meet in heaven.
Planet Ponzi by Mitch Fierstein
Kisses From Katie