The Most Influential Books In Your Life

[eggsforsale]

The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom
Amazing story

 

[OccamsTazer]

-all Heinlein. Specifically Time Enough for Love and Stranger in a Strange Land
-A Brief History of Time
-Origin of Species
-Orson Scott Card's Ender series, and the Bean series
-I don't know if I'd call The Clan of the Cave Bear series influential, but it's one that I read until the books fell apart.
-Also read Tolkien until the books fell apart
-And the Wheel of Time series, too

 

[PurpleChicken]

The Road Less Traveled by Scott Peck is the book that had the greatest influence on me and still does. There are many others but when a friend handed me that book at 21 and said "Don, read this, you need it" it changed the way I viewed the meaning of life.

 

[maplesky7]

Diary of Ann Frank

 

[Chickerdoodle13]

I think the most influential book I've ever read is The Salmon of Doubt by Douglas Adams. I'm not an athiest but Douglas Adams was a VERY adamant athiest. He put a lot of things into perspective for me through his satyre and I was actually able to use quite a bit from that book to argue my points in a theology college class I had. The professor was always very impressed and I would always tell him I blame Douglas Adams! LOL

Its also a very entertaining book written by an excellent author who unfortunately passed away much too early.

 

[Rte.66_chicks]

Carl Sagan's books have always been favorites of mine, and I cannot pass up a Barbara Kingsolver.

 

[saddina]

Stranger in a Strangeland - Read all of his works

Mists of Avalon

The egg and I

A tree grows in brooklyn

The scarlette pimpernal

Death be not proud

 

[taraann81]

I have read alot of great and influential books. I don't think I could compile a comprehensive list. But the very FIRST book I found influential was The Giving Tree...Its a childs book but I think everyone should read it...maybe a 10minute read.

Also the book... How to Win friends and influence people....its a great book. I read it as a teen(my dad made both my brother and I read it) But I found I took lessons with me from that book. Now in my career I find my self in a position of authority....this book still helps me.

I loved To kill a Mocking bird, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights and a two books I read as a kid...the island of the Blue Dolphin and Beautiful Joe.

Most recently(while not influential)I've truly enjoyed the Harry Potter series...... I LOVE books....And could talk books for hours.

 

[aprophet]

the jewish and christian Holy scriptures and anything by Brennan manning He taught me the right way to read / interpet the Holy Scriptures any of rich mullins or dennis jernigans music kina helps in that same vein

 

[Prettiest Frog]

Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy