Favourite books & books that changed your life

Any genre will do!

- Thanks 🙂

Haruki Murakami´s books, Richard Bach´s books, the Diaries of Sylvia Plath.



And Harry Potter series, of course!

The Power Of Positive Thinking


The Stand one greatest most ENTERTAINING pieces of literature I've ever read. Most wannab literary snobs are dismissive of Stephen King. To me he is one of the greatest story tellers to ever put pen to paper. It's not horror. It's the story. And that's what the love of reading should be about ...the story.

The Alchemist Paul Coelho

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.


“All through my life I've had this strange unaccountable feeling that something was going on in the world, something big, even sinister, and no one would tell me what it was."
"No," said the old man, "that's just perfectly normal paranoia. Everyone in the Universe has that.”

One of my favs!

Wow, where does the time go, can't believe this was 4 months ago...
Thanks everyone, please keep the recommendations coming!

-The Power of Now-
-A New Earth-
Celestine Prophecy
The Emerald Tablets
The Four Agreements
The Definitive Book of Body Language

To Kill a mocking bird
The Great Gatsby
Where the Red Fern grows
Are you there god, it's me Margart?
Lord of the Flies-this one made me go "wow" when i read it in school.

Mark Twain
Anne rice
Isaac Asimov
Edgar Allan Poe

i could write pages and pages of books/poems i love and am insirped by i am a major bookworm and have very eclectic tastes.

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All the books by

FM Dostoyevsky
Leo Tolstoy
G B Shaw

They're my favourites and have influenced me one way or other.

Yes Yes Yes! For me basically most of the Russian classics (Master and Margerita is my favorite) and their poetry + Remarque

Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie.

Not because it's the best book I ever read by any means, but because at ten it was the first grown-up book I ever read and it inspired me to keep reading. So it was life changing, indeed.

What some girl $ do... By Aiisha Parker

Woman as an investment by Keith Outerbridge...Very insightful!

One of many I can think of is Ender Game (and the following series) by Orson Scott Card.

I just got done reading I am legend. It's completely different than the movie. It's short and really good. Deffinately worth reading.

East of Eden

Grapes of Wrath

The Autobiography of Malcom X

The Fifth Eleohant

A Wrinkle in Time

The Social Animal

Blue Butterfly

Farenheit 451

I Know Why the Cages Bird Sings

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix

Crime and Punishment - FM Dostoyevsky

Brothers Karamazov - FM Dostoyevsky

Notes from Undergound - FM Dostoyevsky

..all books by Dostoyevsky actually.. and in a way every book we read becomes a part of us.. But those three books stand out, I have read them again and will keep reading again and again

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Crime and Punishment - FM Dostoyevsky

Brothers Karamazov - FM Dostoyevsky

Notes from Undergound - FM Dostoyevsky

..all books by Dostoyevsky actually..

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The Pevear/Volokhonsky translations especially.

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Hi Seraph.. our paths cross again over FMD! 🙂

Although this is late, wishing you a very happy new year to you and your near and dear! :-)

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Hi Seraph.. our paths cross again over FMD! 🙂

'Oh, you're sure to do that,' said the Cat, 'if you only walk long enough.” 😉

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Although this is late, wishing you a very happy new year to you and your near and dear! :-)

Thank you, Rumi, and the same to you and yours. 🙂

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Alice in wonderland! I've never read the book, but love the movie :p

Thankyou, Seraph 🙂

Two that changed my outlook on life:

- Life After Life by Raymond Moody

- The Holographic Universe by Michael Talbot

Alfred Döblin: Berlin Alexanderplatz.

Stephen king: Desperation.

Paulo Coelho: By the river Piedra I sat down and wept;Alchemist; Zahir; Veronika decides to die;

The Bible

In Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus

The Essential Epicurus

Epictetus: The Enchiridion

Imajica by Clive Barker

Rich Man Poor Man by Irwin Shaw

The Shock of the New by Robert Hughes

Sula by Tony Morrison

History of My Life autobiography by Giacomo Casanova (volumes 1-12)

All Quiet on the Western Front

Brother Odd by Dean Koontz

Lisey's Story by Stephen King

Needful Things by Stephen King

I Know Why a Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou

no one book can ever change your life as such..anyway my fav books :

The Godfather

The Celestine prophecy

And to some extent - the alchemist too

I read a book years ago that was life changing and helped me on a different path in life

*Stepping into the magic*

fringe knowledge, Tom Montalk.

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i would not know where to start. many books ignite and inspire and push you to venture out into new topics and subjects and lead you to make new disoveries ...some resonate more, some less. some books i have owned for years are not meant for reading yet ....

Hi Nem what is the best book to read for a beginner reader like me so I can enjoy reading books?

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i would not know where to start. many books ignite and inspire and push you to venture out into new topics and subjects and lead you to make new disoveries ...some resonate more, some less. some books i have owned for years are not meant for reading yet ....

Hi Nem what is the best book to read for a beginner reader like me so I can enjoy reading books?

beginner? in which sense....

what sort of genre do you like?

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mystery or fantasy

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i would not know where to start. many books ignite and inspire and push you to venture out into new topics and subjects and lead you to make new disoveries ...some resonate more, some less. some books i have owned for years are not meant for reading yet ....

Hi Nem what is the best book to read for a beginner reader like me so I can enjoy reading books?

beginner? in which sense....

what sort of genre do you like?

mystery or fantasy

this is so vague ....help me out lol.

mystery/crime ...i would recommend agatha christie ....maybe murder on the nile or orient express.

as for fantasy it is - after sci-fi - my least read genre; but here i would recommend you to start with neil gaiman; he just has a new book out norse mythology ....

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haha thanks

well i've read almost all of Christie's book

i like stuff like that murder and mystery solve.

i love norse myth. usually theres a dragon in it. will check it out.

do you read manga?

The prophet..kahlil Gibran

The seat of the soul..Gary zukav

A course in miracles..Jesus lol (channeled)

Conversations with God..all of them

Spirit song..Mary summer rain

Phoenix rising..Mary summer rain..

Dream walker..Mary summer rain..

Bringers of the dawn..Barbara marciniek

By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

My favorite and meaningful book is "eat, pray, love"

Racing in the rain for sure! It's amazing

Sue Townsend.."Adrian Mole, The Cappuccino Years" made me laugh my socks off. I love reading comical books. This author came from close to where i was born and raised, so i get her brand of humour totally.

I am now reading "Adrian Mole, the Wilderness Years" ~ just as funny

Elizabeth Berg ..Talk Before Sleep, a story of a woman dying of cancer and how all her female friends rallied around and supported her through the process of dying .. very sad but stayed with me for a long time. I love this author, have read 20 of her books



...loads more...i read like a demon

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The Sun and her Flowers - Rupi Kaur

Boundaries - Dr Henry Cloud (audio)

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Sue Townsend.."Adrian Mole, The Cappuccino Years" made me laugh my socks off. I love reading comical books. This author came from close to where i was born and raised, so i get her brand of humour totally.

I remember reading "The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾" and possible one or two of its sequals when I was that age or younger, but I only vaguely remember what I liked about it. I remember I found them funny and relatable.

That and Frank L. Baum got me through middle school as farxas reading goes.