galtgrl Posted March 9, 2011 Share Posted March 9, 2011 Watership Down Where the Heart Is Atlas Shrugged To Kill a Mockingbird The Hiding Place The Heavenly Man Watership Down is the only one that made it on from when I was a kid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
In2why Posted March 9, 2011 Share Posted March 9, 2011 The Red Tent The Handmaid's tale I know why the caged bird sings Jonathan Livingston Seagull Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostSurprise Posted March 9, 2011 Share Posted March 9, 2011 Jane Eyre Bruchko The book of John (Bible) The Lord of the Rings To Kill a Mockingbird Merchants of Venice The Good Earth Things Fall Apart How Green Was My Valley An Anthropologist on Mars A Canticle for Leibowitz Outliers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosie_0801 Posted March 9, 2011 Share Posted March 9, 2011 The life changing books have all been non-fiction. WTM, books on sweatshops, food politics, etc. For fiction, well I wouldn't say they have changed my life in any way, but they make you feel like you've experienced something and that's Paulo Coehlo's books. I think "Veronica decides to die" should be on high school reading lists instead of the stupid teen fiction I had to read. Not that parents would allow such a book, based on the title. Rosie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JFSinIL Posted March 9, 2011 Share Posted March 9, 2011 (edited) I figure if I reread it it must mean something to me... so here is my list: the entire Master and Commander series (in my seventh rereading now) (O'Brian) Gaudy Night (Sayers) LOTR (Tolkien) A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Smith) the Harry Potter series (can't count how many times these have been reread - I get more impressed with all the details Rowling carried through seven books each time!) Little House on the Prairie series (herself) Kim and Captains Courageous (Kipling) everything by Barbara Pym Note - I read very fast and usually have several books going at once. Right now I am in The Commodore (O'Brian) , one of the Marcus Falco Roman detective novels, and something about WWI trench warfare. Plus Little House on the Prairie in the downstairs "reading room" and any Harry Potter I grab at lunch time. Edited March 9, 2011 by JFSinIL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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