Books that changed your life

[Neo Genesis]

The Once and Future King: Helped me set an ideal for myself as a kid. Just recently reread it a few months ago, and has helped me start to find myself again.

Chronicles of Narnia and Just So Stories: First books I remember liking. I wasn't a big Seuss fan.

The Bible: Set off a seven and a half year journey where my faith faltered, faded, and then resurfaced, albeit in a different light.

Animal farm and Harrison Bergeron: Helped me establish my political views.

[LunaIndigo]

Harry Potter! It made me a bookworm at the age of 9!

[Geoff]

Merged the two books that changed your life threads

[plaguerat]

Please add any books that changed your outlook/philosophy on life.

1. The Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu

2. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

3. The Universe in a Nutshell - Steven Hawking

Loved Brave New World, also 1984 on a similar note.

however.
1. Watchmen/ V for Vendetta (similar effect, different content)
2. the ending of We the Living/ Ayn Rand
3. Voices of A People's History of the UNnted States of America/ Howard Zinn

[Lexicon]

Please add any books that changed your outlook/philosophy on life.

(Early adulthood) The Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu.

(Adolescence) Anthem - Ayn Rand.

(Childhood) The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis
& IT - Stephen King.

(Early Childhood) If You Give a Mouse a Cookie - I can't recall the author.

[wolfy]

The War of Art-Steven Pressfield
Tao de Ching-Lao Tzu
The Creative Habit-Twyla Thap
Mastery-George Leonard

[Mole]

I love, "The Wind in the Willows".

For my friends - Mole, the Water Rat, Toad, Badger, Otter and young Portly are always with me.

And every time the wind plays in the willows, I can hear the pipes of Pan.

And as the leaves turn to gold, I hear the call of the South.

But on a more practical level, I read the Business Section of, "The Australian", newspaper every day for the cartoon called, "Doonesbury".

And I find it is not so much a cartoon as a guide to life.

[sofmarhof]

John Holt, Instead of Education

Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

[forzen]

Animorph series,

It was the first science fiction stories I've read and what got me into books at age 10.

A song of ice and fire series ruined every fantasy novels I've read, because none of the latter ever matched up to the epic scales Ice and Fire has built.

[JustHer]

Animorph series,

It was the first science fiction stories I've read and what got me into books at age 10.

A song of ice and fire series ruined every fantasy novels I've read, because none of the latter ever matched up to the epic scales Ice and Fire has built.

Woooow animorphs was amazing! It really got me reading