I'm talking about books that really touched and inspired you, made you look at life differently, took you on a whole new path?
Mine are:
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Captain Correlli's Mandolin by Louis De Berniere
Huis Clos/No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre
The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
2006-08-19 16:59:36 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Master Poems of the English Language (ed. Oscar Williams)
Long Days Journey Into Night by Eugene O'Neil
Games People Play by Eric Berne
Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling
2006-08-19 17:19:52 · answer #1 · answered by urbancoyote 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Plague by Albert Camus
1984 by George Orwell
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
The Dancing Wu Li Masters by Gary Zukav
2006-08-21 01:02:54 · answer #2 · answered by Freddy F 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fingerprints of the Gods, Graham Hancock
Communion, Whitley Streiber
The Werewolf Principle, Clifford D. Simak
The Chosen, Chaim Potok
Federation, H. Beam Piper
2006-08-19 18:35:27 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Pulling Your Own Strings by Dr Wayne Dyer
The Sermon on the Mount by Emmet Fox
The Spiritual Journey of Joel Goldsmith by Lorraine Sinkler
2006-08-23 15:08:54 · answer #4 · answered by Karen Q 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Green Eggs & Ham by Dr. Suess
What Every Woman Should Know by Dr. Joyce Brothers
Women of Courage by Margaret Truman
Carolyn 101 by Carolyn Kepcher
The Bible
2006-08-19 17:41:21 · answer #5 · answered by Annie R 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rebecca
Memoirs of a Geisha
When Heaven and Earth Changed Places
The Things They Carried
Anything Robert Frost
2006-08-19 17:14:09 · answer #6 · answered by GoodJob 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hmmm...
1.) The Bible
2.) East of Eden, by John Steinbeck
3.) The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe, by C.S. Lewis
4.) The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien
5.) The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway
2006-08-19 17:33:40 · answer #7 · answered by LooneyDude 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
I identified with Jack Burden so much in high school.
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
There were so many levels to plumb, such rich symbolism that it really got me thinking and set me on a literary track.
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
Before this, I mainly dismissed both Chicano and adolescent literature, and since they have become my specialties.
I Read It But I Don't Get It by Cris Tovani
Professional literature with no plot, but it really helped my teaching and understanding my students.
Indian Killer by Sherman Alexie
Combined with previous reading of Reservation Blues, this book really made me question identity and its boundaries in a way that I feel made me see the world more clearly.
2006-08-19 17:43:28 · answer #8 · answered by Huerter0 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In no particular order:
"The Illuminatus Trilogy" by Shea and Wilson shocked me into awareness that reality is often based on perception.
"The Lord of the Rings" by Tolkien gave me a love for imaginative fiction, and that journeys of the mind are sometimes more real than journeys of the body.
"The Republic" by Plato demonstrated that sometimes words can be made to speak beyond themselves.
"Foucault's Pendulum" by Umberto Eco showed me that what is unsaid can be more important than what's said.
"The Prince" by Machiavelli taught me the ability to expect the worst from anyone who claims authority.
2006-08-19 17:38:18 · answer #9 · answered by KO 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins (although I love all his books)
The Outsiders by S.E Hinton
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
The Outsider by Albert Camus
Veronica Decides To Die by Paulo Coelho
2006-08-19 17:15:45 · answer #10 · answered by tishlix 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋