What book/books have literally change your life?

Answer 1

The Holy Bible.

Answer 2

Bill Bryson's A Short History of Everything.

Gave me a real understanding of what Big and Small really mean on a universal scale and how complex everything really is.

Noam Chomsky

His books on modern global politics totally opened my eyes to the reality of the world, rather than just assuming things he helped me understand what is real in politics, what is propoganda and what is wrong with it all, backed up with evidence. The man is a total legend when it comes to understanding power and his debates and speeches, many serialised into books, are a pleasure to read or listen to such is his absolute understanding of the subjects he talks about.

Tom Holland's Rubicon

History of the last years of the Roman Republic before Gaius Julius Casear created the Empire, is written so well it reads like a non-fiction novel (does that exist?), its exciting, bloody and filled with intrigue. After i finished this i started to read Tacitus, Cicero and others again something i hadn't done since college 15 years ago.

Answer 3

The Greatest Miracle in the World
by Og Mandino and

Don't Cry for Me
by Diana Marie Weiss

Both are easy reads and will change anyone's life. I read the first book about 15 years ago and Don't Cry for Me about 2 years ago.

Don't Cry for Me was a book most any woman can relate to and showed me that there really is a light at the end of the tunnel.

Answer 4

1) The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky (780 pages)

This novel is the ultimate statement of what it means to be a human being. And I cried at the end, even though I am a guy and I never cry about stuff like that.

2) Book of Revelation in the bible (12 pages)

This is the final book of the bible and a truly life altering prophecy about the end of the world. If you can believe 1/10 of what Saint John says about the future, you will be transformed, or at least I was.

Answer 5

Yes I can give you an answer, but be REALLY careful; you could be very changed and find that your values are permanently altered.
The books are the Monterrey Trilogy by John Steinbeck they are:
Tortilla Flat
Cannery Row
Sweet Thursday
Read them if you dare; they changed my life completely and made me realise which things are important and which are not.
Enjoy your new freer and happier, but probably poorer life!

Pilon complained, “It is not a good story. There are too many meanings and too many lessons in it. Some of those lessons are opposite. There is not a story to take into your head. It proves nothing.”
“I like it,” said Pablo. “I like it because it hasn’t any meaning you can see, and still it does seem to mean something, I can’t tell what.”

Answer 6

Actually Almost all of the Books that I have read have contributed to the development of my whole being ..

but most of the books that have great influence in me are the Classics ( which is my collection too..)

I will try to name a few :
Essays - Montaigne
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Shakespears' Works
Dante Alighieri Works
Pound, Ezra Works
Platos works
Aristotoles Works
Quincunx .. by Charles Pallister
Arabian Tales..

...... a lot more ,hehhehe I believe ...theres a lot on the list .. but heres what I can remember as of now that is .
They greatly influenc the way I think..

Answer 7

I have read lots of books, I can honestly say none of them have 'literally' changed my life!
What surprises me here among your replies are the people who include 'Bible'!! I cant work out why??
The bible is a great story book , (and full of fiction), it is also full of contradictions, and loads of outright BS!
I honestly think the bible has been 'foisted' on groups of very gullible people, I don't think the bible has much to do with their beliefs, just the way the story has been explained to them by their own religious leaders.
The bible to me means the Old Testament, I wonder how many people think along those lines?
The New Testament is just the Christian interpretation of the actual 'bible' And while I can see that both of these books have changed the religious leaders way of life, along with many other religious stories which are preached by many other religious groups, the actual book its self (that means all religious books) are all 'mumbo jumbo' but I will agree all excellent stories, you can actually interpret them all to suit your own needs!!

Answer 8

Almost every book makes a minute change in my life or affects my thinking. I learned as a child about being kind to animals from reading Black Beauty and Bambi. I learned about overcoming adversity by reading Little Women and The Five Little Peppers.
Of course, different books mean different things to readers as part of the book involves your own background and thoughts that you bring to the reading.

Answer 9

Die Hard Cool Hand Luke Batman The Last Samurai Mostly just certain aspects of those movies. Usually a scene or an attitude of character sticks with me and makes me want to be more like that. Or handle the situation in the same way or something

Answer 10

all have an influence so here is a list of good 'uns:

Lord of the Flies - Damn it!!! can't remember right now!!
Gormenghast - Mervin Peake
Hamlet -Shakespeare
Harry Potter series - J K Rowling
Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Player Piano - Kurt Vonnegut
The Grey Lensman series - E E DocSmith
Jane Eyre - again, can't remember at the moment but a Penguin classic
The Divine Comedy - Dante
The Odyssey - Homer

Answer 11

'Meena - Heroine of Afghanistan' by Melody Ermachild Chavis, this is THE most influential book I have ever read and even though I am not a Muslim it still impacted upon me the duties of life and being a woman.

My second choice would be 'A Handmaid's Tale' by Margaret Atwood another must for women as it displays the ability of woman to be oppressed if we do not stand up and fight for our position within such patriarchal societies.