I have asked myraid of friends and strangers this question and most don't have a clue? Just wondering do people still read books anymore. Anyways, the top 10 books I have read so far would have to be Tipping Point, Freakeconomics, The Tao of Pooh, Catch-22, Tuesday with Morrie, The Game, Ecology of Commerce, Art of Happiness, What Smart Students Know, and The Ape in the Corner Office. So what are the top 10 books that shape your life any why? Have fun :)!
2006-10-15 04:43:39 · 30 answers · asked by WhySoCurious 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Sophie's World, Lord of the Flies, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, To Kill a Mocking Bird, Le Grand Meaulnes, Of Mice and Men, The Life of Pi, Jane Eyre, The Catcher in the Rye, The Grapes of Wrath, Rebecca
2006-10-15 06:40:49 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Art of Loving - Erich Fromme
Adhunik Sanjeevani - a Marathi book on Rational Emotive psychotherapy -
Ek raatra vairyaachi - a true story of a holocaust survivor in Marathi
Diary of Anne Frank - Anne Frank
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
The Scarlet Ship -
Shaant ithe pahaatvelaa (Marathi translation) - The dusks are silent out here - A Russian war story
Ivaan (Marathi translation) - Russian war story
Adventures of Dennis
Shitoo - a heart wrenching lovestory in Marathi
Ek hotaa Carver in Marathi - Once Upon a time there was a man called Carver (a book on G.W. Carver - a Black American scientist)
All of these books have touched my heart in some way or other. Very few books have the capacity to do that. But the first two have literally opened new avenues and showed new possibilities when it seemed like i had reached a dead end in life. I wonder where i would have been had i not READ these books!!!!
2006-10-15 05:49:40 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
1. Goodbye to All that by Robert Graves.
2. A Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain.
3. How to be Free by Tom Hodgekinson.
4. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressel.
5. King Lear by William Shakespeare.
6. The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell.
7. Any book by Spike Milligan.
8. The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
9. Jonathan Livingstone Seagull by Richard Bach.
10. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott.
2006-10-15 08:31:33 · answer #3 · answered by Andrea P 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One flew over The Cuckoo`s Nest by Ken Kesey
and The Kool Aid Acid TestBy Tom Wolfe
Which Explains What Happened in The Sixties
When Reality was Altered Forever
When Using The Money from The "Cuckoo`s Nest"
to Take a Dayglo Painted Bus across America
Ken Kesey and The Merry Pranksters Turned on The World
2006-10-15 07:15:18 · answer #4 · answered by sorbus 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand - she was a Russian who moved to america in the 1950's makes you realize why we live in such a great country and the freedoms we take for granted.
Walden by Henry David Thoreau - Again a great American writer but in a time when being "American" had spiritual and natural, minimalistic responsibilities.
Harper Lee's To Kill a Mcockinbird - I reread this at least once a year as I need the constant reminder that prejudice and ignorance have not yet been abolished and hopefully the children of today can keep this movement rolling forward.
The Homosexual Matrix by C.A. Tripp - this book provided a crucial heterosexual context in which homosexuality could be understood - so I could try to explain to my parents.
Where the sidewalk ends - Shel Silverstein - rhyming is fun, reading is fun. I had to start somewhere.
Dracula by Bram Stoker - I read this when I was eight or nine and developed a love of the horror genre and classics that still must be sated.
The Bible - it has the ten commandments a small blueprint for world peace in a really complex socio docu drama.
The Republic by Plato - This made me wish I lived in a time of rational thought debate, so I could be a philospher.
The Works of Shakespear - I find new clever wordplay, raunchy remarks, and fascinating characters every time I read something.
The Biography of Benjamin Franklin - one of the most fascinating forefathers of our country. It gives me hope that one person can change the course of th world for better!
2006-10-15 20:36:41 · answer #5 · answered by goodnevili 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Elidor - Alan Garner
The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The Edible Woman - Margaret Atwood
Anything by Terry Pratchett!
Lirael, Sabriel and Abhorsen (trilogy) - Garth Nix
Shadowdancer - Angela Carter
The Magic Toyshop - Angela Carter
Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman
Sophie's World - Jostein Gaarder
The Lord of the Rings - Tolkien
Wuthering Heights
2006-10-17 08:07:08 · answer #6 · answered by Sinead C 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Tipping Point.
Holy Blood, Holy Grail.
The Silmarillion.
The People's Republic.
Anything by Elaine Pagels.
Anything by Al Franken.
Foccoult's Pendulum.
The Wordly Philisophy.
Gershom Sholem's History of the Modern Kaballah.,
2006-10-15 04:58:11 · answer #7 · answered by Marisa & Laurence D 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In His Steps
The Greatest Thing in the World
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
The Blue Bottle Club
One Hundred and One Famous Poems
The Purpose Driven Life
2006-10-15 08:02:41 · answer #8 · answered by Puff 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All Humans Are Mortal - Simone de Beauvoir (makes you think about the benefits of life, mortal or not)
The Stories - Thomas Mann (Really well-developed (what else do you expect from him?) and all have this wise deeper meaning)
Mephisto - Klaus Mann (shows how cruel and selfish humans are)
Bronsteins Sons - Jurek Becker (should you or should you not seek revenge, even if it seems to be the only way?)
Faust I - Johann Wolfgang Goethe (I know how this sounds, but this book is just perfect, though its hard to read)
The Moor's Last Sigh - Salman Rushdie (very very wise)
Iceland's Bell - Halldor Laxness (wise and points out the human behaviour)
The Unbearable Lightness Of Being - Milan Kundera (Wise and so goood)
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov (the peak of good writing)
The Loser - Thomas Bernhard (dark, shows how human beings break apart)
2006-10-16 04:54:12 · answer #9 · answered by dorotti 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A biography of John Ruskin called 'The Wider Sea', by John Dixon Hunt. I was in my early 20s, nonchalantly wandered into a village table-top sale in Coniston, Lake District, England, and picked up this book for almost nothing. It literally changed my life. Why? Because before reading this book, I didn't realise the amazing potential of the human mind. (Sorry if that sounds pretentious, but you have to read the writings of John Ruskin - try "Project Gutenburg" via Google - to understand what I mean.) Anyway, hope that answers your question.
2006-10-15 09:18:30 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋