What have you read in your lifetime?

Question

Everything: Novel, finance, non-fiction, architecture, travel, etc

List books that you think has changed your life,

in the bottom write your age and how many books have you read.


10 pts. for good or detailed answer

Answer 1

Just as you could never ever have enough money, enough happiness and joy, and enough good friends, and enough of many good things in life, you could never have read enough good books in life, whatever age you are! There are still more books to read, more to know, more experience to share and talk about........ But, the Bible, and some biblical novels like The Robe, Big Fisherman, then, Catalina, Far from the Madding Crowd, some Indian and Greek epics like Ramayan, Mahabharath, Illiad, Odessey, some more recent works like the Harry Potter series, John Grisham and Tom Clancy works, Life of Pi, works of modern Guru's like Eckhart Tolle, Wayne Dyer, Deepak Chopra........oh, the list is endless! At a rough estimate, one should have read a variety of good books, a total of about 8 to 9 hundred, by age 40: that is a reasonably good beginning!

Answer 2

I am 64 and have read hundreds of books, including, in several cases, all the books by a particular author that I like. I once kept a list because I could remember contents but not titles but got rediculous.
I read about 3 books a week, sometimes rereading. I will read any book by Dick Francis and just found he wrote another in 2006 after saying he was done at age 80. I like many of the books by Terry Prachett, Lois McMaster Bujold and Elizabeth Moon. I like science, art and travel books, although a good history book will catch my eye. When I go looking in the library, I often pick up a book a couple over from the one I was looking for.
Reading the old 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica gives a lot of insight as to how things have changed and where they haven't.

Answer 3

Nichael Shaara, Jeff Shaara, William Faulkner, Shelby Foote, Tony Hillerman*, Patrick O'Brian, David Kenyon Webster*, Joseph Ambrose, Jr*., Deitrich Bonhoffer*, M. Scott Peck*, Laura Hillenbrand, Max Lucado, S.E. Hinton...and the list goes on.
I put an asterisk next to those that have profoundly affected my life...but #1 is the Bible.

I'm 32 and I've read well over 200 books in my lifetime.

Answer 4

I read each & every thing, I could, availabe around me be it good or bad in any degree "positive, comperative or superlative".

I am an complete young old man one day short to my 60 yrs.

Answer 5

national geographic, about animals and the envirment from the north pole to afrcia and down under. and the south pole.from age 17 to 37years old.

Answer 6

nemesis,abc murders,after e funeral,the hallow, at betrams hotel, evil under e sun, they do it with mirrors

guess my age...hahax...i read almost evrythin except comedies, fantasies, sci fiction,