Which books changed your life or mind?

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[Dora Flood]

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Cannay Row by John Steinbeck; I'm not sure how much they change lives, but they definitely open them!

[Orb_Robinson]

I haven't read Cannery Row yet, but I own it and am going to get around to it. One Hundred Years of Solitude is a really great book. probably the defining piece of work in magical realism, a style that dominated Latin American Literature of a long time.

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Cannay Row by John Steinbeck; I'm not sure how much they change lives, but they definitely open them!

[Dora Flood]

Hope you enjoy Cannary Row as much as I did, the sequel, Sweet Thursday is fantastic too... couldn't agree more about One Hundred Years of Solitude, it's the book that made me want to be a writer.

[Dragonflytears]

The Celestine Prophecy series by James Redfield takes you on a wonderful spiritial journey

[Kris0]

The Guardian. I think its an obscure book, or maybe its just new. By Micheal Hay, its on amazon, its just kinda buried in the search engine. Anyway, the main character sort of writes a manuscript. The point I'm trying to make is that the Character, James, thinks like I do. It just opened the fact that I finally found someone else that thinks like me.

[Malachi]

Godel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter really altered my mind and it is very challenging.

[johansburg]

Holy Quran

[Fran]

Many books have made me rethink my views and have given me a totally different outlook - some that come to mind are:
The Handmaid's Tale
The Sixth Lamentation
I Married A Communist
The Kindly Ones
The Garden of Last Days
Human Traces

[booklvr62]

Even though I had already gone from being an evangelical Christian to a non believer before I read them. These wonderful books just reaffirmed that I had finally truly found 'The Truth'.

Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon by Daniel C. Dennett

Why I Believed: Reflections of a Former Missionary by Kenneth W Daniels

The Book Your Church Doesn't Want You to Read by Tim C. Leedom

Oranges & Sunshine by Margaret Humphreys
More Proof That There Is No Such Being As An All-Powerful,All-Loving God!,
Devasting story about how the so-called "Christian" charities in cahoots with the UK government dumped their children of the poor and orphanges like garbage,by sending them.... many only toddlers.... 12,000 miles away to be slave labor in Austrailia, New Zealand, Canada,ect!

and also seeing the enlightening film~

Judgment Day - Intelligent Design on Trial DVD ~ Nova
Fascinating account of the the Dover trial on Evolution vs Intelligent Design, shows the 'creationists' caught in their lies.
This documentary is gripping to watch and a real eye-opener showing the dishonesty and level of hate to which the creationists will go to,even to hate mail and death threats against the judge in the case!

[BizAcquire]

Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis

[goofygal37]

1984, by Orwell. It may seem like a daunting read, but it really isnt as complicated as i had expected (never judge a book by its cover, after all!) Really makes you think about the human condition and how people are willing to do as they are told, even if it hurts their own motivations and/or the lives of fellow man. It teaches an important lesson about free thought that everyone ought to know <3
Incognito, by Eagleman. Yes, I picked it up because I am a psych major and perhaps "normal people" dont find it as interesting... (lol), but it truly was written in a way that anybody can understand. Taught me VASTLY interesting things about how the brain works, from simple tricks of our vision that we take for granted to the dizzying way we store memories. Included in the book are lots of fun pictures and examples of case studies, too, so it was an interactive mind stimulating book. On more than one occassion, after reading a particularly mind-blowing passage, I felt so OVERWHELMED that I had to physically put the book down and let it soak in. Mind boggling <3
Pretty Little Mistakes, by McElhatton. Probably one of my all time favorites. It may simple like a silly little choose your own adventure book, but it is NOT purely for entertainment. At the end of each of the mini-stories, McElhatton writes over 150 different ways to die, but none are creepy or terrifying. They are either hilarious and unreal or unexpectedly insightful and metaphysical, like how the afterlife is really just you waking up from a coma in some other universe and the whole huamn experience was just a simulation to make you grow as a person.... made me laugh, made me cry, and each story only takes a few minutes to read and yet describes such fantastical journeys of life.
Enjoy!!

[thespiritofspace]

For me, the first time I read Foucault's "History of Sexuality Vol.1" really changed how I understood not only myself but also the society around me. It's a very difficult text that is easy to misunderstand or fail to grasp, but I think it is definitely worth the time and energy. And even though it's philosophy, the shortness of it makes it a much more manageable task than reading like 400 dense pages.

[Tusc2000]

When I was in college I read "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" by Nietzsche. Changed my view of God for the next 30 years.

[FNAWrite]

Back when this thread started in 2008, a poster noted that she had read "Gone With the Wind" when she was 8 years old.

You know, I started reading very early and always have been a big reader, but this blows me away.

Anyone else read any 1,000 page novels while in the second grade? (I was 8 in third grade but was among youngest in class and that was 50 years ago when kids started earlier. Poster noted it was Gulf War era for her at 8.)