Have you ever read a (nonreligious) book that changed your life?...

[Jothaxe]

There are one or two classic books I have read that have fundamentally changed the way I look at life.

Has anyone else had this experience? If so please share, and hopefully I can use this thread to start a summer reading list...

 

[Mister T]

the fountainhead
by ayn rand

 

[weezergirl]

ishmael by daniel quinn

 

[Total Refected Power]

IRS Tax book

 

[Arwen Evenstar]

"The Once And Future King," by T.H. White.

 

[Mikal]

"Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science" by Martin Gardner.

"Flim-Flam" by James Randi.

Two great debunking classics promoting reason and science.

 

[konichiwa]

Ishmael

 

[GasX]

Jack Kerouac - On The Road

 

[Buddhist]

The alchemist and By the river piedra I sat down and wept. (Both by paolo coehlo)

another good one is the Prophet but its got some religious influences to it...Kahlil Gibran

 

[UG]

Encyclopaedia Britannica.

 

[konichiwa]

Hey, I'd have to agree with the Alchemist. Great book.

 

[AccruedExpenditure]

Certainly it monopolized the trade in bootleg liquor and controlled loan sharking, gambling, and prostitution.

 

[Jothaxe]

<< Encyclopaedia Britannica. >>



UG, did you really read it straight through?

 

[Dameon]

The Courage to be Rich by Suzie Ormand

 

[Robert01]

1984 - George Orwell
Native Son - Richard Wright

 

[wdeep]

&quot;The Making of the Atomic Bomb&quot; by Richard Rhodes.

One of the best books I've ever read in my entire life. It also won the Pulitzer prize.

 

[EmperorNero]

Fun Time Alone for the People Who Can't Get Some by Jerry Reece.

*sigh*

 

[Aceman]

Is Penthouse considered a book?

 

[glen]

Alcoholics Anonymous

 

[Cougar]

TV Guide

 

[Platypus]

1984 - George Orwell
Marabou Stork Nightmares - Irvine Welsh
Invisble Monsters, Survivor, Choke, Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
A Clockwork Orange - Sir Anthony Burgess

 

[datalink7]

Cosmos- by Carl Sagan
The Illustrated Man- by Ray Bradbury
The Trial- by Franz Kafka

 

[datalink7]

<< Ishmael >>



And this one as well

 

[dyqith]

Dragonlance Chronicles - Margret Weis &amp; Tracy Hickman

 

[A5]

Suprised no one has mentioned this one yet...

Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- Douglas Adams (R.I.P.)