some books that have impacted you personally?

Question: What is a book/some books that have impacted you personally!?
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I feel that I have been impacted in some way by nearly every book I've ever read (including my intense dislike of Lord of the Flies!. Ick)!. However, here are some the have "impacted" me the most at different ages:

As a 5 year old: The Chronicles of Narnia (my mom read them out loud at night to my younger brothers and me)
As a 6 year old: Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein (my 1st grade teacher read these poems aloud all the time, and then my aunt gave me the book for Christmas, and I learned to read really well with this book!.)
As a 7 year old: The Betsy books by Carolyn Haywood
As an 8 year: The Little House Books (The Orignals - I read and re-read them hungrily!.
As a 10 year old: My Sister's Keeper by Beverly Butler (Historical disaster novel - about about the Peshtigo, WI fire in 1871)
As an 11 year old: The Dollhouse Murders by Betty Ren Wright, Anne of Green Gables series by L!.M!. Montgomery!. Karen by Marie Killilea!.
As a 12 year old: Children of the Dust by Louise Lawrence
As a 12/13/14 year old: Cynthia Voigt books, particularly Izzy, Willy-Nilly and The Callendar Papers!.
Ages 14 - 17 or so: Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes by Chris Crutcher, To Kill a Mockingbird, Stephen KIng books, Ruby Jean Jensen horror, The Secret Circle triology by LJ Smith
Ages 18 and to now: Anne Rice books (nearly all), Meg Cabot (both her adult and teen books), Elizabeth Berg books, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown, The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde (and the rest of the Thursday Next series), Funny in Farsi by Firoozeh Dumas, Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, The Sweet Hereafter by Russell Banks, Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, Harry Potter, the Sweep series by Cate Tiernan, Life as We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer, :

There are so many more!. !. !.
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I believe that is almost every single book that I've read!. There is no point in reading if it has no impact on you!.

Couple of favourites:
Hesse's books - Siddhartha, Demian, Steppenwolf and many others
Dostoevsky's - The Brothers Karamazov, The Idiot, Crime and Punishment
Tosltoy's Anna Karenina
Goethe's - Faust, the Sorrows of Yound Werther
Orwell's 1984
Nietzsche's Ecce Homo
Bulgakov's Master and Margarita
Siekiewicz's Quo Vadis
Wilde's De Profundis
Poe and Borges's short stories
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I would have to say Jake's tower by elizabeth Laird!. It's the story of a young boy who lives in fear of his step-father who pummels him whenever he gets the chance!. It's really opened my eyes to how child abuse affects the child mentally!. There was a precious moment when he wanted to make up his dream house, and every feature the house had was to keep his step-father away!. You must read it!. A great read!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

Blink by Ted Dekker!. His ideas on the future and who has a say in it are profound for me!. It changed the way I make big decisions in my everyday life!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Outrageous Mastery -Sasha Xarrian This book has really inspired meWww@QuestionHome@Com

The Power of One by Bryce CourtenayWww@QuestionHome@Com

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon, it will change your lifeWww@QuestionHome@Com

jane eyre!. it has inspired me a lotWww@QuestionHome@Com