I would like to create a reading list for myself and would like to hear from you what book(s), fiction or non-fiction, either have made an impact on you or were particularly good!. Thanks for your time!Www@QuestionHome@Com
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Position:Home>Books & Authors> What book made a difference to you?Question: What book made a difference to you!? I would like to create a reading list for myself and would like to hear from you what book(s), fiction or non-fiction, either have made an impact on you or were particularly good!. Thanks for your time!Www@QuestionHome@Com
Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Books That Made a Difference to Me: The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupéry A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Books That Were Particularly Good (these are all my favourite books): Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood Surfacing - Margaret Atwood Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams An Abundance of Katherines - John Green Choke - Chuck Palahnuik Rant - Chuck Palahnuik The Princess Bride - William Goldman Hemingway's Chair - Michael Palin Good Omens - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett Thief of Time - Terry Pratchett Sybil - Flora Rhetta Schneiber Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer Atonement - Ian McEwan Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card Ender's Shadow - Orson Scott Card Veronika Decides to Die - Paulo Coelho The Devil and Miss Prym - Paulo Coelho Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess Brave New World - Aldous Huxley Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson Sexing the Cherry - Jeanette Winterson The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkein Life of Pi - Yann Martel The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde 1984 - George Orwell Alice's Adentures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There - Lewis Carroll Foundation - Isaac Asimov The Catcher in the Rye - J!.D!. SalingerWww@QuestionHome@Com Lord of the Rings- it is a good story about a hero who overcomes a lot to save the world!. Left Behind series- This series scared the crap out of me!. It is about the end times prophesied in the Bible!. It is written like it is now!. I loved it!. It is a long series and does take some patience to read because of that, but well worth it!. The characters in it are great!. anything by Janette Oke- My mom gave several of this author's books to read and I was hooked!. She writes books that are historical Christian Romance!. Most of them are set either in the Canadian West or North!. A lot of them have made me cry!. Her Love Comes Softly series has been turned into a made for tv series on the Hallmark Channel anything by James Patterson- he writes the best thriller I have ever read!. He truly is one of my favorite authors!. I have been reading his books for a couple of years now and I was hooked from the beginning!. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo- I saw the musical when I was in junior high school and when i was in high school, i had to read a book that was non American for my senior English class and I chose this!. I loved both the musical and the book!. It is a really good story!. A man is sent to a chain gang because he stole a loaf of bread!. After nineteen years on it, he finally get free!. He starts life over by changing his name!. He become an outstanding citizen until a shadow from his past comes back to haunt him!.Www@QuestionHome@Com I am only twelve, so I can't have a giant list yet!. Here are some (though I might use some of Bekki's!. I seem to have read a lot of the same books as her)!. Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson Night by Elie Weisel Yellow Star by Jennifer Roy The Ghost Canoe (don't know why) by Will Hobbs Dreamland by Sarah Dessen Misty of Chincoteague Any of Joan Lowry Nixon's mystery books!. My favorite of hers is The Name of the Game was Murder!. Monsters of Morely Manor Hans Brinker (I have literally read it 15 times!) I would list others, but they would probably seem to childish!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Okay, I'd tell you breifly what they're about, but it would take too long!. I read a lot :-) ALL of Jane Austen's works: -Sense and Sensibility -Pride and Prejudice -Mansfield Park -Emma -Northanger Abbey -Persuasion "Atonement" by Ian McEwan "Holes" by Louis Sachar "The Catcher in the Rye" by J!.D!. Salinger "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte "Harry Potter Series" by J!.K!. Rowling "The Red Tent" by Anita Diamant "Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George "Jacob Have I Loved" and "Bridge to Terabithia" by Katherine Paterson "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel HawthorneWww@QuestionHome@Com the series of the sisterhood of the traveling pants made a difference to me bcuz it was about staying in touch w/ friends even when ur in different countries!.!.!. me and my friends have trouble staying in touch when we're in the same city so it meant a lotWww@QuestionHome@Com "Darkness before dawn" By!.Sharon m!. draper!. it made me start realizing that just because someone seems nice or they seem to be amazing they might not really be and that you should count on the people who have been there for you since the start!.Www@QuestionHome@Com I am David made a difference to me!. It's almost a novella but it actually put tears in my eyes in a few parts of it!. You should read it!Www@QuestionHome@Com All of my lesson books, cos they have taken years off my life!.(been failing the exams)Www@QuestionHome@Com The Holy BibleWww@QuestionHome@Com the bible!.!.!.!. it has formed and molded me into the person i am today!.Www@QuestionHome@Com |