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Books That Changed My Life
The most life changing books, ranked by the wisdom of the crowd of hundreds of people. Anyone can add their picks to this list of books that will change your life, making it an accurate, real-time ranking of the best life changing books, as picked by the people who love them. Ask yourself the question "what are the most life-changing books?" and then vote for the books that you read cover to cover, the novels that changed the way you see the world and the stories you still can't stop thinking about. Share your favorites, and see how your taste stacks up against other readers.
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The Master List
- 1Harper Lee1960-07-11Fiction
- 2J. R. R. TolkienFantasy, Fiction, Speculative fiction, Adventure novel, Chivalric romance, High fantasy MoreMost Listed
- 3Aldous HuxleyFiction, Children's literature, Science fiction, Speculative fiction, Dystopia, Utopian and dystopian fiction More
- 4J. D. Salinger1951-07-16Novel, Fiction, Bildungsroman, First-person narrativeControversial
- 5George Orwell1945-08-17Fiction, Roman à clef, Children's literature, Speculative fiction, Satire More
- 6Ken KeseyNovel, Fiction, Children's literature
- 7Albert CamusFiction, Crime fiction, Suspense, Existentialism, Absurdist fiction
- 8Kurt Vonnegut1969Fiction, Philosophy, Science fiction, Time travel, Speculative fiction, Black comedy, War novel More
- 9Antoine de Saint-Exupéry1943
- 10Fyodor Dostoyevsky1866Novel, Fiction, Suspense
- 11Hermann Hesse1922Fiction, Speculative fiction
- 12Gabriel García Márquez1985Novel
- 13Mark Twain1884Fiction, Children's literature, Adventure novel, Humour, Satire
- 14Gabriel García Márquez1967Novel, Speculative fiction
- 15F. Scott Fitzgerald1925-04-10Novel, Fiction
- 16Kurt Vonnegut1963Science fiction, Speculative fiction, Satire
- 17John Steinbeck1937Novella
- 18J. R. R. Tolkien1937Fantasy, Fiction, Children's literature, Speculative fiction, Adventure novel, Juvenile fantasy More
- 19Ayn Rand1957-10-10Fiction, Mystery, Science fiction, Speculative fiction, DystopiaControversial
- 20Yann Martel2001-09Novel, Fiction
- 21William Golding, Leslie Denman1954Novel, Fiction, Speculative fiction, Young adult literature
- 22George Orwell1949Fiction, Science fiction, Speculative fiction, Utopian and dystopian fiction, Social science fiction More
- 23Ernest Hemingway1952Fiction, Children's literature, Sea story, Novella
- 24Madeleine L'Engle1962Fantasy, Children's literature, Science fiction, Speculative fiction, Young adult literature More
- 25Milan KunderaFiction
- 26John Steinbeck, Frank Galati
- 27Joseph Heller1961-11-11Anti-war, World War II, Historical fiction, Black comedy, War novel, Satire, Absurdist fiction More
- 28John Kennedy Toole1980Comedy, Fiction
- 29Howard ZinnHistory, Non-fictionControversial
- 30Charles Dickens1860Novel, Fiction
- 31Sylvia Plath1963Fiction, Roman à clef, Children's literature, Autobiography
- 32Cormac McCarthy2006-09-26Fiction, Science fiction, Speculative fiction, Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction, Literary fiction More
- 33Mary ShelleyFantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Science fiction, Horror, Speculative fiction, Suspense, Gothic fiction, Epistolary novel More
- 34Robert M. Pirsig1974Biography, Philosophy, Non-fiction, Autobiography, Psychology, TravelControversial
- 35J. K. Rowling1997Fantasy, Fiction, Children's literature, Speculative fiction
- 36Franz Kafka1915Fantasy, Fiction, Children's literature, Speculative fiction, Novella, Absurdist fiction More
- 37Ernest Hemingway1929Novel, Fiction
- 38Hunter S. ThompsonFiction, Roman à clef, Autobiographical novel
- 39Ernest HemingwayNovel, Fiction, Roman à clef, Children's literature
- 40Ayn Rand1943-12Fiction
- 41Victor Hugo1862Novel, Fiction
- 42Frank Herbert1965Fiction, Science fiction
- 43John Steinbeck1952-09Novel
- 44J. D. Salinger1961Novel, Fiction, Short story, Novella
- 45Haruki MurakamiNovel, Fiction, Speculative fiction
- 46Jack Kerouac1957Novel, Fiction, Roman à clef
- 47Jerry Ahern, Kahlil GibranPoetry, Speculative fiction
- 48Paulo Coelho, Donna Boyd1988Drama, Fantasy, Novel, Fiction, Science fiction, Speculative fiction, Historical fiction, Adventure novel, Psychology More
- 49Arundhati Roy1997-06-09Novel, Fiction
- 50Aldous HuxleyFiction, Science fiction, Speculative fiction, Utopian and dystopian fiction More
- 51Fyodor Dostoyevsky1880-11Novel, Fiction, Suspense
- 52John Knowles1959Novel, Fiction, Children's literature, Young adult literature, Bildungsroman More
- 53William Faulkner1929Fiction, Children's literature, Gothic fiction
- 54Henry David Thoreau1854Fiction, Children's literature, Philosophy, Speculative fiction, Autobiography, Nature, Inspirational More
- 55Judy BlumeYoung adult literature
- 56Chuck Palahniuk1996-08Novel, Fiction, Mystery, Science fiction, Speculative fiction, Suspense, Satire More
- 57Marisha Pessl2006Novel, Fiction, Mystery, Crime fiction
- 58James Joyce1922-02-02Novel, Fiction
- 59John Irving1978Literary fiction
- 60Margaret Mitchell1936-06-30Novel, Fiction, Historical fiction
- 61Chinua AchebeNovel, Poetry, Fiction, Children's literature
- 62Joan Didion1970Fiction
- 63Stephen King1978Novel, Fiction, Children's literature, Science fiction, Horror, Speculative fiction, Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction More
- 64John Irving1989-03NovelControversial
- 65Tom Wolfe1968Sociology, Creative nonfiction
- 66Ray Bradbury
- 67William Shakespeare1600Comedy, Fantasy
- 68
Richard BachFictionControversial - 69Jeffrey Eugenides2002-10-07Novel, Fiction, Transgender and transsexual fiction
- 70Jean M. AuelFantasy, Fiction, Speculative fiction, Historical novel
- 71Salman Rushdie1981-04Novel, Speculative fiction, Historical fiction, Magic realism
- 72Neale Donald Walsch1995Non-fiction
- 73Madeleine L'Engle1980Fiction, Children's literature, Speculative fiction, Young adult literature More
- 74Dave Eggers2000Memoir
- 75Robert A. Heinlein1961-06-01Fiction, Science fiction
- 76Bram Stoker1897Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Science fiction, Horror, Speculative fiction, Gothic fiction, Epistolary novel, Invasion literature More
- 77Rhonda Byrne2006-11Non-fiction, Self-help
- 78James Redfield1993Fiction, Philosophy, Speculative fiction, Inspirational
- 79F. Scott Fitzgerald, Fitzgerald1920Novel, Fiction
- 80
Viktor Frankl1984-10-23Psychology - 81Erica JongNovel, Fiction
- 82Barbara EhrenreichBiography, Business, Autobiography, Economics, Sociology
- 83Norman Vincent PealeChildren's literature, Philosophy, Inspirational
- 84Paul Auster1989-02Fiction, Speculative fiction, Picaresque novel
- 85Henry Miller1934Novel, Erotica
- 86Joan Didion2005Memoir
- 87Nevil Shute1957Novel, Fiction, Science fiction, Speculative fiction, Suspense, Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction More
- 88Charles Bukowski1982-09-01Fiction, Autobiographical novel
- 89Tim O'BrienFiction
- 90Richard Bach1977Biography, Speculative fiction, Autobiography, Self-help, Spirituality
- 91Michael Chabon2007-05-01Novel, Fiction
- 92Robert Caro2002-04Biography
- 93
Malcolm GladwellNon-fiction - 94Madeleine L'Engle1965-01-01Fiction, Children's literature, Science fiction, Young adult literature More
- 95Marianne Williamson1992Fiction, Psychology, Self-help
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