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Books That Changed My Life

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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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    Romeo and Juliet

    William Shakespeare
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    Yann Martel
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    Emily Brontë
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    John Kennedy Toole
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    Judy Blume
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    Robert M. Pirsig
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    Roald Dahl
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    Daniel Keyes
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    John Steinbeck
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    John Irving
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    J. K. Rowling
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
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    Shel Silverstein
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    Cormac McCarthy
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    Howard Zinn
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    Ernest Hemingway
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    William Faulkner
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    Robert A. Heinlein
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    Sun Tzu
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    Dante's Inferno

    Dante Alighieri
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    J. K. Rowling
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    Uncle Tom's Cabin

    Harriet Beecher Stowe
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    James Joyce
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    Leo Tolstoy
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    John Knowles
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    Othello

    William Shakespeare
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    Stephen Hawking
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    Chinua Achebe
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    Paulo Coelho, Donna Boyd
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    Catch 22

    Joseph Heller
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    Shel Silverstein
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    J. D. Salinger
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    Dr. Seuss
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    Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons
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    Viktor Frankl
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    Milan Kundera
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    Elie Wiesel
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    Margaret Mitchell
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    John Steinbeck, Gregory McElwain
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    Herman Melville
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    Truman Capote
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    Diary of Anne Frank

    Frank
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    Tom Wolfe
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    Mario Puzo
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    Stephen Covey
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    Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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    Leo Tolstoy
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    the oddysey

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    Jonathan Safran Foer
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    1. MAYONNAISE
      Books That Changed My Life at 12/12/2012 4:30 AM
      Wow you are obsessed with life changing books!
    2. Jeffry Avino
      Books That Changed My Life at 8/28/2012 9:30 AM
      Someone loves best chick lit.
    3. Ja Poniatoski
      Books That Changed My Life at 8/17/2012 10:30 AM
      Looks like a bunch of most life changing books.
    4. Son Gerety
      Books That Changed My Life at 6/24/2012 1:30 AM
      books that will change your life!
    5. omar
      Books That Changed My Life at 3/19/2012 6:33 AM
      The Prophet by Khalil Gibron
    6. ingcold cause
      Books That Changed My Life at 1/18/2012 8:41 AM
      To Kill a Mockingbird deserves to be at the top of this list, it influenced generations of people to open their eyes and walk in another's shoes. The social themes in it are still relevant today, and the language borders on the poetic
    7. N Daniel
      Books That Changed My Life at 1/03/2012 10:41 PM
      Glad a woman author topped the list.
    8. N. Daniel
      Books That Changed My Life at 1/03/2012 10:37 PM
      Glad that a book written by a woman has topped the list.
    9. marc.zandersons
      Books That Changed My Life at 6/06/2011 12:39 PM
      Interesting list ... I made my personal list for self development books which actually have changed my life: http://www.thebooksthatchangedmylife.com/2011/06/04/50-personal-development-books-that-changed-my-life/
    10. Anonymous
      Books That Changed My Life at 1/12/2011 7:25 PM
      OK - why would you want to read some of these boring books. I mean there are so many great books out there, but people feel they must put down the books that are considered classics. Be true to yourself.
    11. Anonymous
      Books That Changed My Life at 1/12/2011 7:22 PM
      Why do people think that books that change your life have to be highly hailed classics? For real, most of the life changing books I can think of struck a chord in me - not with critics.
    12. ruben
      Island at 8/22/2010 11:42 PM
      One of my favorite books of all time. I reread it at least twice a year

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