15 BOOKS THAT WILL FOREVER CHANGE YOUR LIFE

1. Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
2. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
3. “It’s not about how good you are it’s about how good you want to be” by Paul Arden
4. Ronia, the Robber’s Daughter by Astrid Lindgren
5. Three Cups of Tea by Greg mortenson
6. Half The Sky by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
7. Everything by Oscar Wilde, but specially The Nightingale and the Rose
8.Emil by Astrid Lindgren
9. Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse
10. The stranger by Albert Camus
11. The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart
12. Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski
13. The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield
14. Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata
15. The Winter Rose by Selma Lagerlöf

I’ve read most of these, I will definitely check the rest out. Some of these book are among the best books I’ve read.

If I were to recommend more books I would recommend Ironmind, Flow, and What to say when talking to yourself. And all of Bruce Lee’s books.

Zen And the Art of Happiness completely changed my way of thinking, more than I thought possible.

@Ellie You have intrigued me, I just ordered The Magic of Thinking Big :-)

Just recently ordered Mr G by Alan Lightman. Read the excerpt online and found the scientific and philosophical take on the creation of the universe intriguing. I don’t identify as a creationist but the book is an interesting concept.

The alchemist, and The Celestine Prophecy, and Celestine Vision

probably pretty cliche but i Really liked Siddhartha by Herman Hesse, and hmmmmm, maybe the great gatsby by F scott fitzgerald…. i probably need to get out there and read more books

desmond morris has a couple of books – the naked ape and the human zoo – where he looks at the human as a biologist would look at any other animal species. very interesting.

the first three castaneda books (on don juan) really hit me hard when I was younger and helped me approach LSD and shrooms as gifts that can be used to change your understanding of the world.

for fiction, “this book will save your life” by AM Holmes is inspiring and fun to read.

and of course my man Shel Silverstein. His poetry is brilliant, simple but has so much depth.

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak was amazing. Also Going Bovine by Libba Bray changed my perspective on alternate universes, It was an awesome fiction book

So many books contributed to my education and enjoyment, but only one ever “changed” my life, and that was John Fowles “The Magus” in that it changed how I thought about romance.

Ayn Rand changed my life for 5 minutes when i was 15, but then I realized how solipsistic her views were.

My major was literature, so there were so many greats–Hemingway, Dos Passos, Fitzgerald, Updike, Katherine Ann Porter…that showed me what writing was all about.

Philosophicaly and spiritually, I did read things like “Siddhartha,” but was pretty closed off to that sort of life when I was young.