<p>What are some really good books out there that you have read? Books that have changed your outlook on life forever, or perhaps made you wiser in some way? ANything!</p>
<p>Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer</p>
<p>Man’s Search for Meaning
Tao of Pooh
Sophie’s World
Siddartha</p>
<p>All these books rly changed my outlook on life 
The first one especially I HIGHLY recommend, I believe it’s one of the most popular/acclaimed books in the world…for good reason too
Best two are the first two, if you have to chose to read any, read those two</p>
<p>Hope that helps!</p>
<p>Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov. </p>
<p>I can’t even begin to explain how much this book changed my life, but it really did. Don’t just read it once and go by that. Every time I read this book, it’s like I’m reading it for the first time: I notice things I never noticed before, and get references that had previously flown over my head.</p>
<p>Mountains Beyond Mountains, Chasing Ghosts… don’t read as much as I should sadly.</p>
<p>The Call of The Wild - Jack London
The Talisman - Steven King
Understanding The Media - Marshall Mcluhan
The Hero With a Thousand Faces - Joseph Campell
The Bible</p>
<p>Atlas Shrugged, 1984, Three Musketeers all really had big impacts on me.</p>
<p>Catch 22.</p>
<p>“This thingy must be at least 10 characters”</p>
<p>Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. </p>
<p>The only book, besides The Bible, which has changed my life.</p>
<p>The Bible
Crime and Punishment
The Brothers Karamazov
The Chosen
Honey, Baby Sweetheart
Last Days of Summer</p>
<p>The Alchemist</p>
<p>I second Siddhartha to whoever said that.</p>
<p>Candide.</p>
<p>Captures the Enlightenment for me. While it challenged the dogma that existed that day, it also has a sober conservative tone (I don’t think that Pangloss was an criticism against Leibiniz, but against all “perfect” solutions. “Perfect” solutions, by definition lead to dogma. For example, I really find a huge irony in originalism or “What would the founding fathers do” mentality. I’m sure they, like Voltaire and other Enlightenment figures, saw themselves as being imperfect.)</p>
<p>Three Cups of Tea, co-written by journalist David Oliver Relin and Greg Mortenson, who built (and continues to build) schools, especially for girls, in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The book tells the story about his experiences both in the middle east and in the States from '93 on. He was in Pakistan on 9/11.</p>
<p>Not exactly life changing, but the following made me think in a slightly different way: Freakonomics and Super Freakonomics (Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner), and Blink, Outliers, and the Tipping Point (Malcolm Gladwell).</p>
<p>Atlas Shrugged! very very good book. its long but it totally worth it!!! everyone need to read it before they die. seriously. </p>
<p>but here are some more:
“From Homeless to Harvard” by Liz Murray</p>
<p>“Life as we knew it” by Susan Pfeffer</p>
<p>The Princess Diaries, by Meg Cabot. I read it in 6th or 7th grade, and it made me realize that reading isn’t always about old, stuffy books that your teacher assigns you; it’s OK to read things written in the vernacular and about things that didn’t happen hundreds of years ago in a land far away. It also turned me into a writer and a stickler for historical documentation; I think of writing in a diary as documenting your life in the early 21st century for some future historian.</p>
<p>The Time Traveler’s Wife, by Audrey Neffineger. Completely changed the way I think of time. And gave me unrealistic romantic ideals.</p>