<p>Books that got me into reading as a kid - Phantom Tollbooth, The BFG, Tuck Everlasting</p>
<p>Books that have changed my outlook on life - Fountainhead & Atlas Shrugged, Candide, Confederacy of Dunces</p>
<p>Books that I’ve enjoyed the most - Harry Potter, Prince of Tides, The Road</p>
<p>Also from the first page, I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell is a must read for everyone. It’ll blow your mind.</p>
<p>I think Harry Potter is so appealing to people just because it presents a sort of “good guys make it through” theme and shows that even the most extraordinary people have bad times now and then.</p>
<p>And I don’t know if this book necessarily made a difference, but The Road remains the one and only book that has ever brought me to the point of tears.</p>
<p>Harry Potter series, hands down. JK Rowling is an extraordinary writer and I can only dream of being able to accomplish what she has. Those books are such a big part of my life, it’s crazy.</p>
<p>^^ Lol, I thought Harry Potter appealed to so many because it presented a world where magic was real. Everyone born in the early 90s secretly wished for a letter from Hogwarts on their 11th birthday.</p>
<p>Just finished *The Prometheus Deception<a href=“Robert%20Ludlum%20is%20an%20incredible%20author”>/I</a> and now reading Stephen King’s Dark Tower series.</p>
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<p>The Little Prince</p>
<p>I think the main thing it had going for it was that it was a realistic depiction of teenagers. And as the readers grew up the books did too.</p>
<p>I wonder whether it’ll have much impact down the line when their lifestyle is more anachronistic and people can read the whole series in a month (or week :D) instead of over the course of a decade.</p>
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Seconded. That book made me think so much, just about life and being … ahhh yeah all that corny stuff. It’s actually my summer reading for AP French right now. :)</p>
<p>The Chosen was amazing as well.
And +1 to Harry Potter.</p>
<p>i’m writing my college essay on La Petit Prince</p>
<p>What kind of topic</p>
<p>It’s kind of strange, but Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld is up there in the books that influenced my life. i realized i wasn’t alone in the bubble world that Lee described =/</p>
<p>same with Catcher in the Rye, but in larger terms of society. I don’t like to think of my favorite books filled with symbols, etc but Catcher in the Rye really makes you think without having to dig too deeply.</p>
<p>Most influential, I’d have to say though, is the great gatsby. I’ve never had to study it in school, so maybe that’s why I like it so much, but it’s an amazing book. fitzgerald is the best.</p>
<p>Les Miserables by Victor Hugo. Notre-Dame of Paris by Victor Hugo. Anything by Hugo really.</p>
<p>Platts, I Loved Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Try the books if you like Scifi Comedy. The movie wasn’t as good, some of the plot and scenarios are changed.</p>
<p>a walk to remember, nicolas sparks.</p>
<p>love that book <33</p>
<p>i like ragtime a lot too, very interesting look into society during that time period…</p>
<p>The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan…</p>
<p>then Sixth Grade Secrets by Louis Sachar 
LOVED that book, read it a million times and it doesn’t get old.</p>
<p>Harry Potter, of course, is amazing. I really admire J.K. Rowling and everything that she’s gone through. Have you seen the commencement speech she gave to the Harvard class - I think it was in 08? It was probably the most beautiful thing I’ve ever heard.</p>
<p>The book that’s had the most impact on my life, though, is Getting a Grip: On My Body, My Mind, and My Self by Monica Seles (I’m a tennis player…). Being a tennis player helped me empathize a little more with her, but the book is written for anyone who needs a little inspiration in their lives. Monica Seles was #1 in tennis, when she was stabbed in the back during a tennis match by a crazy fan of another player, and her dad falls ill of cancer a short while later. The book details how she bounces back from these incidents, and it really makes you (or, at least, made me) realize that most opportunities are once-in-a-lifetime deals, and that you have to seize every opportunity that comes your way. Monica truly is an awe-inspiring woman.</p>
<p>the great gatsby - i don’t really know why i just think it’s a great book. i think it’s all about sticking to your beliefs and not letting anybody else get the best of oyu.</p>
<p>Fight Club - you are your own person
Catcher in the Rye - the world is full of hypocrisy
I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell - you can overcome adversity</p>
<p>tuck everlasting. the first book i was never able to finish reading, because i lost it. since then, it’s like there’s a curse that won’t let me finish reading books. even ones required for school!</p>
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