Books that change lives

We are often asked this question: "What is your favorite book?". We can answer easily, some for a few minutes can name a dozen works. But if you change a little this question: "What book changed your life?", Shall in this case, our response is as quick and easy? Quora users were able to answer this question. And if you can?

One of the users Quora I asked readers to name five resource books, which have altered or in any way affect their lives. We decided to share with you these works.

1. John R. R. Tolkien's "Fellowship of the Ring". I first picked up this book in 9 years, and I still could not believe that the human imagination is so boundless, some disturbing picture of consciousness it is able to create. This book is very memorable for me, as it was with her I started my love of reading.
2. Homer's "Iliad". A wonderful book. In college, I had a chance to read it in the original Greek, and it was an invaluable experience.
3. Kurt Vonnegut "God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater". It was this book, because it is the first product that I have read Vonnegut. I have my own tradition - every spring to re-read all the works of Kurt to remind himself that all will be adjusted.
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4. Jean-Paul Sartre "Nausea». This book has allowed me to feel the emptiness of life. And get used to it.
5. George Orwell "Pounds Down and Out in Paris and London". I had a lot of books that made me dream. But only one has forced me to act.
6. Robert James Waller "Bridges of Madison County".Zahvatyvayuschaya story of great passion. It makes believe that you can love and be loved, so that life will never be the same again.

Other books that mention users Quora:

• Robert A. Heinlein "Time Enough for Love, or Life Lazarus Long";
• Hermann Hesse "The Glass Bead Game»;
• Fyodor Dostoevsky "Notes from Underground";
• Henry Miller "Tropic of Cancer»;
• Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged";
• John Irving "Prayer for Owen Meany";
• Cormac McCarthy's "The Road";
• Hermann Hesse "Steppenwolf»;
• Julio Cortázar's "Hopscotch";
• Ken Follett "Pillars of the Earth";
• Richard Adams' Watership Down ";
• Martin Heidegger's "Being and Time";
• Kurt Vonnegut "Slaughterhouse-Five»;
• Abraham Maslow "Motivation and Personality»;
• Robert A. Heinlein, "The Moon - Harsh Mistress";
• Jules Verne's "The Mysterious Island";
• Ayn Rand's "The Source";
• George Orwell's "1984";
• Stendhal "Red and Black";
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's "Faust";
• Erich Maria Remarque "Three Comrades";
• Kurt Vonnegut "Balagan, or End of loneliness";
• Charles Bukowski, "Factotum";
• Gabriel Garcia Marquez 'One Hundred Years of Solitude ";
• Jules Verne's "Around the World in Eighty Days";
• Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland";
• Fyodor Dostoevsky "The Insulted and Injured";
• Fyodor Dostoevsky "The Brothers Karamazov";
• Albert Camus "outsider»;
• Erich Fromm "Escape from Freedom";
• Erich Fromm, "The Art of love";
• Anne Frank "Shelter. Blog letters»;
• Ernest Hemingway "The Old Man and the Sea";
• Leo Tolstoy "Anna Karenina";
• Hermann Hesse "Siddhartha».

When thinking about what book changed my life, I am reminded of school literature lessons. Then it was easy to write an essay on the topic: "The book made me think about something, and that something", "The work of the author N taught me something, and that something "or" hero of the X - a wonderful example to follow because of that and because of that, "and so Further. Could weave like a sly word "catharsis", get a good grade, and safely forget about the product N, which I have so much to "teach".

But since my happy school days already safely passed, I can be more honest: I have not yet met a book that I really "shoveled" somehow changed my a life. So I can say, in active search of his work. For now like to share with you favorite books, which if not changed my life, but definitely memorable:

• Isai Davydov, "I'll be back in a thousand years";
• Erich Maria Remarque "Borrowed Life";
• Choderlos de Laclos 'Dangerous Liaisons';
• Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451";
• Yevgeny Zamyatin "We".

Do you have a book that changed your life, or your favorite literary work, to which you want to come back again and again? Share in the comments.