To Kill A Mockingbird.
The Pit and The Pendulum.
Go Ask Alice.
Huckleberry Finn.
My Secret Garden.
Our Bodies, Ourselves.
Helter Skelter.
Sophie's Choice.

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This is an interesting and disturbing look at the other side of the Holocaust. It's enlightening in that every day German men who had mundane regular jobs willingly murdered innocent men, women, and children.

Don't read this if you want to believe that most German citizens were unaware of what the Nazis were doing.

With a shade of embarrassment I'll admit to "Tropic of Cancer" in my teens.

I read on average 4 hours each and every day. I love it, it gives me so much new perspective. I can not point to any specific book or title that I truly would say has made such a huge impact. They all do. I especially look forward to the next book. I often think that Ill soon run out of books to read. Then along comes that book title and author that captivates my mind.

The DaVinci Code first got me thinking about religion and... the rest is history.

‘The Game’ by Neil Strauss

Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maitenance. Matter of fact, Robert Pirsig, the author, passed away a year ago tomorrow.

Where the Wild Things Are, by Maurice Sendak

"Your Erroneous Zones", by Wayne Dyer

Zen guitar - Philip toshio sudo
How to talk dirty and influence people - Lenny Bruce
The tyranny of malice - Joseph berke
Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
The stranger - Albert Camus
The unbearable lightness of being - Milan kundera
ZAP ! Comix
.....probably more, but that's right off....

I've met 2 survivors. Gerta Klein was one and oddly the man who played LaBeau on Hogans Heroes, is also a survivor.
BOTH had an impact.
I do like Wayne Dyer.
I find it strange that my favorite is, Meals Donald Walsch and his trilogy Conversations with God.
It seems offensive, but, they're NOT religious. Which is what caught me off guard. As,a recovering Catholic, it SET ME FREE.
I don't believe in God per se, it's more of an energy thing. It's beyond the capacity of my humanness, & im ok with that today.??

I need to try it again. I tried when I was in college and didn't have the time.

To Kill a Mockingbird still rings with truth for me.

Recently read “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump,” edited by Bandy Lee. Twenty seven psychiatrists and mental health experts assess a president. Scary, is all I can say. Currently reading “A Higher Loyalty” by James Comey. The books themselves may not have an impact on my life, but their common subject certainly does!

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit by Jeanne Winterson
A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving
She Come Undone by Wally Lamb
Sacrament by Clive Barker

These are just the first few that leap to mind. I know there are probably others.

The Songs of Distant Earth. The Phantom Tollbooth. Back and forth at the same time. Was 6 years old.

I read Mein Kampf and the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich at 12. On my own. No reading program involved.

There are quite a few: One that springs to mind is 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance' by Robert M Pirsig. The original edition was a bit perplexing at the end, so read the updated edition which makes things a bit clearer.

Atlas shrugged.

Also read “Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.” Went and lived in Deutschland for a year. Loved it. Two different worlds.

The Dark Side of the Light Chasers by Debbie Ford. Explained the "shadow self," the parts of our personalities we don't readily see.