You'll Be the Same Person in Five Years Except For...

...the people you meet and the books you read.

 

What are the most influential and life-changing books you've ever read? I'll list a few of mine here.

1. What's So Amazing about Grace? by Philip Yancey

2. Night by Elie Wiesel

3. Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt

4. A Severe Mercy by Sheldon VanAuken

5. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

6. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

7. Beloved by Toni Morrison

8. The Hours by Michael Cunningham

9. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

10. Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh

 

Please let me know what your favorites are and why they influenced you. Was it the writing itself? The subject matter? The plot and character development?