What was the first book you read that had a huge impact on your life?

Question

For me it was Jane Eyre in the fifth grade!

Answer 1

Of mice and men

Answer 2

Harry Potter.

Answer 3

the first harry potter book,

got me hooked on reading,

always have a book with me thanks to jk rowling

Answer 4

I guess A Porcupine Named Fluffy because I learned to read off of it?  Lol, just kidding.

The Freedom Writers Diaries.  When I read it I was just like. . .  Wow.  Same thing with the movie.

Answer 5

Harry Potter, I still remember thinking 'I've never read a book this big before' (:

Turns out that I interpreted the whole thing wrong and when I watched the first movie my concept of the book was completely off.

All I remember is that I kept reading the name Professor McG. and looking in the mirror. Weird, I know.

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Answer 6

Stephen Clarke's A Year in the Merde.

Gave me the confidence to move to France. i'm leaving in 3 weeks!

Answer 7

I read Les Miserables when I was in I was in the 7th grade and I was so proud of myself. I felt like I could read anything after that.

Watership Down made me hate rabbits and made me want to scratch my eyes out.

Harry Potter has had the biggest impact on my life because I grew up with the books and movies and I feel so attached to them. Those books definitely have a special place in my heart...awwwwww. lol.

Answer 8

The Little Prince

Answer 9

Shoot. I was going to say Jane Eyre. It got me into classics, made me want to be a writer, and influenced me in so many other ways. But you stole that answer, so I'll just pick the second book that came to mind.

The Hobbit was a big book for me. I know it's an odd book to impact someone's life, but it did. When I read it, I knew I wanted to write fantasy.

Answer 10

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle

Answer 11

As cliché as it sounds, it was The Catcher in the Rye, by J. D. Salinger. Without sounding whiny, I related myself to Holden due to some similar situations I'd gone through (I'd gotten kicked out of my school, although I didn't wander around New York for a few days, I totally understood the emotions that were conveyed by the main character). Besides that, it was just a good book exploring the adolescent mind and it's emotions. It more or less just assured me that others had felt the way I'd felt, likewise, I was determined to not be like Holden (listless and drifting).

Answer 12

ik this is kind stupid but  I think it was The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants! It was so emitional and it shows u true friendships!!!

Answer 13

The Little Prince.  I regret reading it in English first though, the french is better

Answer 14

I guess that would have to be LITTLE WOMEN by Louisa May Alcott when I was about ten years old.  Before then I was into reading  a series of orange bound books.  There were several shelves of these books at our school library.  They were all biographies of famous people in history, like George Washington, Abe Lincoln,   I was an avid reader and haunted the public library all summer and the school library the rest of the year.  I still love to read but this little town has no library.

Answer 15

Twilight and Pride & Prejudice

Answer 16

Lord of the flies : first introduction that man can be inherently evil, and first attempts of understand evil at its' core.

Answer 17

Harry Potter

Answer 18

THE TWILIGHT SAGA. (TWILIGHT, NEW MOON, ECLIPSE, BREAKING DAWN)

Answer 19

The Color Purple by Alice Walker.  The part where Celie and Shug talk about God changed my outlook on life and religion (it's also where the book gets its name:  "I think it pisses God off when you don't notice the color purple in a field.")

Answer 20

The Brothers Karamazov