Books you read that changed your life?

Short Stories by Stephen Vincent Benet   

Those short stories made me get an interest in history and comedy. This opened my eyes to what has gone on in the past and is going on now. 

15 Dogs by Andre Alexis. ( not life changing but life enhancing )

Chicken noodle soup for the soul is another great book to have on your book bucket list.

The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle

Some are obvious, some less so.

The Screwtape Letters by C.S.Lewis is a series of letters from the head of a department in the lowerarchy of Hell to a journeyman tempter on Earth. If you take out the obvious religious references and look at the psychological implications, it's a wonderful resource in understanding the way your own mind works, and can play tricks on you.

But better than that, and one that has brought joy to my life for more than half a century is The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. I don't know of any writer who has ever found the balance between the mundane and the spiritual nearly as well as Omar.

Best of all? You might laugh but it's Hans Christian Andersen's The Ugly Duckling. It's the inspiring story of the underdog who didn't quite give up and who discovered, in time, that it wasn't an underdog at all. It's a lovely parable and a great motivator.

A big book

The Hagakure by Yamamoto Tsunetomo .

It could change my life or it has changed my life, as some of them are so interesting that I have read several times, specially the ones of inspiring, they made my life changed since then.

Animal Farm - George Orwell

1984 -George Orwell

Why I'm not a Christian - Bertrand Russel.

(Not changed my life so strongly but changed so many perspectives and outlooks)

By far, God's Word, the Bible is the best and most influential book that I've ever read. Isaiah 48:17, 18 "I, Jehovah, am your God, The One teaching you to benefit yourself, The One guiding you in the way you should walk. If only you would pay attention to my commandments! Then your peace would become just like a river, And your righteousness like the waves of the sea." At first glance, they may appear to be just words, but I've experienced the truthfulness of such words. God's Word has been serving as a guide in my life for decades and as such I have truly come to appreciate that the best possible results I have had and can expect to have in any given situation comes as a result of doing things the way God's Word, the Bible, instructs.

God's word, the Bible.