What novel most changed your life?

For men and women, the answers appear to be quite different, according to British researchers, who recently asked that very question to 500 men .

[Gabriella]

One Hundred Years of Solitude G. G. Marquez
The Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger
Once in a House on Fire A. Ashworth
The Broken Chariot Alan Sillitoe
A Man of His Time Alan Sillitoe

[joan]

Man's Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl
Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen

[the pixie]

Si c'est un homme, Primo levi
Clarissa, Stefan Zweig
The lord of the Rings, Tolkien
My secret garden,Nancy Friday

[Isa]

Frankenstien, Mary Shelley
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
The Golden Compass, Philip Pullman
Emma, Jane Austen
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte

[motherpunker]

Ask the Dust, John Fante
On the Road, Jack Kerouac
Poison Heart, Dee Dee Ramone

[Zoompad]

The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H.Lawrence
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Little Dorret by Charles Dickens
Silas Marner by George Eliot

[South County]

Practically Invisible by Kevin McDonald
Run For Your Life by Elisabeth Freeman

[writersbeat]

http://www.writersbeat.com/
This is a pretty great place to go for those who enjoy writing.

[Oleg]

"Oblomov" by Goncharov

[Character Assassin]

All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Moby Dick by Herman Melville

[newAgel]

Dracula by Brahm Stroker
The Gospel acoording to Jesus by Jose Saramago (the title in Spanish is: "El Evangelio según Jesucristo")

[Mad Dog]

I'd say Harry Potter and Kite Runner for now. I don't see how any book can change my life until the next major read comes along. Lessee what them folks come up with next. I also read other fine books. I find a book that does change my life I'll return here and let y'all know, so watch this space for me. I'm in the Big Time.

[Zoompad]

I think Gullivers Travels by Johnathon Swift is a very good book, still relevant today. We read it at school. It made me begin to understand politics.

[Anna SydneyAustralia]

Probably the stongest impression was left by "Kotlovan" Andrei Platonov,"Doctor Zhivago" Boris Pasternak and "The man who is laughing" by Victor Hugo

[Gilliatt]

Anna SydneyAustralia wrote:

Probably the stongest impression was left by "Kotlovan" Andrei Platonov,"Doctor Zhivago" Boris Pasternak and "The man who is laughing" by Victor Hugo

Never read Hugo's "Laughing Man", mostly because I haven't been able to get my hands on a copy. I've read everything else of Hugo's, though. He is truly one of the greats. Can't stand his leftist politics, however. Do you like "The Toilers of the Sea"? There's a pretty new translation of the book that is just stunning. An incredible, heart-rending, one-sided love story. By the way, since you like Dr. Zhivago, have you ever read "We the Living", by Ayn Rand? It's roughly in the same vein. Highly recommended.

[Gilliatt]

Oleg wrote:

"Oblomov" by Goncharov

I love Oblomov, probably because I suffer from Oblomovitis. What do you think of Gogol?

[noah]

The Bluest Eye and Beloved - Toni Morrison
Everything by - Henry Miller
James Baldwin - Giovanni's Room
100 Years Solitude - Marguez
The House Behid the Cedars - Charles Chesnutt
A Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemingqay

[Knoxxie]

"Their Eyes Were Watching God," by Zora Neale Hurston

[zenzygote]

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole.

I thought that A Moveable Feast was post-humously compiled, not even Hemingway's title, just blurbs of work tapped out at 5am in Key West.

[Valor]

1984 / Animal Farm - George Orwell
The Catcher In The Rye - J.D Salinger
American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
Gulliver's Travels- Jonathan Swift