Life changing book you read as a teen
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Anonymous
| Wondering if anyone can recommend a book that really impacted them as an older teen or young college. Looking for so thing to give my son this summer and not sure if my choices (mom) would be something he'd like. Trying to spark a love of reading that hasn't really happened yet. |
Anonymous
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The Catcher in the Rye
Of Mice and Men |
Anonymous
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The Shere Hite Report on Female Sexuality
1984 by Orwell |
Anonymous
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Animal Farm
The Jungle |
Anonymous
Honestly, Geek Love, but I'm not sure that's the kind of life-changing you're looking for. 
The Bluest Eye Catcher in the Rye Pablo Neruda's and Walt Whitman's poetry |
Anonymous
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Fiction:
1984 Brave New World Neuromancer Dune Nonfiction: Manchild in the Promised Land The Autobiography of Malcom X Basketball Diaries |
Anonymous
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Bloods: Black Veterans of the Vietnam War: An Oral History
Kaffir The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance |
Anonymous
That should read "Kaffir Boy: The True Story...' |
Anonymous
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A People's History of the United States
Hated Catcher in the Rye. |
Anonymous
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The Bible
The Hiding Place Lord of the Rings |
Anonymous
| I know why the caged bird sings |
Anonymous
| In college I read Upton Sinclairs The Jungle. My all time favorite book. Puts my life really in perspective. |
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To Kill a Mockingbird Animal Farm |
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My 6th grade teacher had us read Izzy Willy Nilly by Cynthia Voight. Girl loses her leg in some drunk driving incident, her life changes, etc...
Kind of controversial and likely wouldn't be allowed today but I felt it made a pretty strong impression about how small decisions can be huge, and the cusp of middle school is a good time to get this. |
Anonymous
Are you me?? All of the above. |