What book changed your life?

BALit thanks each individual who submitted a book that changed his or her life. We are pleased to present this variety of recommendations from Bay Area readers.

Have any of these books changed your life?

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis
The Autobiography of Malcolm X * by Malcolm X and Alex Haley
Breaking Through by Francisco Jimenez
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
The Circuit by Francisco Jimenez
The Complete Rabbit Angstrom by John Updike
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
The Four Agreements * by Don Miguel Ruiz (also his other books: The Voice of Knowledge, The Mastery of Love, and The Four Agreements Companion Book)
Gandhi: The Man by Eknath Easwaren
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
Martin Eden by Jack London
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave by Frederick Douglass
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
Our Wildest Dreams (Women Entrepreneurs Making Money, Having Fun, Doing Good)  by Joline Godfrey
The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
The Physician by Noah Gordon (also his books Shaman and The Last Jew)
Prufrock and other Observations by T.S. Eliot
Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
Spilling Open: The Art of Becoming Yourself by Sabrina Ward Harrison
This Bridge Called My Back by Gloria Anzaldua and Cherrie Moraga
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
We the Living by Ayn Rand
When the Emperor was Divine by Julie Otsuka
White Noise by Don DeLillo
You Can Live Forever in Paradise on Earth by Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (a biomythography) by Audre Lorde
See Call for Submissions August 2006

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