Seriously……..the last “life changing” book I read was when I was 14 and back then I was such a “beat” I thought it can’t get any better.
Mmm, I haven't read any good fiction for years….just autobiographies/bios. And some academic books.

Please save me.

Thanks x

Time Traveller's Wife.

My favourite book ever.

Link: Amazon.co.uk: The Time Traveler's Wife: Books: Audrey Niffenegger

I can't recommend this book enough.

oh, hey!!
yeah, i've been seening it mentioned a lot in the press for what seems like forever.....(lol, how many times have u read it?)
okay, thank you, it's on my list

Four. And I only bought it last summer. Every now and then I pick it up and read a random chapter.

And the end makes me cry everytime. Everytime. I know fully grown men that have cried at it too.

Tender is the Night ~ F.Scott Fitzgerald.

OR

Out ~ Natsuo Kirino.

If you haven't read Kurt Vonnegut's 'Slaughterhouse 5', you should.

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer, about a little boy who's father dies in 9/11.
A Sunday at a Pool in Kigali by Gil Courtemanche and Patricia Claxton, about the Rwandan Genocide.
Kensukes Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo, a childrens book but beautifully written.
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, about a boy growing up in Afganistan.
A History of Love by Nicole Krauss, about an old man and a young girl in New York who are inextricably linked.

Think thats all I can remember at the moment! Will add more when I have a look at home!

last best one i read was book of illusions, paul auster

Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk
Girlfriend in a Coma by Douglas Coupland

cosmos by carl sagan. <3
it's non-fiction. and it's awesome

highly recommended.

I must agree. I can't see how anyone could dislike this book, its amazing.

Also I'd say go for Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. They are both really readable books.

I'm trying to read 100 Years of Solitude at the moment, but I'm on holiday and having trouble finding the time. Sad. Let's race each other to the finish.

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I escaped somehow. Let's go

actualy [sic] I have quite a blessed life if I'm honest. I have many people to love, hate few and have few money problem's [sic].... What more does a person need? Oh yeah and I have some kind of humbleness unlike you of course ^_^ ~ CarefulCarpenter

This really is such an amazing novel.

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All Douglas Coupland is good reading.

Morphine, have you read Autobiography of Malcolm X yet? One of the best bios I've ever read.

When I think of great novels that are great reads, 1984 comes immediately to mind.

Si-Fi -
Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds

middlesex by jeffrey eugenides. just go read it & you'll understand why.

for fiction, try the conquest by elizabeth chadwick, wuthering hieghts by emily bronte or junk by melvin burgess.

Isn't that something of a teenagers book?

I read it when I was fourteen, and loved it but when I picked it up again a while ago I hated every word. It isn't really relevant to me now as I don't have the same curiosities as I did then, so all the drugs, sex, prostitution and general scummy living was a bore and after reading the adult equivalents such as Irvine Welsh, his writing really doesn't compare.

Oh, yes. A recommendation; Filth by Irvine Welsh.

edit: I've just realised that you could well be a teenager, Loop. Sorry if I sound patronising. Or something. Gah.

im not a teenager but i read it for the first time when i was about 15. i re-read it at 18 then again at 20, and found i got more from it then... i still think the way its written is quite remarkable.