The 100 Books That Will Change Your Life After You Read Them!

Not every book is the same. Some books have a bigger impact on us and stay with us for a long time, changing our lives in the process. That is why we will be looking at the 100 books that will change your life after reading them!

I know I have a list of books that changed my life that I go revisit often. They were consequential and are books I still turn to when I need to make decisions. There is no one book that is perfect for everyone but hundreds, if not thousands that people turn to in their time of need. You can see the full list below!

The 100 Books That Will Change Your Life After You Read Them!

• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee  
• The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
• The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 
• 1984 by George Orwell  
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (Harry Potter, #1) by J.K. Rowling
• The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
• Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
• Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
• Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
• Animal Farm by George Orwell
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
• Night by Elie Wiesel
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen  
• The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono
• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
• The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien  
• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
• Freedom from the Known by J. Krishnamurti
• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
• The House of the Spiritsby Isabel Allende
• A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess  
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2) by J.K. Rowling
• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy  
• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller  
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
• The Giver by Lois Lowry
• The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
• The Fault in Our Stars by John Green 
• The Hero With a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
• The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
• Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
• Maus I: A Survivor’s Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1) by Art Spiegelman
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3) by J.K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4) by J.K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5) by J.K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6) by J.K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7) by J.K. Rowling
• Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare   
• Gandhi: An Autobiography by Mahatma Gandhi
• Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
• Memories, Dreams, Reflections by C.G. Jung
• Animal Farm by George Orwell
• The Art of Happiness by Dalai Lama XIV
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker  
• The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
• The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)by Ken Follett 
• Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain 
• The Rebel by Albert Camus
• Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life’s Greatest Lesson by Mitch Albom 
• The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
• Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom 
• The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1) by Suzanne Collins
• Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
• Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
• The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying by Sogyal Rinpoche
• I Know This Much Is Trueby Wally Lamb 
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald  
• The Help by Kathryn Stockett 
• Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese 
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
• The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis   
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
• Never Go With Your Gut: How Pioneering Leaders Make the Best Decisions and Avoid Business Disasters by Gleb Tsipursky 
• The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are by Alan W. Watts
• Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte  
• The Grass Harp, Including A Tree of Night and Other Stories by Truman Capote
• The Outsider by Albert Camus
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
• A Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
• If This Is a Man and The Truce by Primo Levi
• Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered by Ernst F. Schumacher
• The Time Keeperby Mitch Albom 
• Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley
• Little Women (Little Women, #1) by Louisa May Alcott
• The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James
• The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse
• Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3) by Suzanne Collins
• For One More Dayby Mitch Albom
• Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2) by Suzanne Collins
• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck 
• Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
• Reveries of the Solitary Walker by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
• The Holy Bible: King James Version by Anonymous
• Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
• A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
• Macbeth by William Shakespeare
• Granta 112: Pakistanby John Freeman
• The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg
• The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
• Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter
• Olive’s Ocean by Kevin Henkes
• The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
• Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian by  Avi Steinberg
• Meetings With Remarkable Men by G.I. Gurdjieff

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is considered one of the best novels and is a novel that has changed the lives of many people. This was the novel that started my journey as a book reader. Without this novel, I don’t think this blog would exist.

This list includes 100 incredible books and ones that have resonated with readers for various readers. Many of these novels are first introduced to readers in school and can change the direction of their lives. It may start you love of reading or gives you advice that you needed in that moment in time.

Conclusion

There are millions of books out there and any one of them have the chance of changing your life. These are the 100 books that many readers have credited to changing their lives and ones that many readers swear by. How many of these books have you read or plan to read? Let us know in the comments below!

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