Which Fiction Book had the Biggest Impact on You?

Compiling Mckay Wrigley’s tweet replies

I’m trying to be helpful and listing fiction books recommended by others that had the biggest impact on them, sort them into categories and link to them.

Inspired by Mckay Wrigley’s tweet. “Which fiction book had the biggest impact on you?”

Mckay Wrigley @mckaywrigley

Which fiction book had the biggest impact on you?

• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

• How Much Land Does a Man Need? By Leo Tolstoy

• Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson

• Harry Potter Series by J.K Rowling

• The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas père

• Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

• Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

• The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu

• The Ninja (series) by Eric Van Lustbader

• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M Pirsig

• Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card

• Tron by Brian Daley

• Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky

• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

• Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke

• East of Eden by John Steinbeck and David Wyatt

• The City and the Stars by Arthur C Clarke

• Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

• Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy

• Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins

• Cannery Row by John Steinbeck

• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

• Animal Farm by George Orwell

• 1984 by George Orwell

• The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari by Robin Sharma

• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

• Self Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Airframe by Michael Crichton

• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

• The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield

• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

• Excession by Iain M. Banks

• H.I.V.E by Mark Walden

• I, Robot by Isaac Asimov

• Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami

• Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

• A Passage to India by E.M. Forster

• Dune by Frank Herbert

• Foundation by Isaac Asimov

• The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares

• On the Road by Jack Kerouac

• The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

• Siddhartha by Herman Hesse

• Wind Catcher by Jeff Altabef & Erynn Altabef

• The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

• Percy Jackson and the Olympians series by Rick Riordan

• Stoner by John Williams

• Merry Christmas, Alex Cross by James Patterson

• The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

• Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

• Cats Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

• The Land of Stories by Chris Colfer

• The Man Who Sold the Moon by Robert Heinlein and Mark Van Name

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