Books have impacted our lives significantly since our earliest days of reading or being read to.

Listen in as Life Writers members share books that have guided, taught, and helped them navigate the world and their places in it. From A Tree Grows in Brooklyn to Closing Time: A Memoir to Hatchet to On Writing and on, books changed the way we look at our environments and often implanted the desire to see our own words in print. See the list below for books our members shared and links to purchase them.

If your favorite was not mentioned, or you’ve since thought of other books that left their marks on you, please put the title and name of the author in the comments section below. Happy reading!