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I hesitate to mention this, but Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand, changed me profoundly. I was 16 and my best friend's mother (who knew I loved to read), suggested I try it. It was the first time I had read a fictional story that made me think about the consequences of our thoughts, not just our actions. I went on to read several biographies of Rand, who did not always live up to her espoused philosophy and became a tyrant herself in her own circle. That book taught me to think, and to think all the way through a subject, and to face the truth of wherever that thinking led me. I didn't reach the same conclusions as Rand did, but that book had a major influence on me.
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