Same as Crich regarding the KJV.
Also "The Golden Sayings of Epictetus" followed by Epictetus' Discourses. Common sense Stoic philosophy.
Fiction is much harder if you measure it by a world-changing view. I guess I would say "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury, because it showed me that books are amazing things, more than simply paper and print when I read it as a boy.
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