From the World Book Day website Young people and adults nominated the books that have rocked their worlds, to help us create the ultimate list of 50 BOOKS that will change YOUR life and keep you reading and these were the results. Bold the ones you've read, italic the ones you want to read; it's a World Book Day Meme :)

The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
The Rats by James Herbert
The Shining by Stephen King
1984 by George Orwell
Lord Loss by Darren Shan
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Forever by Judy Blume (I didn't realise I'd missed one of hers!)
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer (I'm not saying it changed life for the better though :P )
How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney
Angus, Thongs and Full Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison
Geek Girl by Holly Smale
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 3⁄4 by Sue Townsend
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Northern Lights by Phillip Pullman
Percy Jackson series by Rick Riordan
Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling
The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkein
Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman
A Streetcat Named Bob by James Bowen
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Wonder by R. J. Palacio
The Book Thief by Marcus Zusack
Before I Die by Jenny Downham
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
War Horse by Michael Morpurgo
The Time Traveller’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
My Sister’s Keeper by Jodie Picoult
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
Gone by Michael Grant
Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy
Divergent by Veronica Roth