What books did you learn most from?Answer

Whether it's a course textbook or a fictional romance, we remember books that impact us deeply. Which books do you remember being forever changed by due to learning something new – either about yourself, the world or a new skill?

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

5 Mary Roach's Curiosities

2003 • 675 Readers • 303 pages 3.9

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

2013 • 718 Readers • 391 pages 4.5

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

1984 • 248 Readers • 208 pages 4.5

Women, Race & Class

Women, Race & Class
ByAngela Y. Davis

1981 • 254 Readers • 256 pages 4.6

Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

1989 • 179 Readers • 236 pages 4.5

Frankenstein

Frankenstein
ByMary Shelley

181 • 3,054 Readers • 353 pages 3.8