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What books changed your life?

Books have the ability to educate, inform and inspire us to be better. What are some of the books that changed your life in some way? This could be books that gave you a new point of view, taught you a new skill, let you empathize with new people or caused you to grow in any other way.

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Man's Search for Meaning
Man's Search for Meaning
  • Viktor E. Frankl
4.24830 reads
Quiet : The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
Quiet : The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
  • Susan Cain
4555 reads
Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones
Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones
  • James Clear
4.211,408 reads
1984
1984
  • George Orwell
4.214,765 reads
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
  • Matthew Walker
4.34396 reads
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations
  • Marcus Aurelius
52 reads
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents
  • Lindsay C. Gibson
4.35134 reads
The God Delusion
The God Delusion
  • Richard Dawkins
3.88346 reads
Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
  • Richard Bach
3.9276 reads
Mindset:The New Psychology of Success
Mindset:The New Psychology of Success
  • Carol S. Dweck
3.98163 reads
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
  • Stephen R. Covey
3.79359 reads
Night
Night
  • Elie Wiesel
  • Stella Rodway (Translator)
4.34783 reads
A Short History of Nearly Everything
A Short History of Nearly Everything
  • Bill Bryson
4.23535 reads
Your Money or Your Life
Your Money or Your Life
  • Vicki Robin
  • Joe Dominguez
3.83103 reads
Love You Forever
Love You Forever
  • Robert Munsch
4.17122 reads
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
  • Charles Duhigg
3.99494 reads
Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth
Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth
  • Hermann Hesse
  • Michael Roloff (Translator)
  • Michael Lebeck (Translator)
4.1137 reads
Finnegans Wake
Finnegans Wake
  • James Joyce
429 reads
Musashi
Musashi
  • Eiji Yoshikawa
  • Charles S. Terry (Translator)
4.4957 reads
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Thinking, Fast and Slow
  • Daniel Kahneman
4.12601 reads
The Giver
The Giver
  • Lois Lowry
3.991,799 reads
Nomadland
Nomadland
  • Jessica Bruder
3.9363 reads
A New Earth: Create a Better Life
A New Earth: Create a Better Life
  • Eckhart Tolle
3.7183 reads
The Stranger
The Stranger
  • Albert Camus
  • Matthew Ward (Translator)
3.931,540 reads
La Noche de la Bruja Muerta
La Noche de la Bruja Muerta
  • Kim Harrison
3.69131 reads
Permanent Record
Permanent Record
  • Edward Snowden
4.43215 reads
On Dialogue
On Dialogue
  • David Bohm
4.252 reads
Dune
Dune
  • Frank Herbert
4.293,395 reads
Seven Life Lessons of Chaos: Timeless Wisdom from the Science of Change
Seven Life Lessons of Chaos: Timeless Wisdom from the Science of Change
  • John P. Briggs
  • F. David Peat
51 read
The Prophet
The Prophet
  • Kahlil Gibran
4.13227 reads
The Pragmatic Programmer
The Pragmatic Programmer
  • Andy Hunt
  • Dave Thomas
4.2173 reads
The Razor's Edge
The Razor's Edge
  • W. Somerset Maugham
4.1439 reads
So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love
So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love
  • Cal Newport
3.95190 reads
Nature's Best Hope
Nature's Best Hope
  • Douglas W. Tallamy
4.1713 reads
Brave New World
Brave New World
  • Aldous Huxley
3.882,255 reads
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
  • Yuval Noah Harari
4.221,253 reads
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
  • David Epstein
4.15202 reads
Jude the Obscure
Jude the Obscure
  • Thomas Hardy
  • Patricia Ingham
  • Mark Oxford
3.8460 reads
Joel on Software
Joel on Software
  • Joel Spolsky
4.5519 reads
Head First Design Patterns
Head First Design Patterns
  • Eric Freeman
  • Kathy Sierra
  • Bert Bates
  • Elisabeth Robson
4.2349 reads
The Zen of CSS Design
The Zen of CSS Design
  • Dave Shea
  • Molly E. Holzschlag
48 reads
Dragons of Autumn Twilight
Dragons of Autumn Twilight
  • Margaret Weis
  • Tracy Hickman
3.77203 reads
Peopleware
Peopleware
  • Tom DeMarco
  • Timothy R. Lister
4.3949 reads
Badass
Badass
  • Kathy Sierra
4.3319 reads
The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing
The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing
  • Taylor Larimore
  • Michael LeBoeuf
  • Mel Lindauer
4.834 reads
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
  • Douglas Adams
4.253,071 reads
The 5 Love Languages
The 5 Love Languages
  • Gary D. Chapman
4.05108 reads
The Power
The Power
  • Naomi Alderman
3.7414 reads
Without You, There Is No Us
Without You, There Is No Us
  • Suki Kim
3.6128 reads
The Introvert's Edge
The Introvert's Edge
  • Matthew Pollard
  • Derek Lewis
3.85 reads
Artemis Fowl
Artemis Fowl
  • Eoin Colfer
3.75658 reads
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
  • Audre Lorde
4.5269 reads
The Absorbent Mind
The Absorbent Mind
  • Maria Montessori
53 reads
The Big Picture
The Big Picture
  • Sean Carroll
3.8320 reads
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
  • Anthony Ray Hinton
  • Lara Love Hardin
4.5148 reads
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
  • Iain Reid
3.7400 reads
The Food Lab
The Food Lab
  • J. Kenji López-Alt
4.6364 reads
The Wretched of the Earth
The Wretched of the Earth
  • Frantz Fanon
  • Richard Philcox (Translator)
4.4246 reads
Your Erroneous Zones
Your Erroneous Zones
  • Wayne W. Dyer
3.9415 reads
The Gulag Archipelago
The Gulag Archipelago
  • Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
4.755 reads
A Psalm for the Wild-Built
A Psalm for the Wild-Built
  • Becky Chambers
4.26877 reads
Seeking Wisdom
Seeking Wisdom
  • Peter Bevelin
3.47 reads
Family Don't End with Blood
Family Don't End with Blood
    53 reads
    Refuse to Choose!: Use All of Your Interests, Passions, and Hobbies to Create the Life and Career of Your Dreams
    Refuse to Choose!: Use All of Your Interests, Passions, and Hobbies to Create the Life and Career of Your Dreams
    • Barbara Sher
    415 reads
    Reading Women: How the Great Books of Feminism Changed My Life
    Reading Women: How the Great Books of Feminism Changed My Life
    • Stephanie Staal
    42 reads
    How to Be Sick
    How to Be Sick
    • Toni Bernhard
    4.674 reads
    The Revolution was Televised
    The Revolution was Televised
    • Alan Sepinwall
    49 reads
    Killer of Men
    Killer of Men
    • Christian Cameron
    4.339 reads
    Frankenstein
    Frankenstein
    • Mary Shelley
    3.851,925 reads
    Please Look After Mother
    Please Look After Mother
    • Shin Kyung-sook
    4.173 reads
    The Tibetan Book of the Dead
    The Tibetan Book of the Dead
    • Chogyam Trungpa
    • Francesca Fremantle
    3.8914 reads
    The Moral Sayings Of Publius Syrus: A Roman Slave
    The Moral Sayings Of Publius Syrus: A Roman Slave
    • Publilius Syrus
    • Darius Lyman Jr. (Translator)
    4.54 reads
    Unconditional Parenting
    Unconditional Parenting
    • Alfie Kohn
    4.758 reads
    It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth
    It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth
    • Zoe Thorogood
    4.0537 reads
    All I Want To Know Is Where I'm Going To Die So I'll Never Go There
    All I Want To Know Is Where I'm Going To Die So I'll Never Go There
    • Peter Bevelin
    4.54 reads
    Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking
    Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking
    • Samin Nosrat
    4.55130 reads
    Follow Your Heart: Finding Purpose in Your Life and Work
    Follow Your Heart: Finding Purpose in Your Life and Work
    • Andrew Matthews
    51 read
    The Omnivore's Dilemma
    The Omnivore's Dilemma
    • Michael Pollan
    45 reads
    Angels in America
    Angels in America
    • Tony Kushner
    4.4256 reads
    The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
    The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
    • Jonathan Haidt
    4.3255 reads
    Bridge To Terabithia
    Bridge To Terabithia
    • Katherine Paterson
    3.99433 reads
    Infinite Jest
    Infinite Jest
    • David Foster Wallace
    4.21273 reads
    Snow Crash
    Snow Crash
    • Neal Stephenson
    3.94955 reads
    Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
    Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
    • Elizabeth Gilbert
    3.31415 reads
    A Fine Balance
    A Fine Balance
    • Rohinton Mistry
    4.3981 reads
    The Year of Living Danishly: My Twelve Months Unearthing the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country
    The Year of Living Danishly: My Twelve Months Unearthing the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country
    • Helen Russell
    4.1136 reads
    This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
    This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
    • David Foster Wallace
    4.5587 reads
    A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction
    A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction
    • Christopher W. Alexander
    • Sara Ishikawa
    • Murray Silverstein
    • Max Jacobson
    • Ingrid Fiksdahl-King
    • Shlomo Angel
    4.5921 reads
    Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
    Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
    • Ed Catmull
    • Amy Wallace
    4.32222 reads
    Factfulness
    Factfulness
    • Hans Rosling
    4.34327 reads