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
Viktor E. Frankl
4.24
830 reads
Quiet : The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
Susan Cain
4
555 reads
Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones
James Clear
4.21
1,408 reads
1984
George Orwell
4.21
4,765 reads
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
Matthew Walker
4.34
396 reads
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
5
2 reads
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents
Lindsay C. Gibson
4.35
134 reads
The God Delusion
Richard Dawkins
3.88
346 reads
Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Richard Bach
3.92
76 reads
Mindset:The New Psychology of Success
Carol S. Dweck
3.98
163 reads
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Stephen R. Covey
3.79
359 reads
Night
Elie Wiesel
Stella Rodway (Translator)
4.34
783 reads
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson
4.23
535 reads
Your Money or Your Life
Vicki Robin
Joe Dominguez
3.83
103 reads
Love You Forever
Robert Munsch
4.17
122 reads
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
Charles Duhigg
3.99
494 reads
Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth
Hermann Hesse
Michael Roloff (Translator)
Michael Lebeck (Translator)
4.1
137 reads
Finnegans Wake
James Joyce
4
29 reads
Musashi
Eiji Yoshikawa
Charles S. Terry (Translator)
4.49
57 reads
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
4.12
601 reads
The Giver
Lois Lowry
3.99
1,799 reads
Nomadland
Jessica Bruder
3.93
63 reads
A New Earth: Create a Better Life
Eckhart Tolle
3.71
83 reads
The Stranger
Albert Camus
Matthew Ward (Translator)
3.93
1,540 reads
La Noche de la Bruja Muerta
Kim Harrison
3.69
131 reads
Permanent Record
Edward Snowden
4.43
215 reads
On Dialogue
David Bohm
4.25
2 reads
Dune
Frank Herbert
4.29
3,395 reads
Seven Life Lessons of Chaos: Timeless Wisdom from the Science of Change
John P. Briggs
F. David Peat
5
1 read
The Prophet
Kahlil Gibran
4.13
227 reads
The Pragmatic Programmer
Andy Hunt
Dave Thomas
4.2
173 reads
The Razor's Edge
W. Somerset Maugham
4.14
39 reads
So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love
Cal Newport
3.95
190 reads
Nature's Best Hope
Douglas W. Tallamy
4.17
13 reads
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
3.88
2,255 reads
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari
4.22
1,253 reads
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
David Epstein
4.15
202 reads
Jude the Obscure
Thomas Hardy
Patricia Ingham
Mark Oxford
3.84
60 reads
Joel on Software
Joel Spolsky
4.55
19 reads
Head First Design Patterns
Eric Freeman
Kathy Sierra
Bert Bates
Elisabeth Robson
4.23
49 reads
The Zen of CSS Design
Dave Shea
Molly E. Holzschlag
4
8 reads
Dragons of Autumn Twilight
Margaret Weis
Tracy Hickman
3.77
203 reads
Peopleware
Tom DeMarco
Timothy R. Lister
4.39
49 reads
Badass
Kathy Sierra
4.33
19 reads
The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing
Taylor Larimore
Michael LeBoeuf
Mel Lindauer
4.83
4 reads
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams
4.25
3,071 reads
The 5 Love Languages
Gary D. Chapman
4.05
108 reads
The Power
Naomi Alderman
3.7
414 reads
Without You, There Is No Us
Suki Kim
3.61
28 reads
The Introvert's Edge
Matthew Pollard
Derek Lewis
3.8
5 reads
Artemis Fowl
Eoin Colfer
3.75
658 reads
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Audre Lorde
4.52
69 reads
The Absorbent Mind
Maria Montessori
5
3 reads
The Big Picture
Sean Carroll
3.83
20 reads
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
Anthony Ray Hinton
Lara Love Hardin
4.51
48 reads
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Iain Reid
3.7
400 reads
The Food Lab
J. Kenji López-Alt
4.63
64 reads
The Wretched of the Earth
Frantz Fanon
Richard Philcox (Translator)
4.42
46 reads
Your Erroneous Zones
Wayne W. Dyer
3.94
15 reads
The Gulag Archipelago
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
4.75
5 reads
A Psalm for the Wild-Built
Becky Chambers
4.26
877 reads
Seeking Wisdom
Peter Bevelin
3.4
7 reads
Family Don't End with Blood
5
3 reads
Refuse to Choose!: Use All of Your Interests, Passions, and Hobbies to Create the Life and Career of Your Dreams
Barbara Sher
4
15 reads
Reading Women: How the Great Books of Feminism Changed My Life
Stephanie Staal
4
2 reads
How to Be Sick
Toni Bernhard
4.67
4 reads
The Revolution was Televised
Alan Sepinwall
4
9 reads
Killer of Men
Christian Cameron
4.33
9 reads
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
3.85
1,925 reads
Please Look After Mother
Shin Kyung-sook
4.17
3 reads
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Chogyam Trungpa
Francesca Fremantle
3.89
14 reads
The Moral Sayings Of Publius Syrus: A Roman Slave
Publilius Syrus
Darius Lyman Jr. (Translator)
4.5
4 reads
Unconditional Parenting
Alfie Kohn
4.75
8 reads
It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth
Zoe Thorogood
4.05
37 reads
All I Want To Know Is Where I'm Going To Die So I'll Never Go There
Peter Bevelin
4.5
4 reads
Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking
Samin Nosrat
4.55
130 reads
Follow Your Heart: Finding Purpose in Your Life and Work
Andrew Matthews
5
1 read
The Omnivore's Dilemma
Michael Pollan
4
5 reads
Angels in America
Tony Kushner
4.42
56 reads
The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
Jonathan Haidt
4.32
55 reads
Bridge To Terabithia
Katherine Paterson
3.99
433 reads
Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace
4.21
273 reads
Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson
3.94
955 reads
Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
Elizabeth Gilbert
3.31
415 reads
A Fine Balance
Rohinton Mistry
4.39
81 reads
The Year of Living Danishly: My Twelve Months Unearthing the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country
Helen Russell
4.11
36 reads
This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
David Foster Wallace
4.55
87 reads
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction
Christopher W. Alexander
Sara Ishikawa
Murray Silverstein
Max Jacobson
Ingrid Fiksdahl-King
Shlomo Angel
4.59
21 reads
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration