Prompts

What books did you learn most from?

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?

The Little Prince

1 • 2,339 Readers • 136 pages 4.2

Head First Design Patterns

33 Head First Series

2004 • 103 Readers 4.2

Night

#1 of 3 in The Night Trilogy

1955 • 1,150 Readers • 126 pages 4.3

A Short History of Nearly Everything

2003 • 1,255 Readers • 705 pages 4.2

1984

1949 • 6,839 Readers • 328 pages 4.2

The Diary of a Young Girl

1944 • 1,865 Readers • 111 pages 4

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

5 Mary Roach's Curiosities

2003 • 675 Readers • 303 pages 3.9

Man's Search for Meaning

1946 • 1,602 Readers • 240 pages 4.2

The Psychology of Money

2020 • 751 Readers • 256 pages 4.3

All the Bright Places

2015 • 558 Readers • 378 pages 4

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

1984 • 246 Readers • 208 pages 4.5

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

#1 of 6 in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

1979 • 4,280 Readers • 215 pages 4.2

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

2011 • 2,407 Readers • 443 pages 4.2

The Way of Kings

#1 of 6 in The Stormlight Archive

2010 • 3,444 Readers • 1,007 pages 4.6

On the Origin of Species

1859 • 366 Readers • 393 pages 4.1

Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years

#1 of 3 in Civilizations Rise and Fall

1997 • 936 Readers • 480 pages 3.9

The Midnight Library

5 • 3,571 Readers • 288 pages 3.8

Women, Race & Class

1981 • 251 Readers • 256 pages 4.6

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

2020 • 2,711 Readers • 448 pages 4.1

Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

1989 • 177 Readers • 236 pages 4.5

Under the Whispering Door

2021 • 1,090 Readers • 400 pages 4.1

The Fire Next Time

1962 • 444 Readers • 128 pages 4.5

The Four Winds

2021 • 545 Readers • 464 pages 4.1

On Dialogue

1996 • 13 Readers • 136 pages 4.3

The Power of Now

1997 • 407 Readers • 229 pages 3.7

If We Were Villains

2017 • 1,326 Readers • 368 pages 3.9

The Humans

2013 • 586 Readers • 304 pages 3.9

My Family and Other Animals

#1 of 3 in Corfu Trilogy

1956 • 127 Readers • 320 pages 4.2

I'll Give You the Sun

2014 • 441 Readers • 386 pages 4.2

Half of a Yellow Sun

1831 • 391 Readers • 541 pages 4.2

The Drunkard's Walk

2008 • 126 Readers • 252 pages 3.9

Mornings in Jenin

2006 • 61 Readers • 480 pages 4.4

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

2016 • 455 Readers • 434 pages 4.6

Design for How People Learn

2011 • 21 Readers • 259 pages 4.5

The Anthropocene Reviewed

2019 • 823 Readers • 305 pages 4.4

Breath

407 Readers 3.9

Doing Good Better

2015 • 78 Readers • 272 pages 4.1

Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents

2016 • 319 Readers • 6h 50m 4.3

The Last Black Unicorn

2017 • 131 Readers 3.7

Bottle of Lies

2019 • 42 Readers • 512 pages 4.8

Data Sketches

2020 • 20 Readers • 428 pages 5

Laziness Does Not Exist

2021 • 170 Readers • 256 pages 4.1

Refactoring UI

2018 • 85 Readers • 252 pages 4.8

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

#3 of 7 in ReVisioning American History

2014 • 176 Readers 4.4

You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit

2016 • 28 Readers • 224 pages 4.4

The Little Zen Companion

1994 • 3 Readers • 400 pages

The Holy Bible: English Standard Version

1611 • 243 Readers • 1,243 pages 3.7

Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?

2016 • 161 Readers • 340 pages 4

The Hiding Place

1971 • 173 Readers • 242 pages 4.3

The Untethered Soul

2009 • 271 Readers • 356 pages 3.7

You are a badass at making money

2017 • 66 Readers • 286 pages 3.4

The Girl with the Louding Voice

2020 • 277 Readers • 371 pages 4.4

Firekeeper's Daughter

2021 • 583 Readers • 352 pages 4.1

The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love

2003 • 245 Readers • 208 pages 4.2

Ishmael

#1 of 3 in Ishmael

1992 • 228 Readers • 274 pages 3.9

Animal Liberation

1975 • 79 Readers • 336 pages 4

Frederick Douglass Prophet of Freedom

2018 • 93 Readers • 912 pages 4.2

We Were Feminists Once

2016 • 29 Readers • 285 pages 3.9

For Small Creatures Such as We

2019 • 49 Readers • 288 pages 3.9

After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory

1981 • 71 Readers • 435 pages 4.3

Improbable Destinies

2017 • 14 Readers • 368 pages 4

Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

2017 • 388 Readers • 802 pages 4.2

Crucial Conversations

2001 • 22 Readers • 244 pages 4.4

Rationality: From AI to Zombies

6 Rationality: From AI to Zombies

2015 • 63 Readers • 1,813 pages 4.3

How Do You Live?

1937 • 169 Readers • 288 pages 3.8

Invisible Child

2021 • 57 Readers • 602 pages 4.9

Oathbringer

#3 of 6 in The Stormlight Archive

2017 • 1,794 Readers • 1,243 pages 4.5

Cribsheet

2019 • 107 Readers • 354 pages 4.2

As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance

3 Indigenous Americas

2017 • 29 Readers • 216 pages 4.3

The Scout Mindset

2021 • 123 Readers • 288 pages 4

Emotionally Healthy Discipleship

2021 • 6 Readers • 288 pages 4.1

All the Light We Cannot See

2014 • 1,953 Readers • 544 pages 4.2

The Story of Philosophy

1926 • 102 Readers • 664 pages 4.3

Frankenstein

181 • 3,041 Readers • 353 pages 3.9

Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

2022 • 206 Readers • 300 pages 4.3

The Well-Trained Mind

1999 • 17 Readers • 832 pages 4

Expecting Better

2013 • 85 Readers • 313 pages 4.2

Enemies of the Heart

2011 • 224 pages

Discourses and Selected Writings

2008 • 117 Readers • 304 pages 4.8