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 • 2,590 Readers • 136 pages 4.2

Head First Design Patterns

36 Head First Series

2004 • 115 Readers 4.2

Night

#1 of 3 in The Night Trilogy

1955 • 1,234 Readers • 126 pages 4.3

A Short History of Nearly Everything

2003 • 1,349 Readers • 705 pages 4.2

The Diary of a Young Girl

1944 • 1,959 Readers • 111 pages 4

1984

1949 • 7,394 Readers • 328 pages 4.2

Man's Search for Meaning

1946 • 1,734 Readers • 240 pages 4.2

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

2011 • 2,622 Readers • 443 pages 4.2

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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

1979 • 4,608 Readers • 215 pages 4.2

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

5 Mary Roach's Curiosities

2003 • 705 Readers • 303 pages 3.9

All the Bright Places

2015 • 593 Readers • 378 pages 4

The Psychology of Money

2020 • 819 Readers • 256 pages 4.3

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

1984 • 268 Readers • 208 pages 4.5

Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

1989 • 192 Readers • 236 pages 4.5

Women, Race & Class

1981 • 269 Readers • 256 pages 4.6

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

#1 of 3 in Civilizations Rise and Fall

1997 • 1,012 Readers • 480 pages 3.9

Everything is F*cked: A Book About Hope

#2 of 2 in Mark Manson Collection

14 • 321 Readers • 224 pages 3.6

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

2020 • 2,871 Readers • 448 pages 4.1

On the Origin of Species

1859 • 385 Readers • 393 pages 4.1

The Way of Kings

#1 of 6 in The Stormlight Archive

2010 • 3,718 Readers • 1,007 pages 4.6

The Midnight Library

2020 • 3,798 Readers • 288 pages 3.8

Under the Whispering Door

2021 • 1,171 Readers • 400 pages 4.1

The Power of Now

1997 • 447 Readers • 229 pages 3.7

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

2016 • 487 Readers • 434 pages 4.6

I'll Give You the Sun

2014 • 461 Readers • 386 pages 4.1

e: the Story of a Number

1993 • 14 Readers • 242 pages 4

Oathbringer

#3 of 6 in The Stormlight Archive

2017 • 1,966 Readers • 1,243 pages 4.6

El libro de los abrazos

1989 • 16 Readers • 266 pages 4

Understanding Comics

#1 of 3 in The Comic Books

1993 • 314 Readers • 215 pages 4.3

The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself

2007 • 331 Readers • 186 pages 3.8

Laziness Does Not Exist

2021 • 185 Readers • 256 pages 3.9

King Solomon's Ring

1949 • 17 Readers • 234 pages 3.7

Design for How People Learn

2011 • 22 Readers • 259 pages 4.1

Mere Christianity

6 Shepherd's Notes

1942 • 471 Readers • 256 pages 4.3

The Holy Bible: English Standard Version

1611 • 258 Readers • 1,243 pages 3.7

Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

1977 • 116 Readers • 196 pages 3.9

The Temple and the Church's Mission: A Biblical Theology of the Dwelling Place of God

#17 of 31 in New Studies in Biblical Theology

2004 • 6 Readers • 460 pages 3.8

Half of a Yellow Sun

1831 • 418 Readers • 541 pages 4.2

The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love

2003 • 267 Readers • 208 pages 4.2

Ender's Game

#1 of 6 in Ender's Saga

1985 • 3,251 Readers • 256 pages 4.3

How to Read the Bible

2012 • 1 Reader • 848 pages 5

Frederick Douglass Prophet of Freedom

2018 • 98 Readers • 912 pages 4.2

You are a badass at making money

2017 • 67 Readers • 286 pages 3.5

George Muller: The Guardian of Bristol's Orphans

#8 of 28 in Christian Heroes: Then & Now

1999 • 9 Readers 4.3

The Gene

2016 • 419 Readers • 742 pages 4.3

Leslie F*cking Jones

2023 • 65 Readers 4.3

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

#3 of 7 in ReVisioning American History

2014 • 188 Readers 4.3

Hogfather

#20 of 42 in Discworld

1996 • 547 Readers • 450 pages 4.2

Sidhartha

1922 • 12 Readers • 160 pages 4.1

After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory

1981 • 78 Readers • 435 pages 4.3

Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

1994 • 473 Readers • 237 pages 4.2

The Hiding Place

1971 • 185 Readers • 242 pages 4.3

Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?

2016 • 171 Readers • 340 pages 3.9

Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

2022 • 223 Readers • 300 pages 4.3

The Little Zen Companion

1994 • 4 Readers • 400 pages

Meditations

-180 • 1,290 Readers • 254 pages 4.2

The Unmaking of June Farrow

2023 • 470 Readers • 320 pages 4.1

Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender

2022 • 69 Readers • 459 pages 4.5

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

2004 • 87 Readers • 250 pages 3.3

A Community Called Atonement

2007 • 4 Readers • 177 pages 4

My Family and Other Animals

#1 of 3 in Corfu Trilogy

1956 • 131 Readers • 320 pages 4.1

On Dialogue

1996 • 13 Readers • 136 pages 4.3

Starfish

2017 • 74 Readers • 352 pages 4.4

Expecting Better

2013 • 94 Readers • 313 pages 4.3

Buy in

2010 • 6 Readers • 205 pages 4.5

Invisible Child

2021 • 61 Readers • 602 pages 4.9

A Child Called It: One Child's Courage to Survive

#1 of 3 in Dave Pelzer

1995 • 325 Readers • 184 pages 3.7

The Last Black Unicorn

2017 • 139 Readers 3.7

Holding Up the Universe

2016 • 169 Readers • 402 pages 3.7

The Wishing Game

2023 • 539 Readers 3.9

How Do You Live?

1937 • 181 Readers • 288 pages 3.8

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America

2001 • 276 Readers • 244 pages 3.6

The Math Book

2009 • 16 Readers • 528 pages 4.5