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What books did you learn most from?

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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
Head First Design Patterns
Night
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones
1984
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
The Diary of a Young Girl
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Man's Search for Meaning
The Psychology of Money
All the Bright Places
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
The Way of Kings
On the Origin of Species
Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years
The Midnight Library
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Women, Race & Class
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
Under the Whispering Door
The Fire Next Time
The Four Winds
On Dialogue
The Power of Now
Hearing God
Seven Life Lessons of Chaos: Timeless Wisdom from the Science of Change
If We Were Villains
The King Jesus gospel
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
The Humans
My Family and Other Animals
I'll Give You the Sun
Half of a Yellow Sun
The Drunkard's Walk
Mornings in Jenin
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction
How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
Design for How People Learn
The Anthropocene Reviewed
Breath
Doing Good Better
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents
The Last Black Unicorn
Bottle of Lies
Data Sketches
Storytelling with Data: A Data Visualization Guide for Business Professionals
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
Laziness Does Not Exist
Refactoring UI
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
The Little Zen Companion
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
The Hiding Place
The Untethered Soul
You are a badass at making money
Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves
The Absorbent Mind
The Girl with the Louding Voice
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
Firekeeper's Daughter
The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
Ishmael
Animal Liberation
The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket
Frederick Douglass Prophet of Freedom
We Were Feminists Once
For Small Creatures Such as We
Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital
The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance
After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory
Improbable Destinies
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
Crucial Conversations
Rationality: From AI to Zombies
How Do You Live?
Invisible Child
Oathbringer
What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
Cribsheet
As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance
The Scout Mindset
Emotionally Healthy Discipleship
All the Light We Cannot See
The Story of Philosophy
The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention
Frankenstein
Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
The Well-Trained Mind
Expecting Better
Enemies of the Heart
The Moral Sayings Of Publius Syrus: A Roman Slave
Discourses and Selected Writings
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