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?
Answers230
Readers85
 The Little Prince
| 4.23 | 1,792 reads | ||
 Head First Design Patterns
| 4.23 | 49 reads | ||
 Night
| 4.34 | 783 reads | ||
 A Short History of Nearly Everything
| 4.23 | 535 reads | ||
 Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones
| 4.21 | 1,407 reads | ||
 1984
| 4.21 | 4,762 reads | ||
 Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
| 4.53 | 239 reads | ||
 The Diary of a Young Girl
| 4.01 | 1,321 reads | ||
 Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
| 3.9 | 319 reads | ||
 Man's Search for Meaning
| 4.24 | 829 reads | ||
 The Psychology of Money
| 4.28 | 346 reads | ||
 All the Bright Places
| 4 | 290 reads | ||
 Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
| 4.52 | 69 reads | ||
 Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
| 4.32 | 121 reads | ||
 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
| 4.25 | 3,070 reads | ||
 Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
| 4.22 | 1,253 reads | ||
 The Way of Kings
| 4.61 | 1,953 reads | ||
 On the Origin of Species
| 4.13 | 105 reads | ||
 Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years
| 3.89 | 398 reads | ||
 The Midnight Library
| 3.79 | 2,011 reads | ||
 The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
| 4.48 | 101 reads | ||
 Women, Race & Class
| 4.6 | 46 reads | ||
 The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
| 4.11 | 1,327 reads | ||
 Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
| 4.53 | 41 reads | ||
 Under the Whispering Door
| 4.09 | 453 reads | ||
 The Fire Next Time
| 4.55 | 205 reads | ||
 The Four Winds
| 4.12 | 256 reads | ||
 On Dialogue
| 4.25 | 2 reads | ||
 The Power of Now
| 3.72 | 175 reads | ||
 Hearing God
| 0 | 1 read | ||
 Seven Life Lessons of Chaos: Timeless Wisdom from the Science of Change
| 5 | 1 read | ||
 If We Were Villains
| 3.94 | 485 reads | ||
 The King Jesus gospel
| 0 | 0 reads | ||
 The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
| 4.31 | 308 reads | ||
 The Humans
| 3.94 | 285 reads | ||
 My Family and Other Animals
| 4.18 | 65 reads | ||
 I'll Give You the Sun
| 4.15 | 184 reads | ||
 Half of a Yellow Sun
| 4.23 | 141 reads | ||
 The Drunkard's Walk
| 3.92 | 48 reads | ||
 Mornings in Jenin
| 4.35 | 21 reads | ||
 Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
| 4.59 | 176 reads | ||
 Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction
| 3.83 | 51 reads | ||
 How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
| 4.12 | 193 reads | ||
 Design for How People Learn
| 4.5 | 6 reads | ||
 The Anthropocene Reviewed
| 4.36 | 350 reads | ||
 Breath
| 3.87 | 175 reads | ||
 Doing Good Better
| 4.05 | 24 reads | ||
 Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents
| 4.35 | 134 reads | ||
 The Last Black Unicorn
| 3.65 | 67 reads | ||
 Bottle of Lies
| 4.75 | 6 reads | ||
 Data Sketches
| 5 | 2 reads | ||
 Storytelling with Data: A Data Visualization Guide for Business Professionals
| 4.33 | 28 reads | ||
 Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
| 4.1 | 201 reads | ||
 Laziness Does Not Exist
| 4.11 | 46 reads | ||
 Refactoring UI
| 4.76 | 40 reads | ||
 An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
| 4.4 | 44 reads | ||
 You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
| 4.38 | 11 reads | ||
 The Little Zen Companion
| 0 | 1 read | ||
 The Holy Bible: English Standard Version
| 3.72 | 171 reads | ||
 Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
| 4 | 31 reads | ||
 The Hiding Place
| 4.34 | 105 reads | ||
 The Untethered Soul
| 3.68 | 92 reads | ||
 You are a badass at making money
| 3.42 | 32 reads | ||
 Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves
| 4.67 | 6 reads | ||
 The Absorbent Mind
| 5 | 3 reads | ||
 The Girl with the Louding Voice
| 4.42 | 81 reads | ||
 Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
| 3.94 | 98 reads | ||
 Firekeeper's Daughter
| 4.13 | 191 reads | ||
 The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
| 4.21 | 63 reads | ||
 Ishmael
| 3.86 | 123 reads | ||
 Animal Liberation
| 4.03 | 28 reads | ||
 The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket
| 4.04 | 46 reads | ||
 Frederick Douglass Prophet of Freedom
| 4.21 | 23 reads | ||
 We Were Feminists Once
| 3.86 | 9 reads | ||
 For Small Creatures Such as We
| 3.93 | 13 reads | ||
 Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital
| 5 | 2 reads | ||
 The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance
| 4.08 | 55 reads | ||
 After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory
| 4.25 | 11 reads | ||
 Improbable Destinies
| 4 | 2 reads | ||
 Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
| 4.21 | 65 reads | ||
 Crucial Conversations
| 4.38 | 11 reads | ||
 Rationality: From AI to Zombies
| 4.33 | 23 reads | ||
 How Do You Live?
| 3.75 | 56 reads | ||
 Invisible Child
| 4.89 | 15 reads | ||
 Oathbringer
| 4.55 | 1,293 reads | ||
 What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
| 4.39 | 73 reads | ||
 Cribsheet
| 4.19 | 76 reads | ||
 As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance
| 4.25 | 6 reads | ||
 The Scout Mindset
| 4.07 | 40 reads | ||
 Emotionally Healthy Discipleship
| 4.1 | 5 reads | ||
 All the Light We Cannot See
| 4.19 | 885 reads | ||
 The Story of Philosophy
| 4.27 | 24 reads | ||
 The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention
| 4.05 | 13 reads | ||
 Frankenstein
| 3.85 | 1,925 reads | ||
 Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
| 4.33 | 88 reads | ||
 The Well-Trained Mind
| 4 | 8 reads | ||
 Expecting Better
| 4.23 | 66 reads | ||
 Enemies of the Heart
| 0 | 0 reads | ||
 The Moral Sayings Of Publius Syrus: A Roman Slave
| 4.5 | 4 reads | ||
 Discourses and Selected Writings
| 4.83 | 21 reads |