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?
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 The Little Prince
| 4.23 | 1,993 reads | ||
 Head First Design Patterns
| 4.24 | 52 reads | ||
 Night
| 4.34 | 844 reads | ||
 Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones
| 4.21 | 1,515 reads | ||
 A Short History of Nearly Everything
| 4.23 | 578 reads | ||
 The Diary of a Young Girl
| 4.01 | 1,395 reads | ||
 1984
| 4.21 | 5,146 reads | ||
 Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
| 4.54 | 249 reads | ||
 Man's Search for Meaning
| 4.23 | 887 reads | ||
 Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
| 4.21 | 1,348 reads | ||
 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
| 4.24 | 3,304 reads | ||
 Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
| 3.91 | 338 reads | ||
 All the Bright Places
| 3.99 | 304 reads | ||
 Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
| 4.3 | 133 reads | ||
 The Psychology of Money
| 4.28 | 379 reads | ||
 Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
| 4.5 | 74 reads | ||
 Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
| 4.47 | 42 reads | ||
 Women, Race & Class
| 4.61 | 48 reads | ||
 The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
| 4.46 | 104 reads | ||
 Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years
| 3.88 | 436 reads | ||
 Everything is F*cked: A Book About Hope
| 3.64 | 150 reads | ||
 The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
| 4.12 | 1,398 reads | ||
 On the Origin of Species
| 4.1 | 110 reads | ||
 The Way of Kings
| 4.62 | 2,133 reads | ||
 The Midnight Library
| 3.79 | 2,132 reads | ||
 Under the Whispering Door
| 4.09 | 484 reads | ||
 What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
| 4.38 | 77 reads | ||
 The Power of Now
| 3.69 | 193 reads | ||
 Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
| 4.6 | 188 reads | ||
 I'll Give You the Sun
| 4.13 | 191 reads | ||
 e: the Story of a Number
| 4 | 5 reads | ||
 Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
| 4.33 | 234 reads | ||
 Oathbringer
| 4.56 | 1,421 reads | ||
 El libro de los abrazos
| 4 | 10 reads | ||
 Understanding Comics
| 4.3 | 210 reads | ||
 The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself
| 3.79 | 123 reads | ||
 Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
| 3.97 | 104 reads | ||
 Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves
| 4.25 | 6 reads | ||
 Laziness Does Not Exist
| 3.94 | 52 reads | ||
 King Solomon's Ring
| 3.67 | 7 reads | ||
 Design for How People Learn
| 4.13 | 6 reads | ||
 The Love of Wisdom: A Christian Introduction to Philosophy
| 0 | 0 reads | ||
 Mere Christianity
| 4.26 | 291 reads | ||
 The Holy Bible: English Standard Version
| 3.72 | 178 reads | ||
 Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
| 3.85 | 82 reads | ||
 The Temple and the Church's Mission: A Biblical Theology of the Dwelling Place of God
| 3.75 | 4 reads | ||
 Half of a Yellow Sun
| 4.23 | 148 reads | ||
 The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
| 4.17 | 67 reads | ||
 Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital
| 5 | 2 reads | ||
 Hearing God
| 0 | 1 read | ||
 Ender's Game
| 4.26 | 2,423 reads | ||
 How to Read the Bible
| 5 | 1 read | ||
 Frederick Douglass Prophet of Freedom
| 4.24 | 25 reads | ||
 Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
| 4 | 2 reads | ||
 You are a badass at making money
| 3.5 | 33 reads | ||
 George Muller: The Guardian of Bristol's Orphans
| 4.29 | 7 reads | ||
 The Gene
| 4.3 | 93 reads | ||
 Leslie F*cking Jones
| 4.25 | 12 reads | ||
 An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
| 4.28 | 49 reads | ||
 All I Want To Know Is Where I'm Going To Die So I'll Never Go There
| 4.5 | 4 reads | ||
 The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention
| 4.14 | 14 reads | ||
 Hogfather
| 4.21 | 397 reads | ||
 Happiness Beyond Thought Happiness Beyond Thought: A Practical Guide to Awakening
| 0 | 0 reads | ||
 Sidhartha
| 4.06 | 8 reads | ||
 Beyond Bumper Sticker Ethics: An Introduction to Theories of Right and Wrong
| 4 | 1 read | ||
 The Algebra of Wealth: A Simple Formula for Financial Security
| 3.71 | 9 reads | ||
 Parting of the Ways: Between Christianity and Judaism and Their Significance for the Character of Christianity
| 4 | 1 read | ||
 A History of Western Philosophy: From the Pre-Socratics to Postmodernism
| 4 | 1 read | ||
 After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory
| 4.25 | 11 reads | ||
 Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
| 4.19 | 227 reads | ||
 The Hiding Place
| 4.29 | 109 reads | ||
 The Spiritually Vibrant Home: The Power of Messy Prayers, Loud Tables, and Open Doors
| 4.25 | 2 reads | ||
 Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
| 3.9 | 35 reads | ||
 Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
| 4.31 | 94 reads | ||
 I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
| 4.5 | 4 reads | ||
 The Little Zen Companion
| 0 | 2 reads | ||
 Meditations
| 4.18 | 539 reads | ||
 The Unmaking of June Farrow
| 4.1 | 115 reads | ||
 Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender
| 4.5 | 15 reads | ||
 Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
| 3.28 | 37 reads | ||
 A Community Called Atonement
| 4 | 2 reads | ||
 Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
| 4.08 | 214 reads | ||
 The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - and Why
| 4.13 | 18 reads | ||
 INFORMATION THEORY, INFERENCE, AND LEARNING ALGORITHMS.
| 4.33 | 4 reads | ||
 My Family and Other Animals
| 4.13 | 68 reads | ||
 On Dialogue
| 4.25 | 2 reads | ||
 Starfish
| 4.37 | 21 reads | ||
 The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance
| 4.07 | 60 reads | ||
 Expecting Better
| 4.28 | 72 reads | ||
 Finding the Right Hills to Die on Finding the Right Hills to Die on: The Case for Theological Triage
| 4.2 | 7 reads | ||
 Buy in
| 4.5 | 2 reads | ||
 Invisible Child
| 4.89 | 15 reads | ||
 A Child Called It: One Child's Courage to Survive
| 3.66 | 239 reads | ||
 The Last Black Unicorn
| 3.71 | 72 reads | ||
 Holding Up the Universe
| 3.66 | 81 reads | ||
 The Wishing Game
| 3.92 | 149 reads | ||
 How Do You Live?
| 3.75 | 58 reads | ||
 Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America
| 3.62 | 161 reads | ||
 The King Jesus gospel
| 0 | 0 reads | ||
 The Math Book
| 4.5 | 3 reads |