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?

What the Buddha Taught

1959 • 51 Readers • 151 pages 3.9

The Rise of Christianity

1997 • 12 Readers • 274 pages 4.2

Straight Jacket

2018 • 15 Readers • 400 pages 3.8

Gideon's Trumpet

1964 • 10 Readers • 264 pages 4.5

King Solomon's Ring

1949 • 15 Readers • 234 pages 3.5

The Math Book

2009 • 14 Readers • 528 pages 4.5

Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender

2022 • 63 Readers • 459 pages 4.5

The Wishing Game

2023 • 517 Readers • 304 pages 3.9

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

#1 of 3 in Dave Pelzer

1995 • 305 Readers • 184 pages 3.7

The Unmaking of June Farrow

2023 • 451 Readers • 320 pages 4.1

George Muller: The Guardian of Bristol's Orphans

#8 of 28 in Christian Heroes: Then & Now

1999 • 7 Readers 4.4

e: the Story of a Number

1993 • 14 Readers • 242 pages 4

El libro de los abrazos

1989 • 14 Readers • 266 pages 3.9

Buy in

2010 • 6 Readers • 205 pages 4.5

How to Read the Bible

2012 • 1 Reader • 848 pages 5

A Short Walk Through a Wide World

2024 • 158 Readers • 400 pages 3.5

Sidhartha

1922 • 11 Readers • 160 pages 4.1

Leslie F*cking Jones

2023 • 61 Readers 4.3

Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop

2022 • 411 Readers • 320 pages 4

Pārcēlāja dienasgrāmata.

2020 • 2 Readers • 238 pages 5

Jesus the Temple

2010 • 2 Readers 3.5

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

#17 of 29 in New Studies in Biblical Theology

2004 • 5 Readers • 460 pages 3.8

A Community Called Atonement

2007 • 4 Readers • 177 pages 4

Holding Up the Universe

2016 • 159 Readers • 402 pages 3.7

Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

1977 • 108 Readers • 196 pages 3.9

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

2001 • 259 Readers • 244 pages 3.6

Speaker for the Dead

#2 of 6 in Ender's Saga

1986 • 915 Readers • 382 pages 4.1

Am I Normal Yet?

#1 of 3 in The Spinster Club

2015 • 59 Readers • 433 pages 3.9

Siddhartha

1922 • 1,350 Readers • 152 pages 3.9

Everything is F*cked: A Book About Hope

#2 of 2 in Mark Manson Collection

14 • 302 Readers • 224 pages 3.7

Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

1994 • 443 Readers • 237 pages 4.2

Hogfather

#20 of 41 in Discworld

1996 • 525 Readers • 450 pages 4.2

Veronika Decides to Die

#2 of 3 in On the Seventh Day

1998 • 226 Readers • 208 pages 3.4

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

2004 • 79 Readers • 250 pages 3.3

Understanding Comics

#1 of 3 in The Comic Books

1993 • 287 Readers • 215 pages 4.3

A Praying Life

2009 • 20 Readers • 277 pages 4.8

Meditations

-180 • 1,193 Readers • 254 pages 4.2

Ender's Game

#1 of 6 in Ender's Saga

1985 • 3,014 Readers • 256 pages 4.3

Keep in step with the spirit

1984 • 7 Readers • 301 pages 4.5

Starfish

2017 • 74 Readers • 352 pages 4.4