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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 Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present
| 5 | 6 reads | ||
 Finding the Right Hills to Die on Finding the Right Hills to Die on: The Case for Theological Triage
| 4.2 | 7 reads | ||
 You Lost Me: Why Young Christians Are Leaving Church . . . and Rethinking Faith
| 3.83 | 6 reads | ||
 What the Buddha Taught
| 3.91 | 22 reads | ||
 The Rise of Christianity
| 4.17 | 3 reads | ||
 Straight Jacket
| 3.75 | 5 reads | ||
 Gideon's Trumpet
| 4.5 | 6 reads | ||
 All I Want To Know Is Where I'm Going To Die So I'll Never Go There
| 4.5 | 4 reads | ||
 King Solomon's Ring
| 3.5 | 6 reads | ||
 The Math Book
| 4.5 | 3 reads | ||
 Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender
| 4.46 | 14 reads | ||
 The Wishing Game
| 3.93 | 143 reads | ||
 A Child Called It: One Child's Courage to Survive
| 3.68 | 227 reads | ||
 The Unmaking of June Farrow
| 4.1 | 108 reads | ||
 George Muller: The Guardian of Bristol's Orphans
| 4.4 | 5 reads | ||
 The Spiritually Vibrant Home: The Power of Messy Prayers, Loud Tables, and Open Doors
| 4.25 | 2 reads | ||
 e: the Story of a Number
| 4 | 5 reads | ||
 El libro de los abrazos
| 3.86 | 9 reads | ||
 Buy in
| 4.5 | 2 reads | ||
 Living Untethered: Beyond the Human Predicament
| 3 | 8 reads | ||
 How to Read the Bible
| 5 | 1 read | ||
 A Short Walk Through a Wide World
| 3.5 | 20 reads | ||
 Sidhartha
| 4.14 | 7 reads | ||
 Leslie F*cking Jones
| 4.25 | 12 reads | ||
 Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop
| 4.03 | 128 reads | ||
 Scripture and the Authority of God: How to Read the Bible Today
| 3.43 | 8 reads | ||
 Grading for Equity: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How It Can Transform Schools and Classrooms
| 4 | 3 reads | ||
 I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
| 4.5 | 3 reads | ||
 A Praying Church: Becoming a People of Hope in a Discouraging World
| 4.25 | 2 reads | ||
 A History of Western Philosophy: From the Pre-Socratics to Postmodernism
| 4 | 1 read | ||
 Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
| 3.5 | 3 reads | ||
 Understanding Spiritual Gifts: A Comprehensive Guide
| 4 | 2 reads | ||
 Happiness Beyond Thought Happiness Beyond Thought: A Practical Guide to Awakening
| 0 | 0 reads | ||
 The Algebra of Wealth: A Simple Formula for Financial Security
| 3.5 | 5 reads | ||
 Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
| 4 | 2 reads | ||
 One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate
| 0 | 0 reads | ||
 Pārcēlāja dienasgrāmata.
| 5 | 1 read | ||
 Dvēseles integrācija
| 5 | 1 read | ||
 The Love of Wisdom: A Christian Introduction to Philosophy
| 0 | 0 reads | ||
 Jesus the Temple
| 3.5 | 2 reads | ||
 The Temple and the Church's Mission: A Biblical Theology of the Dwelling Place of God
| 3.75 | 4 reads | ||
 A Community Called Atonement
| 4 | 2 reads | ||
 Parting of the Ways: Between Christianity and Judaism and Their Significance for the Character of Christianity
| 4 | 1 read | ||
 Beyond Bumper Sticker Ethics: An Introduction to Theories of Right and Wrong
| 4 | 1 read | ||
 Holding Up the Universe
| 3.69 | 77 reads | ||
![El futuro por decidir [Paperback] Figueres, Christiana/ Rivett-Carnac, Tom](https://img.hardcover.app/enlarge?url=https://assets.hardcover.app/edition/31934911/fbd965bf896b56c4bd1d840181b44eda61b8c8a2.jpeg&width=100&height=150&type=webp) El futuro por decidir [Paperback] Figueres, Christiana/ Rivett-Carnac, Tom
| 5 | 1 read | ||
 Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
| 3.92 | 76 reads | ||
 Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America
| 3.63 | 150 reads | ||
 Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
| 3.73 | 128 reads | ||
 His Needs, Her Needs: Building an Affair-Proof Marriage
| 3.5 | 3 reads | ||
 From the Garden to the City
| 4.63 | 4 reads | ||
 Speaker for the Dead
| 4.14 | 729 reads | ||
 Am I Normal Yet?
| 3.86 | 20 reads | ||
 Siddhartha
| 3.94 | 827 reads | ||
 INFORMATION THEORY, INFERENCE, AND LEARNING ALGORITHMS.
| 4.33 | 4 reads | ||
 Everything is F*cked: A Book About Hope
| 3.69 | 144 reads | ||
 Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
| 4.18 | 214 reads | ||
 Hogfather
| 4.2 | 385 reads | ||
 Veronika Decides to Die
| 3.4 | 163 reads | ||
 Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
| 3.3 | 35 reads | ||
 Understanding Comics
| 4.33 | 188 reads | ||
 A Praying Life
| 4.83 | 10 reads | ||
 The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - and Why
| 4.23 | 16 reads | ||
 Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning
| 3.99 | 58 reads | ||
 Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
| 4.32 | 222 reads | ||
 Meditations
| 4.17 | 499 reads | ||
 Ender's Game
| 4.26 | 2,259 reads | ||
 Keep in step with the spirit
| 4.5 | 3 reads | ||
 Starfish
| 4.37 | 21 reads | ||
 The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number
| 3.54 | 15 reads |