Books have the ability to educate, inform and inspire us to be better. What are some of the books that changed your life in some way? This could be books that gave you a new point of view, taught you a new skill, let you empathize with new people or caused you to grow in any other way.
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Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
Susan Cain
4.04
414 reads
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl
4.25
577 reads
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
Matthew Walker
4.3
275 reads
Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones
James Clear
4.22
954 reads
1984
George Orwell
4.19
3,169 reads
Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Richard Bach
3.84
45 reads
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents
Lindsay C. Gibson
4.4
98 reads
The God Delusion
Richard Dawkins
3.88
236 reads
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson
4.22
369 reads
Your Money or Your Life
Vicki Robin
Joe Dominguez
3.93
66 reads
Night
Elie Wiesel
Stella Rodway (Translator)
4.33
512 reads
Mindset
Carol S. Dweck
3.88
119 reads
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
0
0 reads
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
4.12
410 reads
The Food Lab
J. Kenji López-Alt
4.57
40 reads
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
David Epstein
4.22
143 reads
Jude the Obscure
Thomas Hardy
Patricia Ingham
Mark Oxford
3.87
35 reads
The Introvert's Edge
Matthew Pollard
Derek Lewis
3.8
5 reads
The Omnivore's Dilemma
Michael Pollan
4
3 reads
Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
Elizabeth Gilbert
3.32
270 reads
Head First Design Patterns
Eric Freeman
Kathy Sierra
Bert Bates
Elisabeth Robson
4.29
27 reads
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams
4.25
2,037 reads
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
Ed Catmull
Amy Wallace
4.33
142 reads
The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
Jonathan Haidt
4.34
41 reads
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari
4.19
815 reads
This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
David Foster Wallace
4.55
64 reads
Killer of Men (Long War, #1)
Christian Cameron
5
3 reads
The Giver
Lois Lowry
3.99
1,202 reads
The Stranger
Albert Camus
Matthew Ward (Translator)
3.92
1,071 reads
Nomadland
Jessica Bruder
3.91
34 reads
Musashi
Eiji Yoshikawa
Charles S. Terry (Translator)
4.5
40 reads
Artemis Fowl
Eoin Colfer
3.75
438 reads
The Zen of CSS Design
Dave Shea
Molly E. Holzschlag
4
4 reads
The Revolution was Televised
Alan Sepinwall
4
9 reads
Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson
3.93
657 reads
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Audre Lorde
4.47
47 reads
The Absorbent Mind
Maria Montessori
5
3 reads
Seven Life Lessons of Chaos: Timeless Wisdom from the Science of Change
John P. Briggs
F. David Peat
5
1 read
The Year of Living Danishly: My Twelve Months Unearthing the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country
Helen Russell
4
24 reads
Please Look After Mother
Shin Kyung-sook
4.5
3 reads
The Pragmatic Programmer
Andy Hunt
Dave Thomas
4.23
101 reads
Without You, There Is No Us
Suki Kim
3.61
21 reads
The Big Picture
Sean Carroll
3.69
12 reads
Peopleware
Tom DeMarco
Timothy R. Lister
4.39
36 reads
Angels in America
Tony Kushner
4.48
41 reads
Refuse to Choose!: Use All of Your Interests, Passions, and Hobbies to Create the Life and Career of Your Dreams
Barbara Sher
4.33
12 reads
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
3.9
1,536 reads
Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking
Samin Nosrat
4.57
79 reads
So Good They Can't Ignore You
Cal Newport
3.96
131 reads
It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth
Zoe Thorogood
4.05
27 reads
Joel on Software
Joel Spolsky
4.71
12 reads
Bridge To Terabithia
Katherine Paterson
4.03
299 reads
A Fine Balance
Rohinton Mistry
4.58
41 reads
The Gulag Archipelago
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
0
1 read
The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing
Taylor Larimore
Michael LeBoeuf
Mel Lindauer
4.83
4 reads
How to Be Sick
Toni Bernhard
4.67
4 reads
Love You Forever
Robert Munsch
4.19
73 reads
Family Don't End with Blood
5
3 reads
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
3.85
1,316 reads
Einstein's Dreams
Alan Lightman
4.02
67 reads
La Noche de la Bruja Muerta
Kim Harrison
3.76
89 reads
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction
Christopher W. Alexander
Sara Ishikawa
Murray Silverstein
Max Jacobson
Ingrid Fiksdahl-King
Shlomo Angel
4.64
16 reads
Badass
Kathy Sierra
4.44
10 reads
Your Erroneous Zones
Wayne W. Dyer
3.79
12 reads
The 5 Love Languages
Gary D. Chapman
4.15
65 reads
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Chogyam Trungpa
Francesca Fremantle
3.83
8 reads
Nature's Best Hope
Douglas W. Tallamy
4
5 reads
Finnegans Wake
James Joyce
4
21 reads
Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace
4.22
186 reads
Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth
Hermann Hesse
Michael Roloff (Translator)
Michael Lebeck (Translator)
4.2
92 reads
Unconditional Parenting
Alfie Kohn
4.5
5 reads
Reading Women: How the Great Books of Feminism Changed My Life
Stephanie Staal
4
2 reads
Dragons of Autumn Twilight
Margaret Weis
Tracy Hickman
3.81
123 reads
A New Earth: Create a Better Life
Eckhart Tolle
3.72
47 reads
Permanent Record
Edward Snowden
4.5
143 reads
On Dialogue
David Bohm
4.25
2 reads
The Power
Naomi Alderman
3.75
291 reads
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Stephen R. Covey
3.65
233 reads
The power of habit why we do what we do and how to change it
Charles Duhigg
4.06
352 reads
Dune
Frank Herbert
4.29
2,277 reads
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row