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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Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
Susan Cain
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
Matthew Walker
Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones
James Clear
1984
George Orwell
The God Delusion
Richard Dawkins
Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Richard Bach
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents
Lindsay C. Gibson
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
Mindset
Carol S. Dweck
Your Money or Your Life
Vicki Robin
Joe Dominguez
Night
Elie Wiesel
Stella Rodway (Translator)
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Stephen R. Covey
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
David Epstein
Jude the Obscure
Thomas Hardy
Patricia Ingham
Mark Oxford
The Introvert's Edge
Matthew Pollard
Derek Lewis
The Omnivore's Dilemma
Michael Pollan
Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
Elizabeth Gilbert
Head First Design Patterns
Eric Freeman
Kathy Sierra
Bert Bates
Elisabeth Robson
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
Ed Catmull
Amy Wallace
The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
Jonathan Haidt
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari
This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
David Foster Wallace
Killer of Men (Long War, #1)
Christian Cameron
The Giver
Lois Lowry
The Stranger
Albert Camus
Matthew Ward (Translator)
Nomadland
Jessica Bruder
Musashi
Eiji Yoshikawa
Charles S. Terry (Translator)
Artemis Fowl
Eoin Colfer
The Zen of CSS Design
Dave Shea
Molly E. Holzschlag
The Revolution was Televised
Alan Sepinwall
Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Audre Lorde
The Absorbent Mind
Maria Montessori
Seven Life Lessons of Chaos: Timeless Wisdom from the Science of Change
John P. Briggs
F. David Peat
The Year of Living Danishly: My Twelve Months Unearthing the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country
Helen Russell
Please Look After Mother
Shin Kyung-sook
The Pragmatic Programmer
Andy Hunt
Dave Thomas
Without You, There Is No Us
Suki Kim
The Big Picture
Sean Carroll
Peopleware
Tom DeMarco
Timothy R. Lister
Angels in America
Tony Kushner
Refuse to Choose!: Use All of Your Interests, Passions, and Hobbies to Create the Life and Career of Your Dreams
Barbara Sher
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking
Samin Nosrat
So Good They Can't Ignore You
Cal Newport
It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth
Zoe Thorogood
Joel on Software
Joel Spolsky
Bridge To Terabithia
Katherine Paterson
Factfulness
Hans Rosling
All I Want To Know Is Where I'm Going To Die So I'll Never Go There
Peter Bevelin
The Prophet
Kahlil Gibran
A Fine Balance
Rohinton Mistry
The Gulag Archipelago
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing
Taylor Larimore
Michael LeBoeuf
Mel Lindauer
How to Be Sick
Toni Bernhard
Love You Forever
Robert Munsch
Family Don't End with Blood
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
The Moral Sayings Of Publius Syrus: A Roman Slave
Publilius Syrus
Darius Lyman Jr. (Translator)
La Noche de la Bruja Muerta
Kim Harrison
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction
Christopher W. Alexander
Sara Ishikawa
Murray Silverstein
Max Jacobson
Ingrid Fiksdahl-King
Shlomo Angel
Seeking Wisdom
Peter Bevelin
Badass
Kathy Sierra
Follow Your Heart: Finding Purpose in Your Life and Work
Andrew Matthews
Your Erroneous Zones
Wayne W. Dyer
The 5 Love Languages
Gary D. Chapman
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Chogyam Trungpa
Francesca Fremantle
Nature's Best Hope
Douglas W. Tallamy
Finnegans Wake
James Joyce
Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace
Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth
Hermann Hesse
Michael Roloff (Translator)
Michael Lebeck (Translator)
Unconditional Parenting
Alfie Kohn
Reading Women: How the Great Books of Feminism Changed My Life
Stephanie Staal
Dragons of Autumn Twilight
Margaret Weis
Tracy Hickman
A New Earth: Create a Better Life
Eckhart Tolle
Permanent Record
Edward Snowden
On Dialogue
David Bohm
The Power
Naomi Alderman
The power of habit why we do what we do and how to change it
Charles Duhigg
Dune
Frank Herbert
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row