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
4.26
Quiet : The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
Susan Cain
4.02
1984
George Orwell
4.21
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
Matthew Walker
4.32
Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones
James Clear
4.2
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents
Lindsay C. Gibson
4.36
Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Richard Bach
3.85
The God Delusion
Richard Dawkins
3.91
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
0
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Stephen R. Covey
3.71
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson
4.23
Night
Elie Wiesel
Stella Rodway (Translator)
4.34
Your Money or Your Life
Vicki Robin
Joe Dominguez
3.86
Mindset:The New Psychology of Success
Carol S. Dweck
3.89
Love You Forever
Robert Munsch
4.19
The power of habit why we do what we do and how to change it
Charles Duhigg
4.01
Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth
Hermann Hesse
Michael Roloff (Translator)
Michael Lebeck (Translator)
4.12
Finnegans Wake
James Joyce
4
Musashi
Eiji Yoshikawa
Charles S. Terry (Translator)
4.48
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
4.13
The Giver
Lois Lowry
4
Nomadland
Jessica Bruder
3.91
A New Earth: Create a Better Life
Eckhart Tolle
3.75
The Stranger
Albert Camus
Matthew Ward (Translator)
3.93
La Noche de la Bruja Muerta
Kim Harrison
3.77
Permanent Record
Edward Snowden
4.45
On Dialogue
David Bohm
4.25
Dune
Frank Herbert
4.29
Seven Life Lessons of Chaos: Timeless Wisdom from the Science of Change
John P. Briggs
F. David Peat
5
The Prophet
Kahlil Gibran
4.16
The Pragmatic Programmer
Andy Hunt
Dave Thomas
4.21
The Razor's Edge
W. Somerset Maugham
4.27
So Good They Can't Ignore You
Cal Newport
4
Nature's Best Hope
Douglas W. Tallamy
4.07
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
3.88
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari
4.2
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
David Epstein
4.15
Jude the Obscure
Thomas Hardy
Patricia Ingham
Mark Oxford
3.87
Joel on Software
Joel Spolsky
4.71
Head First Design Patterns
Eric Freeman
Kathy Sierra
Bert Bates
Elisabeth Robson
4.16
The Zen of CSS Design
Dave Shea
Molly E. Holzschlag
4
Dragons of Autumn Twilight
Margaret Weis
Tracy Hickman
3.74
Peopleware
Tom DeMarco
Timothy R. Lister
4.34
Badass
Kathy Sierra
4.33
The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing
Taylor Larimore
Michael LeBoeuf
Mel Lindauer
4.83
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams
4.25
The 5 Love Languages
Gary D. Chapman
4.14
The Power
Naomi Alderman
3.72
Without You, There Is No Us
Suki Kim
3.63
The Introvert's Edge
Matthew Pollard
Derek Lewis
3.8
Artemis Fowl
Eoin Colfer
3.77
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Audre Lorde
4.5
The Absorbent Mind
Maria Montessori
5
The Big Picture
Sean Carroll
3.69
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
Anthony Ray Hinton
Lara Love Hardin
4.49
The Food Lab
J. Kenji López-Alt
4.57
The Wretched of the Earth
Frantz Fanon
Richard Philcox (Translator)
4.33
Your Erroneous Zones
Wayne W. Dyer
3.79
The Gulag Archipelago
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
4.75
A Psalm for the Wild-Built
Becky Chambers
4.29
Seeking Wisdom
Peter Bevelin
4
Family Don't End with Blood
5
Refuse to Choose!: Use All of Your Interests, Passions, and Hobbies to Create the Life and Career of Your Dreams
Barbara Sher
4.33
Reading Women: How the Great Books of Feminism Changed My Life
Stephanie Staal
4
How to Be Sick
Toni Bernhard
4.67
The Revolution was Televised
Alan Sepinwall
4
Killer of Men (Long War, #1)
Christian Cameron
4.33
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
3.84
Please Look After Mother
Shin Kyung-sook
4.17
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Chogyam Trungpa
Francesca Fremantle
3.83
The Moral Sayings Of Publius Syrus: A Roman Slave
Publilius Syrus
Darius Lyman Jr. (Translator)
4.5
Unconditional Parenting
Alfie Kohn
4.5
It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth
Zoe Thorogood
4.06
All I Want To Know Is Where I'm Going To Die So I'll Never Go There
Peter Bevelin
4.5
Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking
Samin Nosrat
4.58
Follow Your Heart: Finding Purpose in Your Life and Work
Andrew Matthews
5
The Omnivore's Dilemma
Michael Pollan
4
Angels in America
Tony Kushner
4.39
The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
Jonathan Haidt
4.3
Bridge To Terabithia
Katherine Paterson
4.01
Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace
4.24
Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson
3.94
Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
Elizabeth Gilbert
3.31
A Fine Balance
Rohinton Mistry
4.41
The Year of Living Danishly: My Twelve Months Unearthing the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country
Helen Russell
3.91
This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
David Foster Wallace
4.56
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction
Christopher W. Alexander
Sara Ishikawa
Murray Silverstein
Max Jacobson
Ingrid Fiksdahl-King
Shlomo Angel
4.69
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration