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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Night
Elie Wiesel
Stella Rodway (Translator)
4.33
512 reads
All the Bright Places
Jennifer Niven
3.97
205 reads
The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank
4.04
899 reads
The Midnight Library
Matt Haig
3.81
1,382 reads
Head First Design Patterns
Eric Freeman
Kathy Sierra
Bert Bates
Elisabeth Robson
4.29
27 reads
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
Merlin Sheldrake
4.36
90 reads
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl
4.25
577 reads
O Pequeno Príncipe
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
4.2
1,196 reads
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Mary Roach
3.87
213 reads
The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson
4.61
1,314 reads
The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin
4.59
147 reads
The Four Winds
Kristin Hannah
4.19
164 reads
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer
4.56
138 reads
On Dialogue
David Bohm
4.25
2 reads
The Origin of Species
Charles Darwin
4.2
65 reads
Seven Life Lessons of Chaos: Timeless Wisdom from the Science of Change
John P. Briggs
F. David Peat
5
1 read
The Body Keeps the Score
Bessel van der Kolk
4.31
212 reads
My Family and Other Animals
Gerald Durrell
4.26
45 reads
I'll Give You the Sun
Jandy Nelson
4.15
126 reads
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari
4.19
815 reads
Mornings in Jenin
Susan Abulhawa
4.35
15 reads
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson
4.22
369 reads
How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
Michael Pollan
4.22
124 reads
Guns, Germs and Steel
Jared M. Diamond
3.81
253 reads
The Anthropocene Reviewed
John Green
4.35
203 reads
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
V. E. Schwab
4.1
921 reads
Breath
James Nestor
3.8
108 reads
Bottle of Lies
Katherine Eban
4.75
6 reads
Data Sketches
Nadieh Bremer
Shirley Wu
5
1 read
Storytelling with Data
Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic
4.36
20 reads
Laziness Does Not Exist
Devon Price
4.12
34 reads
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams
4.25
2,037 reads
Refactoring UI
Adam Wathan
Steve Schoger
4.77
21 reads
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz
Laural Merlington
4.42
25 reads
The Psychology of Money
Morgan Housel
Zia Anshor (Translator)
4.28
219 reads
Under the Whispering Door
TJ Klune
4.07
311 reads
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Audre Lorde
4.47
47 reads
The Absorbent Mind
Maria Montessori
5
3 reads
Firekeeper's Daughter
Angeline Boulley
4.22
126 reads
The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
bell hooks
4.22
43 reads
Women, Race & Class
Angela Y. Davis
4.59
30 reads
Frederick Douglass Prophet of Freedom
David W. Blight
3.85
15 reads
We Were Feminists Once
Andi Zeisler
4.67
4 reads
The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance
W. Timothy Gallwey
4.15
41 reads
How Do You Live?
Genzaburo Yoshino
Bruno Navasky (Translator)
3.81
38 reads
Oathbringer
Brandon Sanderson
4.55
876 reads
As We Have Always Done
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
4.25
5 reads
All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr
4.22
634 reads
The Story of Philosophy
Will Durant
4.38
15 reads
Unmasking Autism
Devon Price
4.21
53 reads
Discourses and Selected Writings
Epictetus
4.71
11 reads
Straight Jacket
Matthew Todd
4
3 reads
Gideon's Trumpet
Anthony Lewis
4.5
5 reads
King Solomon's Ring
Konrad Lorenz
Marjorie Kerr Wilson (Translator)
3.5
4 reads
A Child Called It: One Child's Courage to Survive
Dave Pelzer
3.72
146 reads
El libro de los abrazos
Eduardo Galeano
3.8
6 reads
Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop
Hwang Bo-Reum
Shanna Tan (Translator)
4.18
63 reads
Grading for Equity: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How It Can Transform Schools and Classrooms
Joe Feldman
4
2 reads
I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
Andrew Boyd
4.5
2 reads
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement