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)
4.34
681 reads
The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
4.21
1,501 reads
Head First Design Patterns
Eric Freeman
Kathy Sierra
Bert Bates
Elisabeth Robson
4.16
35 reads
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson
4.22
467 reads
The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank
4.01
1,155 reads
All the Bright Places
Jennifer Niven
3.99
255 reads
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl
4.25
721 reads
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams
4.25
2,622 reads
Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones
James Clear
4.2
1,191 reads
The Psychology of Money
Morgan Housel
4.31
277 reads
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer
4.59
183 reads
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari
4.2
1,025 reads
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Audre Lorde
4.51
53 reads
1984
George Orwell
4.21
4,074 reads
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Mary Roach
3.89
274 reads
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
Merlin Sheldrake
4.31
107 reads
Under the Whispering Door
TJ Klune
4.08
382 reads
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
Judith Butler
4.6
34 reads
Women, Race & Class
Angela Y. Davis
4.6
38 reads
The Midnight Library
Matt Haig
3.79
1,746 reads
Guns, Germs and Steel
Jared M. Diamond
3.85
332 reads
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Isabel Wilkerson
4.5
81 reads
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
V. E. Schwab
4.12
1,171 reads
The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson
4.6
1,695 reads
The Origin of Species
Charles Darwin
4.17
84 reads
My Family and Other Animals
Gerald Durrell
4.11
55 reads
I'll Give You the Sun
Jandy Nelson
4.13
149 reads
Half of a Yellow Sun
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
4.28
121 reads
The Drunkard's Walk
Leonard Mlodinow
4
44 reads
Mornings in Jenin
Susan Abulhawa
4.38
19 reads
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Matthew Desmond
4.61
153 reads
How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
Michael Pollan
4.17
169 reads
The Anthropocene Reviewed
John Green
4.36
285 reads
Breath
James Nestor
3.8
142 reads
Doing Good Better
William MacAskill
4
20 reads
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents
Lindsay C. Gibson
4.37
117 reads
The Last Black Unicorn
Tiffany Haddish
3.7
52 reads
Bottle of Lies
Katherine Eban
4.75
6 reads
Data Sketches
Nadieh Bremer
Shirley Wu
5
1 read
Storytelling with Data: A Data Visualization Guide for Business Professionals
Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic
4.32
28 reads
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
Brené Brown
4.06
173 reads
Laziness Does Not Exist
Devon Price
4.03
41 reads
Refactoring UI
Adam Wathan
Steve Schoger
4.76
35 reads
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz
Laural Merlington
4.42
35 reads
The Little Zen Companion
David Schiller
0
1 read
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version
Anonymous
3.72
147 reads
The Hiding Place
Corrie ten Boom
John Sherrill
Elizabeth Sherrill
4.32
89 reads
The Untethered Soul
Michael A. Singer
3.7
82 reads
You are a badass at making money
Jen Sincero
3.56
28 reads
The Absorbent Mind
Maria Montessori
5
3 reads
The Girl with the Louding Voice
Abi Daré
4.47
67 reads
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
Katherine Boo
3.99
76 reads
Firekeeper's Daughter
Angeline Boulley
4.16
155 reads
The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
bell hooks
4.19
54 reads
Ishmael
Daniel Quinn
3.94
105 reads
Animal Liberation
Peter Singer
3.97
22 reads
The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket
Benjamin Lorr
4.04
41 reads
Frederick Douglass Prophet of Freedom
David W. Blight
4.16
22 reads
We Were Feminists Once
Andi Zeisler
4.17
7 reads
For Small Creatures Such as We
Sasha Sagan
3.93
11 reads
Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital
Jason W. Moore
5
2 reads
The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance
W. Timothy Gallwey
4.18
45 reads
Improbable Destinies
Jonathan B. Losos
4
2 reads
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
Robert M. Sapolsky
4.27
55 reads
How Do You Live?
Genzaburo Yoshino
3.73
47 reads
Invisible Child
Andrea Elliott
4.96
12 reads
Oathbringer
Brandon Sanderson
4.55
1,110 reads
Cribsheet
Emily Oster
4.19
68 reads
As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
4.25
5 reads
The Scout Mindset
Julia Galef
4.08
32 reads
All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr
4.21
757 reads
The Story of Philosophy
Will Durant
4.25
19 reads
The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention
Guy Deutscher
4.36
10 reads
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
3.84
1,675 reads
Unmasking Autism
Devon Price
4.26
66 reads
Expecting Better
Emily Oster
4.22
58 reads
The Moral Sayings Of Publius Syrus: A Roman Slave
Publilius Syrus
Darius Lyman Jr. (Translator)
4.5
4 reads
Discourses and Selected Writings
Epictetus
4.8
14 reads
Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present
Robyn Maynard
5
5 reads
Straight Jacket
Matthew Todd
3.75
4 reads
Gideon's Trumpet
Anthony Lewis
4.5
5 reads
All I Want To Know Is Where I'm Going To Die So I'll Never Go There
Peter Bevelin
4.5
4 reads
King Solomon's Ring
Konrad Lorenz
Marjorie Kerr Wilson (Translator)
3.5
5 reads
The Math Book
Clifford A. Pickover
5
2 reads
A Child Called It: One Child's Courage to Survive
Dave Pelzer
3.66
190 reads
e: the Story of a Number
Eli Maor
4
5 reads
El libro de los abrazos
Eduardo Galeano
3.86
9 reads
Living Untethered: Beyond the Human Predicament
Michael A. Singer
2.8
8 reads
Leslie F*cking Jones
Leslie Jones
4.29
9 reads
Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop
Hwang Bo-Reum
Shanna Tan (Translator)
4.01
98 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