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)
518 reads
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl
578 reads
All the Bright Places
Jennifer Niven
207 reads
The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson
1,323 reads
The Midnight Library
Matt Haig
1,393 reads
Head First Design Patterns
Eric Freeman
Kathy Sierra
Bert Bates
Elisabeth Robson
27 reads
The Psychology of Money
Morgan Housel
Zia Anshor (Translator)
220 reads
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Mary Roach
213 reads
O Pequeno Príncipe
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
1,201 reads
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
Merlin Sheldrake
90 reads
The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank
907 reads
The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin
147 reads
The Four Winds
Kristin Hannah
164 reads
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer
138 reads
On Dialogue
David Bohm
2 reads
The Origin of Species
Charles Darwin
65 reads
Seven Life Lessons of Chaos: Timeless Wisdom from the Science of Change
John P. Briggs
F. David Peat
1 read
The Body Keeps the Score
Bessel van der Kolk
213 reads
My Family and Other Animals
Gerald Durrell
45 reads
I'll Give You the Sun
Jandy Nelson
126 reads
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari
815 reads
Mornings in Jenin
Susan Abulhawa
15 reads
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson
369 reads
How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
Michael Pollan
129 reads
Guns, Germs and Steel
Jared M. Diamond
253 reads
The Anthropocene Reviewed
John Green
203 reads
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
V. E. Schwab
926 reads
Breath
James Nestor
109 reads
Bottle of Lies
Katherine Eban
6 reads
Data Sketches
Nadieh Bremer
Shirley Wu
1 read
Storytelling with Data
Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic
20 reads
Laziness Does Not Exist
Devon Price
34 reads
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams
2,056 reads
Refactoring UI
Adam Wathan
Steve Schoger
21 reads
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz
Laural Merlington
25 reads
Under the Whispering Door
TJ Klune
315 reads
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Audre Lorde
47 reads
The Absorbent Mind
Maria Montessori
3 reads
Firekeeper's Daughter
Angeline Boulley
127 reads
The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
bell hooks
43 reads
Women, Race & Class
Angela Y. Davis
30 reads
Frederick Douglass Prophet of Freedom
David W. Blight
15 reads
We Were Feminists Once
Andi Zeisler
4 reads
The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance
W. Timothy Gallwey
41 reads
How Do You Live?
Genzaburo Yoshino
Bruno Navasky (Translator)
38 reads
Oathbringer
Brandon Sanderson
885 reads
As We Have Always Done
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
5 reads
All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr
634 reads
The Story of Philosophy
Will Durant
15 reads
Unmasking Autism
Devon Price
53 reads
The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus: A Roman Slave
Publilius Syrus
4 reads
Discourses and Selected Writings
Epictetus
11 reads
Straight Jacket
Matthew Todd
3 reads
Gideon's Trumpet
Anthony Lewis
5 reads
All I Want To Know Is Where I'm Going To Die So I'll Never Go There
Peter Bevelin
4 reads
King Solomon's Ring
Konrad Lorenz
Marjorie Kerr Wilson (Translator)
4 reads
A Child Called It: One Child's Courage to Survive
Dave Pelzer
146 reads
El libro de los abrazos
Eduardo Galeano
6 reads
Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop
Hwang Bo-Reum
Shanna Tan (Translator)
63 reads
Grading for Equity: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How It Can Transform Schools and Classrooms
Joe Feldman
2 reads
I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
Andrew Boyd
2 reads
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement