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
4.24
Quiet the power of introverts in a world that can't stop talking
Susan Cain
Carlo Prosperi (Translator)
4.01
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
Matthew Walker
4.3
Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones
James Clear
4.23
1984
George Orwell
4.19
The God Delusion
Richard Dawkins
3.91
Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Richard Bach
3.98
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
0
Night
Elie Wiesel
Stella Rodway (Translator)
4.31
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson
4.23
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents
Lindsay C. Gibson
4.42
Mindset
Carol S. Dweck
3.84
Your Money Or Your Life
Vicki Robin
Joseph R. Dominguez
3.98
Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking
Samin Nosrat
4.56
Dragons of Autumn Twilight
Margaret Weis
Tracy Hickman
3.8
The Zen of CSS Design
Dave Shea
Molly E. Holzschlag
4
Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
Elizabeth Gilbert
3.28
The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing
Taylor Larimore
Michael LeBoeuf
Mel Lindauer
4.83
The Pragmatic Programmer
Andy Hunt
Dave Thomas
4.38
Artemis Fowl
Eoin Colfer
3.69
Musashi
Eiji Yoshikawa
Charles S. Terry (Translator)
4.5
La Noche de la Bruja Muerta
Kim Harrison
3.77
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Stephen R. Covey
3.55
On Dialogue
David Bohm
4.5
The Power
Naomi Alderman
3.73
So Good They Can't Ignore You
Cal Newport
3.99
The Gulag Archipelago
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
0
Refuse to Choose!: Use All of Your Interests, Passions, and Hobbies to Create the Life and Career of Your Dreams
Barbara Sher
4.5
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction
Christopher W. Alexander
Sara Ishikawa
Murray Silverstein
Max Jacobson
Ingrid Fiksdahl-King
Shlomo Angel
4.6
The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
Jonathan Haidt
4.28
Seven Life Lessons of Chaos: Timeless Wisdom from the Science of Change
John P. Briggs
F. David Peat
5
A Fine Balance
Rohinton Mistry
4.52
It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth
Zoe Thorogood
4.03
Jude the Obscure
Thomas Hardy
Patricia Ingham
Mark Oxford
3.93
Badass
Kathy Sierra
4.44
How to Be Sick
Toni Bernhard
4.67
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
3.9
Your Erroneous Zones
Wayne W. Dyer
3.63
The Stranger
Albert Camus
Matthew Ward (Translator)
3.93
Dune
Frank Herbert
4.28
Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth
Hermann Hesse
Michael Roloff (Translator)
Michael Lebeck (Translator)
4.13
Einstein's Dreams
Alan Lightman
3.95
The Wretched of the Earth
Frantz Fanon
Richard Philcox (Translator)
4.15
Bridge To Terabithia
Katherine Paterson
4
Permanent Record
Edward Snowden
4.5
Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson
3.95
Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace
4.24
Without You, There Is No Us
Suki Kim
3.65
Unconditional Parenting
Alfie Kohn
4.5
The Sun Does Shine
Anthony Ray Hinton
Lara Love Hardin
4.57
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari
4.18
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Chogyam Trungpa
Francesca Fremantle
4
The Giver
Lois Lowry
3.97
A New Earth
Eckhart Tolle
3.71
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Audre Lorde
4.46
The Razor's Edge
W. Somerset Maugham
4.19
Finnegans Wake
James Joyce
3.82
The Omnivore's Dilemma
Michael Pollan
4
The 5 Love Languages
Gary D. Chapman
4.27
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
Ed Catmull
Amy Wallace
4.36
Love You Forever
Robert Munsch
4.13
Peopleware
Tom DeMarco
Timothy R. Lister
4.32
Family Don't End with Blood
5
The Revolution was Televised
Alan Sepinwall
4
The Introvert's Edge
Matthew Pollard
Derek Lewis
3.8
Joel on Software
Joel Spolsky
4.8
This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
David Foster Wallace
4.54
Please Look After Mother
Shin Kyung-sook
4.5
Nature's Best Hope
Douglas W. Tallamy
4
A Psalm for the Wild-Built
Becky Chambers
4.3
The Absorbent Mind
Maria Montessori
5
Angels in America
Tony Kushner
4.46
The Food Lab
J. Kenji López-Alt
4.63
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
Michael Burgan
3.83
Nomadland
Jessica Bruder
3.9
Reading Women: How the Great Books of Feminism Changed My Life
Stephanie Staal
4.5
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
4.13
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
David Epstein
4.22
Killer of Men (Long War, #1)
Christian Cameron
5
The Big Picture
Sean Carroll
3.5
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams
4.25
Head First Design Patterns
Eric Freeman
Kathy Sierra
Bert Bates
Elisabeth Robson
4.17
The power of habit why we do what we do and how to change it