What books did you learn most from?
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?
Answers175
Readers75
 Night
| 4.34 | 662 reads | ||
 The Little Prince
| 4.21 | 1,476 reads | ||
 Head First Design Patterns
| 4.16 | 35 reads | ||
 A Short History of Nearly Everything
| 4.23 | 454 reads | ||
 The Diary of a Young Girl
| 4.02 | 1,133 reads | ||
 Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
| 3.89 | 268 reads | ||
 Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
| 4.51 | 53 reads | ||
 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
| 4.24 | 2,575 reads | ||
 Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
| 4.58 | 176 reads | ||
 All the Bright Places
| 3.99 | 253 reads | ||
 The Psychology of Money
| 4.31 | 277 reads | ||
 1984
| 4.21 | 4,002 reads | ||
 Man's Search for Meaning
| 4.25 | 713 reads | ||
 Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
| 4.21 | 1,010 reads | ||
 Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones
| 4.2 | 1,183 reads | ||
 Under the Whispering Door
| 4.07 | 374 reads | ||
 Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
| 4.57 | 32 reads | ||
 The Midnight Library
| 3.79 | 1,702 reads | ||
 Women, Race & Class
| 4.6 | 38 reads | ||
 The Origin of Species
| 4.19 | 82 reads | ||
 The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
| 4.5 | 81 reads | ||
 Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
| 4.36 | 104 reads | ||
 The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
| 4.12 | 1,155 reads | ||
 Guns, Germs and Steel
| 3.85 | 332 reads | ||
 The Way of Kings
| 4.6 | 1,665 reads | ||
 As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance
| 4.25 | 5 reads | ||
 The Math Book
| 5 | 2 reads | ||
 We Were Feminists Once
| 4.17 | 7 reads | ||
 The Drunkard's Walk
| 4 | 44 reads | ||
 Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents
| 4.37 | 116 reads | ||
 Straight Jacket
| 3.75 | 4 reads | ||
 The Power of Now
| 3.69 | 156 reads | ||
 Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
| 4.59 | 149 reads | ||
 I'll Give You the Sun
| 4.13 | 149 reads | ||
 The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket
| 4.04 | 40 reads | ||
 e: the Story of a Number
| 4 | 5 reads | ||
 Veronika Decides to Die
| 3.43 | 151 reads | ||
 Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
| 4.33 | 183 reads | ||
 Oathbringer
| 4.55 | 1,098 reads | ||
 El libro de los abrazos
| 3.86 | 9 reads | ||
 Siddhartha
| 3.94 | 709 reads | ||
 Bottle of Lies
| 4.75 | 6 reads | ||
 Understanding Comics
| 4.28 | 146 reads | ||
 The Untethered Soul
| 3.72 | 82 reads | ||
 Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
| 3.99 | 76 reads | ||
 One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate
| 0 | 0 reads | ||
 For Small Creatures Such as We
| 3.93 | 11 reads | ||
 Laziness Does Not Exist
| 4.07 | 40 reads | ||
 Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop
| 4.06 | 93 reads | ||
 King Solomon's Ring
| 3.5 | 5 reads | ||
 The Holy Bible: English Standard Version
| 3.72 | 147 reads | ||
 Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
| 3.85 | 65 reads | ||
 The Absorbent Mind
| 5 | 3 reads | ||
 Firekeeper's Daughter
| 4.16 | 154 reads | ||
 Data Sketches
| 5 | 1 read | ||
 Speaker for the Dead
| 4.12 | 592 reads | ||
 Seven Life Lessons of Chaos: Timeless Wisdom from the Science of Change
| 5 | 1 read | ||
 The Anthropocene Reviewed
| 4.38 | 248 reads | ||
 Behave
| 4.27 | 55 reads | ||
 Grading for Equity: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How It Can Transform Schools and Classrooms
| 4 | 2 reads | ||
 Half of a Yellow Sun
| 4.28 | 121 reads | ||
 The Body Keeps the Score
| 4.31 | 244 reads | ||
 The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
| 4.19 | 54 reads | ||
 Cribsheet
| 4.19 | 68 reads | ||
 Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital
| 5 | 2 reads | ||
 Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present
| 5 | 5 reads | ||
 Ender's Game
| 4.25 | 1,903 reads | ||
 Refactoring UI
| 4.76 | 33 reads | ||
 The Four Winds
| 4.14 | 211 reads | ||
 Improbable Destinies
| 4 | 2 reads | ||
 Frederick Douglass Prophet of Freedom
| 4.16 | 22 reads | ||
 Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
| 4 | 2 reads | ||
 You are a badass at making money
| 3.56 | 28 reads | ||
 The Story of Philosophy
| 4.25 | 19 reads | ||
 Leslie F*cking Jones
| 4.29 | 9 reads | ||
 How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
| 4.18 | 166 reads | ||
 An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
| 4.42 | 34 reads | ||
 Animal Liberation
| 3.97 | 22 reads | ||
 All I Want To Know Is Where I'm Going To Die So I'll Never Go There
| 4.5 | 4 reads | ||
 The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention
| 4.36 | 10 reads | ||
 Hogfather
| 4.2 | 324 reads | ||
 Am I Normal Yet?
| 3.86 | 20 reads | ||
 Discourses and Selected Writings
| 4.8 | 14 reads | ||
 Frankenstein
| 3.85 | 1,636 reads | ||
 The Moral Sayings Of Publius Syrus: A Roman Slave
| 4.5 | 4 reads | ||
 Pārcēlāja dienasgrāmata.
| 5 | 1 read | ||
 Happiness Beyond Thought Happiness Beyond Thought: A Practical Guide to Awakening
| 0 | 0 reads | ||
 The Algebra of Wealth: A Simple Formula for Financial Security
| 3 | 3 reads | ||
 Bird By Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
| 4.17 | 182 reads | ||
 The Hiding Place
| 4.32 | 89 reads | ||
 The Girl with the Louding Voice
| 4.47 | 67 reads | ||
 Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
| 4.06 | 173 reads | ||
 I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
| 4.5 | 2 reads | ||
 The Little Zen Companion
| 0 | 1 read | ||
 Meditations
| 4.18 | 428 reads | ||
 Doing Good Better
| 4 | 20 reads | ||
 The Fire Next Time
| 4.54 | 174 reads | ||
 Gideon's Trumpet
| 4.5 | 5 reads | ||
 Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
| 3.45 | 26 reads | ||
 Unmasking Autism
| 4.26 | 66 reads |