To ask which book changed your life?

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I'm after some inspiration, as I realised I haven't read a good book in so long, mostly due to being glued to the same old rubbish on my 'smart' phone. Coupled with lockdown, I think my brain is grinding to a halt.
I will offer up Wuthering Heights; bit of an obvious one, but I love how my perception of it changes year to year, from 'how romantic' (impressionable teen) to 'dysfunctional much'?!

The Name of the Wind - utterly beautiful, outrageously brilliant fantasy novel. I've been waiting 12 years for the third in the series though so be warned.

The Way of Kings - see above, heartbreakingly, magnificent world building.

One hundred years of solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

Man's search for meaning by Viktor Frankl

The Nicomachean ethics by Aristotle

Existentialism and Humanism by Jean Paul Sartre

The Goldfinch by Donna Taart

All changed my perspective and therefore my actions and the path of my life in quite significant ways, at different points in my life.

Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series.

More practically, Be A Free Range Human :)

Atomic Habits by James Clear is a great book

The Joy Luck Club - it just gave me a new lens on some things that I found personally very enlightening.

Women Who Run With Wolves by Dr C Pinkoka Estes
I have come back to it a few times over the years as I faced different challenges, and I always find it helps

Only place marking to come back to!

Me 2

The Poisonwood Bible - overnight changed the way I viewed the world

Also came here to say Women Who Run With the Wolves x

@wickerbaskets I read this recently and found it to be a bit of a slog, especially the last few chapters when they were back home.
What have I missed?

I found The Goldfinch a bit hard to get through and wondering what I missed there, I feel like I can see there are things to be take from it, but I’m almost not quite clever enough to work out wha they are...

Love is not enough the smart womans guide to money

George Orwell: Down and out in London and Paris
Sally Trench: Bury me in my boots.
Alex Hayley Roots

Alongside The Great Gatsby

A Room With A View and Howard's End - both by EM Forster

Will have a think and come back with more

The Go Between by L P Hartley. First read it when I was 13 and it has always stayed with me.

The Women’s Room by Marilyn French was a real slap in the face awakening to my young self. I saw the world differently from then on.

Kim Stanley Robinson’s science fiction Mars trilogy (Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars) changed how I looked at society, priorities and environmental issues.

The Dispossessed (Ursula LeGuin) and Enders’ Game (Orson Scott Thomas) also had an impact.

The interesting thing with great science fiction is that it can look at a very human issue in a whole new way by placing it outside of all the usual contexts, assumptions and baggage that accompanies that issue in a real life setting.

[quote DrManhattan]@wickerbaskets I read this recently and found it to be a bit of a slog, especially the last few chapters when they were back home.
What have I missed?[/quote]
I would feel similar to you. (Well as in it was a bit of a slog, but I felt that the first two-thirds were too detailed and the part where they were home too rushed in comparison )

Though I do find it interesting how people view the same book.

I think, if we are talking fiction, that Kes by Barry Hines (or A Kestrel for a Knave as it's also called) had an influence on me.

Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig

Dh Lawrence Rainbow novels

Quiet Flow the Don

Darkness at Noon

And most weirdly -I Cladius

George Orwell's Why I Write and his political essays as well, but I think his novels are overrated

I read ‘the life and loves of a she-devil’ by Fay Weldon as a young teenager - it stayed with me because it was the first thing I’d read that made me think of how dependent women were on their husbands

Untamed by Glennon Doyle.

Every woman in the world should read it.

A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry.