Books that have changed/challenged your thinking

[Twerking9to5]

Can anyone recommend a really thought provoking book? Thinking probably non fiction (although 1984 was one of the books that massively stuck with me).

Thanks!

Defying Hitler

Would also recommend:

The Colour Purple by Alice Walker (NF)
Tuesday's with Morrie (NF)
Mister Pip (F) by Lloyd Jones
A Safe Place by Lorenzo Carcaterra (NF)

Books that have stayed with me, with scenes I'll never forget.

Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee is about the infiltration of white settlers in North America into the homelands of the native Americans and how a land was changed forever.
If ever a book were thought-provoking, this is it.

My recommendations some already mentioned:

1984
Animal farm
Z for Zachariah
The silver sword
The color purple
I know why the caged bird sings
The handmaids tale
Behind the scenes at the museum
To kill a mockingbird'

Oh and flowers for Algernon

WiIdfire - I love Shades of Grey! It manages to discuss weighty matters with a real wit and lightness of touch.

I would agree with 1984 and Brave New World. I also liked The Plague by Albert Camus.

Non-fiction: Thinking, Fast and Slow is very interesting if you're interested in the way our brains make decisions. Really challenges your preconceptions about humans as rational beings!

Fiction: I find Barbara Kingsolver very thought provoking.

I would thoroughly recommend Bankers Town by Joel Hames - in indie author who I stumbled upon on Amazon.

He's written two books, and Bankers Town was his first.

Based on his own time as a London banker, it gives the reader an amazing insight into the dark and murky world of banking leading up to and during the 2008-09 crash. The lead character is fictional, but the events throughout the book are based in what actually happened to the author while he was in the banking industry.

It's one of those rare books that I've read twice (so far!) and it really has made me think about something that really I knew very little about, other than what was put out by the media and news channels.

Highly recommended.

Have read Starship Troopers on noble's recommendation. As a novel, I wouldn't rate it but as a parent/teacher, I would have to say that it is an interesting read. One of those books that most people might dismiss as propaganda which it is but interestingly done.

For most, please subsitute some.

Ape House by Sara Gruen. About a group of chimpanzees stolen from a research facility studying their ability to learn to communicate and who turn up on an underground reality show.