What one book, fiction or non - fiction, would you make everyone read if you could?

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I think mine would be Edith Eger's The Choice.

It felt like it profoundly altered the way I viewed my life after leaving a DV relationship. Powerful stuff both personally and on a broader level too.

I also absolutely loved North and South which I read recently and can't believe I hadn't got round to reading it sooner. And same for Middlemarch.

The Diary of a Nobody.
(George and Weedon Grossmith)

Stolen Focus by Johann Hari on why big tech has created a world of doom scrolling zombies

I've got that in my kindle ready to read! Keep being distracted by doomscrolling ...

Yes! Wrote my MA dissertation on Sebald. He is very underrated.

Probably not the sort of thing you’re after, but two popular books that have changed the way I live my life, The Chimp Paradox by Steve Peters and The Life Changing Magic of Tidying by Marie Kondo. Recommend both to my kids for a fun way to understand impulses and how they can fuck us over, and Kondo is a quirky but very useful look at how we value possessions and how to live with joy.

The grapes of wrath by Steinbeck

Oh no it's exactly the sort of thing I am after.
I've read the Chimp Paradox and I agree, it's brilliant..Proper "therapy in a book" stuff. I found it profoundly helpful

Loved Hearts Invisible Furies. Loved it.

Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks

This is an obvious one, The Handmaid’s Tale. I read it when it first came out and then again some 30 years later.
Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
Anything by Terry Pratchett

Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman

My dark Vanessa

Olive, Again by Elizabeth Stroud. It helps us remember that older people are still people.

The Kids by Hannah Lowe - a book of poetry that does the above, but with teens.

I May Be Wrong by Bjorn Natthiko Lindeblad.

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius.

The Fortnight in September by RC Sherriff.