The great Italian writer and semiotician Umberto Eco once said “The person who doesn’t read lives only one life. The reader lives 5,000. Reading is immortality backwards.” And among those thousands of lives, at least one can really shake you to the core or make you realize something about life that will change how you live it.
If you haven’t read such a book yet, maybe reading something that made a huge impact on others can help with that. People on Reddit shared the books that left the biggest impression on them when VAMPCLAW asked, “What is that one book that absolutely changed your life?” Redditors shared both fiction and non-fiction books that made them think differently, inspired them to reach for more or helped them to get through a difficult time in their lives.
We are curious to hear whether you agree that the books mentioned in the list are worth reading and will leave you in deep thought afterwards. Also, if there is a book that you think everybody else needs to read, leave it in the comments and share why it was so life-changing for you.
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#1 My Side Of The Mountain By Jean Craighead George
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#2 The Bible
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#3 Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy By Douglas Adams
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#4 1984 By George Orwell
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#5 There Is A Monster At The End Of This Book By Jon Stone
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#6 The Hobbit By J. R. R. Tolkien
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#7 Maus By Art Spiegelman
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#8 To Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee
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#9 Flowers For Algernon By Daniel Keyes
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#10 Dune By Frank Herbert
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#11 The Outsiders By S. E. Hinton
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#12 A Brief History Of Time By Stephen Hawking
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#13 Clan Of The Cave Bear By Jean M. Auel
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#14 The Kite Runner By Khaled Hosseini
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#15 The Long Walk By Stephen King
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#16 Redwall By Brian Jacques
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#17 The Hunger Games By Suzanne Collins
#18 The Giver By Lois Lowry
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#19 Breakfast Of Champions By Kurt Vonnegut
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#20 The Body Keeps The Score: Mind, Brain And Body In The Transformation Of Trauma By Bessel Van Der Kolk
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#21 The Phantom Tollbooth By Northon Juster
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#22 The Stinky Cheese Man And Other Fairly Stupid Tales By Jon Scieszka And Lane Smith
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#23 Thinking Fast And Slow By Daniel Kahneman
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#24 Depressive Illness: The Curse Of The Strong By Tim Cantopher
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#25 The Way Of Kings By Brandon Sanderson
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#26 The Road By Cromac McCarthy
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#27 Parable Of The Sower By Octavia Butler
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#28 The End Of Mr Y By Scarlett Thomas
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