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RainbowBridgesoonest t1_itppx1b wrote
Foucault’s Pendulum
The Name of the Rose
Atlas Shrugged
emzorzin3d t1_itpq5xo wrote
Sword of Kaigen - I liked it but didn't love it while I read it. Then I found myself thinking about it long after putting it down.
Any of the early Dune books also fall into this category for me. I found my love for the series only came about after I finished the first book and realised I wanted to know more about this universe and it's strangeness.
Chron__Rabbit t1_itpqi1z wrote
Man’s search for meaning
Crime and Punishment
Meditations
hypermobilehoneybee t1_itpqk7s wrote
Cultish.
RagingLeonard t1_itprwyr wrote
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy.
jlnxr t1_itpssfe wrote
Dune
1984
Slaughterhouse Five
The Road
A number of stories from Ted Chiang's two short story collections, Stories of Your Life and Others and Exhalations
There's probably more but that's what came to mind initially. Plenty of other good books but in terms of what permanently changed my way of seeing the world I think those examples all definitely did.
MajesticLaw4939 t1_itpsyfd wrote
The structure of scientific revolutions
Little Science Big Science
sahita5228 t1_itpt43o wrote
{can't hurt me} {dopamine nation} { the myth of being normal} {the earned life}
Shurmonator t1_itptalx wrote
A Walk Across America. Lovely book
psibomber t1_itptteh wrote
Is the Pope Catholic? - It's a book about secularism, not religion. I wouldn't pick it up again but I read it at a young age so it's interesting ideas about secularism did get stuck in my head.
The Fountainhead- I liked it because it read like a romance novel, but it wasn't the book itself that stuck in my mind, it was people's reaction to when I talked about the book. It opened my eyes to how controversial some ideas are by people's reaction to it and how a lot of people conform and close their eyes, or act like they are confused about ideas, or that they believe there is a "right" and a "wrong" way to think.
The Midnight Club- Interesting ideas about life, death, reincarnation, and terminal illness. Maybe it was because I was young and I just really liked Pike's YA novels but I felt this one hit deeper and I'll always remember it.
Responsible-Matter27 t1_itpuuna wrote
The Far Pavillions
LeakyBellows t1_itpvlb5 wrote
A Theology of Liberation
The Hobbit & the Lord of the Rings trilogy
Complete Poems of Robert Frost
ozcapy t1_itpw0oe wrote
Meditations did indeed change my life
PristinePineapple1 t1_itpwe1i wrote
you say early dune books, not the later ones? i’m about to read this series
damnedworld20 t1_itq0fat wrote
The Bell Jar
ladywaterlily t1_itq0gn1 wrote
The Blue Castle by L. M. Montgomery (especially if you read it while being an insecure teenaged girl)
transsubstantiv t1_itq0xy8 wrote
"W, or The Memory of Childhood" by Georges Perec
"I Am Legend" by Richard Matheson
"The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch" by Philip K. Dick
"A Scanner Darkly" by Philip K. Dick
boxer_dogs_dance t1_itq7zl4 wrote
The Black Swan and Antifragile by Taleb, Animal Farm, Watership Down, the Hobbit, Death of Ivan Illych, Death of a Salesman
PhillipfromPhilly t1_itq9rmx wrote
Who wrote meditations?
Forestsounds89 t1_itqbntp wrote
"Behind the green mask" i spent my whole life fighting climate change and global warming just find out that "they" were pulling my heart strings like a puppet
janarrino t1_itqbzwj wrote
Marcus Aurelius, the roman emperor and stoic philosopher
AlphaStargazer t1_itqkbs4 wrote
Narnia (entire series)
The Viking Quest Series
Books of the Infinite Series
Two Kingdoms
The Quest for Truth Series
The Amazing Tales of Max and Liz/The Epic Order of the Seven series
And many others lol (all of these books are Christian 😁)
AlphaStargazer t1_itqkgfx wrote
To Kill a Mockingbird is sooo good
CrazyCatLady108 t1_itqpugt wrote
Hi there. This subject has been very popular in the past. Please use reddit search and/or check the /r/books/wiki/faq.
iris2211 t1_itqtobh wrote
Have you read the sequel? I think it's go and set a watchman. It's so bad
AlphaStargazer t1_itr57c3 wrote
It has a sequel?
emzorzin3d t1_itr717k wrote
Only because I've only read 3 so far. I plan on reading God Emperor but haven't got there yet. So it wasn't me slagging the later ones off or anything. 😂
Though I have heard god Emperor is a good place to stop.
iris2211 t1_itrbg2i wrote
Yes, I think they found this book after the writer died. It's set 15/20 years after to kill a mockingbird and let me just tell some characters are just..... something else. Atticus is.... Hum different, Jem is on the other side and Calpurnia, one of my favorite characters, is a character I love and hate about this book. If you want go and check it out, but the advice I give is to imagine that it's a fanfiction and not a sequel
iris2211 t1_itppseq wrote
-to kill a mockingbird bird -a gentleman in Moscow -the Lincoln highway