I'm putting together a reading list for 2024. What was the one book that changed your life?
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- John Berger's 'A Fortunate Man'"First published in 1967, A Fortunate Man is a masterpiece of witness: a moving meditation on humanity, society and the value of healing. It’s a collaborative work that blends John Berger’s text with Jean Mohr’s photographs in a series of superb analytical, sociological and philosophical reflections on the doctor’s role, the roots of cultural and intellectual deprivation and the motivations that drive medical practice".https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/feb/07/john-sassall-country-doctor-a-fortunate-man-john-berger-jean-mohr
- The Children of Green Knowe, by Lucy M Boston as a child .. magical.English Passengers by Matthew Kneale .. as an adult .. superb.
- Another one for Alice in Wonderland as a kid. I could pretty much recite every line, I was so obsessed. :)A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry, as an adult. Hands down.
- @Brian CrosbyAlice in Wonderland. When 8.Swallowdale. When 10 and unwell.Such comfort.(The second by Arthur Ransome - all the series excellent).The question was about influence. Most important. This happens more when children.
- @Ada Alti got it
- Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert and The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
- Relentless by Tim Grover, Atomic Habits by James Clear, The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg which was super interesting!(Not sure these changed my life but they were very good and thought provoking). There are already loads on this list I'd love to read!
- @David Ogiste Really want to read this!
- A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara. Not design realted but it's the most beautiful novel I've ever read.
- Elizabeth Day - How to Fail
- "Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike" by Philip Knight, one of the only books I have read more than once. Such a great and inspiring story, told in a riveting way.
- "Reinventing your life" by Jeffrey Young. I cannot even put to words the ways it contributed to total life betterment. Young, as the father of Schema Therapy explains like no other the fundamental behavioural lifetraps that hinder us from having a fulfiling life. It's not an easy book -in terms of emotional triggering- but an essential page-turner nonetheless.
- The Bible.
- Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker literally changed my everyday life (for the better!)
- And also, Future is faster than you think by Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler.
- Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker
- @Grace Knowles LOVE Educated by Tara Westover - such an incredible book. X
- @Martine Rodin Untamed is incredible! I have one chapter left :)
- My lockdown book club had us read Educated by Tara Westover. Changed my perspective on a lot of things, but mostly education, understanding trauma and grit & resilience. Changed my from a strict non-fiction reader to a lover of memoirs!
- Gates of Fire by Stephen Pressfield- it is the best depiction of the ancient world I have ever come across and is inspiring, tragic and magnificent.
- Roald Dahl's autobiogrpahy of his childhood - "Boy":"Throughout the remaining six weeks of the term we went very hungry. But all through those six weeks, Arkle continued to feed his frog with slugs through the hole in the lid of histuck-box. Using an old teapot, he also poured water in through the hole every day to keep the creaturemoist and happy. I admired Arkle very much for looking after his frog so well. Although he himself was famished, he refused to let his frog go hungry. Ever since then I have tried to be kind to small animals."
- The untethered Soul by Michael SInger , Untamed by Glennon Doyle
- The Human Stain, American Pastoral and The Plot Against America by Philip Roth which I spent reading during lockdown are brilliant indictments on society as a whole but in particularly America.
- @Rowan Taylor No but I really want too. x
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