The big impact books tend to be the ones read in youth. One that I re-read many times was the biography of Robert Wood by William Seabrook (both really fascinat

The big impact books tend to be the ones read in youth. One that I re-read many times was the biography of Robert Wood by William Seabrook (both really fascinating characters): Doctor Wood, Modern Wizard of the Laboratory For a more recent, although not nearly as formative read: The Coddling of the American Mind