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Ask HN: Which book (fiction/non-fiction) changed your life?
I'm doing some personal research on this topic - and there are three sources I trust heavily.
Quora, HN and Reddit.
I scraped Quora and made a spreadsheet of their recommendations from the most popular threads about life changing and mind expanding and so on books [1].
[1]: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0AnfzjyWu4aYwdGh2amdDTkJzUlktdVlLVXNoZTVDX2c&output=html
Now I'd like to ask HN the same question.
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- GFischer 13y agoIt's been asked quite a few times already :) (I remember answering a few times before) and some links on the subject too. For example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=228683 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=228683 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5700602 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5700602 One of my own recommendations is Dale Carnegie's How To Win Friends and Influence People. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Win_Friends_and_Influence_People http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Win_Friends_and_Influenc... It's also Paul Graham's recommendation: he recommends it on Why Smart People Have Bad Ideas[1]" If you want to learn what people want, read Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People. [1] When a friend recommended this book, I couldn't believe he was serious. But he insisted it was good, so I read it, and he was right. It deals with the most difficult problem in human experience: how to see things from other people's point of view, instead of thinking only of yourself." [1] http://paulgraham.com/bronze.html#f8n http://paulgraham.com/bronze.html#f8n