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Ask HN: What were your "life-changing" books?

• egosophist 13y ago
  Kafka...the Starvation Artist...had forgotten that one...powerful.
• egosophist 13y ago
  Out of the Silent Planet - C.S. Lewis The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - R.A. Heinlein The Foundation Trilogy - Isaac Asimov
• wanda 13y ago
  I don't know about 'life-changing' but the best books I ever read were: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Being and Time (Martin Heidegger) Of Grammatology (Jacques Derrida) Writing and Difference (Jacques Derrida) Martian Timeslip (Philip K. Dick) Ringworld (Larry Niven) The Forever War (Joe Haldeman) The Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka) Finally, the Greek tragedies and Goethe's poetry are basically perfect.
• kalagan 13y ago
  It might be a bit cliché but I read On the road by Jack Kerouac and it motivated me to do a big road trip alone across USA/Canada/Mexico. I met many awesome peoples, became more confident, more adventurous, more open to people and new experiences. So the trip changed my life but the book led me to it. This other book motivated me as well : Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
• touristtam 13y ago
  "Eichmann in Jerusalem" by Hannah Arendt
• zmkahn 13y ago
  Shantaram - Gregory David Roberts
• elviejo 13y ago
  The Goal (Goldratt) led me to see everything as a system and how to Hack it.
• bdunbar 13y ago
  'A Canticle For Leibowitz' by Walter Miller. Because it helped bring me to the Catholic faith.
• actionbrandon 13y ago
  fooled by randomness
• usablebytes 13y ago
  - "How to win friends and influence people" by Dale Carnegie - "The art of thinking clearly" by Ralf Dobelli - "Sources of power" by Gary Klein - "The 8 pillars of motivation" by Farnoosh Brock - "ReWork" by Jason Fried and David Hansson - "Don't make me think" by Steve Krug - "The art of explanation" by Lee LeFever - "Getting real" by 37Signals - "The secret" by Rhonda Byrne