the most influential books i have read --- and im looking for more!

Discover the most influential books I've read that transformed my thinking—and share your must-read recommendations to expand this curated list of life-changing reads!

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Still Life with Woodpecker

by Tom Robbins

“Robbins’s comic philosophical musings reveal a flamboyant genius.”—People Still Life with Woodpecker is a sort of a love story that takes place inside a pack …
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Skinny Legs and All

by Tom Robbins

An Arab and a Jew open a restaurant together across the street from the United Nations.... It sounds like the beginning of an ethnic joke, …
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Another Roadside Attraction

by Tom Robbins

“Written with a style and humor that haven’t been seen since Mark Twain.”—Los Angeles Times What if the Second Coming didn’t quite come off as …
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Nine Kinds of Naked

by Tony Vigorito

Join cult favorite Tony Vigorito in his acclaimed, surreal whirlwind of a novel exploring chaos theory. A prisoner spins a playing card into a somersault, …
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The Idiot

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Dostoevsky’s classic tale of one man’s pure innocence in the face of a society obsessed with power, money, and manipulation The twenty-six-year-old Prince Myshkin, …
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The Karamazov Brothers

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Dostoevsky's last novel, The Karamazov Brothers is a brilliantly told crime story and a passionate philosophical debate. Full of memorable characters and their eloquent voices, …
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Solaris

by Stanisław Lem

Kris Kelvin lands on the space station Solaris only to face a cruel miracle.
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Dune

by Frank Herbert

• DUNE: PART TWO • THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE Directed by Denis Villeneuve, screenplay by Denis Villeneuve and Jon Spaihts, based on the novel Dune …
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Children of Dune

 

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Demian

by Hermann Hesse

A friend's mother, war, and newly discovered self-respect draw a young man toward his psychological awakening. From sound edition.
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The Glass Bead Game

by Hermann Hesse

Setting his story in the distant, post-Holocaust future, Hesse tells of an elite cult of intellectuals occupying themselves with an elaborate game that employs all …
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Tithe

by Holly Black

After returning home from a tour with her mother's rock band, sixteen-year-old Kaye, who has been visited by faeries since childhood, discovers that she herself …
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