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[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 months ago

Green Eggs and Ham.

[–] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 1 points 4 months ago

The Tartar Steppe,

it's been a life altering book for me and it so come in my mind from time to find when I'm thinking about what I'm doing with my life.

[–] nosuchanon@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

A short history of nearly everything. Snowcrash

[–] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Paris in the Terror by Loomis

Describing public events and the private machinations behind them (through the participant's journals and letters), revealing how the road to hell is paved with the best of intentions.

[–] leftascenter@jlai.lu 1 points 4 months ago

Capital and ideology by Thomas Piketty. An eye opener on wealth distribution throughout history and the arguments that held societies together to allow wealth disparity.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Brothers Karamazov

Doctor Zhivago

To Kill A Mockingbird

Narnia series

Sundown Towns

[–] karlhungus@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 months ago

The Narnia series is not that great, think it only did so well cause it's so religious

[–] CyberneticOwl@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)
  • The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker

Perhaps you could dismiss it as having too much of a Western focus, but it really was an eye opening book that made me reexamine various cultural institutions at the time I read it

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 1 points 4 months ago (6 children)

Different people like different books.

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[–] Kaesekalup@lemmy.wtf 1 points 4 months ago

Yu Hua - Brothers

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