Henry Oliver asked Substack: what is the one book that changed your perspective on life the most?
After HUNDREDS of responses, these were the top 25 — in order of how often they were suggested (save this list):
25. Meditations, Marcus Aurelius
24. On the Shortness of Life, Seneca
23. Four Thousand Weeks, Oliver Burkeman
22. Tao Te Ching, Laozi
21. The Stranger, Albert Camus
20. Stoner, John Williams
19. Confessions, St. Augustine
18. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
17. One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
16. The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
15. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
14. Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
13. The Jungle, Upton Sinclair
12. Orthodoxy, G.K. Chesterton
11. East of Eden, John Steinbeck
10. Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis
9. Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky
8. 1984, George Orwell
7. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Pirsig
6. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
5. The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
4. The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
3. Man's Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl
2. The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky
1. The Bible (and several mentions of Ecclesiastes, specifically)
https://substack.com/@henryeliot/note/c-176157474?r=35ogp&utm_medium=ios
(Too much Rand here, but it's still impressive that Burkeman made the cut… ahead of Aurelius and Seneca!)
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