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What is the most thought-inspiring single book (not a series) you’ve ever read?

What is the most thought-inspiring single book (not a series) you’ve ever read?

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Mahnoor

Wild by Cheryl Strayed

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Hafsah

I was about to comment the same!

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Melody

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

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Rajashree

Being Mortal by Atul Gawande; Sapiens by Yuval Harari; The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins.

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Tara

The Cay by Theodore Taylor. I read that children’s novel over 20 years ago and still think about it today.

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Marielle

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Megan

Faith of the Fallen by Terry Goodkind

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Jeannie

The Vegetarian – Han Kang

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Erin

Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky

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Martina

My all the time favourite book

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Fabiola

Mine too

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Lauren

Both books by Louise O’Neill – Asking for it and Only Ever Yours (not a duology, both are standalone)

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Saman

Thousand splendid suns by Khaled Hosseini

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Hajirah

Stargirl, strange and beautiful sorrows of Ava lavender and Things we keep ❤

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Rose

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

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Francesca

The Stone Gods. I recommend it to everyone.

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Tracy

Cows

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Atikah

Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell

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RiDa

The Forty Rules Of love By Elif Shafak

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Samantha

The Beautiful and the Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Jaime

The Alchemist was this years inspiring book

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Martina

Feynman’s Rainbow and
The Strangest Man by Farmelo (about the famous physicist Dirac)

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Angel

All The Bright Places by Jennifer Niven

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Chenxin

Me Before You and Jane Eyre

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Graeme

Manufacturing Consent by Noam Chomsky

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Glorienne

Holding Up The Universe by Jennifer Niven and Jim Stovall’s The Ultimate Gift

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Kristy

To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf

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Leslie

The help

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Amber

I second this

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Courtney

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Sandra

Phone calls from heaven

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Meg

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

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Thuy

Tuesdays with Morrie

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Laura

Just finished The Heart’s Invisible Furies and it is stunning.

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Allyssa

All The Bright Places by Jennifer Niven ?

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KelseyQuestion author

I intend on giving these all a read at some point even if they are out of my normal comfort zone, especially if they’re out of my comfort zone ?

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Ruba

A Hundred Peaces of Me and The Alchemist

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Samia

40 rules of love

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Nita

What We Saw, The Truth About Alice, We were Liars, and so many more!

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Amanda

Exit West by Mohsin Hamid

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Muzette

The Four Agreements and The Alchemist

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Dannielle

I loved the shack

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Danielle

What Dreams May Come

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Danielle

Five people you meet in heaven

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Sunny

The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison

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Flora

More than a book, a work of art.

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Sunny

@Flora totally agree.

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Sunny

@Flora I can’t stop thinking about that book since I read it months ago. It’s like a painting made with words. It has to be read to be believed.

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Jean

Wild

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Cristine

Golden by Jessi Kirby ☺

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Abigail

The Alchemist and I think it’s by Paulo Kohelo or something like tgar

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Mary

Paulo Coelho 🙂

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Holly

The Sunflower by Simon Wiesenthal
The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
The Shack by William P. Young

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Shelby

Milk & Honey by Rupi Kahur

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Fabiola

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Jordan

Perks of being a wallflower 🙂

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Mehnaz

Hi can I get a review on this book?

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Catie

Challenger Deep by Neal Schusterman

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Elizabeth

The Good Earth

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Kendra

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

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McKenzie

The Law of Moses by Amy Harmon or Making Faces by Amy Harmon

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Meg

what we saw by aaron hartzler

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Simone

Brave New World
1984
Never Let Me Go

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Melissa

The Time Keeper by Mitch Albom

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Kiara

Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult

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Megan

The Red Tent comes to mind among others already mentioned!

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Mary

Flowers for Algernon
The Little Prince
The Alchemist
Daddy Long Legs
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Adeena

Alchemist ❤❤❤

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Baiz

Tuesdays with Morie by Mitch Albom

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Zara

Princess by Jean Sasson it was so deep and sad

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Samiha

Where things come back

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Adeena

To kill a mockingbird by Harper Lee

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