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I 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)

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