Lifehacker has a list of books that changed your lives, as voted on by its readers. Overall, the list is pretty good; in order:
- The Bible
- The Works of Ayn Rand
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values, by Robert M. Pirsig
- The Stranger, by Albert Camus
- The Works of George Orwell
- The Works of Richard Dawkins
- The Hobbit and Lord of The Rings Trilogy, by J.R.R. Tolkien
- Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card
- Dune, by Frank Herbert
But wait, you say, one of these things is not like the others! The works of Richard Dawkins don't belong on a list of life-changing books! Because they are insipid and vacuous? No, but simply because they don't meet the fundamental criteria of the list: changing lives. Anyone who considers Dawkins' stunted philosophy to be profound was a bitter atheist long before reading The God Delusion.
(HT: RD.)
