11. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
– direwolf50
12. The Book Thief.
– jaetransform
13. Les Miserables. It’s just such a great story of redemption and duty and the letter of the law vs. the spirit of the law. Javert and Jean Valjean are great character juxtaposition about what it means to really do the right thing.
– Thechaser45
14. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse or Johnathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach.
– DSUlax
15. Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s The Little Prince. It’s quite short and can be read online as well. Every time I read it, I seem to derive a different lesson from it.
– seventeenblackbirds
16. Night by Elie Wiesel.
– 7thtrydgafanymore
17. To Kill A Mockingbird.
– gobigred3562
18. The Brothers Karamazov. Don’t remember the exact quote, but something along the lines of “If God did not exist, man should have to invent him.” It really challenged my nihilistic outlook on life and intense dislike for God. Not that I’m religious now, but more open minded on the morality that God imparts.
– fauxylady
19. Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, made me completely perceive time and perspective differently.
– BARDaniel48
20. “The Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe”
If I had to choose one story specifically “The Cask of Amontillado”. It’s an unbelievable journey into vengeance and patience. Be good to people cause they hold grudges.
Another really fitting one for these times would be “The Pit and The Pendulum”. It shows the suffering an individual can endure merely because they are a member of a certain group.
– Eldoggomonstro
I would add Pale Blue Dot, by Carl Sagan. It poetically puts a different perspective on the universe.
“Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives.”