Have you ever read a book that changed your life?

I read "Advise and Consent" when I was fifteen. It was a political awakening for me.

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Kwek00 · 41-45, M

Island, by Aldous Huxley
The concept of the political, Carl Schmitt
The introduction to "The Prince" by Machiavelli
The Plague, Albert Camus
Dune (the entire series), by Frank Herbert

... All gave me headaches, and all expanded facets of my thinking.