I tried to come up with a good answer to this all day but I can't. Giving any book or a list is almost always gonna overstate it. Every book changes me in at least a little way. And sometimes subtle things snowball in ways often tangential to the book.https://twitter.com/realJessyLin/status/1223675277571571717 …
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In general, if you want to learn about the past, biographies and books of letters are often more insightful than 99% of history books. The more you read older correspondence, the more you realize something today is missing, or absent, though it is not easy to articulate what.
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The most clear example of a single book is probably Tamar Adler's book An Everlasting Meal (which I recommended to a few people in the other thread). It fundamentally changed how I think about food day to day. I think
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For fiction, almost all of it changes my view of the world, in some way. I think fiction is much more interesting and more powerful than non-fiction. We are storytelling animals and we forget that at our own peril. (And, I think, we often forget it).
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