Book recommendations please

Please reply with your best book recommendations. After the soapbox the other day I’m inspired to read more and more broadly. I’d like to use this opportunity to request your best book recommendation(s). Not necessarily the ones you enjoyed the most, but the ones you’d recommend to a random punter on the street (me). Which book or books do you think would have the biggest positive impact on the planet if more people read them? Be that mood, life lessons, horizon expansion or anything else… If you’re able to give reasons why then that’s all for the better! I wonder if the mods can create a recommendations section where these are shown? —- admin note —- Yes we can if enough replies come through!

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