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Pages that changed me📗

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jasonrecs

A collection of books that left something behind. Stories that moved me, ideas that challenged me, and pages that changed the way I see myself and the world.

Sections

The Philosophers Shelf⚖️

Fiction & Stories📖

Classic Literature 🏛️

Poetry & Writing🖋️

Psychology & The Mind🧬

History & Humanity 🌎

The Philosophers Shelf⚖️

Books that challenge existence, reshape perception, and leave a permanent mark on the soul.

Best book ive read in my life. Read it about 2 years ago and i think about it TILL THIS DAY! Fully changed my perception of how i view everyday life and the actions of others. I wont spoil to much but trust me, this will be a purchase you'll never r...

The Brothers Karamazov - Amazon.com

The level of depth and emotion you experience when diving into this amazing book!

Pride and Prejudice (Barnes & Noble Collectible Editions)

One of the best books ive read in the past few years. Talking about the afterlife, athenian politics and societies, this book truly captured the greatness of Socrates

The Last Days of Socrates: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito

This one doesn’t feel like a book you “finish”, it feels like something you return to when your thoughts get too loud. What stayed with me most is how calm it is, even when it talks about chaos, death, or pressure. It made me realise that most of lif...

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, Emperor

This book sits in a strange place emotionally. It talks about meaninglessness, but doesn’t feel depressing. Instead, it feels honest. The idea of Sisyphus pushing the rock over and over somehow became less about punishment and more about endurance. I...

Beyond Good and Evil - Nietzsche, Friedrich

Fiction & Stories📖

These are the kinds of stories I turn to when I want to escape but also feel something real. Fiction for me isn’t just entertainment, it’s a way of understanding people, choices, and emotions I might not otherwise come across. Some of these books sta...

This book feels like watching people chase something they can never quite reach. There’s a sadness underneath everything, even in the beautiful moments. What stayed with me was the idea that people can be completely surrounded by wealth, love, and at...

The Great Gatsby

This feels like stepping into a dream that somehow has rules of its own. Time doesn’t feel linear, and everything is layered with meaning and repetition. I remember getting lost in it in a good way, like I wasn’t supposed to fully “understand” it in ...

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Classic Literature 🏛️

Classics are the books that feel like they’ve been quietly waiting for you for a long time. I don’t always find them easy, but I always find something in them that matters. There’s something grounding about reading thoughts that have survived centuri...

This one feels deeply personal, like reading someone’s inner voice as they grow up and try to understand themselves. What stayed with me most is how strong Jane feels, even when everything around her is uncertain or unfair. It made me think about ind...

Jane Eyre

This book feels intense in a way that is almost uncomfortable. The emotions are not calm or neat, they are messy, obsessive, and destructive. I remember feeling like I was watching something that shouldn’t work, but somehow does. It left me thinking ...

Wuthering Heights

Poetry & Writing🖋️

Poetry, for me, is where language feels most honest. I don’t always fully understand it, but I feel it before anything else. These are the pieces that make me pause, reread, and sit with my thoughts a little longer than usual. Writing in general feel...

This one feels like movement between pain and healing. It is not just sadness, it also has a sense of growth layered into it. What stayed with me is how it doesn’t try to hide emotional change, it just shows it as something natural. I remember it fee...

The Sun and Her Flowers - Rupi Kaur: Books

This book feels expansive, like it is trying to capture everything at once: nature, identity, life, and existence. Some parts feel almost overwhelming in their openness. I remember reading lines and feeling like the writing wasn’t just describing lif...

Leaves of Grass

This book changed how I think about writing itself. It’s not just advice, it feels like someone being honest about what writing actually is: discipline, attention, and learning to keep going even when it’s hard. I like that it doesn’t romanticise the...

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft - King

Psychology & The Mind🧬

This is where I try to understand what happens beneath the surface of people, including myself. Psychology isn’t just about theories or studies, it’s about why we think the way we do, why we feel things we can’t always explain, and how much of our li...

This book completely changed how I see my own thoughts. It shows how much of what we call “decision-making” is actually automatic and biased without us realising. I like it because it makes you question yourself in a calm, logical way rather than an ...

Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

What I like about this book is how it breaks life down into patterns instead of chaos. It made me realise how much of what we do every day is not really a choice, but a loop we’ve learned. It doesn’t just explain habits, it shows how they can be chan...

The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do

This is one of the most powerful books I’ve read. It doesn’t just talk about psychology, it talks about survival, suffering, and meaning. What stayed with me is the idea that even when you cannot control what happens to you, you can still control how...

Man's Search for Meaning

History & Humanity 🌎

This is the part of reading that reminds me I’m not separate from anything that came before. History isn’t just dates or events, it’s people trying to survive, build, believe, and make sense of the world they were born into. These books make the past...

This book changed the way I look at everything human. It takes something as big as history and breaks it into ideas that actually feel understandable. What stayed with me is how much of what we call “reality” is something humans collectively agreed o...

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

This book made me think about history less as stories about individuals and more as patterns shaped by geography and chance. It feels like it’s constantly zooming out, showing how small environmental differences can shape entire civilizations. I reme...

Guns, Germs, and Steel

This is one of those books that feels deeply human in a quiet way. It’s not just about history, it’s about a person living inside it. What stayed with me most is how normal her thoughts feel, even in such an abnormal situation. It made history feel l...

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl - Books

This book shifts your perspective on history by moving the focus away from the usual Western narrative. It made me realise how interconnected everything has always been, long before modern globalization. I remember feeling like I was seeing the world...

The Silk Roads: A New History of the World

This one felt uncomfortably accurate. It talks about resistance, the internal force that stops you from creating, and I saw myself in almost every page. I like it because it doesn’t treat creativity like inspiration, it treats it like something you h...

The War of Art: Break Through Blocks