12 books that will change your life

The good thing about literature is that it simply opening a book we can be transported to any imaginable world. But many times, we focus too much on the good things about entering new and exciting worlds and, meanwhile, ignore the possibility of making new points of view enter us.

And it is that books do not have to be simply a tourist destination to go to disconnect and entertain ourselves. They can also be experiences that turn our way of understanding things upside down, to our philosophy of life.

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Books that can change your life

Below you can find a selection of books, fiction or non-fiction, that have the power to change the way we interpret reality.

1. A Brief History of Almost Everything (Bill Bryson)

One of the books with which you can learn more from a single reading. Between its pages there is a review of the development of science, the way in which some of the main discoveries were made, and the real people behind them. Also, everything

It is written with a simplicity and honesty that turned the work into a best seller..

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2. How to Rethink Mental Health: The human contexts behind labels (Bernard Guerin)

The book “How to Rethink Mental Health: The human contexts behind the labels” by Professor Bernard Guerin offers a series of theoretical alternatives to consider psychological alterations beyond the labels that are usually given to them.

The book is priced at €33.25 and in it, its author draws on interdisciplinary social sciences and discourse analysis, rather than classical medical studies.

3. The Pentateuch of Isaac (Angel Wagenstein)

The story of a Jewish man who went through the two world wars and, despite that, did not lose his sense of humor. A story that combines the touching with the jokes and that, curiously, does not fall into the trap of trivializing suffering or violence.

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4. 1984 (George Orwell)

It is already a classic, but that does not mean it has less capacity to leave a mark on our ways of thinking. This book, based on a dystopia, shows that violence does not have to be physical, but can also go beyond this and go on to permeate all aspects of day to day through a system of surveillance and propaganda.

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5. Lord of the Flies (William Golding)

To what extent is our identity tied to the norms of the society in which we have always lived? Normally we believe that we are the product of our own mind, and that the influences External influences influence us in some details or limit us in certain aspects, but they do not change who are.

This book questions that idea and shows, through a kind of thought experiment, to what extent we are what we are because without realizing it we have internalized certain norms and rules. AND it does so by turning to a group of children stranded on a deserted island.

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6. Epileptic (David B.)

A graphic novel that delves into the life of his author and the relationship he has had with his brother with epilepsy over the years. rich in symbolism, honest and inspired, this narrative transports us to the universe of the protagonists without the slightest effort.

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7. High Fidelity (Nick Hornby)

A story by and for thirty-somethings in an identity crisis and life projects, but also a love story. The quality of this book has not gone unnoticed, and in fact it has a film adaptation starring John Cusak.

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8. Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)

A story that raises interesting questions about the kind of societies we live in and the way in which we manage pleasure. Do we exist to experience pleasant sensations, or is it worth channeling our forces towards something else? Unlike other dystopias, this one does not make it obvious which is the correct option, so the debate is served.

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9. The concept of the mental (Gilbert Ryle)

Not everything was going to be light reading. In this work, the philosopher Gilbert Ryle addresses one of the most widely used and, at the same time, most mysterious concepts: the "mind". And it is that after all we tend to use this concept in a very imprecise way despite the fact that our identity is linked to that sensation of consciousness.

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10. Wonder (R. J. Palace)

A story of overcoming led by a young man with facial deformities. In addition to being inspiring, This book serves to self-examine and reflect about the ease with which we can dehumanize people.

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11. Steppenwolf (Herman Hesse)

One of Herman Hesse's best known books. It delves into problems that many people go through, especially those linked to isolation and melancholy, although it is a very personal story.

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12. Fictions (Jorge Luis Borges)

A compilation of stories that you will never see written by any other author. Borges describes in prose situations that are pure poetry and that mix fantasy with metaphysical groping.

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