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Marc Srour
1984 and Brave New World for clarifying just how easy it is to control people.
Jules Verne's books, not only for fathering modern sci fi, but also for serving as models for how sci fi can inspire real technology and actions.
In terms of universe building, Tolkien's Silmarillion, Hobbit, and LotR sagas are unparalleled. The care taken by Tolkien to make these alternate realities so vivid and real blows me away every time I read them - these are worlds and cultures with detailed histories, not just generated using a random culture generator.
The dream sequences in Paprika (Yasutaka Tsutsui) are pretty mindblowing, as is the whole metafictional concept. The essence was captured and modified very well in the 2006 film.
For sci fi: Robert A. Heinlein, Arthur C. Clarke, and Philip K. Dick for great sci fi. Honorable mention for Odd John by Olaf Stapledon for effectively taking down the notion of an übermensch utopian society being superior (I use it when teaching human evolution too). Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy and his new novel 2312 also deserve mention for exploring space colonisation in very ambitious ways that will blow your mind. Asimov's Foundation series also blew my mind with all the machinations that happen and the way characters and methods you think are infallible keep getting shown to fall victim to being ultimately derived from humans and thus nowhere near perfect.

《1984》和《美丽新世界》揭示了控制人民是多么容易。 朱尔斯·凡尔纳的书籍，不仅是现代科幻小说的鼻祖，而且还是科幻如何激发真实技术和行动的模范。 在宇宙创造方面，《精灵宝钻》、《霍比特人》和《指环王》系列的托尔金无与伦比。托尔金花费的心思让他们成为了一个如此生动而真实的替代现实 - 这些是有着详细历史的世界和文化，而不是仅仅使用随机文化生成器生成的。 《梦游巴黎》(筒井康隆)中的梦境场景非常惊人，整个元小说的概念也很棒。2006年电影很好地捕捉并修改了其本质。 对于科幻小说：罗伯特·海因莱因、阿瑟·C·克拉克和菲利普·K·迪克都创作了优秀的科幻小说。荣誉提及奥拉夫·斯特普顿的《奇怪的约翰》有效地打破了超人类乌托邦社会优越的观念 (我在教授人类进化时也会用到它)。金·斯坦利·罗宾逊的《火星三部曲》和他的新作《2312》也值得一提，因为它们以非常宏大的方式探索了太空殖民，会让你大吃一惊。阿西莫夫的《基地》系列也让我震惊不已，所有发生的阴谋诡计以及你认为是不可错的角色和方法都被证明源于人类而因此远非完美。

Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan is required reading for every single person in the world, along with watching Cosmos.
Steve Gould's Structure of Evolutionary Theory is a masterful work that will make you rethink a lot of your thoughts about evolution, although admittedly not easy reading even for a biologist. Honouirable mention for Maynard Smith & Szathmary's Major Transitions in Evolution for giving us a new way of thinking about the history of life, even if I don't quite agree with their transitions.
E.O. Wilson's books about ants and how to be a naturalist are more inspirational than mindblowing, but I feel bad leaving them out because they have been very influential for me.
Richard Holmes's The Age of Wonder enlightened me a lot about that early period of science.
Harun Yahya/Adnan Oktar's Atlas of Creation blew my mind by showcasing just how stupid and/or ignorant and/or conniving conartists people can be.

卡尔·萨根的《被魔鬼缠身的世界》是世界上每个人都需要阅读的必修书籍，与观看《宇宙》一样。 史蒂夫·古尔德的《进化理论的结构》是一部杰作，会让你重新思考你对进化的想法，尽管即使对于生物学家来说，这也不是易读的。麦纳德·史密斯和萨瑟玛里的《进化中的重大转折》也值得一提，因为它给我们提供了一种新的思考生命历史的方式，尽管我并不完全同意它们的转折想法。 E.O.威尔逊关于蚂蚁和如何成为一名自然主义者的书比令人惊叹更具启发性，但我觉得把它们排除在外是有点遗憾的，因为它们对我有很大的影响。 理查德·霍姆斯的《奇观时代》让我对科学早期有了很多启示。 哈伦·亚希亚/阿德南·奥克塔尔的《创世纪图集》通过展示人们有多么愚蠢、无知和/或狡猾，让我大开眼界。

Brian Roemmele
Life changing:
The User Illusion, by Tor Norretranders.
Read it twice.
You will never see the world the same. Very well written and researched. None of the data or concepts are in the public dialog and after reading this book you will ask why.
I shall offer just one point: the Conscious mind is fed "reality" by the sub Conscious. The sub Conscious edits 98% of the input it receives from your senses and present a Believable concept of the world. It also reacts to all inputs and Responds in most cases before you have even made your Conscious choice. This all happens in a proven 1/2 second delay between the reaction of your conscious mind to any input. This is a very long period in time in reality when it comes to making choices as these delays set a cascade of events that if really understood are making you more into an observer of "you" then a controller of your reactions. The shocker comes when it is demonstrated that your sub Conscious recreates "time" in your mind so as to allow you to "Believe" your conscious was in control the entire time.
I am not doing proper justice to this, just one of the concepts this book covers. Nor can I cite the 100s of repeatable science behind the concepts.

改变人生的书籍：
托尔·诺尔腾德斯的《用户错觉》。 读两次。您的世界观将永远改变。这本书非常好写作和研究，其中没有任何数据或概念在公共对话中，读完这本书后您会问为什么。
我只想提出一点：意识思维由下意识思维提供“现实世界”的输入。下意识思维编辑从您的感官接收到的98%的输入，并呈现一个可信的世界概念。它也对所有的输入做出反应，并在大多数情况下在您做出意识选择之前就做出了反应。这种反应要经过已被证明的1/2秒延迟。当涉及到做出选择时，这是一个非常长的时间段，因为这些延迟会引发一系列事件，如果真正理解这些事件，会让您更多地成为“您”的观察者，而不是您反应的控制者。震惊的是，当被证明您的下意识思维在您的头脑中重新创造“时间”以便让您“相信”您的意识思维一直在控制整个过程时，您会产生强烈的震撼感。
我没有完全表达这个概念，只是这本书涵盖的一个概念。我也无法引用所有这些概念背后的数百个可重复的科学证据。

Shivani Jhirwal
A Thousand Splendid Suns - I cried my eyes out while reading it. It speaks about the power of love and is set Afganisthan at the time when the country was under the influence of the Taliban. It is centered around two women which makes it all the more painful considering the state of women in that country. Khaled Hosseini has written it simply yet beautifully. It isn't a fairy tale and not for weaklings as it puts forward (pretty painfully) the harsh realities of a life of a woman.
The Kite Runner - Another masterpiece by the above mentioned author. This too is set in Afganisthan and again with the Taliban in picture. This too is an extremely painful story. This one is about friendship and redemption. This was the first novel that I cried while reading.
The Godfather - A classic bestseller. Its about the American underworld which was controlled by some ridiculously powerful people(the mafia) who originated from the Sicilian parts of Italy. Another point this book focused on was that FAMILY IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IN THE WORLD.

《灿烂千阳》 - 我在阅读时哭得稀里哗啦。它讲述了爱的力量，并设置在塔利班控制下的阿富汗。它围绕着两个女性展开，这让它更加令人痛苦，考虑到那个国家的妇女状况。卡勒德·侯赛因以简洁而美丽的文字写下了这部作品。这不是童话故事，也不适合脆弱的人，因为它（相当痛苦地）呈现了一个女性生活的残酷现实。
《追风筝的人》 - 这位作者的另一部杰作。同样设定在阿富汗，同样有塔利班的影响。这也是一个极其痛苦的故事。它关于友谊和救赎。这是我在阅读时第一次哭泣的小说。
《教父》- 经典畅销书。它讲述了被一些极其强大的人（黑手党）控制的美国地下世界，他们起源于意大利西西里部分地区。这本书还强调了家庭是世界上最重要的东西的观点。

Kane and Abel - often considered to be the best work of Jeffery Archer, it is an immensely powerful novel with such characters that will make you wish the story never ends...its the story of two powerful, brilliant men obsessed with destroying each other, the obsession being sparked by a little misunderstanding between the two who indulge in a mindless, unnecessary feud while they might have been great friends at another place, another time.
Edit : Some more books to add to the list -
To Kill A Mocking Bird - Harper Lee's classic. A great piece of writing. An amazing story on different kinds of prejudices surrounding a society (an American society in particular) but most importantly it puts forwards the racial injustice in the American society during the 20th century. What is most special about this book is that the narrator in the book is a child, a little girl who is 6 years of age when the story takes off and the narrator's father is one of the most likable characters ever whom you can't help but admire. On top of all, it has some very thoughtful and unforgettable quotes.

《凯恩和亚伯》 - 傑弗瑞·阿切尔的代表作，是一部极具影响力的小说，其人物形象会让你希望故事永远不会结束……这是两个充满力量和才华的男人相互毁灭的故事，因为两人之间的一个小误解而引发了无谓的争斗，而他们本来可以在另一个地方、另一个时期成为好朋友。
编辑：添加更多的书籍到列表中——
《杀死一只知更鸟》 - 哈珀·李的经典之作。一篇优秀的文章。一个惊人的故事，讲述了围绕社会存在的不同种类的偏见（特别是美国社会）但最重要的是它展现了 20 世纪美国社会中的种族不公正。这本书最特别的地方在于书中的叙述者是一个孩子，一个六岁的小女孩，而叙述者的父亲是史上最受喜爱和令人钦佩的角色之一，你无法不钦佩他。此外，这本书还有一些非常深思熟虑和难以忘怀的名言。

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Boy, oh boy. A fan of murder mystery stories or not, this is one Agatha Christie book that one should just not miss. You will actually feel your heart racing at point when the murderer is about to be declared in the book. If this one doesn't leave you in a trance, then I don't know what will.
And Then There Were None - Often considered the best work of Agatha Christie. Ten people die one by one and the murderer is one of them. Even so the murderer isn't obvious until after the epilogue. These words speak for themselves. Miss this one at your own risk.

《罗杰·艾克洛伊德之死》 - 无论您是否是侦探小说迷，这本阿加莎·克里斯蒂的书都不容错过。在书中揭示谋杀者的时候，您会感到自己的心在怦怦直跳。如果这本书无法让您入迷，那我不知道还有什么能做到了。 《无人生还》- 这本书被认为是阿加莎·克里斯蒂最好的作品。十个人一个接一个地死去，而凶手就在其中之一。即便如此，在后记之后，凶手仍然不明显。这些话已经说明了一切。若错过这本书，您将自行承担风险。

Manu Sahay
I find it hard to believe that 2 absolutely path-breaking, revolutionary books of crime fiction don't find mention here-
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
And then there were none
Both of these novels are by Agatha Christie, and are regarded as her finest works
Detective/crime fiction is, by it's nature, something to wrack your brains over. There are very few books that come close to the 2 that I've mentioned above. And I've read a pretty decent amount of crime fiction :)

我很难相信在这里没有提到两本绝对开创性和革命性的犯罪小说——《罗杰阿克罗伊德之谋杀案》和《无人生还》。这两本小说都是阿加莎·克里斯蒂的作品，并被认为是她最好的作品。侦探/犯罪小说本质上就是要让你发挥你的头脑。很少有书能像我上面提到的这两本书一样引人入胜。我已经读了相当数量的犯罪小说 :)

Erik Willekens
This book reverses some of the basic paradigms in psychology and therapy. It opened my eye to not only want to see the "good intentions" of people but also their personal style of getting what they want. To see people can actually intentionally manipulate others. Doesn't seem a cheerful book to read and it isn't, yet it surely is an empowering one if you are dealing with people who challenge you on the deepest level.
Another, complementing book is No More mister Nice Guy by Robert Glover.
No More Mr. Nice Guy!: Robert A. Glover: 9780762415335: Amazon.com: Books
Not always perfectly nuanced but very eye-opening indeed. Challenging the most ingrained paradigm in a lot of people nowadays. The principles are not only suited for men though the book is mainly written for the "strong sex".

这本书颠覆了心理学和治疗中一些基本范式。它让我不仅想要看到人们的“好意”，还想看到他们追求自己目标的个人风格。人们可能会有意识地操纵其他人，这点也让我有所认识。虽然这本书似乎不是一本愉快的读物，确实如此，但如果您正在应对那些在最深层次上挑战您的人，这本书肯定会让您更有力量。
另一本补充性的书是罗伯特·格洛弗的《不再做好人》（No More Mr. Nice Guy）。
这本书不总是完美微妙，但确实非常开眼界。它挑战了当今许多人根深蒂固的范式。这些原则不仅适用于男性，尽管这本书主要是为“强者性别”写的。

Then there is one that might seem to contradict the last two yet if the principles are applied in an integrated way it's liberating and rejuvenating. This book is so fundamental, it might even offset you, it implores you to rethink and turn around your basic ways of communication.
It's not particularly well written, yet the message on how to communicate better has made a profound difference in my life and countless others. The first two books could be considered the why, this one is big part of the how. Being vulnerable, really showing what is alive in you and learning to express what you long for in a way that actually invites others instead of demanding or tricking, it makes way for open, clear, honest, compassionate communication.
It's a profound experience to learn how it is to actually be real to the people around you. This book can help you.
Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life: Marshall B. Rosenberg, Arun Gandhi

还有一本书可能似乎与前两本相矛盾，但是如果将这些原则以整合的方式应用，它会带来解放和焕发活力。这本书是如此基础，甚至可能颠覆您的想象。它敦促您重新思考和改变您的基本沟通方式。
尽管它的写作不是特别好，但是关于如何更好地沟通的信息在我的生活和无数他人中产生了深远的影响。前两本书可能被视为“为什么”，而这本书则占据了“如何”的重要部分。变得脆弱，真正展示您内心的所思所感并学会以一种实际邀请而非要求或欺骗的方式表达您渴望的东西，这为开放、清晰、诚实、富有同情心的交流铺平了道路。
了解如何对身边的人保持真实的体验是一种深刻的体验。这本书可以帮助您。
《非暴力沟通：生命的语言》（Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life）：马歇尔··B·罗森伯格，阿伦·甘地

Joshua Engel
Many books have informed me of things I didn't know, but the only one I can think of that's ever really changed my attitudes was Omnivore's Dilemma, by Michael Pollan.

很多书都让我了解到我不知道的事情，但是我所能想到的唯一一个真正改变了我的态度的书就是迈克尔·波伦的《杂食动物的困境》。

It crystallized a lot of inchoate ideas I had about food. I knew that I wanted to get closer to it, but I wasn't sure how or exactly what that meant. I knew in theory that I didn't want to eat an animal without being willing to kill it myself, but I hadn't put together that it was actually possible. I began to buy meat from Joel Salatin himself, then I found a farmer who follows (and improves) on Salatin's methods.
It's not just that, though that's the most in-your-face aspect of it. The whole book really helped me re-think how I eat. I joined a CSA, which I'd never heard of before. I now get my meat from a farmer I know, and I know that the animals are raised in a way I'm comfortable with.
I think that everybody should read this book.

这本书澄清了我对食物的很多模糊想法。我知道我想更接近它，但我不确定如何做到，也不确切知道这意味着什么。在理论上，我知道我不想吃没有自己愿意亲手杀死的动物，但我没有意识到这实际上是可能的。于是，我开始从乔尔·萨拉廷自己那里买肉，然后我找到了一个农夫，他遵循（并改进了）萨拉廷的方法。
不仅如此，尽管这是最明显的方面。整本书真正帮助我重新思考我的饮食方式。我加入了一个“社区支持的农业”，这是我以前从未听说过的。现在，我从认识的农民那里购买肉类，我知道动物是以一种让我感到舒适的方式养殖的。
我认为每个人都应该阅读这本书。

Anonymous
Power of now -
“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life.”
- Eckhart Tolle
My life had been a struggle with a abusive, alcoholistic father being an important role in that. My dad died, and that brought a long period of grief and mixed emotions. I was still young, 18 at the time. It had an very negative impact on my life. In a period where I needed to bounce back I went on a search for self-improvement.
I read great books, I read terrible books. I tried to find a happy career and kept failing. Then I read the power of now.
“Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time: the Now. That is precious indeed. The more you are focused on time—past and future—the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.”

《当下的力量》（Power of Now）- “深刻地认识到当前时刻是您所拥有的一切。将‘现在’作为您生活的主要关注点。” - 埃克哈特·托利
我的生活曾经是一场与虐待性、酗酒的父亲斗争的过程。我的父亲去世了，这引发了长时间的悲痛和各种各样的情感。当时我还很年轻，只有18岁。这对我的生活产生了非常负面的影响。在我需要反弹的时期，我开始寻找自我提高的途径。
我读了很多好书，也读了很多不好的书。我试图找到一个快乐的职业，但一直失败。然后我读了《当下的力量》。
“时间根本不是宝贵的，因为它是一种幻觉。您认为宝贵的不是时间，而是超越时间的一个点： ‘现在’，这确实是宝贵的。您越专注于时间-过去和未来-您就越会错过‘现在’，这是最宝贵的东西。”

- Eckhart Tolle
After so much suffering in my life this book just showed me how much truth there is in it. All my trouble, all my bad history was all kept in life by myself. I created a victim out of the life that already had been.
I created more stress by creating a future in my mind how hard I needed to work to get back on track.
Life is now. It always is. Your past lives on in your mind, and your future is a made up illusion. It's a profound, philosophical message that made me stop chasing things in the outside world that perhaps would make me happy, fulfilled, relaxed and joyfull. I try to focus on the inside more often and more often while still taking massive action to make my life a lot better (this is a paradox, I understand).
I am not 'enlightened', but I try to stay in the present moment as often as I can. Focusing on my breathing as often as I can had more effect that any self help book I ever read. The realisation that "i am not my mind" has been life changing.

埃克哈特·托勒是这样说的：“在我生命中经历了这么多的苦难，这本书向我展示了其中有多少真理。我的所有麻烦，我的所有不良历史都是我自己创造的。我将一个本来已经存在的生活变成了一个受害者。” 我通过在脑海中建立一个未来的思想来创造更多的压力，以便重新回到正轨。 生命就在此刻。它一直都在。你的过去存活在你的脑海中，而你的未来是一个虚构的幻象。这是一条深奥的哲学信息，它让我停止追逐外部世界的事物，而这些事物也许会让我感到快乐、满足、放松和愉悦。我试图更经常地关注内心，并且仍然采取大量行动，使我的生活变得更好（这是一个悖论，我理解）。 我并不是“启蒙的”，但我尽可能多地停留在当下。关注自己的呼吸比我所读过的任何自助书籍都更有效。意识到“我不是我的头脑”对我的生活产生了巨大影响。

Manos Kontizas
Plato - The Republic (380 BC)
The definition of republic, democracy, justice and political theory 2400 years ago.
Copernicus - De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (1543)
The heliocentric theory - The impossible alternative to Ptolemy's geocentric system.
Sigmund Freud - The interpretation of dreams (1899)
Human behavior is largely directed by something called the unconscious mind.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky - The brothers Karamazov (1880)
Quoting from Wikipedia article: "The Brothers Karamazov is a passionate philosophical novel that enters deeply into the ethical debates of God, free will, and morality. It is a spiritual drama of moral struggles concerning faith, doubt, and reason... Since its publication, it has been acclaimed all over the world by intellectuals as diverse as Sigmund Freud, Albert Einstein, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Martin Heidegger, Cormac McCarthy and Kurt Vonnegut as one of the supreme achievements in literature."

柏拉图 - 《理想国》（公元前380年）
共和制、民主、正义和政治理论的定义，2400年前。
哥白尼 - 《天体运行论》（1543年）
日心说理论- 打破了托勒密地心说体系的不可思议的另一种选择。
西格蒙德·弗洛伊德 - 《梦的解析》（1899年）
人类行为在很大程度上受到称为潜意识的东西所指导。
陀思妥耶夫斯基 - 《卡拉马佐夫兄弟》（1880年）
引用自维基百科文章：“《卡拉马佐夫兄弟》是一部充满哲学思辨的小说，深入探讨了上帝、自由意志和道德等伦理学问题。它是一出关于信仰、怀疑和理性的精神戏剧……自发表以来，它受到了世界各地知识分子的广泛赞誉，如西格蒙德·弗洛伊德、阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦、路德维希·维特根斯坦、马丁·海德格尔、科马克·麦卡锡和库尔特·冯内古特等，被誉为文学的巅峰之作。”

Natalie Rose
Jean Rhys - Wide Sargasso Sea
I read this for the first time as a teenager and it really engrossed me and changed the way my hormonal self felt about love, sex and relationships. This is one of the great post-colonial novels and deals with heavy issues including race, colonialism, power, wealth, sexuality, marriage and mental health in a really smart, beautiful and powerful way.
Rhys' way of subtly changing the narrative style to mirror the mental state of her main characters is one of the reasons this book is so great. If you are looking to read a novel that is really important in terms of post-colonial or feminist literature, this is a great place to start. Rhys takes one of the best-known "mad women" of literature (Jane Eyre) and reclaims her story, addressing Victorian fears about the "other" in a way that will make you completely rethink your experience of the first novel. Tragic, compelling and a real work of art.

《茜茜公主》作者Jean Rhys的《大西洋彼岸》
我十几岁时第一次读这本书，它真的吸引了我，改变了我的情感世界，重新定义了我对爱情、性和关系的看法。这是一部伟大的后殖民小说，涉及种族、殖民主义、权力、财富、性、婚姻和心理健康等重大议题，以一种聪明、美丽和强大的方式进行探讨。
Rhys随着主要角色的精神状态微妙地改变叙述风格，这是这本书如此伟大的原因之一。如果您想阅读一本在后殖民主义或女性主义文学方面非常重要的小说，那么这是一个很好的开始。Rhys重新主张了文学中最著名的“疯女人”（《简·爱》中的某一角色）的故事，并以一种让人完全重新审视第一部小说的方式，回应了维多利亚时代对“他者”的恐惧。这本书悲惨、引人入胜，是一部真正的艺术品。

Gabriel García Márquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude (or any of his works)
This long, sprawling history of a Colombian family is one of those books that opens up new meanings each time you read it. It's pretty long and you may struggle to differentiate between the multiple characters (who sometimes share names) but is well worth the effort.
It's well-known as one of the first and greatest books to use the "magical realism" technique and is one of the great works of fiction for the structure and narrative style alone. However, the use of nostalgia as an ongoing theme means this book is as emotionally gripping as it is technically brilliant.
By interweaving fantasy-like elements with moments of frank and gritty realism, it will really make you question your perception about what is "real". For example some of the most out-there sections are actually inspired by real Colombian history and should serve as a warning to us about governments and the media changing pedalling misinformation and distorting facts.

加夫列尔·加西亚·马尔克斯 - 《百年孤独》(或他的任何作品) 这部关于哥伦比亚一个家族的漫长历史，是那种每次阅读都能开启新意义的书籍。它相当长，你可能会有些难以区分多个人物(有时候他们会共享姓名)，但是努力阅读的收获绝对超过了付出的努力。
作为使用“魔幻现实主义”技巧的首批和最伟大的作品之一，它因其结构和叙事风格而广为人知。然而，怀旧作为一个持续的主题，使得这本书在情感上与技术上一样引人入胜。
通过将幻想般的元素与坦率而粗糙的现实主义时刻交织在一起，它会真正让您质疑自己关于“真实”的看法。例如，其中一些最离奇的部分实际上是受到真实的哥伦比亚历史的启发的，应该对我们提出警告——关于政府和媒体改变传播错误信息和歪曲事实的行为。

Angela Carter - The Bloody Chamber
Again, if you're interested in feminist reclaimation of classic literature, you'll want to check out Carter's revised fairy tales. Rather than being saved by a dashing prince, these heroines take control of their own sexuality and destinies.
Dark, very sexual and gruesome - this will challenge your notions of femininity and sexuality. The characters aren't "good" or "bad", but are multi-layered.

如果你对女性主义重新解读经典文学感兴趣，你应该查看卡特改写的童话故事。这些女主角不是被英俊的王子拯救，而是掌握了自己的性和命运的控制权。 这些故事黑暗，非常性感和残忍 - 这将挑战你关于女性和性别的观念。角色并不是“好”或“坏”，而是多层次的。