Here is an entirely subjective list of books that I'm recommending. They're all available in the Library and, even if they don't change your life, certainly a few of your neurons will be firing differently once you've read them.
Ready to have your life changed? Are you fully prepared for this adventure? Here goes!
Charlotte Brontë - Jane Eyre
Why? Because Charlotte and her sisters wrote fiction utterly unlike anything written before, and exposed Victorian hypocrisy about women's lives in the process
Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; and Through the Looking-Glass (you need to read both)
Why? The first books written for children which didn't patronise them, exhort them to good behaviour or insult their intelligence. Seriously bizarre stuff
Bill Bryson - A Short History of Nearly Everything
Why? This is about science - all the great discoveries, and the frankly peculiar scientists who did the discovering. A most alarming bunch of charlatans, weirdos, geniuses and prophets they turn out to be.
Nigel Warburton - Philosophy: the basics
Why? Sorts out why we think the things we do, and challenges the things we usually accept without question. An entire education in one small book. You'll never think in the same way again.
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