Flowers for Algernon

Flowers for Algernon is the most mentioned book in this thread thus far. I listed it too in my comment. Highly recommended to those who haven't read it!

I mentioned this in my comment!

1. Animal Farm by George Orwell 2. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes [1] 3. Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley 4. I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette Mccurdy 5. Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris 6. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe [2] 7. Cosmos by Carl Sagan 8. The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins [3] 9. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson 10. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander [4] 11. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka 12. Billions and Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium by Carl Sagan [5][6][7] 13. Outgrowing God: A Beginner’s Guide to Atheism by Richard Dawkins [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50076596 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47452253 [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48326741 [4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49539535 [5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49751771 [6] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49740712 [7] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49739256

A few: - Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes (thrice) - The Color of Distance by Amy Thomson (twice) - Fox 8 by George Saunders (twice)

Flowers for Algernon

Great book. I read it first in 2022, then re-read it last year and it still held up! Wrote about it on my blog (don't open until you're done with it!" https://www.rxjourney.net/list-of-books-i-finished-reading-i... (https://www.rxjourney.net/list-of-books-i-finished-reading-in-2025)

Flowers for Algernon

Hard to choose for myself who made the post. But some of my favorites are - 1. God: The Failed Hypothesis Book by Victor J. Stenger 2. The God Delusion Book by Richard Dawkins 3. Berlin: The Downfall 1945 Book by Antony Beevor 4. A Song of Ice and Fire Novel series by George R.R. Martin 5. A Short History of Nearly Everything Book by Bill Bryson 6. Billions and Billions Book by Carl Sagan 7. Flowers for Algernon Short story by Daniel Keyes 8. I'm Glad My Mom Died Book by Jennette McCurdy 9. Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden--from 9/11 to Abbottabad Book by Peter Bergen 10. Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space Book by Carl Sagan 11. The Metamorphosis Novella by Franz Kafka 12. The Selfish Gene Book by Richard Dawkins Gun to my head, pick one? The God Delusion.

1984, George Orwell Permanent Record, Edward Snowden My Early Life, Winston S. Churchill Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand Edit: To some extent probably also: The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas Don Quijote, Miguel de Cervantes

Read it in one go, couldn't put it down. Profound.

Who has time for books nowadays? Some lovely tales so short u can read'em over coffee: - Asimov's Profession, his best short story IMHO - Mimsy Were the Borogoves - just reread it, it's as great as it was when I was a teen! - Flowers to Algernon is sad, but a must - Everything from Lem's Cyberiad - Everything from Borjes` Fictions

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes. Wild by Cheryl Strayed - not strictly fiction but it could be read as such. Opened my mind to areas of society I wasn't aware of.

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes. I'm surprised nobody mentioned it yet. It made me reconsider quite a few things.

Happy to see this mentioned here. While I can't claim that it was "lifechanging" for me, I still maintain it to be one of the best SciFi novels I've ever read.

Flowers for Algernon from David Keyes

Hard to pinpoint. In terms of entertainment books, it'll probably come down to a tie between Douglas Adams' Last Chance to See and Walter Moers' The City of Dreaming Books, or maybe something by Terry Pratchett (although I couldn't single out a book there, either). The reason for those is just that I can't imagine ever being bored reading them. Maybe also Flowers for Algernon (Daniel Keyes) for being a really creative concept (the way the story is told) and for being a wonderful example on how interesting modest sci-fi can be without resorting to "LAZERZ!!!". Edit: Another contestant: Friedrich Dürrenmatt's The Physicists. Grim yet humorful. I generally really like Dürrenmatt's dark endings. Edit 2: And another one: Measuring the World by Daniel Kehlmann, specifically for how well he got me to understand Gauss' weird reactions and motives without going into his work at all. Before I've read it, I would have sworn that a book that tries to present one of the greatest mathematicians would need loads of math in it.

Oh, and Flowers for Algernon, by Daniel Keyes.

Fiction: 1. Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes because it's so beautifully written and made me experience a flood of emotions. 2. The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Again, a very touching, charming book about a little kid's world(universe?) view, told through his adventures. Non-fiction: 1. The subtle art of not giving a F*ck - Mark Manson Opened my eyes to what I was possibly doing wrong with my life. 2. Radical Acceptance - Tara Brach Still currently reading it, but I wish I'd found it earlier.

Pretty much the only book that's made me cry uncontrollably. It was the relationship between biology and intelligence that got me, too, not really on the disability and how he was treated, which was mainly what they focused on in school. Really made me reflect afterwards. Totally worth it, one of my favorites, and I'm way overdue to reread it again.

Flowers for Algernon, by Daniel Keyes. This is easily the most moved I have been by a book that was equal parts a theory of intelligence and equal parts a realization of how important of an ingredient intelligence is to enable one to be aware of the fact of being 'alive', to have been given a variable amount of intelligence to process this fact for the next 80 years or so and that this variability in intelligence influences how that turns out.

This Saturday as a birthday present for a 14 year old friend of mine, who haven't been reading so much lately: * Persepolis, first version * Dark Angel, by David Klass I've just started reading "Flowers for Algernon", I guess this can also be a good birthday present. I think gifting books is something very difficult, in my experience I never wanted to get books for present.

I don't know if it counts as dystopian but you should check out Flowers for Algernon - it's on similar lines.

Personal favorites: "Flowers for Algernon", "Snow Crash" and "Schild's Ladder" #YMMV

Here are two fiction books that I really enjoyed and learned from: 1) Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes. This book is an emotional roller coaster. After reading it, you will better understand what life is like for the mentally challenged. 2) Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy. You will get a glimpse into the life of Russian aristocracy in the 19th century. More importantly, you will learn about love and human relationships.

Flowers for Algernon. It made me realize that my greatest fear is to leave the world and have it be as though I had never existed at all. I don't necessarily think that was the moral, but it is certainly what lasted with me the longest.