Ask HN: Great fiction books that have had a positive impact on your life?

Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: not purely fiction but an amazing book I will surely re-read during my lifetime

i learn from Dune to never ever trust blindly any kind of leaders.

_War and Peace_, _Anna Karinina_, _Brothers Karamazov_ and _Dune_

Every year or two I re-read Dune

Dune: a sci-fi masterpiece, highly recommended to anyone into sci-fi

"Atlas Shrugged" by "Ayn Rand". It's not a typical fiction book but really made me think

Snowcrash

Stepehnson’s Diamond Age, Cryptonomicon, Seveneves, Anathem

Sapiens contributed to that for me.

- The Hitch Hiker’s Guide

So hitchhikers guide I can certainly agree with, but the rest of the series is pretty inconsistent.

Just finished it last week, it made me revisit the idea of "What it means to have meaning in life?"

Just finished reading this and found it incredible how one book could reveal so much of myself to myself.

Siddartha by Hermann Hesse

The Bible (Old and New Testaments)

then read LOTR to get more hobbits.

Every year or two I re-read Dune, Lord of the Rings, The Chronicles of Amber, and Steven Brust's Taltos series.

Lord of the Rings: The other bible.

the Discworld series: Sir Terry knew our hearts better than most

I've recently been reading the Foundation series, and have found the concept of The Mule character to be incredibly eye opening.