Ask HN: What book bit, stung and shook you deeply?

Blindsight by Peter Watts. It has some silliness but the principal idea was brilliant and has really stayed with me

"1984", by George Orwell.

Ayn Rand's the Fountainhead

“The Fountainhead” by Ayn Rand shook me when I was younger.

Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel

Infinite Jest. It haunts me mostly because of the sheer density of the information in the book

"Brother Karamazov"

parts of Moby Dick

Gene Wolf (The Book of the New Sun)

"The Dispossessed" by Ursula le Guin

The Master and Margarita

Ishmael by Daniel Quinn.

children of time, adrian tchaikovsky. impossible to communicate the experience. run, don’t walk. prefer the audiobook.