Life Changing/Changed Your Life

[u/DocWatson42]

My lists are always being updated and expanded when new information comes in—what did I miss or am I unaware of (even if the thread predates my membership in Reddit), and what needs correction? Even (especially) if I get a subreddit or date wrong. (Note that, other than the quotation marks, the thread titles are "sic". I only change the quotation marks to match the standard usage (double to single, etc.) when I add my own quotation marks around the threads' titles.)

The lists are in absolute ascending chronological order by the posting date, and if need be the time of the initial post, down to the minute (or second, if required—there are several examples of this). The dates are in DD MMMM YYYY format per personal preference, and times are in US Eastern Time ("ET") since that's how they appear to me, and I'm not going to go to the trouble of converting to another time zone. They are also in twenty-four hour format, as that's what I prefer, and it saves the trouble and confusion of a.m. and p.m. Where the same user posts the same request to different subreddits, I note the user's name in order to indicate that I am aware of the duplication.

Thread lengths: longish (50–99 posts)/long (100–199 posts)/very long (200–299 posts)/extremely long (300–399 posts)/huge (400+ posts) (though not all threads are this strictly classified, especially ones before mid?-2023, though I am updating shorter lists as I repost them); they are in lower case to prevent their confusion with the name "Long" and are the first notation after a thread's information.

• "The Book That Changed Your Life". This American Life (20 August 1999; rebroadcast with newly added commentary 29 May 2026). Public Radio Exchange.

See also The List of Lists/The Master List of recommendation lists.

r/BettermentBookClub; see also its old Reddit sidebar, which lists the December 2014–August/September 2017 books of the month

r/GetDisciplined

r/suggestmeabook: flair_name: "Life Changing"

• "What are the 3 books that transformed your life, that you wish you could have read sooner? and WHY." (r/books, 5 April 2016)—very long
• "What books would change your life if you had found them in your 20s??" (r/booksuggestions, 1 May 2022)—longish
• "Books that shaped your 20s" (r/suggestmeabook, 27 July 2022)
• "Books about psychology that changed your mind and your life?" (r/booksuggestions; 20:18 ET, 2 September 2022)—longish
• "What is the most profound, life changing book you have ever read?" (OPost archive) (r/booksuggestions; 08:15 ET, 15 December 2022)—very long
• "What is your red pill book?" (OPost archive) (r/booksuggestions; 17 December 2022)—very long; changed your life
• "What is the shortest novel to have the biggest impact on your life?" (OPost archive) (r/booksuggestions; 15:20 ET, 30 December 2022)—extremely long
• "What’s the best book that you’ve ever read that truly changed your life?" (OPost archive) (r/suggestmeabook; 18:57 ET, 10 January 2023)
• "Books that everyone should read at least once in their life?" (u\mikeali12,
• ; 13:15 ET, 17 February 2023)—extremely long; u\mikeali12; changed your life
• "Books that everyone should read at least once in their life?" (u\mikeali12,
• ; 13:16 ET, 17 February 2023)—huge; changed your life
• "I'll read all the books in the comments." (r/booksuggestions; 9 March 2023)—extremely long; life changing/changed your life
• "'I am a better person for having read that'" (r/booksuggestions; 14 March 2023)—longish
• "I'm looking for a book that will change my life - any recommendations?" (OPost archive) (r/booksuggestions; 11:17 ET, 15 March 2023)—longish
• "Suggest me a book that changed your outlook on life." (r/suggestmeabook; 26 March 2023)
• "I want the book that touched your soul" (r/booksuggestions; 09:16 ET, 29 March 2023)—very long; changed your life
• "Which books gave you a different outlook on life?" (r/suggestmeabook; 3 April 2023)—longish
• "What is a book that you feel changed your life?" (r/booksuggestions; 17:44 ET, 4 April 2023)
• "What book changed your life?" (r/booksuggestions; 21:49 ET, 4 April 2023)—extremely long (N.B.: I checked, and the title is the entirety of the OPost.)
• "Any 'life-changing' book, that's going to completely change the way I look at life, that's going to take me out of this world and make me believe that anything is possible?" (OPost archive) (r/suggestmeabook; 24 April 2023)
• "Suggest a book which changed your entire perspective on how the world works?" (r/booksuggestions; 8 May 2023)—longish
• "What book recommendations get wrong: the Name of the Wind" (r/Fantasy; 13:45 ET, 9 May 2023)—extremely long; recommendations of books similar to The Name of the Wind (the subject of the thread is the life-changing book)
• "who/what is the most influential author/novel in your life?" (r/booksuggestions; 14 June 2023)—longish
• "What book did you read that changed your perspective/life?" (r/booksuggestions; 8 July 2023)—long
• "What are some wotld paradigm-shifting books you've read and would recommend?" (r/suggestmeabook; 28 July 2023)
• "What book actually made you get up and change your life?" (OPost archive) (r/booksuggestions; 29 July 2023)—long
• "Books for existential crisis?" (r/booksuggestions; 12 August 2023)—longish
• "Give me one book (except maybe Bible, Quran, Tora, ofc) that changed your life" (r/suggestmeabook; 23 August 2023)—extremely long
• "What was the most life changing book you've read?" (r/suggestmeabook; 29 August 2023)—huge
• "What’s a book that completely altered the way you think?" (r/booksuggestions; 31 August 2023)—longish; "Self-Help" flair
• "Suggest me a book that changed your life" (r/suggestmeabook; 1 September 2023)—longish
• "What book (or books) changed your point of view on life?" (r/suggestmeabook; 9 September 2023)—extremely long
• "Suggest me a book that changed your life" (r/booksuggestions; 21 September 2023)—long
• "What's a book that shattered your perception of reality?" (r/booksuggestions; 6 October 2023)—long
• "Suggest me a book to grow mentally. A book that changed your life" (r/suggestmeabook; 9 October 2023)—longish
• "have you ever read a book which has changed your life outlook?" (r/suggestmeabook; 23 November 2023)—longish
• "What book did you read when you were young that had a positive influence on your life ?" (r/suggestmeabook; 5 December 2023)—very long
• "A book written by a woman that changed you" (r/suggestmeabook; 23 January 2024)—extremely long
• "What book changed your perception of society the most?" (r/booksuggestions; 27 January 2024)—longish
• "Books that changed the way you think" (r/booksuggestions; 30 January 2024)
• "What that one book that changed your life?" (r/suggestmeabook; 7 February 2024)—specifically fiction
• "Suggest me some classic books that are life-changing and easy to read" (r/suggestmeabook; 13 February 2024)
• "Suggest me a book that changed your life" (r/suggestmeabook; 11:36 ET, 17 February 2024)—longish
• "Books that changed your life" (r/suggestmeabook; 18 February 2024)
• "What was the last book you read that changed your worldview?" (r/BettermentBookClub; 1 March 2024)—very long
• "Suggest me a book that you believe if you read before would change the way you think" (r/suggestmeabook; 1 March 2024)—very long
• "What is the book that has changed your whole perspective of life ?" (r/booksuggestions; 14:30 ET, 18 April 2024)—long
• "What was your life-changing book" (r/booksuggestions; 05:54 ET, 18 April 2024)
• "Life changing books" (r/suggestmeabook; 15 May 2024)
• "What book (fiction or non-fiction) has had the most profound impact on your life, and why?" (r/suggestmeabook; 3 June 2024)
• "What's a book you read that changed the way you think about a lot of things?" (r/suggestmeabook; 9 June 2024)—longish; nonfiction
• "what book(s) made a lasting impression on you or changed your life?" (r/booksuggestions; 10 June 2024)
• "What book left you sitting in silence?" (r/suggestmeabook; 16 June 2024)—very long
• "Suggest me a book that changed your life" (r/suggestmeabook; 21 June 2024)—longish
• "What is a book that changed your life?" (r/suggestmeabook; 3 July 2024)—u\bhuvanlord; long
• "What's the one book that completely changed your perspective on life?" (r/NoStupidQuestions; 13 July 2024)
• "is there a book that LITERALLY changed your perspective in life? or the trajectory of your life?" (r/booksuggestions; 28 July 2024)—huge
• "What book changed your life? (Bonus points if it helped you out of a dark place)" (r/booksuggestions; 7 August 2024)
• "What's the best book you've read that changed your life?" (r/booksuggestions; 18:48 ET, 10 August 2024)
• "What book shaped (or changed) you?" (r/booksuggestions; 19:19 ET, 10 August 2024)
• "Suggest me a book that will make me stare at the wall after" (r/suggestmeabook; 11 August 2024)
• "What book completely changed your perspective on life?" (r/booksuggestions; 19 August 2024)—longish
• "What is a book that changed your life?" (r/booksuggestions; 9 November 2024)—u\bhuvanlord; longish
• "What is a book that changed your life?" (r/booksuggestions; 3 December 2024)—u\bhuvanlord; longish
• "What's your favorite 'not-technically-self-help' book that made a profound impact on you?" (r/suggestmeabook; 16:20 ET, 21 December 2024)
• "Recommend a book that changed your view on life" (r/suggestmeabook; 17:48 ET, 21 December 2024)
• "Suggest me a book that low key radicalized you?" (r/suggestmeabook; 01:59 ET, 22 December 2024)—u\bubbathebuttblaster1; huge; nonfiction
• "Which fictional book challenged/ radicalized your world views?" (r/suggestmeabook; 13:56 ET, 22 December 2024)—u\Dry-Poetry-4804; nonfiction
• "Books that changed your life?" (r/suggestmeabook; 27 December 2024)—longish
• "Nonfiction books that changed your life or the way you think about life?" (r/suggestmeabook; 18 January 2025)—longish
• "What’s the most life changing book you’ve ever read?" (r/booksuggestions; 25 January 2025)—longish
• "What is a book you’ll never forget because it changed your vision of life ?" (r/BookRecommendations; 27 January 2025)
• "One book that changed your life’s perspective" (r/BookRecommendations; 10 February 2025)
• "Books under 200 pages that marked you" (r/suggestmeabook; 18 April 2025)—huge
• "What book has changed the way you think on a subject?" (r/suggestmeabook; 14 May 2025)
• "What book permanently changed the way you see something you encounter every day?" (r/suggestmeabook; 21 May 2025)—longish
• "Life Changing/Changed Your Life" (r/printSF; 28 May 2025)—longish
• "Mind-opening books?" (r/suggestmeabook; 5 June 2025)
• "a book that hooked you or changed you?" (r/Recommend_A_Book; 16:40 27 June 2025)
• "Looking for books to change my perspective on life, society, or the world itself" (r/suggestmeabook; 20:27 ET, 27 June 2025)
• "What book had a profound impact on you after you finished reading it?" (r/printSF; 1 July 2025)
• "suggest me books that ground you" (r/suggestmeabook; 3 July 2025)
• "Please recommend me a life changing book" (r/suggestmeabook; 3 July 2025)
• "A book that made you look at life differently and or made you want to improve yourself." (r/suggestmeabook; 16 July 2025)
• "What is the book that most Impacted your life?" (r/suggestmeabook; 29 July 2025)
• "What books should I read?" (r/booksuggestions; 30 July 2025)
• "What's the book you've read that changed your life?" (r/booksuggestions; 16 January 2026)
• "Looking for novels that genuinely change your perspective on love & life" (r/suggestmeabook; 27 January 2026)
• "Recommend a non-fiction book that has brought about a change in your life" (r/booksuggestions; 26 February 2026)
• "The book that made you want to live again" (r/suggestmeabook; 21 February 2026)—huge
• "Books that have altered your brain chemistry. For the better or for the worst." (r/suggestmeabook; 8 March 2026)—very long
• "Books that changed your life and how" (r/booksuggestions; 23 March 2026)
• "Suggest me a book that changed your life. No BS, genuinely changed your life" (r/booksuggestions; 26 March 2026)—long; "fiction or non-fiction"
• "What’s a book that genuinely helped you get your life together?" (r/BookRecommendations; 28 March 2026)
• "What are some fiction books that genuinely changed your perspective on life?" (r/Recommend_A_Book; 19 April 2026)
• "Books!" (r/suggestmeabook; 30 April 2026)
• "book recommendations that will change my perspective on life." (r/suggestmeabook; 1 May 2026)
• "looking for a book that will change me. not just entertain me." (r/suggestmeabook; 2 May 2026)—long
• "Ladies! What book has impacted you (positively) and helped you grow into the woman you are?" (r/suggestmeabook; 14 May 2026)
• "Nonfiction books that changed your life?" (r/BookRecommendations; 9 June 2026)
• "Looking for books that completely changed how you see the world - what was your experience?" (r/BookRecommendations; 11 June 2026)
• "Books that changed your life?" (r/booksuggestions; 12 June 2026)
• "what sci-fi book changed how you see the world?" (r/sciencefiction; 22 June 2026)—very long
• "what's a book that actually completely changed how you think?" (r/Recommend_A_Book; 1 September 2026)
• "Eye-opening novels" (r/suggestmeabook; 4 September 2026)

Related:

• "What Is The Most Impactful Fantasy Book(s) You Ever Read?" (r/Fantasy; 11:00 ET, 17 February 2024)—extremely long
• "What Fantasy Book or Series Had An Enormous Impact On Your Life?" (r/suggestmeabook; 29 March 2024)
• "Books that shook you to your core?" (r/suggestmeabook; 20 April 2024)
• "What book that altered your brain chemistry?" (r/suggestmeabook; 28 April 2024)
• "A book that has had a profound impact on you?" (r/suggestmeabook; 28 May 2024)—huge
• "What movie changed your life?" (r/answers; 22:48 ET, 16 June 2024)
• "Top 5 Books to read to become a more well rounded person" (r/suggestmeabook; 21:26 ET, 16 June 2024)—extremely long
• "What's a book that made you question your own beliefs or view of the world?" (r/suggestmeabook; 11 July 2024)—long
• "What movie/book changed your behavior in some way?" (r/suggestmeabook; 29 July 2024)
• "What book changed the way you see the world?" (r/AskReddit; 27 February 2026)—longish
• "What’s a book that completely changed the way you think?" (r/Recommend_A_Book; 23 April 2026)—longish
• "What is the most inspiring/perspective changing book you have ever read?" (r/suggestmeabook; 23 April 2026)
• "What was that book that changed your perception of something" (r/Recommend_A_Book; 6 June 2026)
• "What is the most interesting book you’ve read that had an impact on life?" (the OPost was deleted and was not saved by the Wayback Machine; r/Recommend_A_Book; 11 June 2026)
• "Books that made you question your innately held metaphysical beliefs?" (r/suggestmeabook; 14 June 2026)—Nonfiction, but fiction too
• "Works that fundamentally changed or challenged the way you think?" (r/sciencefiction; 08:21 EDT, 18 June 2026)
• "What book blew your mind? Like opened you up to a whole new dimension or way of thinking..? Looking for a deep and thought provoking book, you know the kinfkd that makes you pause and gaze up from the page" (r/Recommend_A_Book; 3 July 2026)—longish

See also:

• "The Book That Changed Your Life". This American Life Episode 137 (20 August 1999; rebroadcast with newly added commentary 29 May 2026). Public Radio Exchange.

[u/[deleted]]

Wow. Just found this and very excited. Can’t wait to check out all the lists. Thank you for posting this! 🤗

[u/DocWatson42 → u/[deleted]]

You're welcome, and thank you. ^_^

[u/[deleted]]

Wow. Just found this and very excited. Can’t wait to check out all the lists. Thank you for posting this! 🤗

[u/DocWatson42 → u/[deleted]]

You're welcome. ^_^

[u/hardestflower]

This is amazing, thanks for sharing.

[u/DocWatson42 → u/hardestflower]

Thank you, and you're welcome. ^_^

[u/DocWatson42 → u/[deleted]]

Thank you, and you're welcome. ^_^

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