What is the most thought-provoking book you have ever read?

CheertheSecond

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As the title said, what is, among the many books, video essays, articles, etc. that you have read that you believe is the most throat-provoking one?
 

LilRora

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Excuse me, throat-provoking one?

I'm going to assume thought-provoking in the title is the correct word, and my answer is probably Depth by Marcin Podlewski, though unfortunately I've no idea where you can read it.

Also The Cathedral, I don't remember the author.
 

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"To walk through the chrysanthemums"
Original title in Vietnamese: "Đi qua hoa cúc"
by Nguyễn Nhật Ánh
 

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Perestroika by Mikhail Gorbachev. Sad book, you can feel equal parts desperation and hope within it. Soviet Union collapsed only a few years after the book was published. Honestly think Gorbachev was the greatest leader Russia ever had, but he inherited something that was beyond saving.
 

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Siddhartha by Herman Hesse (translated by Joachim Neugroschel). It's within the top 2 on my list of favorite books and I have a physical copy of it, which I don't usually do because I read too much and it can get expensive fast.
 
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