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Nine Books to Reset Your View of the World - The Atlantic

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Each of these titles will widen your perspective, offering you original insight and vision.

Books rise to the level of enduring art, I believe, when their writers take something ordinary and reintroduce it in a way that radically transforms it. The right work can make a subject that’s never crossed my mind, or that strikes me as aggressively boring, into something incantatory, pulsing with meaning. I’ve read many books animated by someone’s desire to show me a new manner of thinking; they’ve placed me inside the minds of animals entirely unlike me, made me look into the faces of strangers with fresh curiosity and empathy, or reminded me that we are all floating through outer space. T

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