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Sep 13, 2021 • 24 tweets • 7 min read • Read on X
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I asked, "What’s a fiction book that changed your life?"

I received 630 replies.

Here are 20 fiction books that can change your life:
1/
The Kite Runner

by @khaledhosseini Image
2/
The Alchemist

by @paulocoelho Image
3/
The Harry Potter series

by @jk_rowling Image
4/
Ready Player One

by Ernest Cline Image
5/
100 Years of Solitude

by Gabriel García Márquez Image
6/
East of Eden

by John Steinback Image
7/
To Kill A Mockingbird

by Harper Lee Image
8/
The Count of Monte Cristo

by Alexandre Dumas Image
9/
Dune

by Frank Herbert Image
10/
Siddhartha

by Hermann Hesse Image
11/
1984

by George Orwell Image
12/
Fahrenheit 451

by Ray Bradbury Image
13/
Jonathan Livingston Seagull

by Richard Bach Image
14/
A Man Called Ove

by @Backmanland Image
15/
Norwegian Woods

by @harukimurakami_ Image
16/
Catch-22

by Joseph Heller Image
17/
Of Mice and Men

by John Steinback Image
18/
The Fountainhead

by Ayn Rand Image
19/
Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley Image
20/
Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoevsky Image
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