Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut is that book for me: the kind of books that change the way you see the world… but that you might wish you hadn’t read, because you can’t unsee what they reveal. Other that probably nobody here read,: "Saint Manuel Bueno, Martyr"
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Michel Foucault’s *Discipline and Punish.*
Immensely influential work in the humanities, but can result in making one paranoid about their behavior being monitored at all times by everyone around them.
Basically, Foucault uses the analogy of the Panopticon (a type of prison where all cells face the center of a dome, and at the center is a tower atop which sits a guard – so the guard can see all prisoners at all times, but the prisoners can see neither the guard nor their neighbors) to demonstrate how we exist in society, how our behaviors are constantly and inescapably monitored by our peers at all times, and how if our behaviors or beliefs deviate from the dominant attitudes of our communities/social groups we are likely to be punished or ostracized.