Books that have altered your brain chemistry. For the better or for the worst.

Y’all, don’t laugh but, charlottes web DESTROYED ME as a child. Recently re read it and it’s still sad as hell. I was never the same after that book. I hadn’t experienced that level of sadness in my every day life, and up until that point the books I read had happy endings.

I’m curious to know if other people have books that you were just not the same after reading