If you were to recommend a book or books that would help someone really "get" you or what made you – as you are now, or came from, or as you aspire to be, what would they be? Non-fiction or fiction. This was asked at a dinner party I was at once, and the answers were fascinating, and surfaced new books in ways I hadn't thought of before.
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A handful of years ago, I’d have said *Siddhartha* by Hermann Hesse without a doubt. And while that’s absolutely still the foundation of my general life philosophy, it has evolved to something a little more similar to *Cat’s Cradle* by Kurt Vonnegut.
>Someday, someday, this crazy world will have to end,
And our God will take things back that He to us did lend.
And if, on that sad day, you want to scold our God,
Why just go ahead and scold him. He’ll just smile and nod.
[Every Cradle Is a Grave by Sarah Perry](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17315307)
[Better Never to Have Been by David Benatar](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/660518)
[Gods of the Upper Air by Charles King](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42951225)
[We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22738563)
So, you know, just a lil light reading
Educated by Tara Westover. It describes what it’s like growing up with isolationist, religious parents and then slowly learning what the rest of the world is like.
The Convenience Store Woman to a certain extent.
Meditations – Marcus Aurelius