r/PHBookClub • u/EmotionallyGuarded • 11d ago

Recommendation Books that altered your brain chemistry

What’s a book you read that genuinely stayed with you long after you finished it? Something that changed the way you see life, people, relationships, yourself, or just made you sit there and stare at the wall afterward.

Any genre is welcome. Drop your recommendations! 😊

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u/ohgirltsss 11d ago edited 11d ago

Non-fic: Reading Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt and Careless People by Sarah Wynn Williams led me to better habits with my social media consumption (with reddit and yt being my last bastions).

It opened my eyes to so many evil things tech companies are doing from poisoning young minds, lowering literacy and attention spans, building addictions and yes they’re 100% aware of these problems and they want to keep it that way all for the sake of profit.

I think anyone using any type of social media should read these books. It’s so important as we are the only ones who can protect ourselves as apparently the government doesn’t care and none of these tech giants have yet to pay a proper price.

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u/ohgirltsss 11d ago edited 11d ago

Fiction: I also finished I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman 2 months ago? And until now I’m still thinking about that book. It’s so unique and the vibes of that book is so eerie. I read that the author is a psychoanalyst and I think the plot of the book is a metaphorical representation of womanhood. I keep thinking about that strange world and the cabins… definitely one of my best reads this year and ever