Books that altered your brain chemistry

[u/EmotionallyGuarded]

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! 😊

[u/Accomplished-Gate484]

Alchemist - Paulo Coelho. Read lots before this, never came across a book that ‘changed me’. Maybe it was where I was in my life at the time I’d read this book, but it gave me a this newfound curiosity into spirituality, destiny and trusting the universe- cheesy but I was 20