Looking for some mindblowing books, that give you this feeling of “awe” and “marvel”. When you finish it, you’re like “Wtf did I just read?” But in a positive way. Thought-provoking, reality challenging, challenging status quo ideas, can be about the universe/space/physics too. So, maybe someone like Nietzsche? Camus? Stephen Hawking?
It’s a very abstract request, but some of the books that gave me a similar feel are:
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
1984 – George Orwell
Everything is F\*cked: A Book about Hope – Mark Manson
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind – Yuval Harari
Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind – Shunryu Suzuki
Der Steppenwolf – Hermann Hesse
Siddharta – Hermann Hesse
Meditations – Marcus Aurelius
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by rolleN1337
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‘Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance’ is a classic, and not too dissimilar from some of the titles you list. A very unusual book, though not quite of the type you mention, is Boris Vian’s ‘Froth on the Daydream’. A.N. Whitehead’s ‘Adventure of Ideas’ is a challenging one: philosophical, yes, and kind of ‘out there’, too.
‘The Screwtape Letters’ is another one that comes to mind.
*The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality* –Andy Clark
*Reality+* –David Chalmers
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro — the less you know going in the better the payoff