9 books that literally changed my life
And I do mean this literally
🎧 You can catch me presenting this week’s episode of BBC Radio 4’s The Food Programme called From York to Dubai: The Rise of Chocolate.
Firstly, don’t lots of books change our lives?
It’s not hard to argue most books we connect with change our lives to some degree, even if only small.
I think this fact often slips us by; we don’t always trace back the new and enlightening conversation we’re having to that book we read last summer.
But other times, it’s really obvious. A large proportion of my sentences when chatting with friends tend to include some iteration of, ‘…you have got to read this book..!’
And I reckon a book recommendation from a friend is one of the most powerful kinds of recommendation; if someone I know and trust tells me they think I will like this book, you better believe I will read it.
But today’s post goes beyond that.
Not only do I strongly recommend these nine books, but had I the litre capacity and shoulders, these are the books I would carry around with me in my rucksack at all times so as not miss an opportune moment to forcefully shove them into the hands of both friends and strangers.
These books impacted me way more than your average good read. I would go as far as to say they altered the course of my life in some way. A couple of them, extremely so.
This reading list will be in the back of my debut book Pathways (very soon going to print!) but there isn’t enough space to expand on them there. So I thought I’d do that here.
In no particular order, these are the 9 books that literally changed my life.