books that changed my perspective on something

• My Struggle: Book 1 by Karl Ove Knausgaard –– on family and death
• The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner –– on techniques for recording ephemeral thought patterns
• The Stranger by Albert Camus –– on being impartial
• Swann's Way by Marcel Proust –– on memory and noticing beauty
• Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. –– on the effects WW2 still has on us
• If On A Winter's Night A Traveler by Italo Calvino –– on storytelling
• My Struggle: Book 3 by Karl Ove Knausgaard –– on childhood and fragility of memory
• The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck –– on sacrifice and maintaining a moral code