What stories have changed the world?

9 novels that changed the world

• Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe.
• The Jungle by Upton Sinclair.
• All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque.
• Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe.
• The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell.
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck.
• 1984 by George Orwell.

How fiction changes your world?

Fiction enhances our ability to understand other people; it promotes a deep morality that cuts across religious and political creeds. More peculiarly, fiction’s happy endings seem to warp our sense of reality. They make us believe in a lie: that the world is more just than it actually is.

What books have changed your life?

The Most Life-Changing Books

• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho.
• Mindset by Carol Dweck.
• Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki.
• How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie.
• The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle.
• Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari.
• The Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod.
• Start With Why by Simon Sinek.

Can a book change the world?

Again, reading and learning by yourself are great, and they can change the world because they can alter the way we think. But books themselves are not enough to change the world — because we have to read as many of them as we can, and always talk to people about the knowledge we’ve gained.

What is the most known story in the world?

Here they explain why.

1. The Odyssey (Homer, 8th Century BC)
2. Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1852)
3. Frankenstein (Mary Shelley, 1818)
4. Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell, 1949)
5. Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe, 1958)
6. One Thousand and One Nights (various authors, 8th-18th Centuries)

How has fiction changed reality in your life?

As much as clichéd it sounds, a book or a movie filled with fictional characters can change your life completely. It’s an escape from the reality, a window to a different world. Psychologists believe that fictional characters influence us in real life. Several studies and research have also confirmed the same.

What is the book changed about?

Changed is a short, autobiographical read about one man’s (self-centered) wish to “cleanse” himself and find peace with his past.