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The two books who have impacted me the most, even noticeably changing my world view in some way, were Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe, and The Bell, by Iris Murdoch. Some other more recognizeable highlights were Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea.