This post is the place to suggest books or other media which have changed the way you think about things.
The first contribution is Being Mortal:Medicine & What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande 2014.

Jo Corke

The second contribution is The Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan 2015

Laurie

This book, Fall down 7 times, get up 8, by Naoki Higashida who is a 24-year-old man with severe, largely non-verbal autism.

Jo Corke

This book, Do no harm, by Henry Marsh, covers material which is important to us all. It is written in somewhat paternalistic style which often grates with this reviewer.

Jo Corke