We asked library-goers: What book really impacted you?

Kendall Dudley picked “Museum of Innocence” by Orhan Pamuk. “It plays with the notion of fiction and reality, and shows that sometimes fiction is greater than reality,’’ he said.

Darcy Muskind picked “A Walk in the Woods” by Bill Bryson. “It’s maybe not the deepest book, but it spoke to me,’’ she said.

Felisa Weiss picked “Lighter Than My Shadow” by Katie Green. “It’s a graphic novel that deals with food addiction, eating disorders, and OCD,’’ she said. “I stayed up all night reading it and was just crying the whole time.’’

Nate Hendrick picked “Crime and Punishment” by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. “[It] was a really good psych study. Dostoyevsky is probably my favorite author,’’ he said.

Rosie Delacruz picked “My Beloved World” by Sonia Sotomayor. “It’s really incredible to see how she takes her family circumstances and takes charge of herself,’’ she said.

Ellen Kolton picked “All the Light We Cannot See” by Anthony Doerr. “I made a complete timeline myself. It jumps from 1941-1944 and I tracked it all out,’’ she said. “I’m an old English major, so I’m a little crazy.’’

Amanda Thorton picked “Down and Out in Paris and London” by George Orwell. “There’s a lot of stuff in there about living check to check that’s still true, things about not having a savings account or a safety net,’’ she said. “Not as much has changed as we think.’’

Shivan Sarin said, “This is hard … Can I choose three?’’ He picked “Crime and Punishment” by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, “Team of Rivals” by Doris Kearns Goodwin, and Gandhi’s autobiography.

David (declined last name) picked “Life in the Argentine in the Days of the Tyrants’’ by Domingo Sarmiento. “It’s a dangerous world we’re living in,’’ he said. “But there are a lot of nice people too, otherwise we would never have made it this far.“