We asked library-goers: What book really impacted you?
From autobiographies to graphic novels, here are the works that 9 strangers at the Cambridge Public Library said stuck with them.
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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.
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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.
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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.’’
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Nate Hendrick picked “Crime and Punishment” by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. “[It] was a really good psych study. Dostoyevsky is probably my favorite author,’’ he said.
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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.
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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.’’
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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.’’
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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.
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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.“
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