books that changed my life

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I don't know how and when this video became me complaining about my ex but here we are!
I've been watching book recommendation videos on YouTube for the past decade but for some reason I'm not super conformable sharing my own recommendations, so I figured I'd throw myself in at the deep end and share some of the books I've been most changed by over the years. Hope you find this useful in some way... or entertaining, at least.
As I say in the beginning of the video, I'm not claiming that there are the best books of all time, or that this is a list of the 5 books everyone should read once in their life. But if you do end up reading them I think you'll have a great time!

books mentioned:

1. Misery by Stephen King
2. Boule de Suif by Guy de Maupassant
3. Ladies' Delight by Émile Zola
4. The Egoist by George Meredith
5. Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer

the Mina Le video about dark romance books I mentioned:    • the twisted world of dark romance fiction