Summer Reading List: The Book That Changed My Life

By GQ

Don't get us wrong: We love a perfectly crafted tweet or a hilarious Tumblr or an ingenious app. But have any of those things ever rocked you to the core and irrevocably altered the way you see the world? Yeah, us neither. For that you need a book (even if you read it on a Nook). We asked some of the finest storytellers around to tell us about the works that truly slayed them.