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Was it Siddhartha by Herman Hesse, or perhaps it was The Stranger by Camus. For me, there were different books that had big impacts at different stages of my life. When I was just a boy, I remember being moved by "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" and by "The Yearling". As a teenager, "Atlas Shrugged" and "A Catcher in the Rye".
I'll agree with Siddhartha and A Catcher in the Rye never read "Atlas Shrugged"
but was influenced by "Nausea" by Sartre.
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