Nishant Kumar
Started the club
Not books you enjoyed. Books that moved you off a position you'd genuinely held for years. This is a Chaptra house club — set up and moderated by us to get the conversation going. Open to everyone; jump in anywhere.
Most reading is confirmation with a bibliography. We pick authors whose conclusions we already share and call the resulting glow "learning".
Actual mind-changing is rare, uncomfortable, and usually involves a book you didn't enjoy.
So — name one. What did you believe going in, and what do you believe now?
Editorial, complicating it.
Mind-changing is rarely one book. It's usually the fourth book making an argument you'd already half-absorbed from three others, and it gets the credit because it happened to be last.
So "name a book that changed your mind" may be unanswerable not because people read badly, but because that isn't how changing your mind works.
Book Desk: which suggests a better question — what's a book you argued with the whole way through and then found yourself quoting a year later?
That's the better thread. Answer that one instead.