26 Books That Have Shaped My 26 Years on Planet Earth

I wouldn’t be me without them

Some favorites, by Vincent Van Patten

Over the last few years since I graduated from college, I’ve read or listened to around 175 books. Reading is the first thing I do when I wake up in the morning and the last thing I do before I go to sleep.

If I can take one thing away from a book, be it a shift in the way I think about myself or a…