Books that influenced me

Ben Stephens

This short article lists the books that influenced Ben Stephens, chief executive at Stack.

1. It shouldn't happen to a vet

By James Herriot

Published by Pan Books, 1973

This is the book that introduced me to the wonders of reading: how it builds knowledge, imagination, understanding and communications skills; and how it can inspire and enrage or relax and remove me to another world. I've moved house eight times in my life and this is the only book to have survived the inevitable culls that come each time.

2. Games people play: the psychology of human relationships

By Eric Berne

Published by Grove Press, 1964

Having studied behavioural geography at university, I had...

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