Books can change a person: make him bolder, determine his life path, help him cope with loneliness and navigate an incomprehensible world. American-German writer Veronica Reichl talks about how this happens, based on interviews with readers of high literature - from works Hegel, Heidegger and Deleuze to the books of Roland Barthes, Clarice Lispector and Milan Kundera. To understand the texts of thinkers, people look for connections between theory and sensory experience, select fragments at random and copy them by hand, read only when traveling, enter into dialogue with the author, leave notes in the margins and highlight for themselves what they agree with or, on the contrary, , are ready to argue heatedly. “Reading Minds” is a guide to the perception of complex texts, a guide to the world of thinking, as well as a fascinating story about how books help us meet ourselves.