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My favorite book recs
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items This list is books that I've personally read or listened to and recommend to you! These titles have helped me understand myself on a deeper level as well as those around me. Delve in to learn a thing or two.
This book reads like fiction but keeps you reflecting on your own life choices and future.
The Alchemist (25th Anniversary Edition) by Paulo Coelho, Paperback
A must read for all, especially in the current time. Read about the psychology of how the 💩 became.
Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most ...
Based on ancient Toltec wisdom, The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz is a guide to personal freedom. The four agreements are: Be Impeccable with Your Word (speak with integrity), Don't Take Anything Personally (view others' actions as a projection ...
The Four Agreements: Practical Guide to Freedom
Quiet by Susan Cain argues that Western culture has an extrovert ideal that undervalues introverts. Susan uses research and stories to show that introverts possess unique strengths like creativity and deep thinking that are crucial for success in wor...
Quiet: The Power of Introverts - Susan Cain
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder acts like a guide that pulls 20 historical lessons from 20th-century Europe to provide strategies for citizens to defend democracy against authoritarianism. (THIS IS ESSENTIAL TO...
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons - Timothy Snyder
The Library Book by Susan Orlean is a non-fiction book that uses the 1986 arson at the Los Angeles Public Library as a starting point to explore the history of libraries, the investigation into the fire, and the crucial role libraries play in society...
The Library Book - Susan Orlean
Stealing Little Moon: The Legacy of the American Indian Boarding Schools by Dan SaSuWeh Jones is a nonfiction book and memoir about four generations of his Ponca family's experiences at the Chilocco Indian Agricultural School in Oklahoma. The book di...
Stealing Little Moon: Legacy of Indian Boarding Schools
The Collected Regrets of Clover is a beautiful story about a death doula and the lessons learned through such a deep and seemingly dark profession.
The Collected Regrets of Clover
The Book That No One Wanted to Read is a humorous children's book by Richard Ayoade. It is illustrated by Tor Freeman and is about a book that feels unread and unwanted until it meets a curious reader. The book is narrated from the perspective of the...
The Book That No One Wanted to Read
1984 is a dystopian novel about Winston Smith, a man who rebels against a totalitarian regime in Oceania, where the Party, led by the figurehead "Big Brother," controls every aspect of life. The novel explores themes of government surveillance, propa...
1984 (paperback)
Vox is a 2018 dystopian novel by Christina Dalcher about a near-future United States where women are limited to speaking only 100 words per day. The protagonist, Dr. Jean McClellan, a neurolinguist, must navigate this oppressive new reality to protec...
Vox, Hardcover, First Edition
We lost a legend. 😢 The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times is a 2021 book by primatologist Jane Goodall and author Douglas Abrams. Through intimate dialogue, the book explores the concept of hope as a necessary tool for survival in the ...
The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times
This fantasy novel by V. E. Schwab is about a young woman in 18th-century France who makes a deal with a dark god for immortality, but is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets. The story follows her 300-year journey, exploring themes of love, ...
The Invisible Life of Addie Larue (Paperback)