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Book Recommendations
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items I LOVE reading all types of books. These are my top picks that I'd recommend to my friends.
Sections
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Books for Self-Improvement and Healing
Business and Entrepreneurship Books
Poetry Books
Historical Fiction
Horror/Mystery
Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Books for Self-Improvement and Healing
These are the best books that I have read to help me on my self-improvement and healing journey.
This book is a fantastic and quick read with actionable steps to improve your life. It's not focused solely on how to increase your productivity, but how to be mindful about how to spend your time and ultimately improve your life.
Feel-Good Productivity: Do What Matters
I found this book to be a super accessible read that goes into the importance of giving priority to loving yourself. The author is very vulnerable with her writing and shares some of her personal stories to help the reader really understand the concepts. I felt so understood by this book, and highly recommend to any people pleasers, people who struggle with guilt, or those of you who just need to be nicer to yourself :)
I Love Me More: Find Happiness & Success
This book was a phenomenal read that helped me find some direction in my life. I highly recommend actually doing the exercises in this book to help you really learn about yourself. It gives practical ways to help you find what you want to do and create goals that excite you.
Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming Life
If you are struggling with past trauma, this book is for you. The author goes into detail about how CPTSD effected her life and how she worked to cope with it. It is a very raw book, but if CPTSD is something you may be struggling with, this book will help you feel understood and give hope.
What My Bones Know: Memoir of Healing
If you have a complicated relationship with your parents or have been dealing with overcoming some childhood trauma, this book may help you understand your parents better and learn how you can cope and interact with them (if you choose to). It does a great job breaking down the types of immature parents and the lasting effects they could have on you as an adult.
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents
This is a different type of self-help book that starts with the author's experience in a concentration camp in WWII. His experience gives perspective to the human experience and what really motivates us. Through suffering, there is meaning. This is a pretty quick read, but contains profound concepts that may change the way you think.
Man's Search for Meaning
If you are neurodivergent or if you just struggle to keep on top of all of your to-dos, this book is for you. The author writes in a very accessible and easy to digest way for anyone to be able to have take-aways. It goes into methods to not just keep your house clean, but how to handle all of the things you're going through and teaches you how to be kinder to yourself so that you can get through tough times. Definitely changed my perspective on some things and has made an impact on everyday life!
How to Keep House While Drowning: A Gentle Approach
It seems like a pretty self explanatory concept, but in actuality, most of us are pretty hard on ourselves. This book delves into the science of self-compassion, cutting yourself a break, and just being kinder to you. It is a great book that everyone should read, and maybe the world would be a nicer place :)
Self-Compassion: The Power of Being Kind
I loved this book. This is perfect especially if you are a creative person and have struggled finding inspiration. It talks about how to walk through life being open to experiences and is very enlightening. This will be one I read again someday.
The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Business and Entrepreneurship Books
These books are great for entrepreneurs or business people who are looking for inspiration and actionable tips to be successful.
If you have been wanting to start your own business and get out of the rat race, this book is incredible. It gives logical reasons why working until retirement and just being frugal your whole life just doesn't make sense. It gives actionable steps to come up with business ideas that make CENTS and gives a framework for how to escape the rat race. Highly recommend to any entrepreneurs!
The Millionaire Fastlane: Crack the Code
This book is great for anyone who already has a business and is struggling to grow. It uses the concept of only keeping the essentials - just like growing award-winning pumpkins.
The Pumpkin Plan: Grow a Remarkable Business
This book is a great accompaniment to The Millionaire Fastlane. It goes over the same concepts, but adds in a storyline to give an example of the process and makes the concepts realistic.
UNSCRIPTED: The Great Rat Race Escape
Poetry Books
I love poetry that everyone can relate to - that makes you feel like you are not alone in the human experience. These books are all wonderful.
I was so pleasantly surprised by this book! I absolutely love this poetry and have gone back to read it multiple times. This is the first poetry book I recommend to friends.
Pretty Boys Are Poisonous: Poems Collection
This is a great installation of Rupi Kaur poetry. It is broken up into different sections and is filled with so many vulnerable poems about the human experience.
Home Body
Historical Fiction
I love learning about history while simultaneously being entertained with a fictional story with well-developed characters. These books are a great mix of history and fiction!
I absolutely love this book! The historical part is about the traveling library for rural communities, which was a really cool program that I hadn't heard about. The story and characters was amazing - I laughed, I was mad, I was sad, I was happy. Thi...
The Giver of Stars
Horror/Mystery
If you're looking for a spooky book to curl up with, pick one from this list!
This is an amazing gorey horror book. I loved the story, diversity of characters, and the descriptive writing that really helped me visualize everything. I absolutely love this book!
Hell Followed with Us
This book is ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE. The story and characters are amazing, there are major racial issues tackled as well as an engaging, suspenseful story line with a few twists at the end. The story is told from multple viewpoints and multiple times which helps develop the story in an amazing and satifying way. The audiobook is phenomenal with multiple voice actors.
The Weight of Blood
Sci-Fi/Fantasy
If you're looking to enter a whole new world with incredible characters and stories, pick one from this list!
The character development in this book is amazing. There are orphans with powers that are kept separate from society, and an unlikely hero emerges to protect them. Fantastic story with fantastic characters.
The House in the Cerulean Sea
Non-Fiction
I love constantly learning, and these books were very enlightening.
This should be a must read for every student in the United States. I learned so much about US history in this book that I was not taught in school. The approach it takes promotes students to question the black and white history we are taught and to look into all of the grey and think critically about what actually happens. It also goes into the textbook industry to uncover why this is a problem in the first place.
Lies My Teacher Told Me