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Must-Read Books That Will Stay With You (2025)
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items List of must-read books for 2025, stories that inspire, comfort, and stay with you long after the last page. Perfect for anyone looking to add new favorites to their bookshelf.
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🌿 Personal Growth and Healing Books
🌿 Personal Growth and Healing Books
Books filled with gentle words and affirmations to remind you of your worth, help you heal, and guide you back to yourself on hard days.
It’s empowering, heartfelt, and softens the soul, something I’d even gift to a friend going through a tough time.
A Gentle Reminder
Full of life-changing insights that bring a real sense of calm. It's short length, just under 120 pages with inspiring quotes at the start of each chapter.
Don't Believe Everything You Think
“even when you think there's nothing left
life gives us oranges
so go share one with your best friend
maybe they thought the world would end
when they were 16 too.”
-- from save me an orange
save me an orange
This simple guide will help create a strong foundation for building good habits and make it easy to say goodbye to bad habits for good.
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones|Hardcover
Transformative and empowering, The Four Agreements serves as a timeless guide to personal growth, offering practical wisdom for changing the way we live, love, and see ourselves.
The Four Agreements: Practical Guide to Freedom
This book takes a fresh look at what really causes illness, calling out the ways our world can make us sick, and pointing us toward a healthier, more healing way to live.
The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness & Healing
This book reminds us that healing isn’t a quick fix but a journey, one that helps us rediscover who we truly are and guides us toward real transformation.
When You're Ready, This Is How You Heal
This heartfelt collection offers gentle reflections on life’s hardest and brightest moments, touching on loss, fear, courage, healing, love, acceptance, and so much more.
After the Rain: Healing, Courage & Self-Love
This book offers a fascinating look at how our brains learn and how the machines we build are starting to mirror that incredible ability.
How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better
Never Split the Difference pulls you into the high-stakes world of negotiations, where Chris Voss shares the powerful tactics that once saved lives. Packed with nine practical principles, it shows how anyone can use these strategies to be more persua...
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating Guide