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My favorite books that I can't stop re-reading! πŸ“š

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I've been really into reading over the past few years, and these are my absolute favorite books that I find myself re-reading time and time again! These books have truly contributed to my personal growth, and helped my find the confidence and peace i...
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I absolutely love how this book is written, and it has inspired me to live my life more boldly! It's packed with valuable tips and advice on how to take control of your life and start living it to the fullest. This book pulled me out of a rut and mot...
Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies – Tara Schuster
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If I could read this book again for the first time, I would!! I love, love, love this book and I read it in only a couple of days because I couldn't put it down. It's about the feeling of being stuck in life, regretting life decisions and felling lik...
The Midnight Library – Matt Haig
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Love this book! It's a 12 week β€œprogram” about finding your creativity, with insights on why you might be stuck and tasks to help you get creative again. β€œIt guides readers in uncovering problems areas and pressure points that may be restricting thei...
The Artist's Way - Julia Cameron
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This book is so unlike anything else I've ever read before, and the story is so captivating. It took me by surprise how much I enjoyed reading it. It's based on a true story, and the way you get to follow the person and the narrative style drew me in...
Life of Pi – Yann Martel
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Love this book, it’s so beautiful and important and moving! I read it in two days during my summer vacation because I couldn’t put it down! It’s a queer story about two guys falling in love in Poland after world war 2, when Poland was led by the comm...
Swimming in the Dark – Tomasz Jedrowski
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I have read this book two times now and it has became one of my favorite books!! It has inspired me to live a more creative life and to dare do what I want.
Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear – Elizabeth Gilbert
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I love this book and I really want to read it again soon!! This is such a beautiful and insightful book and I learned so much about myself and my relationship with others when I read it. Can highly recommend it!!
The Mastery of Love – Janet Mills and Don Miguel Ruiz
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This book has truly made me live more in the moment, and it's been such an eye-opener! It's helped me calm down my anxiety, stop overanalyzing things and to trust myself and life. Whenever I feel myself lost in thought, I look through the notes I've ...
The Power of Now – Eckhart Tolle
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I found this book so inspiring, and I felt really connected with the author while reading it. Following her personal journey was really insightful and I learned a lot from her stories. Most importantly, it made me really inspired!
Eat Pray Love – Elizabeth Gilbert
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Wow I love this book! It's a really lovely book about an Irish girl's struggles and experiences with love and sexuality, and the expectations from friends and family while growing up queer in a small village in the early 1990s. It's beautiful and hea...
Sunburn – Chloe Michelle Howarth
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I love this book!! I read it in two days because it was so captivating and so beautifully written. It completely drew me in and I couldn't put the book down. I really wish I could read it again for the first time
A Walk to Remember – Nicholas Sparks
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I absolutely love this book and the way you get to follow the main characters! The book constantly keeps you wondering what will happen next, and I couldn't put it down once I started reading it
The Seven Sisters: Book One – Lucinda Riley
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I love this book, and I can highly recommend it! The messages I've learned from it, I try to keep with me in my everyday life. And I often find myself revisiting the notes I've taken from this book
The Four Agreements – Don Miguel Ruiz
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Game changer when it comes to creating habits that actually lasts and transforms your life!! This book has helped me a lot!
Atomic Habits – James Clear
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Love this author and love this book! It's a story about a girl in New York during the 1940s, and her journey with finding freedom and happiness and choosing the life she wants.
City of Girl – Elizabeth Gilbert
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A really good book about changing your mindset from a Neuroscientists perspective. It's about manifestation, the law of attraction and thought patterns from a neurological perspective, which helps you understand how this works and how your brain work...
The Source: The Secrets of the Universe, the Science of the Brain - Dr. Tara Swart
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Read this in my book club, and it's a really good book about intuition and the female psyche! Really interesting and inspiring, and a great book to read in a book club!
Women Who Run with the Wolves – Clarissa Pinkola EstΓ©s
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As an overthinker, this book has been really helpful! It has taught me how to make faster decisions and to not get stuck in decision making, or analysis paralysis as she calls it. Can highly recommend this book if you're an overthinker like me.
Don't Overthink It – Anne Bogel
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This book introduced me to the law of attraction and has helped me foster a more positive attitude in life. Want to read this again soon!
The Law of Attraction – Esther Hicks and Jerry Hicks
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Currently reading

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Currently reading this in my book club, and I'm loving it so far!! Will update when we're finished.
All About Love – Bell Hooks
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Currently reading this book, and I like it so far! It's ”A celebration of our female friendships, of our messy years, and of growing up together. Glittering with wit, heart, and humour, it’s a book to share with every woman you’ve ever been lucky eno...
Everything I Know About Love – Dolly Alderton
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Currently reading, and I like it a lot so far, it's super interesting. β€œIn The Body Keeps the Score, he (the author) uses recent scientific advances to show how trauma literally reshapes both body and brain… He explores innovative treatmentsβ€”from neu...
The Body Keeps the Score – Bessel van der Kolk
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On my reading list

These books are at the top of my reading list, but I haven't had the chance to read them just yet. They've all been highly recommended to me, and I'm genuinely so excited to get to read them soon!

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Only heard good things about this book, and I really want to read it!
The Courage to Be Disliked – Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga
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Winner of the 2026 International Booker Prize. ”Taiwan Travelogue is a bittersweet story of love between two women, nested in an artful exploration of language, history and power.”
Taiwan Travelogue – Yang Shuang Zi
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Highly recommended book about how to stop self-sabotaging and how to create the life you want!
You Are a Badass – Jen Sincero
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”Electrifying and funny, Kaveh Akbar's Martyr! is an all-consuming debut.” ”An instant New York Times Bestseller Shortlisted for the Waterstones Debut Prize Book of the Year in The Observer, The New York Times, and The New Yorker A National Book Awa...
Martyr – Kaveh Akbar
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”A spectacular guide to the inner world and relationships; it dispels myths, grounds you in transformative truth and reconnects you to your power” ”Relationships have the ability to infuse our lives with the magic of intimacy and connection. But oft...
Becoming The One – Sheleana Aiyana
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”Clarice Lispector's sensational, prize-winning debut novel Near to the Wild Heart was published when she was just twenty-three and earned her the name 'Hurricane Clarice'. It tells the story of Joana, from her wild, creative childhood, as the 'littl...
Near To The Wild Heart – Clarice Lispector
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”A tale for our dispossessed times, and one of the sharpest and funniest novels of recent years, It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over plumbs mortality and how it changes everything, except possibly love.”
It lasts forever and then it’s over – Anne de Marcken
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