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Paperback BOOKS with DEEP meaning, I hope they will give you SPARKS too!
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items Call me old-fashioned or old-school, but I really love and always prefer to read the real book, where I can smell the paper, can touch and feel the texture of every page, and admire its cover and graphics in my hands. So here it goes, my favorite boo...
Dante’s three soaring canticle in one huge, heavy single volume: Inferno, The Purgatorio, and The Paradiso. A poetic masterpiece about the journey from hell to paradise.
The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso
Satan… Adam… Eve… To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell: better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven. A Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics)
I have read it many times in my timeline and each read gave a different sentation. Give it a try and let me know what you think!
The Alchemist
An old book that is being released for its 25th anniversary. It's all about the life-changing wisdom as we seek happiness, fearlessness, and a life that truly matters in these times of deep uncertainty.
The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: 25th Edition
Someone older, patient, and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, helped you see the world as a more profound place and gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it. Glad it comes for its 25th anniversary edition, ...
Tuesdays with Morrie: 25th Anniversary
A masterpiece of spiritual poetry along with all twelve original Kahlil Gibran drawings. The timeless in you is aware of life’s timelessness. And knows that yesterday is but today’s memory and tomorrow is today’s dream.
The Prophet (Reader's Library Classics) Illustrated
It's about purpose in suffering. If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineliminable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.
Man's Search for Meaning
While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of these other lives truly be better? This book sparks the realization that the best life is the one you are actively l...
The Midnight Library: A GMA Book Club Pick
This short classic novel tells us about courage in the face of defeat and personal triumph won from loss and transforms them into a magnificent 20th-century American classic about resilience, courage, and survival.
The Old Man and the Sea: Hemingway Edition
A powerful story of friendship, it is also about the power of reading, the price of betrayal, and the possibility of redemption, and an exploration of the power of fathers over sons, their love, their sacrifices, and their lies.
The Kite Runner
Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever. A Pulitzer Prize winner about a blind French girl and a German radio expert whose paths intersect in occupied France during WWII, as they navigate survival and human connection.
All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel
One of the grandest tales of adventure, Alexandre Dumas’s epic novel of revenge, perseverance, lost love, and self-invention. This edition includes an introduction, chronology, explanatory notes, and suggestions for further reading.
The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)
The book is more about the character's inner journey. I love the glimpse of old life in London after WWII through the eyes of a woman whose dreams, fears, joy, vulnerability, insecurity, and confidence are ageless things. The longing for a past life,...
Mrs. Dalloway: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
This classic novel captures the social divides, moral decay, and cultural shifts of post-WWI America. It tells about illusions versus reality.
The Great Gatsby: Original 1925 Edition
Here is the central idea of this book, stated plainly: you are not sabotaging yourself because something is wrong with you. You are sabotaging yourself because two parts of you want different things, and the part you're not listening to is winning. Y...
The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage
This book is a deep eye-opener about why we feel so lost in the modern world. Jung explains that many of our daily struggles come from ignoring our inner spiritual and emotional selves. It’s not an easy read you finish in one night, but every page ma...
Modern Man in Search of a Soul
This short book leaves a huge impact. It forces you to look at life, death, and why we care so much about what others think of us. It’s a bit dark, but it’s a brilliant wake-up call that makes you question how you live your own life. Have you read it...
The Stranger (Vintage International)