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Literary Guide for 2026 📚
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Authors & Works for Expanding the Mind and Spirit
 
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Decode the hidden language of your dreams and the symbols shaping your life.
Man and His Symbols
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Master yourself, not the world.
Discourses and Enchiridion: Epictetus, Higginson
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A leader’s private journal on how to live with dignity and purpose.
The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
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 A chilling, realistic depiction of societal collapse after an EMP attack—part cautionary tale, part survival manual.
One Second After (John Matherson Novel 1)
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A Holocaust survivor and psychiatrist explores the power of purpose in human life.
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
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Rethink what it means to live and act in the world.
The Human Condition, 2nd Ed by Arendt & Canovan
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When comfort replaces freedom, humanity pays the price.
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
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The definitive political dystopia on surveillance, language, and authoritarianism.
1984: 75th Anniversary Edition by Orwell
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Stoic insights on living wisely and peacefully amid chaos.
Letters from a Stoic (Penguin Classics)
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Two worlds, one vision of freedom.
The Dispossessed 50th Anniversary Edition
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A searing call for justice and understanding.
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
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Sweeping history of human evolution, culture, and the forces shaping our species.
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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Wit, romance, and the dance of social expectations.
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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Discover the story pattern at the heart of human myth.
The Hero with a Thousand Faces - Joseph Campbell
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 A transformative feminist
Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1949.
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Hugo-winning fantasy exploring climate catastrophe and oppression.
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth #1) by N.K. Jemisin
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Finding the sacred in the everyday.
Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
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A lyrical meditation on memory and identity.
10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak
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Why the future is unwritten, and that’s our greatest power.
Hope in the Dark | HaymarketBooks.org
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Love, war, and the fight to retain humanity.
Half of a Yellow Sun - Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi
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Prescient eco-dystopian novel exploring community, survival, and belief.
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
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