Hello everyone,
I've been feeling down for a while now, and books often have a huge impact on my outlook on life. So, I'm looking for a book that will give me hope and make me say, "Life is worth living."
I don’t want self-help books, but otherwise, I’m open to anything.
Thank you!
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Yes to Life – Viktor Frankl
The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles. Book is just unbelievable
I can’t think of any
Midnight library by Matt Haig
The angels of our better nature, things getting g better
Following 🤞
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt 🥹
Maude by Donna Foley Mabry.
This book found me at the lowest point in my life. This book was written by Maude’s granddaughter. She tells the story of her grandmother, Maude, who was beyond being a bada@@ in a day when women were seen as meek and disposable.
I can’t tell you how many times i have recommended this book, how many times I have gifted this book. The response is 70/30. Some folks found it so damn sad, and I can see that. I see a woman that kept fighting, every single day, to give her family the best she could.
On my bad days, I still remind myself of Maude and I drag my a@@ out of bed.
Gratitude by Oliver Sacks. It’s 60-ish pages. It might work the opposite way and make you depressed though.
Expensive Blood: Origins by Mugisha Trevor E.
It’s a fantasy, and it shows characters go through what you have expressed, but they eventually override all the downs and lows, on seeing that life is amazing!
Sweet bean paste by Durian Sukegawa
Adventure Capitalist by Jim Rogers is a really interesting book about a great investor driving around the world in a year and having a great adventure.
This may be an odd suggestion but the Thursday Murder Club books. They make me excited to live in a senior complex one day and I have to keep going to make that happen.
The perks of being a wallflower, it’s bittersweet in some places and you might want to check the trigger warnings but overall it’s a very thoughtful book. Also, Hold Your Own by Kae Tempest, there’s a book called that but I mean the stand alone poem, if you look it up it’s really uplifting and thought provoking 🙂
“How Do You Live?” by Genzaburo Yoshino. It was intended as an ethics textbook to combat the rise of fascism in Japan during the 30s, but was put into a novel format to make it have better appeal. It’s full of interesting thoughts on art, helping others, working together, the interconnectivity of humans, poverty and wealth, legacy, etc.
One quote that encapsulates the entirety of the book:
“I think there has to come a time when everyone in the world treats each other as if they were good friends. Since humanity has come so far, I think now we will definitely be able to make it to such a place.
So I think I want to become a person who can help that happen.”