What are books everyone should read to be a better person? No self help books.
Whatever genre. Books with a story that make you feel something, life lessons, and character development. That you can translate to everyday life and be a better person .
This book absolutely changed my life shortly after becoming a SAHM.
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Flowers for Algernon. Siddhartha. Ishmael. Love in the Time of Cholera.
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Nonfiction, but The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan
The best book I’ve read on critical thinking, and more timely than ever
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Eichmann in Jerusalem
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Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
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I know this can seem a little pretentious but *Meditations* by Marcus Aurelius is so good. It’s surprisingly easy to read even though it was written like 1800 years ago. Even if you aren’t interested in Stoic philosophy there’s so much goodness here – gratitude towards those who have patiently taught you, letting go of things you can’t change, accepting that things don’t always go your way but you still have to get up and do your best everyday.
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Read memoirs written by people who are not like you!
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. Sounds like a strange suggestion perhaps, but I’m sure people who have read it would agree. It is so thought provoking, made me think about society, exclusion, loneliness and acceptance.
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THE UNDERTAKING: LIFE STUDIES FROM THE DISMAL TRADE by Thomas Lynch
THE OBSTACLE IS THE WAY by Ryan Holiday
THE POWER OF ONE by Bryce Courtenay
EDUCATED by Tara Westover
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When breath becomes air
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Nickle and Dime: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich.Â
I grew up working class in a very white collar suburb and used to believe that everyone can just bootstrap their way to a better life. I read this shortly after graduating college and it was an eye opener as to how the decks are really stacked against the working poor. Even with my very humble childhood it helped me realize how much privilege I had and made me a lot more empathetic towards people. Some people aren’t making “bad choices” they just don’t have good options.
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My Friends, Fredrik Backman
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“The Prettiest Star” by Carter Sickels is about a specific era, but also universal.
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Cold People by Tom Rob Smith
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, To Kill a Mocking Bird, a Man Called Ove, A Gentleman in Moscow, Little Women
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East of Eden
Fight Club
The Once and Future King
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The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Pollyanna 🌸
A Psalm for the Wild-Built
This book absolutely changed my life shortly after becoming a SAHM.
Flowers for Algernon. Siddhartha. Ishmael. Love in the Time of Cholera.
Nonfiction, but The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan
The best book I’ve read on critical thinking, and more timely than ever
Eichmann in Jerusalem
Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
I know this can seem a little pretentious but *Meditations* by Marcus Aurelius is so good. It’s surprisingly easy to read even though it was written like 1800 years ago. Even if you aren’t interested in Stoic philosophy there’s so much goodness here – gratitude towards those who have patiently taught you, letting go of things you can’t change, accepting that things don’t always go your way but you still have to get up and do your best everyday.
Read memoirs written by people who are not like you!
The short story [New Shoes for Mr. Morton](https://www.storysanctum.org/post/new-shoes-for-mr-morton) makes you think about what’s important.
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. Sounds like a strange suggestion perhaps, but I’m sure people who have read it would agree. It is so thought provoking, made me think about society, exclusion, loneliness and acceptance.
THE UNDERTAKING: LIFE STUDIES FROM THE DISMAL TRADE by Thomas Lynch
THE OBSTACLE IS THE WAY by Ryan Holiday
THE POWER OF ONE by Bryce Courtenay
EDUCATED by Tara Westover
When breath becomes air
Nickle and Dime: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich.Â
I grew up working class in a very white collar suburb and used to believe that everyone can just bootstrap their way to a better life. I read this shortly after graduating college and it was an eye opener as to how the decks are really stacked against the working poor. Even with my very humble childhood it helped me realize how much privilege I had and made me a lot more empathetic towards people. Some people aren’t making “bad choices” they just don’t have good options.
My Friends, Fredrik Backman
“The Prettiest Star” by Carter Sickels is about a specific era, but also universal.
Cold People by Tom Rob Smith
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, To Kill a Mocking Bird, a Man Called Ove, A Gentleman in Moscow, Little Women
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller.
How to win friends and influence people
A thousand splendid suns