I would be very grateful if any of you kind souls could recommend me a good book about finding meaning in life. I know it might sound a bit exaggerated, but I’ve lost interest in my career path and don’t know what to do with my life or what my purpose is.
It’s not just about my career — I also feel lost when it comes to hobbies, friendships, and even searching for a partner. Honestly, I don’t even know what I truly want anymore.
Maybe there’s a book out there that could help guide me toward some answers.
by Time-Golf-1556
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The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
A short adventure novel with substance and some good philosophical takes. I’ve recommended it to others before. Everyone I know who has read it has loved it.
Booked helped me figure out those exact questions. I seriously couldn’t recommend it more sir.
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig is pretty well known and has polarizing reviews, but at the end of the day it’s about a girl who feels like she’s existing without purpose and her journey to answer the “what if’s” that she never explored. It’s a shorter read (200-300 pages) and might help give you some inspiration about the possibilities and choices that life has to offer.
If self help books are your thing, try The Defining Decade
*Fabrications* by Author Nazo
It’s a short-story so you can get into it easily and devour it!
Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost (nonfiction)
I’m taking your word choice as a sign – Seat of the Soul – Gary Zukav.
You might want to try books.reachalike.com it gives good recommendations like that
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E Frankl. The first half of the book discusses the psychology of men in concentration camps informed by Frankl’s firsthand experience during the holocaust. The second half delves into Frankl’s belief as a psychiatrist that what truly fulfills humankind isn’t pursuing pleasure, but finding meaning in your life.