Book Recommendations
If you're a bookworm like me, then you'll like this article. Below, I recommend some of my personal favorites.
I will link the books according to category. The categories I'll be covering are:
- Self-help
- Relationships
- Biographies
- Fiction
- Non-fiction
If any of the above is a category you particularly enjoy, then by all means read on. I am so exciting for you to read what I have for you!
Self-help
What I Know For Sure Hardcover – 2 September 2014
A beautiful cloth bound book with a ribbon marker, packed with insight and revelation from Oprah Winfrey. Organized by theme--joy, resilience, connection, gratitude, possibility, awe, clarity, and power--these essays offer a rare, powerful and intimate glimpse into the heart and mind of one of the world's most extraordinary women--while providing readers a guide to becoming their best selves.
How To Do The Work: The Sunday Times Bestseller Paperback – 11 March 2021
In How to Do the Work, Dr LePera offers readers the support and tools that will allow them to break free from destructive behaviors to reclaim and recreate their lives. Nothing short of a paradigm shift, this is a celebration of empowerment that will forever change the way we approach mental wellness and self-care.
What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing by Oprah Winfrey
Looking at sleep, news, social media, addiction, work and play, Matt Haig invites us to feel calmer, happier and to question the habits of the digital age. This book might even change the way you spend your precious time on earth.
On relationships
Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work by John Gottman Paperback – 8 September 2017
John Gottman has revolutionized the study of marriage by using rigorous scientific procedures to observe the habits of married couples in unprecedented detail over many years. Here is the culmination of his life's work: the seven principles that guide couples on the path toward a harmonious and long-lasting relationship. Packed with practical questionnaires and exercises, The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work is the definitive guide for anyone who wants their relationship to attain its highest potential.
Five Love Languages Revised Edition Paperback – 15 June 2015
Whether your relationship is flourishing or failing, Dr. Gary Chapmans proven approach to showing and receiving love will help you experience deeper and richer levels of intimacy with your partner—starting today.The 5 Love Languages is as practical as it is insightful. Updated to reflect the complexities of relationships today, this new edition reveals intrinsic truths and applies relevant, actionable wisdom in ways that work. Includes the Couple's Personal Profile assessment so you can discover your love language and that of your loved one.
Breaking Not Broken: Healing After Your Painful Break-Up Paperback – 31 January 2016
Anita Papas introduces her fourth self-help title, Breaking Not Broken, this time tackling relationship troubles. This book will help you understand the dynamics of relationships, whether you are stuck in an on-off relationship, obsessed over your ex, or finding it difficult to move on after a painful break-up or divorce.
Biographies
It's a love letter. To life. It's also a guide to catching more greenlights--and to realizing that the yellows and reds eventually turn green too.
More Myself: A Journey Hardcover – 2 April 2020
More Myself is part autobiography, part narrative documentary. Alicia’s journey is revealed not only through her own candid recounting, but also through vivid recollections from those who have walked alongside her. The result is a 360-degree perspective on Alicia’s path: from her girlhood in Hell’s Kitchen and Harlem, to the process of self-discovery she’s still navigating.
Fiction
From The New York Times-bestselling author of The Mothers, a stunning new novel about twin sisters, inseparable as children, who ultimately choose to live in two very different worlds, one black and one white.
Eleven Minutes Paperback – 7 June 2004
A chance meeting in Rio takes Maria to Geneva, where she dreams of finding fame and fortune, yet ends up working the streets as a prostitute. In Geneva, Maria drifts further and further away from love while at the same time developing a fascination with sex. Eventually, Maria's despairing view of love is put to the test when she meets a handsome young painter. In this odyssey of self-discovery, Maria has to choose between pursuing a path of darkness, sexual pleasure for its own sake, or risking everything to find her own 'inner light' and the possibility of sacred sex, sex in the context of love.
Non-Fiction - Entertaining Reads
I love every book made by Malcolm Gladwell!
Outliers: The Story of Success Paperback – Illustrated, 7 June 2011
In this stunning book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of outliers--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different?
His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing. Along the way he explains the secrets of software billionaires, what it takes to be a great soccer player, why Asians are good at math, and what made the Beatles the greatest rock band.
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference Paperback – Import, 14 February 2002
In this brilliant and original book, Malcolm Gladwell explains and analyses the 'tipping point', that magic moment when ideas, trends and social behaviour cross a threshold, tip and spread like wildfire. Taking a look behind the surface of many familiar occurrences in our everyday world, Gladwell explains the fascinating social dynamics that cause rapid change.
