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5 life-changing books you need to read
‘Reading gives us some place to go when we need to stay where we are.’ – Mason Cooley
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Are you a book lover? Or are you still searching for that one book that’s going to make you fall in love with books? Reading is one of the greatest hobbies to have. Reading helps us develop our vocabulary and our critical thinking, it also helps us understand more about life, about the way other human beings think, and why they act the way they do. Reading fiction books was proven to help neuroplasticity by increasing the number of neural pathways in the brain.
Reading non-fiction books enable us to learn about anything we want , enhancing knowledge and mental skills. So if you are still looking for that one book that is going to make you become a true book lover or if you simply want to read a good book that’s going to help you become a better version of yourself, check out these five must-read, life-changing books.
- The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
- Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson
- A Man Called Ove by Fredrick Bakman
- The Plague by Albert Camus
- Man’s Search For Meaning Victor Frankl
The Shadow o The Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
This gothic novel will transport you in postwar Barcelona, where Daniel Sempre is visiting the Cementery of Forgotten Books, searching for a book that’s going to ‘adopt’ him. Out of thousands of forgotten books, the novel destined to Daniel is the one with the darkest, most intriguing history, making the young boy takeoff in the adventure of his lifetime trying to protect the last copy of a book that chose him to be its guardian.
Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson
Furiously Happy is a memoir of a survivor of several mental illnesses. Jenny not only managed to get past her life challenges, but she also wrote a bestseller about it. Although the main subject revolves around a very serious mater, Jenny makes everything funny and easy to relate to, because as she wrote it, we all need to fight a few monsters, only the size differs. Her main fighting strategy is being ‘furiously happy’ , which enables her to laugh at life’s absurdities. This simple, yet hard to achieve way of coping in life enables her to live a happy life next to her family and, furthermore , it gives her the power to inspire us to do the same.
A Man Called Ove by Fredrick Backman
This book reveals to us the upholding story of a moody old man who thinks he’s done with life until, life brings him close to a young noisy family that quickly becomes his new purpose in life. He teaches them everything he knows and helps them treating them like his own family. This book teaches us that life has meaning at any age, and that friendship and laughter can make things better.
The Plague by Albert Camus
Albert Camus was a writer, philosopher and the winner of the Noble prize for Literature in 1957. The Plague is one his most famous books and a great source of wisdom for those who will allow this book to unfold its lessons. As you find out in the title, the action is centered around the plague, in the city of Oran, and the different stages of the epidemy.
Man’s Search For Meaning Victor Frankl
This books tells us the story of Victor Frankl behind bars, in a Nazi concentration camp, where he finds out that the only way of survival is trough your life purpose. He was able to get past the horrible experience and tell his story loud and clear. He observed that among his inmates those who survived weren’t necessarily those in a great physical shape, but those who found purpose in what they did in life.
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