Everyone who knows me, knows I read a lot. My IRL (in real life) friends always see me with a book peeking out of my purse. Regular blog readers know I post about books all the time and the ladies at the library are always asking if I’m going to read all those books I check out. When your reading habits puzzle the librarian, that’s when you know you have a problem.
Because of that, I get asked about books all the time and even when I’m not asked, I volunteer book recommendations as my advice for common problems. So this might not be a hard list to compile because I dole out books as BandAids and surgical stitches all the time.
The Ten Books I Recommend Most Are:
- Marianne Williamson’s A Woman’s Worth
for women who are struggling with the world’s definition of them.
- George S. Clason: The Richest Man in Babylon
for a quick but in depth study on how to stop making financial mistakes and start building wealth
- Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers is the book where he outlines his well-known 10,000 Hours Theory and is the book that changed the way I thought about my own abilities
- Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist
about finding and following your purpose
- Business Secrets from the Bible
is a new recommendation but I tell everyone about how this book inspired me to study deeper what the Bible means for practical living and apply it to even my non-spiritual needs
- Elizabeth Gilbert’s Big Magic for creative motivation in whatever art you prefer
- Born to Run
which would make even the most committed couch-potato want to lace up their sneakers and start pounding the pavement
- The Little Prince
because big messages come in small books and can often be shared with even the youngest reader.
- Act Like a Success, Think Like a Success
which is Steve Harvey’s take on how you can envision a dream and work towards achieving it.
- It’s Complicated: Short Stories About Long Relationships is the book I wrote so naturally, it’s the book I’ve recommended most.
I recommend lots of other books. I talk about mostly Fiction books on my YouTube channel. You might enjoy watching this short wrap up of the 50 books I read in the first half of the year.
If you like this post, you might also like:
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- 10 books I’d buy right now
- 10 Books that would make great movies – so far, one got made
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I am so happy to find a fellow non-fiction reader!
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Yeah! Great to find you too 🙂
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We seem to be a rare breed at times, don’t we?
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Sometimes, it feels like that. But we’re here so there’s also lots of others. We just have to find them 🙂
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Thank-you for sharing your recommended reading list, Karen.
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And thanks for reading, T. What are you reading now?
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I loved Outliers. The Little Prince is also a favorite! I can’t wait to watch the Netflix movie too. Great list!!
I’m excited to see a nonfiction blog. I’ll have some nonfiction mixed into mine, but I read it so much slower than fiction! Thanks for stopping by my TTT earlier!
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I love that you recommend your own book. You should! If the author doesn’t recommend it then who will?
I really enjoyed the Alchemist when I read it. It was one of those books which left me thinking about it for years after I first read it.
Great list!
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Thanks for the comment, Kate. What are you reading this week?
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I haven’t read any of the books on this list! But I need to, I guess! Didn’t Netflix just make an animation movie called the Little Prince? Was it based on this book?
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Yes I heard there was a Little Prince movie but I haven’t seen it yet. It’s the kind of book that’s awesome in my mind so I wonder how it will be projected on screen. Sometimes when i really like a book, I’m nervous about a movie adaptation. Haha
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