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Jan 27, 2021 · This is a list of the 50 Best Uplifting & Life-Affirming “Feel-Good” Books to Read! This list covers books released at any time, but there’s a slight preference for newer titles. I hope you enjoy them, and if you have one that you personally love that’s not on this list, please drop a comment below! See it on Amazon.
Dec 23, 2022 · Remember the scene in You’ve Got Mail in which Kathleen Kelly tells Birdie that she’s going to close the shop? Don’t let that happen to your neighborhood treasure! Visit an indie bookstore, and pick up one of these books—for yourself or for a loved one.
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Nov 28, 2023 · Sometimes all I want to read is a feel-good book. No sad endings, no overly complicated plots, just pure and uplifting joy. The books in this list are some of the best new feel-good books for 2023, offering excellent choices for your next best beach read, vacation book, or rejuvenating escape route from day-to-day life.
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- The Waves by Virginia Woolf. The Waves is in close contention with Mrs Dalloway for my favourite novel by Virginia Woolf. It’s an innovative and wonderfully poetic book, layering six voices in monologue; moving from morning until night, from childhood into old age.
- A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler. A Whole Life is a beautifully written book that will move you to tears – and then make you want to turn back to the beginning and read it again.
- The Overstory by Richard Powers. A paean to the natural world, Richard Powers masterfully weaves together interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond.
- The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison. Toni Morrison’s writing will break your heart while you marvel at her mesmerising prose. The Bluest Eye, Morrison’s acclaimed first novel, is a powerful and painful examination of our obsession with white beauty that questions race, class, and gender with her iconic subtly, grace, and poetic wonder.
Jun 12, 1998 · A Beautiful Mind. Sylvia Nasar. 4.13. 132,956 ratings1,718 reviews. Stories of famously eccentric Princetonians abound—such as that of chemist Hubert Alyea, the model for The Absent-Minded Professor, or Ralph Nader, said to have had his own key to the library as an undergraduate.
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