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  • January 9, 2014 at 9:27 pm #48837
    Manuel Durán
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    Hello there,

    I’m new to TinyBuddha and apparently it couldn’t have landed in my life at a better time since I’m currently dealing with recovery and healing from really tough situations. I’ve been looking for a nice reading to help me encourage myself and feel more positive, I love reading and my spare time is for devouring books. In the threads I’ve read many book suggestions though all of them look like some kind of self-help..sort of methodical advice for recovery and I’m actually looking for literature, a nice novel that portraits some sort of change process, I mean a nice story well written. No ofense about the self-help type, I’ve been through that and find it very helpful though I’d like to escape into a well written story in which I can feel myself identified.
    🙂

    January 10, 2014 at 1:27 am #48845
    Sonja Milbourn
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    Hello, Manuel~

    Check these out….All the best to you!

    Saint Maybe, by Anne Tyler
    Broken for You, by Stephanie Kallos
    The Remains of the Day, by Kazuo Ishiguro
    The Help, by Kathryn Stockett
    Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen
    The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls (memoir that reads like a wonderful novel. I highly recommend this one!)

    January 10, 2014 at 7:31 am #48858
    Inner Typewriter
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    Manuel,

    Every time my life gets out of focus, I turn to the books that have become, over the years, my inner compass. Here is a list of books you might explore on your journey.

    Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

    The Cider House Rules by John Irving

    Martin Eden by Jack London

    The Razor’s Edge by William Somerset Maugham

    A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood

    The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

    The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

    Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig

    You Can’t Go Home Again by Thomas Wolfe

    Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury

    Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

    Good Times/ Bad Times by James Kirkwood

    Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

    Good luck on your journey.

    Namaste

    January 10, 2014 at 10:24 am #48882
    Norma
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    Hello Manuel,

    I will be following your post because I as well love to read and kind of am over all the self help books, so I will be stealing the recommendations as well 🙂 Let us know which books you liked best!

    January 10, 2014 at 11:18 am #48887
    annette
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    What a lovely thread Manuel and some good ideas too.
    I would like to add “The Way of the Warrior” by Dan Millman and I am sure there are lots of biographies out there which by their nature are uplifting, such as Beyond Ugly by Constance Briscoe and Hector and the Search for Happiness by Francois Lelord which is apparently being turned into a film this year.

    January 22, 2014 at 5:12 am #49516
    Alf
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    Conversations with God – Neal Donald Walsch

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