In need of a book that’s inspirational/ uplifting, any recommendations?
In need of a book that’s inspirational/ uplifting, any recommendations?
28 Answers
You must be logged in to post a comment.
Loading Please wait
In need of a book that’s inspirational/ uplifting, any recommendations?
Milk & Honey by Rupi Kaur
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Most books are inspirational and uplifting. You just have to find those passages. That’s the true beauty of reading.
The Princess Saves Herself In This One by Amanda Lovelace
I have almost finished High Tide in Tucson, by Barbara Kingsolver. I am blown away.
“Life Is So Good” by George Dawson. A man who learned to read at the age of 98!! His memoir was published when he was 101.
This sounds like just what I need, thank you!
Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens by Eddie Izzard. The audio book was fantastic.
Loved his memoir.
Anything by Herman Wouk, he’s over 100 and still writing.
Julia Child’s memoir My Life In France was uplifting. Her attitude and delight in everything is very contagious and joyful. And if you like reading books with food in them she thoroughly enjoys all the foods
Help, Thanks, Wow by Ann Lamott
The Gift Of The Sea!!!
Mountains Beyond Mountains
Wild by Cheryl Strayed it’s about how she works through her grief by hiking the pacific ridge trail
Maya Angelou’s collected autobiographies are pretty bad ass. She started over a million times.
This one may have been my favorite – Gather Together in My Name
“the poet, still in her teens, gives birth to a son, tries to keep a job, falls in love, dances, falls out of love, chases after her kidnapped baby, and goes to work in a house of prostitution thinking she is helping the man she loves.”
They’re all good though. The one after that Singin’ and Swingin’ and Gettin’ Merry Like Christmas she works in a strip club as an African dance act and gets more and more famous, lands a gig on broadway, has a failed marriage, travels the world on tour. She did so much.
The Shack
Yes!!!
Way of the Peaceful Warrior is such an enlightening story without it being over the top!
The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland by Jim DeFede …An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth: What Going to Space Taught Me About Ingenuity, Determination, and Being Prepared for Anything by Chris Hadfield…Here If You Need Me by Kate Braestrup…If You Lived Here, I’d Know Your Name: News From Small-Town Alaska by Heather Lende…Magnificent Obsession by Lloyd Cassel Douglas…Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder…Nine Essential Things I’ve Learned About Life by Harold S Kushner…Rocket Boys by Homer Hickam…My Garden by Jamaica Kincaid…The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch…Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation by John Carlin…Tales of a Female Nomad: Living Large in the World by Rita Golden Gelman…No Time To Spare: Thinking About What Matters by Ursula K Le Guin…A Man Called Peter: The Story of Peter Marshall by Catherine Marshall…
The Mitford books by Jan Karon
Alchemist by Paulo Coelho and The Secret Letters by Robin Sharma
I found this book to inspire: Walking to Listen: 4,000 Miles Across America, One Story at a Time by Andrew Forsthoefel also the walk series by Richard Paul Evans.
Can’t get any more uplifting and inspirational than Oprah Winfrey’s Super Soul Sunday interviews: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34930835-the-wisdom-of-sundays?ac=1&from_search=true
Michael J Fox’s memoirs.
A young boy and his best friend the universe. I could be biased though ?