Optimism


Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
Good News, Bad News
Man's Search for Meaning
The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
Candide
Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think (Exponential Technology Series)
It's Tough to Lose Your Balloon
The Power of Positive Thinking
Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America
Humankind: A Hopeful History
Sunny
Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank BaumPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenA Christmas Carol by Charles DickensThe Return of the King by J.R.R. TolkienCold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
Optimistic Books
65 books — 9 voters
The Audacity of Hope by Barack ObamaBehind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine BooI Fell in Love With Hope by LancaliEverything Is F*cked by Mark MansonA Street Cat Named Bob by James Bowen
Books of Hope and Optimism
64 books — 1 voter

From Meidelach to Matriarchs ~ A Journal by Mirta Ines TruppJourney by Aaron BeckerThe Dot by Peter H. ReynoldsThe Red Tree by Shaun TanThe Arrival by Shaun Tan
Life Inspiration
69 books — 11 voters
Manage My Emotions by Kenneth J. MartzHow to Be Miserable by Randy J. PatersonThe Antidote by Oliver BurkemanCommon Sense Ain’t So Common by Scott  NelsonHow to Not Give a Shit and Not Be a Dumb Ass in the Process by Erika P. Ryles
Self-Help Reexamined
8 books — 7 voters

Magic America by C.E. MedfordThe Syrian Virgin by Zack LoveAnissa's Redemption by Zack LoveThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldMy Ántonia by Willa Cather
The American Dream
45 books — 34 voters
Relish by Lucy KnisleyWhat's Behind Your Belly Button? A Psychological Perspective ... by Martha Char LoveThe Happiness Animal by Will JelbertOptimal Living 360 by Sanjay JainSinners and Saints by Allie Bloom
Recharge your optimism!
13 books — 24 voters

Roy T. Bennett
You cannot control the behavior of others, but you can always choose how you respond to it.
Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

Victor Hugo
Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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