65 books
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Optimism Books
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Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as optimism)
avg rating 3.96 — 20,977 ratings — published 1990
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as optimism)
avg rating 3.97 — 13,683 ratings — published 2010
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as optimism)
avg rating 4.19 — 32,785 ratings — published 2018
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as optimism)
avg rating 4.35 — 204,406 ratings — published 2018
Good News, Bad News (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as optimism)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,796 ratings — published 2012
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as optimism)
avg rating 4.37 — 908,340 ratings — published 1946
Humankind: A Hopeful History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as optimism)
avg rating 4.32 — 83,091 ratings — published 2019
The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as optimism)
avg rating 4.17 — 10,061 ratings — published 2011
The Power of Positive Thinking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as optimism)
avg rating 4.14 — 128,696 ratings — published 1952
Candide (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as optimism)
avg rating 3.76 — 305,999 ratings — published 1759
Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think (Exponential Technology Series)
by (shelved 6 times as optimism)
avg rating 4.05 — 11,682 ratings — published 2012
It's Tough to Lose Your Balloon (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as optimism)
avg rating 3.76 — 427 ratings — published 2015
Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as optimism)
avg rating 3.74 — 10,560 ratings — published 2009
Sunny (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 5 times as optimism)
avg rating 3.88 — 257 ratings — published 2020
Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as optimism)
avg rating 3.82 — 25,373 ratings — published 2008
The Optimism Bias: A Tour of the Irrationally Positive Brain (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as optimism)
avg rating 3.77 — 1,985 ratings — published 2011
Areté: Activate Your Heroic Potential (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as optimism)
avg rating 4.57 — 1,617 ratings — published 2023
Greenlights (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as optimism)
avg rating 4.20 — 476,469 ratings — published 2020
The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as optimism)
avg rating 3.90 — 10,543 ratings — published 2007
Saturday (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as optimism)
avg rating 4.50 — 2,886 ratings — published 2019
Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as optimism)
avg rating 4.21 — 43,943 ratings — published 2014
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as optimism)
avg rating 4.16 — 29,845 ratings — published 2010
Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as optimism)
avg rating 4.23 — 7,345 ratings — published 2024
The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as optimism)
avg rating 4.13 — 46,142 ratings — published 2010
The Happiness Project (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as optimism)
avg rating 3.65 — 182,702 ratings — published 2009
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as optimism)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,660,147 ratings — published 1988
Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-being (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as optimism)
avg rating 3.84 — 7,343 ratings — published
Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as optimism)
avg rating 3.97 — 12,225 ratings — published 2004
Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as optimism)
avg rating 3.88 — 11,576 ratings — published 2016
Progress - Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 3 times as optimism)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,815 ratings — published 2016
Until I Say Goodbye: A Book about Living (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as optimism)
avg rating 4.06 — 8,124 ratings — published 2012
The Optimistic Child: A Proven Program to Safeguard Children Against Depression and Build Lifelong Resilience (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as optimism)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,431 ratings — published 1995
Pollyanna (Pollyanna, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as optimism)
avg rating 4.02 — 92,681 ratings — published 1913
Who Moved My Cheese? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as optimism)
avg rating 3.87 — 516,622 ratings — published 1998
Peaks and Valleys: Making Good And Bad Times Work For You--At Work And In Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as optimism)
avg rating 4.04 — 5,008 ratings — published 2009
Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as optimism)
avg rating 3.92 — 12,630 ratings — published 2002
The Tools: Transform Your Problems into Courage, Confidence, and Creativity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as optimism)
avg rating 3.89 — 9,356 ratings — published 2012
Jonathan Livingston Seagull (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as optimism)
avg rating 3.86 — 276,180 ratings — published 1970
Untamed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as optimism)
avg rating 3.97 — 521,920 ratings — published 2020
A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk & Robot, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as optimism)
avg rating 4.37 — 91,887 ratings — published 2022
The Comfort Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as optimism)
avg rating 4.05 — 75,678 ratings — published 2021
A Day So Gray (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as optimism)
avg rating 3.77 — 522 ratings — published
The Art of Happiness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as optimism)
avg rating 4.17 — 126,536 ratings — published 1998
Practical Optimism: The Art, Science, and Practice of Exceptional Well-Being (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as optimism)
avg rating 3.91 — 692 ratings — published 2024
Happy Dreamer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as optimism)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,772 ratings — published 2017
The Future King: Rise of the Sorcerer (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as optimism)
avg rating 4.96 — 84 ratings — published
The Bright Side (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as optimism)
avg rating 3.85 — 224 ratings — published
Looking Backward: 2000-1887 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as optimism)
avg rating 3.30 — 7,015 ratings — published 1888
Philosophical Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as optimism)
avg rating 3.91 — 5,013 ratings — published 1716
No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as optimism)
avg rating 4.13 — 26,021 ratings — published 2020
“Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.”
― The Light in the Heart
― The Light in the Heart
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Lady Windermere's Fan
― Lady Windermere's Fan












