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Transformative Books
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Areté: Activate Your Heroic Potential (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as transformative)
avg rating 4.57 — 1,604 ratings — published 2023
Untamed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as transformative)
avg rating 3.97 — 519,731 ratings — published 2020
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as transformative)
avg rating 4.34 — 290,412 ratings — published 2014
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as transformative)
avg rating 4.08 — 889,026 ratings — published 1922
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as transformative)
avg rating 4.37 — 897,713 ratings — published 1946
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as transformative)
avg rating 4.50 — 178,352 ratings — published 2013
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as transformative)
avg rating 4.29 — 245,248 ratings — published 2012
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as transformative)
avg rating 4.19 — 211,009 ratings — published 2006
Wind: Book 1 of The Tor’oc Trilogy (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as transformative)
avg rating 4.33 — 24 ratings — published
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as transformative)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,630,272 ratings — published 1988
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as transformative)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,283,448 ratings — published 2011
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as transformative)
avg rating 4.09 — 178,056 ratings — published 2006
Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as transformative)
avg rating 3.96 — 236,670 ratings — published 2015
The Gifts of Imperfection (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as transformative)
avg rating 4.24 — 225,236 ratings — published 2010
Meditations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as transformative)
avg rating 4.28 — 359,767 ratings — published 180
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as transformative)
avg rating 4.07 — 478,716 ratings — published 2012
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as transformative)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,196,869 ratings — published 1847
What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as transformative)
avg rating 4.41 — 111,053 ratings — published 2021
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as transformative)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,213,150 ratings — published 2018
Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as transformative)
avg rating 4.32 — 99,356 ratings — published 2021
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as transformative)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,526,791 ratings — published 2020
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as transformative)
avg rating 4.09 — 268,657 ratings — published 1980
The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as transformative)
avg rating 4.20 — 147,281 ratings — published 2007
The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as transformative)
avg rating 4.48 — 360,628 ratings — published 1971
Tao Te Ching (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as transformative)
avg rating 4.29 — 184,402 ratings — published -350
The Screwtape Letters (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as transformative)
avg rating 4.27 — 531,940 ratings — published 1942
Les Misérables (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as transformative)
avg rating 4.21 — 849,764 ratings — published 1862
Braving the Wilderness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as transformative)
avg rating 4.12 — 121,413 ratings — published 2017
Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as transformative)
avg rating 4.06 — 133,245 ratings — published 2011
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as transformative)
avg rating 4.16 — 829,204 ratings — published 1989
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as transformative)
avg rating 3.88 — 395,402 ratings — published 2010
Menti tribali. Perché le brave persone si dividono su politica e religione (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as transformative)
avg rating 4.19 — 67,095 ratings — published 2012
Speak (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as transformative)
avg rating 4.05 — 635,501 ratings — published 1999
Rising Strong: The Reckoning. The Rumble. The Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as transformative)
avg rating 4.25 — 89,344 ratings — published 2015
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as transformative)
avg rating 4.19 — 530,091 ratings — published 1997
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as transformative)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,563,412 ratings — published 1948
The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as transformative)
avg rating 4.15 — 458,858 ratings — published 1997
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as transformative)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,990,790 ratings — published 1925
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as transformative)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,105,134 ratings — published 1866
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as transformative)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,004,588 ratings — published 2010
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as transformative)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,236,815 ratings — published 1947
You New Self: Change (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as transformative)
avg rating 5.00 — 2 ratings — published
All the Way to the River (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as transformative)
avg rating 3.76 — 31,040 ratings — published 2025
The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as transformative)
avg rating 3.94 — 28,984 ratings — published 2018
Small Things Like These (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as transformative)
avg rating 4.08 — 469,617 ratings — published 2021
Transcendent Kingdom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as transformative)
avg rating 4.10 — 164,604 ratings — published 2020
I Will Teach You to Be Rich: No Guilt. No Excuses. No BS. Just a 6-Week Program That Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as transformative)
avg rating 4.20 — 63,857 ratings — published 2009
The Red Book: Liber Novus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as transformative)
avg rating 4.49 — 6,022 ratings — published 2009
Anxious People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as transformative)
avg rating 4.16 — 832,379 ratings — published 2019
Are Prisons Obsolete? (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as transformative)
avg rating 4.51 — 30,748 ratings — published 2003
“I learned from an early age that anyone is capable of huge and transformative change, at any time. I know because I achieved it myself.”
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― The Energy Formula: Six life changing ingredients to unleash your limitless potential
“In thirty minutes, Pascal was at my door with a bag of beignets he had freshly fried. We ate them in my bed, getting powdered sugar on our clothes, and then on our underwear, and then on our naked bodies.
"Who was that out there?" he said, his tongue edging up from my collarbone, to my neck, to the curve of my ear. His hands were on my butt, and my hands were on his. We were pressing into each other as much as we could, as much as was possible until we were finally one.
"No one," I said, as he began pushing into me.
No one, I repeated to myself. No one. No one.
Inside, a mountain of tension squeezed tighter and tighter before crunching into a tiny crystalline diamond. That diamond shattered into a billion pieces of wonder and I came harder than I'd ever come before. I was broken, but I was also new.
I silently cried myself to sleep with Pascal beside me. But when I woke up, I felt much better. Kissing Pascal had made me feel like another person. And after having sex with him, I knew that the change was finally complete.”
― Food Whore
"Who was that out there?" he said, his tongue edging up from my collarbone, to my neck, to the curve of my ear. His hands were on my butt, and my hands were on his. We were pressing into each other as much as we could, as much as was possible until we were finally one.
"No one," I said, as he began pushing into me.
No one, I repeated to myself. No one. No one.
Inside, a mountain of tension squeezed tighter and tighter before crunching into a tiny crystalline diamond. That diamond shattered into a billion pieces of wonder and I came harder than I'd ever come before. I was broken, but I was also new.
I silently cried myself to sleep with Pascal beside me. But when I woke up, I felt much better. Kissing Pascal had made me feel like another person. And after having sex with him, I knew that the change was finally complete.”
― Food Whore
