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A Man Called Ove (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as uplifting)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,203,370 ratings — published 2012
The Midnight Library (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as uplifting)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,421,622 ratings — published 2020
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as uplifting)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,540,030 ratings — published 1988
Remarkably Bright Creatures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as uplifting)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,200,637 ratings — published 2022
The House in the Cerulean Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as uplifting)
avg rating 4.36 — 949,015 ratings — published 2020
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as uplifting)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,414,495 ratings — published 2017
Wonder (Wonder, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as uplifting)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,189,754 ratings — published 2012
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as uplifting)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,190,823 ratings — published 1997
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as uplifting)
avg rating 4.56 — 231,195 ratings — published 2019
The Five People You Meet in Heaven (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 798,909 ratings — published 2003
Anxious People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as uplifting)
avg rating 4.17 — 795,066 ratings — published 2019
What You Are Looking For Is in the Library (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as uplifting)
avg rating 4.03 — 114,737 ratings — published 2020
Humankind: Changing the World One Small Act At a Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as uplifting)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,328 ratings — published 2020
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as uplifting)
avg rating 4.04 — 356,735 ratings — published 2014
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (Harold Fry, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as uplifting)
avg rating 3.94 — 193,527 ratings — published 2012
The Reading List (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as uplifting)
avg rating 4.06 — 131,033 ratings — published 2021
The Help (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.47 — 3,004,741 ratings — published 2009
Legends & Lattes (Legends & Lattes, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as uplifting)
avg rating 4.04 — 324,578 ratings — published 2022
The Comfort Book (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.05 — 73,033 ratings — published 2021
Red, White & Royal Blue (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as uplifting)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,216,072 ratings — published 2019
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as uplifting)
avg rating 4.07 — 286,668 ratings — published 2013
The Happiness Project (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as uplifting)
avg rating 3.65 — 180,970 ratings — published 2009
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as uplifting)
avg rating 4.39 — 359,964 ratings — published 2013
The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as uplifting)
avg rating 4.27 — 97,437 ratings — published 2022
The Authenticity Project (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as uplifting)
avg rating 3.94 — 102,503 ratings — published 2020
The Rosie Project (Don Tillman, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as uplifting)
avg rating 4.01 — 592,829 ratings — published 2013
The Secret Garden (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 1,289,232 ratings — published 1911
The Story of Arthur Truluv (Mason, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as uplifting)
avg rating 4.18 — 52,665 ratings — published 2017
A Gentleman in Moscow (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as uplifting)
avg rating 4.32 — 661,457 ratings — published 2016
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.37 — 868,396 ratings — published 1946
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as uplifting)
avg rating 3.81 — 275,409 ratings — published 1998
The Art of Racing in the Rain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as uplifting)
avg rating 4.23 — 552,689 ratings — published 2008
A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as uplifting)
avg rating 4.22 — 181,998 ratings — published 2021
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
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avg rating 4.17 — 2,444,506 ratings — published 1868
Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
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avg rating 4.33 — 1,106,836 ratings — published 1908
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.90 — 145,208 ratings — published 2010
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as uplifting)
avg rating 4.19 — 807,260 ratings — published 2008
How to Age Disgracefully (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as uplifting)
avg rating 4.13 — 54,309 ratings — published 2024
The Wishing Game (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as uplifting)
avg rating 4.03 — 186,727 ratings — published 2023
Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as uplifting)
avg rating 4.17 — 80,603 ratings — published 2022
Lessons in Chemistry (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as uplifting)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,760,803 ratings — published 2022
Project Hail Mary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as uplifting)
avg rating 4.50 — 1,068,777 ratings — published 2021
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as uplifting)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,189,292 ratings — published 2018
Beach Read (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as uplifting)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,613,935 ratings — published 2020
A Redbird Christmas (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as uplifting)
avg rating 3.95 — 34,232 ratings — published 2004
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as uplifting)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,454,991 ratings — published 1943
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as uplifting)
avg rating 4.28 — 325,860 ratings — published 1987
The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as uplifting)
avg rating 4.30 — 51,676 ratings — published 2024
The Life Impossible (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as uplifting)
avg rating 3.47 — 148,410 ratings — published 2024
The Guncle (The Guncle, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as uplifting)
avg rating 4.11 — 197,982 ratings — published 2021
“Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.”
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“Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now;
Now, while the world is bent my deeds to cross,
Join with the spite of fortune, make me bow,
And do not drop in for an after-loss:
Ah! do not, when my heart hath ‘scaped this sorrow,
Come in the rearward of a conquered woe;
Give not a windy night a rainy morrow,
To linger out a purposed overthrow.
If thou wilt leave me, do not leave me last,
When other petty griefs have done their spite,
But in the onset come: so shall I taste
At first the very worst of fortune’s might;
And other strains of woe, which now seem woe,
Compared with loss of thee, will not seem so.”
―
Now, while the world is bent my deeds to cross,
Join with the spite of fortune, make me bow,
And do not drop in for an after-loss:
Ah! do not, when my heart hath ‘scaped this sorrow,
Come in the rearward of a conquered woe;
Give not a windy night a rainy morrow,
To linger out a purposed overthrow.
If thou wilt leave me, do not leave me last,
When other petty griefs have done their spite,
But in the onset come: so shall I taste
At first the very worst of fortune’s might;
And other strains of woe, which now seem woe,
Compared with loss of thee, will not seem so.”
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