Your most inspirational reads

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ChinaInYourHands · 10/12/2011 21:55

I would like to read a can't put it down book that inspires the pants off me. I don't want anything religious or dogmatic. I'd love some recommendations. Thank you!

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LaurieFairyCake · 10/12/2011 21:58

On becoming a person by Carl Rogers

Mans search for meaning by Victor Frankl

Both life changing for me but read the reviews on amazon before you decide for you

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ChinaInYourHands · 10/12/2011 22:52

Thanks Laurie, I have looked both up, the seem a little hard core for me...

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LaurieFairyCake · 12/12/2011 08:48

Ok, got an easier read - I loved Lesley Garner's "Everything I've ever done that worked" and have given it to quite a few people.

linky £5.84

Really inspirational and practical.

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ChinaInYourHands · 12/12/2011 10:04

Ah, that's more like it! Thanks Laurie!

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PrimaBallerina · 13/12/2011 09:57

I'm not quite sure what you're after because you've posted in this section but don't want spirituality. Are you looking for a self help book or just an inspiring read?

So... Have you ever read Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe? It's fiction obviously but nothing I've read has hit me so hard since I can remember. It made me do a lot of thinking - specifically about how little I do about the things that I say matter to me. It changed me a bit on the inside iykwim.

PrettyCandlesAndTinselToo · 13/12/2011 10:13

Try 'Mr God, This Is Anna'. It's more of a pause-for-thought book than inspirational, really.

How about 'To Kill A Mockingbird'? That was really unputdownable, and inspirational.

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