These are a few of the best books I read, let me take you through their stories.

Greenlights
by Matthew McConaughey

"I’ve been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five. Notes about successes and failures, joys and sorrows, things that made me marvel, and things that made me laugh out loud. How to be fair. How to have less stress. How to have fun. How to hurt people less. How to get hurt less. How to be a good man. How to have meaning in life. How to be more me."

An incredible book I highly recommend!

Big Magic
by Elizabeth Gilbert
Part creative autobiography, part motivational speech, the book is an inspiring and practical call to action for all of us to break through our fears and unleash the creative force within us, no matter the form—mystery writing, ice-sculpting, zero-scape gardening, whatever.

Because ultimately, life itself is a work of art. Which means, it’s our responsibility—and great joy—to create the best version of it we can.

The Courage to be Disliked
by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga
This popular and well-known book is about Adler's philosophical and psychological ideas as well as teachings, taking the form of a dialogue between a young man and a philosopher. Here are some ideas developed by Adler in the book:

- people can change

- aetiology vs teleology

- the impact of the life-lies we tell ourselves

Women Who Run with the Wolves
by Clarissa Pinkola Estés
In "Women Who Run With the Wolves," Dr Estes unfolds rich intercultural myths, fairytales and stories, many from her own family, in order to help women reconnect with the fierce, healthy, visionary attributes of this instinctual nature. Through the stories and commentaries in this remarkable book, we retrieve, examine, love, and understand the Wild Woman, and hold her against our deep psyches as one who is both magic and medicine. Dr Estes has created a new lexicon for describing the female psyche. Fertile and life-giving, it is a psychology of women in the truest sense, a knowing of the soul.

Reasons to stay alive
by Matt Haig
Beautiful book about the impact of depression, how it hits without warning and how to live fully every day. I highly recommend 'How to stop time' by the same author if you prefer fiction.

Golden Son
by Pierce Brown
Fan of science fiction? This one is for you!This epic sequal is a masterpiece. 
A lamb among wolves in a cruel world, Darrow finds friendship, respect, and even love—but also the wrath of powerful rivals. To wage and win the war that will change humankind’s destiny, Darrow must confront the treachery arrayed against him, overcome his all-too-human desire for retribution—and strive not for violent revolt but a hopeful rebirth. Though the road ahead is fraught with danger and deceit, Darrow must choose to follow Eo’s principles of love and justice to free his people.

The Vegetarian
by Han Kang
An amazing book that brings a story unlike any you've read before!
Winner of the 2024Nobel Prize in Literature, this three-part novel set in modern-day Seoul and tells the story of Yeong-hye, a part-time graphic artist and home-maker, whose decision to stop eating meat after a bloody nightmare about human cruelty leads to devastating consequences in her personal and familial life.

Alejandra Pizarnik
by César Aira

The novelist César Aira narrates the life of the poet Alejandra Pizarnik (1936-1972) — he writes about the literary life of someone who is for him "the greatest poet, and the last." The encounter between these two key figures in Hispanic-American literature takes place at the end of the 1960s amidst the literary effervescence of Buenos Aires. Aira is not yet twenty and has not published a single book, while Pizarnik, thirteen years his senior, is a recognized, respected, and adored poet. It is a book in memory of this writer who profoundly influenced him, and in which he paints a revealing portrait — lucid, affectionate, and mischievous.

The Book of Noises  

by Caspar Henserson

These are 48 essays on anthropophony, geophony, biophony and cosmophony? They will all take you on a ride to explore the miraculous sounds we may never get the chance to hear, like the deep boom of a volcano or the quiet rustling sound of the Northern Lights.

Braving the Wilderness
by Brené Brown
Brown’s metaphorical wilderness is the unkown, the scary, the life outside our comfort zone. It’s time to understand and engage it. How?

1. Once you stop working so hard on fitting in, you’ll find it’s easier to allow yourself to be you.
2. The courage you need to be who you are comes from learning to trust yourself and others.
3. Don’t swallow your anger, but turn it into a positive before it becomes resentment.