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How to build a true library for happiness - recommended reading from The School of Life, featuring 100 books that offer therapeutic insight and enlightenment
There are about 130 million books in the world – and they are being added to at a rate of 4 million a year or so.
Which ones should we really read? What are the books that count? Which ones are going to make a real difference to us in the limited time we have?
This is The School of Life's answer: a definitive list of the 100 books that we feel should truly matter to anyone who cares about their development and growth, 100 books that are guaranteed to inspire, console and uplift us. We find books from all over the world, some very well known, others fascinatingly unfamiliar, united by a common ability to help us grow into the best versions of ourselves and to combat anxiety, despair and loneliness.
This book answers one of the great questions we all face: how to assemble the perfect set of books with which we can acquire self-understanding, calm and emotional maturity.
Details
- Price: $32.99
- Pages: 252
- Carton Quantity: 10
- Publisher: The School of Life
- Imprint: The School of Life
- Publication Date: 4th June 2024
- Trim Size: 7.09 x 9.69 in
- Illustration Note: 100 color and b&w images
- ISBN: 9781915087386
- Format: Hardcover
- BISACs:
LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Subjects & Themes / General
LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Subjects & Themes / Religious & Inspirational
LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature
SELF-HELP / Personal Growth / General
LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading
Reviews
"I wanted to relish every delicious detail. It encompasses so many books and ideas it almost took my breath away." — NetGalley Review
"I've never seen a list so broad and one that makes you feel content just reading it… I cannot praise this book enough." — NetGalley Review
"This truly has something for everyone." — NetGalley Review
"The beauty of A Therapeutic Library lies in its versatility. Whether you're seeking solace in the pages of a novel, philosophical insights, or a deeper understanding of history and politics, this book provides a curated selection to cater to your unique emotional and intellectual requirements." — NetGalley Review
"The School of Life has assembled a collection that speaks directly to our hearts, offering solace and wisdom with each page turned." — NetGalley Review
"A Therapeutic Library reassures, emboldens, and inspires as it celebrates the one hundred books within." — LoveReading
"This is an astonishingly enjoyable and entertaining book that will hopefully change your life, even if slightly, by the power of reading." — Whispering Stories
Author Bio
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION: On Therapeutic Reading
1. Aristotle – Poetics
2. Michel de Montaigne – Essays
3. Jean-Jacques Rousseau – Reveries of a Solitary Walker
4. André Malraux – The Voices of Silence
PART ONE: Philosophy
1. Plato – The Republic
2. Epicurus – Letters
3. Seneca – On the Shortness of Life
4. Abu Ali ibn Sīna (Avicenna) – A Treatise on Love
5. Departmental Committee on the Regulation of Motor Vehicles (UK) – The Highway Code
6. Friedrich Nietzsche – On the Uses and Misuses of History for Life
7. Judith Kerr – The Tiger Who Came to Tea
8. Iris Murdoch – The Sovereignty of Good
PART TWO: Politics
1. Niccolò Machiavelli – The Prince
2. Olaudah Equiano – The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
3. Mary Wollstonecraft – A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
4. Domingo Faustino Sarmiento – Facundo – Civilisation and Barbarism
5. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels – The Communist Manifesto
6. John Ruskin – Unto This Last
7. Jilly Cooper – Riders
PART THREE: History
1. Ibn Khaldun – Kitāb al-ʻIbar
2. Mwengo, Utendi wa Tambuka
3. Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall – Scotland’s Story
4. Lytton Strachey – Eminent Victorians
INTERMEZZO: A Note on Aesthetics
1. Marcus Aurelius – Meditations (also known as The Golden Book)
2. Léon Brunschvicg – The Inheritance of Words, the Inheritance of Ideas
PART FOUR: Religion
1. The Upanishads
2. Confucius – Analects
3. The New Testament
4. The Qu’ran
5. J.G. Frazer – The Golden Bough
PART FIVE: Psychology
1. François de La Rochefoucauld – Maxims
2. Stendhal – On Love
3. Sigmund Freud –Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
4. Richmal Crompton – Just William
5. Dale Carnegie – How to Win Friends and Influence People
6. Anna Freud – The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defence
7. Edouard de Pomiane – Cooking in Ten Minutes
8. Merze Tate – The Disarmament Illusion
9. Astrid Lindgren – Pippi Longstocking
10. Melanie Klein – Envy and Gratitude and Other Works 1946–1963
11. Donald Winnicott – Home is Where We Start From
12. Onjali Q. Raúf – The Boy at the Back of the Class
PART SIX: Memoir
1. Sei Shonagon – The Pillow Book
2. Chomei – The Ten Foot Square Hut
3. Frederick Douglass – The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
4. Elizabeth Grant – Memoirs of a Highland Lady
5. Halidé Edib – Memoirs
6. Malcom X – Autobiography
INTERMEZZO: A Note on Titles
1. Benedict Anderson – Imagined Communities
2. Kazuo Ishiguro – An Artist of the Floating World
3. Irina Ratushinskaya – Grey is the Colour of Hope
4. Hilary Mantel – A Place of Greater Safety
5. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – Notes on Grief
PART SEVEN: Nature and Science
1. Pico della Mirandola – On the Dignity of the Human Condition
2. Charles Darwin – The Descent of Man
3. Ruth Benedict – The Chrysanthemum and the Sword
4. Carlo Rovelli – Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
5. An Atlas of the World
PART EIGHT: The Arts and Architecture
1. Kakuzo Okakura – The Book of Tea
2. Heinrich Wölfflin – Principles of Art History
3. Le Corbusier – The Shining City
4. Marion Milner – On Not Being Able to Paint
5. Dick Bruna – Miffy at the Zoo
6. Kenneth Clark – Civilisation
7. Elizabeth David – An Omelette and a Glass of Wine
PART NINE: Coffee table books
1. Palladio – The Four Books of Architecture
2. The Constitution of the United States of America
3. G.W.F. Hegel – Phenomenology of Spirit
4. Mao Tse-tung – Quotations from Chairman Mao
5. James Baldwin – The Devil Finds Work
6. Richard Novic – Alice in Genderland
PART TEN: Essays
1. Germaine de Staël – Weimar
2. Heinrich Heine – The Gods in Exile
3. Virginia Woolf – How it a Strikes a Contemporary
4. Roland Barthes – Mythologies
5. Isaiah Berlin – Two Concepts of Liberty
6. Anaïs Nin – The Novel of the Future
7. Martha Nussbaum – ‘Steerforth’s Arm’
PART ELEVEN: Fiction
1. Aesop – Androcles and the Lion
2. Murasaki Shikibu – The Tale of Genji
3. One Thousand and One Nights
4. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship
5. Jane Austen – Mansfield Park
6. Adam Mickiewicz – Pan Tadeusz
7. Gustave Flaubert – Madame Bovary
8. Marcel Proust – In Search of Lost Time
9. Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa – The Leopard
10. René Goscinny – Le Petit Nicolas
PART TWELVE: Poetry
1. The Mu'Allaqat
2. Matsuo Basho – Haiku
3. Phillis Wheatley – A Hymn to the Evening
4. Charles Baudelaire – Les Fleurs du Mal
5. Francis Thompson – In No Strange Land
6. Rabindranath Tagore – Where The Mind Is Without Fear
7. C.P. Cavafy – Ithaka
8. William Butler Yeats – Sailing to Byzantium
9. W.H. Auden – Lullaby
10. Joan Armatrading – ‘Heaven’
EPILOGUE: The Promise of a Book
1. François Fénelon – The Adventures of Telemachus
2. The Private Journal
How to build a true library for happiness - recommended reading from The School of Life, featuring 100 books that offer therapeutic insight and enlightenment
There are about 130 million books in the world – and they are being added to at a rate of 4 million a year or so.
Which ones should we really read? What are the books that count? Which ones are going to make a real difference to us in the limited time we have?
This is The School of Life's answer: a definitive list of the 100 books that we feel should truly matter to anyone who cares about their development and growth, 100 books that are guaranteed to inspire, console and uplift us. We find books from all over the world, some very well known, others fascinatingly unfamiliar, united by a common ability to help us grow into the best versions of ourselves and to combat anxiety, despair and loneliness.
This book answers one of the great questions we all face: how to assemble the perfect set of books with which we can acquire self-understanding, calm and emotional maturity.
- Price: $32.99
- Pages: 252
- Carton Quantity: 10
- Publisher: The School of Life
- Imprint: The School of Life
- Publication Date: 4th June 2024
- Trim Size: 7.09 x 9.69 in
- Illustrations Note: 100 color and b&w images
- ISBN: 9781915087386
- Format: Hardcover
- BISACs:
LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Subjects & Themes / General
LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Subjects & Themes / Religious & Inspirational
LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature
SELF-HELP / Personal Growth / General
LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading
"I wanted to relish every delicious detail. It encompasses so many books and ideas it almost took my breath away." — NetGalley Review
"I've never seen a list so broad and one that makes you feel content just reading it… I cannot praise this book enough." — NetGalley Review
"This truly has something for everyone." — NetGalley Review
"The beauty of A Therapeutic Library lies in its versatility. Whether you're seeking solace in the pages of a novel, philosophical insights, or a deeper understanding of history and politics, this book provides a curated selection to cater to your unique emotional and intellectual requirements." — NetGalley Review
"The School of Life has assembled a collection that speaks directly to our hearts, offering solace and wisdom with each page turned." — NetGalley Review
"A Therapeutic Library reassures, emboldens, and inspires as it celebrates the one hundred books within." — LoveReading
"This is an astonishingly enjoyable and entertaining book that will hopefully change your life, even if slightly, by the power of reading." — Whispering Stories
INTRODUCTION: On Therapeutic Reading
1. Aristotle – Poetics
2. Michel de Montaigne – Essays
3. Jean-Jacques Rousseau – Reveries of a Solitary Walker
4. André Malraux – The Voices of Silence
PART ONE: Philosophy
1. Plato – The Republic
2. Epicurus – Letters
3. Seneca – On the Shortness of Life
4. Abu Ali ibn Sīna (Avicenna) – A Treatise on Love
5. Departmental Committee on the Regulation of Motor Vehicles (UK) – The Highway Code
6. Friedrich Nietzsche – On the Uses and Misuses of History for Life
7. Judith Kerr – The Tiger Who Came to Tea
8. Iris Murdoch – The Sovereignty of Good
PART TWO: Politics
1. Niccolò Machiavelli – The Prince
2. Olaudah Equiano – The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
3. Mary Wollstonecraft – A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
4. Domingo Faustino Sarmiento – Facundo – Civilisation and Barbarism
5. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels – The Communist Manifesto
6. John Ruskin – Unto This Last
7. Jilly Cooper – Riders
PART THREE: History
1. Ibn Khaldun – Kitāb al-ʻIbar
2. Mwengo, Utendi wa Tambuka
3. Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall – Scotland’s Story
4. Lytton Strachey – Eminent Victorians
INTERMEZZO: A Note on Aesthetics
1. Marcus Aurelius – Meditations (also known as The Golden Book)
2. Léon Brunschvicg – The Inheritance of Words, the Inheritance of Ideas
PART FOUR: Religion
1. The Upanishads
2. Confucius – Analects
3. The New Testament
4. The Qu’ran
5. J.G. Frazer – The Golden Bough
PART FIVE: Psychology
1. François de La Rochefoucauld – Maxims
2. Stendhal – On Love
3. Sigmund Freud –Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
4. Richmal Crompton – Just William
5. Dale Carnegie – How to Win Friends and Influence People
6. Anna Freud – The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defence
7. Edouard de Pomiane – Cooking in Ten Minutes
8. Merze Tate – The Disarmament Illusion
9. Astrid Lindgren – Pippi Longstocking
10. Melanie Klein – Envy and Gratitude and Other Works 1946–1963
11. Donald Winnicott – Home is Where We Start From
12. Onjali Q. Raúf – The Boy at the Back of the Class
PART SIX: Memoir
1. Sei Shonagon – The Pillow Book
2. Chomei – The Ten Foot Square Hut
3. Frederick Douglass – The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
4. Elizabeth Grant – Memoirs of a Highland Lady
5. Halidé Edib – Memoirs
6. Malcom X – Autobiography
INTERMEZZO: A Note on Titles
1. Benedict Anderson – Imagined Communities
2. Kazuo Ishiguro – An Artist of the Floating World
3. Irina Ratushinskaya – Grey is the Colour of Hope
4. Hilary Mantel – A Place of Greater Safety
5. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – Notes on Grief
PART SEVEN: Nature and Science
1. Pico della Mirandola – On the Dignity of the Human Condition
2. Charles Darwin – The Descent of Man
3. Ruth Benedict – The Chrysanthemum and the Sword
4. Carlo Rovelli – Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
5. An Atlas of the World
PART EIGHT: The Arts and Architecture
1. Kakuzo Okakura – The Book of Tea
2. Heinrich Wölfflin – Principles of Art History
3. Le Corbusier – The Shining City
4. Marion Milner – On Not Being Able to Paint
5. Dick Bruna – Miffy at the Zoo
6. Kenneth Clark – Civilisation
7. Elizabeth David – An Omelette and a Glass of Wine
PART NINE: Coffee table books
1. Palladio – The Four Books of Architecture
2. The Constitution of the United States of America
3. G.W.F. Hegel – Phenomenology of Spirit
4. Mao Tse-tung – Quotations from Chairman Mao
5. James Baldwin – The Devil Finds Work
6. Richard Novic – Alice in Genderland
PART TEN: Essays
1. Germaine de Staël – Weimar
2. Heinrich Heine – The Gods in Exile
3. Virginia Woolf – How it a Strikes a Contemporary
4. Roland Barthes – Mythologies
5. Isaiah Berlin – Two Concepts of Liberty
6. Anaïs Nin – The Novel of the Future
7. Martha Nussbaum – ‘Steerforth’s Arm’
PART ELEVEN: Fiction
1. Aesop – Androcles and the Lion
2. Murasaki Shikibu – The Tale of Genji
3. One Thousand and One Nights
4. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship
5. Jane Austen – Mansfield Park
6. Adam Mickiewicz – Pan Tadeusz
7. Gustave Flaubert – Madame Bovary
8. Marcel Proust – In Search of Lost Time
9. Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa – The Leopard
10. René Goscinny – Le Petit Nicolas
PART TWELVE: Poetry
1. The Mu'Allaqat
2. Matsuo Basho – Haiku
3. Phillis Wheatley – A Hymn to the Evening
4. Charles Baudelaire – Les Fleurs du Mal
5. Francis Thompson – In No Strange Land
6. Rabindranath Tagore – Where The Mind Is Without Fear
7. C.P. Cavafy – Ithaka
8. William Butler Yeats – Sailing to Byzantium
9. W.H. Auden – Lullaby
10. Joan Armatrading – ‘Heaven’
EPILOGUE: The Promise of a Book
1. François Fénelon – The Adventures of Telemachus
2. The Private Journal