Book Recommendations — 2021
Welcome to the master list of my book recommendations for 2021! There are currently 83 books here, with excerpts from some of my favourite reads to give you a feel of the writing and what the book can teach and evoke from within you.
As you read, highlight or underline points in the book that stand out to you. When you finish the book, run back through and read the highlighted points again for retention. I also use the program/app "Notion" to save really potent learnings from books, podcasts and articles that I want to refer back to.
My favourite strategy for productive reading is a little bit extra, but it's incredibly powerful. If you listen to an audiobook on a speed faster than 1.0 whilst reading the physical or digital book at the same time, not only will you breeze through books but you'll also take in much more information because you're multiplying learning styles by having audio at the same time as the visual. Click here to sign up to Audible, with one free audiobook upon joining 🥳
Keep this in mind when you're reading these new books or taking in any new information:
— Psychiatrist Dr. William Glasser, expanding on theories of twentieth century educator Edgar Dale (this is in "Happy For No Reason"!)
Another tip is to download the app "Blinkist" — it gives you 15 minute insights to books and podcasts and is incredibly powerful. You can select the amount of time per day you'd like to learn, and you get to choose to read or listen, but are also able to incorporate the above learning style by doing both at the same time! So I set that audio speed to 1.5x and get through even more knowledge 🧠🙌🏽
CONTENTS
Power, personal development, psychology
Spirituality, manifestation, astrology
Let's dive in! You can click on any book title here to be taken directly to the Booktopia website, which is where I buy all my books online and are delivered so quickly!
My Most Influential
The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle — I first read this book at the beginning of my spiritual journey when I was 20, and it is life shifting. This is the book that helped me seperate those self degrading, sabotaging thoughts from the ones that are my actual true self. You're taught about the relentless mind chatter that goes hand in hand with anxiety and depression and are given the tools and awareness to rise above it. Read it. And then read A New Earth.
Excerpt: The word enlightenment conjures up the idea of some superhuman accomplishment, and the ego likes to keep it that way, but it is simply your natural state of felt oneness with Being. It is a state of connectedness with something immeasurable and indestructible, something that, almost paradoxically, is essentially you and yet is much greater than you. It is finding your true nature beyond n