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📌Reasons to Stay Alive – A gentle, deeply comforting hand to hold on your darkest days.
📌Focus on What Matters – A practical guide to stripping away the noise and reclaiming your time.
📌Men Who Hate Women – An eye-opening, essential look at the hidden realities of modern misogyny and internet culture.
📌Everything is Tuberculosis – John Green’s brilliant, urgent, and deeply empathetic deep-dive into how the world’s deadliest disease shaped human history and global inequality.
📌Atomic Habits – The ultimate daily blueprint to turn your life goals into your actual identity.

A little bit of healing, a lot of learning, and the perfect system to back it all up.

Which of these are you adding to your shelf? 👇

Trevor Noah’s memoir Born a Crime recounts his life growing up in South Africa during and immediately after apartheid. Born to a Black Xhosa mother and a white Swiss father, his very existence was illegal under apartheid law. The book is a humorous yet profound tribute to his mother’s fierce determination to raise him.

All over the world women are discovering they have the power. With a flick of the fingers they can inflict terrible pain - even death. Suddenly, everyman on the planet finds they’ve lost control.

The day of the girls has arrived but where will it end?

Why are the worst people the best at getting power?

In this brilliantly incisive and outrageously entertaining study, Professor Brian Klaas explains how the corruptible are drawn to positions of power - but we help them here. Corruptible draws on groundbreaking interviews with some of the world’s top leaders - from the noblest to the dirtiest, including presidents, criminals, cult leaders, terrorists, psychopaths and dictators - to reveal the hidden reasons behind the rise and rule of bad leaders. Weaving cutting-edge research with astonishing encounters (including a ski lesson with the former viceroy of Iraq, tea with a former prime minister and breakfast with Madagascar’s yoghurt kingpin president), Corruptible explains the tyrants in our lives - and how to get better people into power.

Unlike many romance series, the emotional conflict isn’t “Will they fall in love?”

It’s “Can they heal enough to let love in again?”

When a story is as fiercely brilliant, raw, and intimate as Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend, standard reading isn’t enough. You find yourself talking back to the pages. Every tab, every underlined sentence, and every scribbled note in the margin is proof of a soul completely altered by words.

To annotate is to leave a trail of breadcrumbs showing exactly where the book broke your heart, where it made you think, and where it felt too real to ignore.

Are you a protective reader who keeps their pages pristine, or do you love a beautifully tabbed, lived-in book?

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Lola Shoneyin’s sharp, darkly funny novel pulls back the curtain on polygamy, jealousy and sisterhood in a Nigerian household, and the twist will stay with you long after the last page.

In her compelling sequel, ‘Dear Us’, Auma Rita Rita takes you on her journey from mental health diagnosis to healing, the challenges faced, the moments of shock and sorrow combined with the moments of peace, clarity and the lessons learnt along the way.

This book picks up where ‘Dear Me’ left off—sharing how Rita got to her diagnosis with mental illness coupled with her battle with self-hate and hopelessness.

Mental illness is not a one-size-fits-all. The beauty of this book is its blend of personal narratives and stories from others who have walked similar paths with true life stories of those who have been on the same journey to healing.

In collaboration with a qualified and licensed psychiatrist, this book also offers insightful exploration and explanation of mental illnesses. It provides readers a deep understanding of what these heroes go through to meaningfully show up for themselves to confront and manage these conditions daily.

This book not only educates but also touches the heart, encouraging us to lead with empathy and a kinder approach to those around us, emphasizing the necessary assistance needed along the journey.

Our stories are not yet done. You never know the invisible battles someone next to you might be going through.

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Let’s make “10% happier” the only KPI that matters this week.

If you’re wondering how, this book has a few ideas worth reading.