17 Books Filled With Life Lessons

Books are the closest thing we have to telepathic communication. It is just amazing that someone could record their thoughts, observations, and experiences on the pages, and then someone else, completely unrelated to them, might just read them and learn from them hundreds of years later! Just think about it, It’s crazy!

By reading books, especially non-fiction books, we can pick apart the author’s brain and actually learn from their experiences. Experiences we probably never had, and might never have, but the knowledge of which we acquire and leaves us with the wisdom to confront similar situations if they ever happej. There’s no exaggeration in saying that by reading these books you can learn valuable life lessons to apply to your own.

#1 You Can’t Ruin My Day by Allen Klein

How often do we let other people or other things get in the way of our happiness and ruin your day? Now, you don’t have to let that happen. You Can’t Ruin My Day will show you an important major life lesson: How you can take back your power and not let other people or other situations ruin your day…or your life.

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#2 A Trail of Honesty by J.A. Angelo

A Trail of Honesty teaches children camping safety and that dishonesty can result in bodily injury and/or property destruction. Just in time for the warm months ahead.

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#3 Running Down a Dream by Tim Grahl

This book is for anyone who’s creative or entrepreneurial. As the founder of two publishing companies and author of fiction, this book has helped me through the lowest of the low times.

This book isn’t just about chasing down your dreams, it’s how to pick yourself up when you stumble. Even if that stumble is during a sprint and you think you’ll never be able to get back up again.

Tim is honest but practical, turning each of his personal lessons into a tool for readers to use in their own lives.

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#4 Poetic Justice: Lessons of love, life & relationships by Tami Belt

These pages hold a lifetime of lessons learned about love, life and relationships. Poetic Justice is not a typical book designed for reading from beginning to end but as individual pages that beckon your soul at a particular moment in time.

Chapters are organized by topic, not chronologically. Like a diary entry, each poem represents my innermost insights and feelings during a moment in time. Each entry is anonymous because lessons live on unlike some relationships.

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#5 This demoralizing adulthood promise future of tomorrow by Vanessa Bush

Its a book about learning to overcome obstacles and become more assertive in your future life decisions has your grow into a young adult and built your future. I wrote this book because I needed to help other young adult going through many traumatic experience to not let these experiences become you but to learn from it.

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#6 Dark Chocolate for the Soul by Milana Perepyolkina

This book offers the solutions to a wide range of problems. From troubles in your early childhood to current struggles in your adult life. From sickness and injuries to the death of a loved one. From impatience, fears, emotional abuse, and scars to loneliness, physical danger, bad luck, and betrayal.. With each problem, there is a way to turn that bitterness into something sweet. A way to overcome those obstacles that are keeping you from living the life you truly want to be living.

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#7 Before I Leave by Jenney Egertson

BEFORE I LEAVE follows the journey of a 46-year-old woman who navigated middle age by interviewing and establishing relationships with six women in their eighties and nineties over a period of eighteen years.

One woman survived the Japanese internment camps; another grew up in Selma, Alabama, and rode the same bus that Rosa Parks made famous. Also included are the author’s mother and grandmother; a woman recognized as the matriarch of the Northeast Minneapolis Lebanese community; and the woman whose story inspired the book in 2000.

The chapters chronicle what these six women revealed about their lives and advice, and what the author learned about aging, parenting, racism, sexism, community involvement and more.

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#8 The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom

This book by Mitch Album is perhaps one of the most impactful books of all time. We often don’t think about how our actions affect others, especially people we don’t know, yet the truth of the matter is that every single thing we do makes a difference.

The novel highlights this message in a plot filled with twists and turns. It will stir up questions such as why things happen the way they do, the idea of a life filled with purpose, sacrifices, the importance of forgiveness, and the power of love. Reading this book will get you thinking about life from a whole new perspective, and the messages are sure to stay with you long after you put the book down.

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#9 5 Rules for Drama-Free Living by Elaine Bentley Baughn

One of the biggest lessons is life is coming to terms with WHAT IS. Elaine Bentley Baughn’s 5 Rules of Drama-Free Living addresses just this in a gravity — it’s the law way, using humor and her 25+ years as a psychotherapist. She shapes the lessons of a life working with others struggles through the lens of insight and metaphor. It’s a short, easy read that merits returning to again and again.

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#10 Becoming One of the Grateful Dead by Carol Weisman

Best described as part Chicken Soup for the Soul, part estate planning, part legacy building, Weisman’s candid, humorous writing style inspires the reader to think about something perhaps they’ve never thought about before: what legacy do I want to leave behind? The book is broken up into 13 anecdotes that offer a variety of perspectives and takeaways.

From the great-granddaughter of a slave who worked as a cleaning lady to a multi-millionaire oil man, each of the stories offers uniquely heart-warming, sometimes heartbreaking, lessons. Some of the stories are Oscar Wilde witty, some are poignant and some are laugh out loud funny. Upon reading the book, one thing is for sure – you will never think about your estate plan the same way again. The book applies to all adults, whether uber rich or driving for Uber, it is critical to make plans now for how you want your children cared for and your possessions and money allocated after you’re gone. Otherwise the state will make these decisions for you.

Readers will appreciate Weisman’s knowledge and experience on this subject matter, which shines through and enlightens with every passing page. Almost everyone who has read this book has made changes to their estate plan. It is a fresh look at what you can do now to leave a legacy that makes you proud!

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#11 Battle Endurance by Nate Battle

If you are searching for a tool to help you better understand life’s ups and downs, this is your book. It lays out a roadmap on how you can look beyond challenges, expectations, and facades to be your true self. It was written with the idea that readers can replace the challenges presented with your own, being able to see yourself while learning how to let go, work through conflict, obstacles, and difficulties and limiting negative self-talk, one step, action, moment and battle at a time.

It speaks to how we are at times distracted by false beliefs and faulty thinking. Shared are many stories, and approaches on letting go, how to live in the present and having a full and more peaceful life. It’s engaging and relatable while including an honest selection of experiences readers of all ages will find as useful tools to help live a full life.

“This book puts language around so many feelings I had. It also reminds me of a place of peace that must be maintained for me to avoid those pitfalls.” A book which motivational speaker Les Brown calls “instructive, informative, and inspiring … a guide to live your life victoriously.”

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#12 How Connie Got Her Rack Back By Constance Bramer

Connie Bramer took her experience with cancer and wrote a book as well as started an organization to help cancer patients.

How Connie Got Her Rack Back shares the incredible journey of Connie Bramer; a young woman, mom, daughter sister and friend who experienced breast cancer. Connie gives laugh out loud humor to her adventure, along with poignant moments of self-discovery as she blogs her way to good health..

From the first page of this book you are laughing out loud with tears, tearing up with empathy and all in between. Even though it’s Connie’s cancer journey, she brings so many relatable things to everyone experiencing this journey. She expresses genuine honesty and authentic thoughts throughout each chapter.

Her spunky personality and humorous attitude has you bursting out in laughter. Her raw thoughts and feelings that she expresses about cancer, chemo and every step of the journey is thought provoking. Whether you are a patient experiencing this journey, a family member or friend of someone experiencing cancer, this book will provide an uplifting spirit.

This book offers a comfort level and relatable aspect that helps guide you through your own journey or your journey with your loved one. Also included are social media updates to friends and family and their responses. When you read the loving responses, it’s completely heart-warming and like receiving a virtual hug.

Connie had the strength to not only experience this journey but document her experiences to help others going through this as well. Not only did Connie write this amazing book, she went one step further and created GYRB; an organization providing meal delivery, grocery, gas and restaurant gift cards as well as physician/hospital co-pay assistance to cancer patients in Upstate NY.

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#13 Break Every Chain by Jonathan E. Hickory

BREAK EVERY CHAIN by Jonathan E. Hickory shares how you can go through loss and deal with your own personal demons while building your faith and relationship with God. Jonathan went through some unimaginable situations and was able to come out the other side, showing you can as well.

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#14 A Life Not My Own by TM Brown

A LIFE NOT MY OWN by T.M. Brown tells the very personal story of Tina T.M. Brown and how she was able to overcome neglect, heartbreak and challenges of life and realize the power within herself. Definitely a book about overcoming the odds, finding yourself and realizing what you are capable of.

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#15 BLINDSIDED & Ambushed by Lisa Y. Sparrow

BLINDSIDED AND AMBUSHED by Lisa Y. Sparrow is all about the lessons that can come when you realize the danger of loving others more than yourself. Lisa shares how she was able to deal with abuse, personal loss and even mental trauma. For those who think they can’t, Lisa shares time and again that if you are willing to keep going there is nothing you can’t do.

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#16 Life Doesn’t Get Any Better Than This by Robert A. Alper

Life Doesn’t Gete Any Better Than This is a collection of true and moving stories, from tales of fatherhood (‘The Glance’) to a touching recount of the way small gestures lodge themselves in your heart (Old Lovers’). This volume of spiritual gems was awarded four stars by the Detroit Free Press.

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#17 Back Yourself: Transform Challenge into Confidence by Tommy Gentleman

‘Back Yourself’ represents an inspirational bridge into personal development for anyone who has the desire to overcome their challenges and live a healthy, happy, and more confident life. This book shares proven strategies that you can use to build a powerful and positive mindset, increase your energy, and believe in yourself no matter what challenges come your way. Life can sting. This is the book that you should read when you are ready to transform your challenge into confidence.

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