Every year, Oprah Winfrey publishes a list of her favorite books that become instant bestsellers. This year, however, Oprah decided to take things a little differently. Instead of directing readers to new titles, she recommends 7 books that she describes as "books that help me."
From poetry, history books and fiction, to spirituality and more... What connects these books is their power to they motivate, provide comfort and inspiration, Oprah wrote on her Instagram.
Here are 7 books that always help her!
Now! Only this moment is truly yours (The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment)
Eckhart Tolle
"I keep Eckhart's book by my bed. I think that's the point of teaching about spirituality. This is one of the most valuable books I have ever read.” Oprah wrote. To travel to THIS moment, we will have to leave our analytical mind and its falsely created self, the ego. Although the journey is challenging, Eckhart Tolle uses simple language and a question-and-answer format to show us how to silence our thoughts and create a liberated life. So surrender to the present moment, where problems do not exist. This is where we find our joy, we are able to accept our true selves and discover that we are already complete! If we are able to be fully present and take each step in the NOW, we will open ourselves to the changing experience of the book!
Song of Solomon
Toni Morrison
Solomon's Song is a work of extraordinary beauty and power, a novel whose story covers the period between the 1930s and 1960s in America. At its center is Macon Dead Jr., the son of a wealthy black real estate owner who was raised to worship the "white world." Macon learns about the tyranny of white society from his friend Guitar, although he is more concerned about how he will escape the tyranny of his father. While Guitar joins a terrorist group of poor blacks, Macon goes home to the South, lured by the story of a buried family treasure. His journey leads to the discovery of something more precious than gold, his past. But the truth about his origins and his true self is not fully revealed to Macon until he and Guitar meet again, this time in a powerful and deadly showdown.
9,57 €
The Soul of America
Jon Meacham
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham helps us understand the current moment in American politics and life by looking back at critical moments in their history when hope overcame division and fear. It shows how what Abraham Lincoln called "the better angels of our nature" have triumphed many times over. He writes about the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the birth of the Lost Cause ideology of negation; the response to immigrants in World War I and the revival of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s; the fight for women's rights; the demagogy of Huey Long and Reverend Coughlin and the America First Committee in the years before World War II; the anti-Communist witch hunt led by Senator Joseph McCarthy and Lyndon Johnson's crusade against Jim Crow. Each of these dramatic hours in American history was shaped by a contest that drove the country to look forward rather than backward, to cement hope over fear—a struggle that continues today.
16,90 €
Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
Mary Oliver
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver presents a selection of her best work in a collection spanning more than five decades of her esteemed literary career. Throughout her illustrious career, Mary Oliver touched countless readers with her brilliantly crafted verse that revealed her love of the physical world and the strong bonds that bind all living things together. A jumble of more than 200 poems, her first poetry collection, No Voyage and Other Poems, published in 1963, and her most recent collection, Felicity, published in 2015, are carefully attuned.This timeless work, edited by Oliver herself, popular presents the poetess in the best light. On these pages, he offers us an extraordinary and invaluable collection of his passionate, perceptive and very valuable observations of the natural world.
15,49 €
The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin
The American bestseller, which first appeared in 1963, galvanized the nation and gave a passionate voice to the nascent civil rights movement, and continues to illuminate the path to understanding race in America today. The book is both a powerful evocation of James Baldwin's early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice, as well as a powerfully personal and provocative work by the iconic author of If Beale Street Could Talk and Go Tell It on the Mountain. It consists of two "letters" written on the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation, urging Americans, both black and white, to attack the terrible legacy of racism. The New York Times Book Review describes the book as "a sermon, an ultimatum, a confession, a declaration, a testament and a chronicle ... all presented in chilling, brilliant prose".
10,49 €
Between the World and Me
This- Nehisi Coates
In a penetrating work that revolves around one of the greatest questions about American history and ideals, and around the most intimate concerns a father has for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a new framework for understanding the history and current crisis of the American nation. Americans have built an empire on the ideas of "race", a lie that harms all of us, but most black women and men, once exploited through slavery, segregation, and today they are threatened with prisons and killed. What is it like to live in the shoes of a black man and find a way to live? And how can we all honestly reckon with this burdensome history and free ourselves from its burden? Between the World and Us is Ta-Nehisi Coates' attempt to answer these questions in a letter to his minor son. Coates shares with his son—and readers—the story of his awakening to the truth of his mission in this world through a series of revelatory experiences—from Howard University to the battlefields of the Civil War, from the South Side of Chicago to Paris, from his childhood home to his mother's living room, whose children's lives were taken as "American booty". Beautifully woven from personal narrative, reimagined history, and fresh, emotionally charged reportage, the story shines a clear light on the past, stunningly confronts our present, and offers a transcendent vision of the way forward!
8,79 €
When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through
Joy Harjo
Award-winning American poet Joy Harjo has brought together more than 160 poets representing nearly 100 Indigenous nations in the first comprehensive anthology of Indigenous poetry. This famous anthology celebrates the people of North America, the first poets of this country, whose literary tradition goes back centuries. The book opens with Pulitzer Prize winner N. Scott Momaday and features introductions by contributing editors that present five geographically organized sections. Each begins with a poem from traditional folk literature and ends with emerging poets, from Eleazar, a 17th-century Harvard student, to Jake Skeets, a young Navajo poet born in 1991, including acclaimed poets such as Luci Tapahanso, Natalie Diaz, Layla Long Soldier and Ray Young Bear.
17,99 €
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