Books like Books for living by Will Schwalbe

A series of spiritual exercises for leading a meaningful life, 2,000 years old and still relevant today.

Eckhart Tolle guides readers toward a pain‑free existence by teaching how to recognize and release mental patterns that cause suffering, encouraging living fully in the present moment.

Mitch Albom’s memoir follows his weekly visits to former sociology professor Morrie Schwartz as Schwartz confronts terminal ALS, exploring life, death, and personal growth through their poignant teacher‑student bond.

Neurosurgeon Paul Kalanithi’s poignant memoir chronicles his battle with stage IV metastatic lung cancer and his reflections on life, medicine, and mortality.

Carrie Fisher reflects on her teenage years, early fame, and the impact of her love for science‑fiction, captured in unpublished journals that reveal her humor, vulnerability, and personal struggles.

Hee Jun arrives in West Virginia from Korea and struggles to fit in—until a friendship and a familiar flower help him plant a piece of home in his new garden.

Andy Miller’s reflective memoir chronicles a year in which he tackles fifty classic and contemporary books, exploring how reading reshapes identity, purpose, and daily life.

"Four seismic shifts have rocked human communication: the invention of writing, the alphabet, mechanical type and the printing press, and digitization. Poised over this fourth transition, e-reader in one hand, perfect-bound book in the other, Merilyn Simonds --author, literary maven, and early adopter --asks herself: what is lost and what is gained as paper turns to pixel? Gutenberg's Fingerprint trolls the past, present, and evolving future of the book in search of an answer. Part memoir and part philosophical and historical exploration, the book finds its muse in Hugh Barclay, who produces gorgeous books on a hand-operated antique letterpress. As Simonds works alongside this born-again Gutenberg, and with her son to develop a digital edition of the same book, her assumptions about reading, writing, the nature of creativity, and the value of imperfection are toppled. Gutenberg's Fingerprint is a timely and fascinating book that explores the myths, inventions, and consequences of the digital shift and how we read today."--Jacket.

xv, 350 pages ; 24 cm

Jhumpa Lahiri explores how wearing clothes and the presentation of her books shape her identity, blending personal memory with literary critique.

After losing his wife in a tragic car accident, scholar and writer Joseph Luzzi turns to Dante’s *Divine Comedy* for solace, using the epic poem’s structure of Inferno, Purgatory, and Paradise to navigate grief, motherhood, and renewal.