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2022 edition ↗️

What book makes you feel hopeful?

Book cover of «A Pocketful of Crows» by Joanne Harris Book cover of «Factfulness» by Anna Rosling Rönnlund, Hans Rosling, and Ola Rosling Book cover of «Anxious People» by Fredrik Backman Book cover of «A Psalm for the Wild-Built» by Becky Chambers Book cover of «Come Matter Here» by Hannah Brencher Book cover of «Fleishman Is In Trouble» by Taffy Brodesser-Akner Book cover of «Four Thousand Weeks» by Oliver Burkeman Book cover of «How do you live?» by Genzaburo Yoshino Book cover of «Humankind» by Rutger Bregman Book cover of «Project Hail Mary» by Andy Weir Book cover of «The Misremembered Man» by Christine McKenna Book cover of «The Overstory» by Richard Powers Book cover of «Then The Trees Said Hello» by HJ Corning Book cover of «How I Learned to Understand the World» by Hans Rosling Book cover of «The Beginning of Infinity» by David Deutsch Book cover of «Something Like Happy» by Eva Woods Book cover of «Atomic Habits» by James Clear Book cover of «Klara and the Sun» by Kazuo Ishiguro Book cover of «Meditations» by Marcus Aurelius Book cover of «The Rational Optimist» by Matt Ridley, L. J. Ganser, et al. Book cover of «The Art of Gathering» by Priya Parker Book cover of «The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet» by Becky Chambers Book cover of «Digital Minimalism» by Cal Newport Book cover of «Lamb» by Christopher Moore Book cover of «Unscripted» by Ernie Johson Book cover of «Regenerative Leadership» by Giles Hutchins & Laura Storm Book cover of «A Little Life» by Hanya Yanagihara Book cover of «A Course In Miracles» by Helen Schucman Book cover of «Manifesto for a Moral Revolution» by Jacqueline Novogratz Book cover of «Little, Big» by John Crowley Book cover of «The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry» by John Mark Comer Book cover of «The Longevity Economy» by Joseph Coughlin Book cover of «The Ministry for the Future» by Kim Stanley Robinson Book cover of «Managing the Moment» by Lisa Parker Book cover of «Dog Songs» by Mary Oliver Book cover of «The Other Mother» by Matthew Dicks Book cover of «The Selfish Gene» by Richard Dawkins Book cover of «The Better Angels of Our Nature» by Steven Pinker Book cover of «Born a Crime» by Trevor Noah Book cover of «The Life of Pi» by Yann Martell Book cover of «The Bible» by Book cover of «Work Clean» by Dan Charnas

2021 edition ↗️

What’s a book more people should know?

Book cover of «Gegen den Hass» by Carolin Emcke Book cover of «In Defence of Food» by Michael Pollan Book cover of «Letters to a Young Poet» by Rainer Maria Rilke Book cover of «Thinking, Fast and Slow» by Daniel Kahneman Book cover of «Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind» by Yuval Noah Harari Book cover of «The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance» by Robert M. Pirsig Book cover of «Humankind: A Hopeful History» by Rutger Bregman Book cover of «Leaves Of Grass» by Walt Whitman Book cover of «The Psychology of Money» by Morgan Housel Book cover of «Harry Potter» by JK Rowling Book cover of «The Human Side of Enterprise» by Douglas McGregor Book cover of «Last Chance to See» by Douglas Adams Book cover of «How much is enough?» by Robert & Edward Skidelsky Book cover of «The Way of Integrity» by Martha Beck Book cover of «My Own Devices» by Dessa Book cover of «How to measure anything» by Douglas Hubbard Book cover of «Ministry of the Future» by Kim Stanley Robinson Book cover of «All the Light We Cannot See» by Anthony Doerr Book cover of «Hidden spring» by Mark Solms Book cover of «Down and Out in Paris and London» by George Orwell Book cover of «Into the Distance» by Hernan Diaz Book cover of «Melnitz» by Charles Lewinsky Book cover of «Min Kamp» by Karl Ove Knausgård Book cover of «Limonow» by Emmanuel Carrere Book cover of «Notes from the Underground» by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Book cover of «Seveneves» by Neal Stephenson Book cover of «The Little Virtues» by Natalia Ginzburg Book cover of «Über leben» by Dirk Steffens & Fritz Habekuss Book cover of «The Wet Engine» by Brian Doyle Book cover of «An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth» by Chris Hadfield Book cover of «Zwei Grad. Eine Tonne» by Christof Drexel Book cover of «Luftkrieg und Literatur» by W.G.Sebald Book cover of «Wozu wir da sind» by Axel Hacke Book cover of «Infinite Detail» by Tim Maughan Book cover of «Killers of the Flower Moon» by David Grann Book cover of «Show Your Work» by Austin Kleon Book cover of «You're Not Listening» by Kate Murphy

Earlier recommendations

Book cover of «A Little Life» by Hanya Yanagihara Book cover of «The Legend of the Holy Drinker» by Joseph Roth Book cover of «Distrust That Particular Flavor» by William Gibson Book cover of «1Q84» by Haruki Murakami Book cover of «Congo - The Epic History of a People» by David Van Reybrouck Book cover of «Swing Time» by Zadie Smith Book cover of «The Road» by Cormac McCarthy Book cover of «The Tortilla Curtain» by TC Boyle Book cover of «On the Road» by Jack Kerouac Book cover of «Narcopolis» by Jeet Thayil Book cover of «The Invention of Nature» by Andrea Wulf Book cover of «The Way Things Work» by David Macaulay and Neil Ardley Book cover of «When Breath Becomes Air» by Paul Kalanithi Book cover of «The Small Backs of Children» by Lidia Yuknavitch Book cover of «Chinaman» by Shehan Karunatilaka Book cover of «The Book of Disquiet» by Fernando Pessoa Book cover of «Tender Bar» by J.R. Moehringer Book cover of «Death with Interruptions» by José Saramago Book cover of «Beim Auftauchen der Himmel» by Anna Stern Book cover of «Filters Against Folly» by Garrett Hardin Book cover of «Oranges are not the only fruit» by Jeanette Winterson Book cover of «Annihilation» by Jeff VanderMeer Book cover of «Leviathan Wakes» by James S. A. Corey Book cover of «Watermark» by Joseph Brodsky Book cover of «Delivering Happiness. A Path To Profits, Passion, and Purpose» by Tony Hsieh Book cover of «The Edible Woman» by Margaret Atwood Book cover of «Pirate Cinema» by Cory Doctorow Book cover of «Pulphead» by John Jeremiah Sullivan Book cover of «Léon und Louise» by Alex Capus Book cover of «South of the Border, West of the Sun» by Haruki Murakami Book cover of «The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay» by Michael Chabon Book cover of «Stringer» by Anjan Sundaram Book cover of «Das Muschelessen» by Birgit Vanderbeke Book cover of «Guns, Germs and Steel» by Jared Diamond Book cover of «The Invention of Morel» by Adolfo Bioy Casares Book cover of «Sense of an Ending» by Julian Barnes Book cover of «King Leopold's Ghost» by Adam Hochschild Book cover of «I am Zlatan» by David Lagercrantz Book cover of «Behind the Beautiful Forevers» by Katherine Boo Book cover of «Vanished Kingdoms, The History of Half-Forgotten Europe» by Norman Davies Book cover of «The Fountainhead» by Ayn Rand Book cover of «Getting More» by Stuart Diamond Book cover of «Hyperion» by Dan Simmons Book cover of «Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist» by Christof Koch Book cover of «The New Confessions» by William Boyd Book cover of «Patrimony» by Philip Roth Book cover of «The Commonwealth of Thieves» by Tom Kennealy Book cover of «Beat the Reaper» by Josh Bazell Book cover of «Agnes» by Peter Stamm Book cover of «A Thousand Splendid Suns» by Khaled Hosseini Book cover of «The Dispossessed» by Ursula K. Le Guin Book cover of «Master & Marguerita» by Bulgakov Book cover of «Accabadora» by Michela Murgia Book cover of «Die Ökonomie von Gut und Böse» by Tomáš Sedláček Book cover of «Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates» by Tom Robbins Book cover of «Gang Leader for a Day» by Sudhir Venkatesh Book cover of «House of Leaves» by Mark Z. Danielewski Book cover of «Alamut» by Vladimir Bartol Book cover of «Endgame» by Frank Brady Book cover of «Das finstere Tal» by Thomas Willmann Book cover of «Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk» by Ben Fountain Book cover of «Lamb» by Christopher Moore Book cover of «Light Years» by James Salter Book cover of «Paddy Clark, ha ha ha!» by Roddy Doyle Book cover of «Selim oder Die Gabe der Rede» by Sten Nadolny Book cover of «Strong Motion» by Jonathan Franzen Book cover of «The Bell Jar» by Sylvia Plath Book cover of «The Day of The Triffids» by John Wyndham Book cover of «The Great Gatsby» by F. Scott Fitzgerald Book cover of «The Last Lion» by William Manchester Book cover of «The Meme Machine» by Susan Blackmore Book cover of «Unwinding» by George Packer Book cover of «The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle» by Haruki Murakami Book cover of «The Windup Girl» by Paolo Bacigalupi Book cover of «Bis ich dich finde» by John Irving Book cover of «Written In Bone» by Simon Beckett