15 books to see the world differently

Books to see the world can promote a change in attitude towards life. Reading has an incredible power to transform. A single book can lead to a person taking a different path.

Life is not always linear, it does not always turn out how it is planned. Many times it is necessary to start again and change trajectory. In this sense, books to see the world can be a great start.

Books to see the world and life different

Among those books that have the power to touch the soul and introduce changes, are the following:

• Power without limits, by Tony Robbins: It is a personal development book with which the reader will learn to take control of his life and obtain the results he wants. It all begins with the personal commitment that everyone assumes in life, a point that the author alerts from the beginning and to which he adds formulas to achieve it.
• The power of the subconscious mind, by Joseph Murphy: It is one of the great books to see the world different. An idea has an incalculable power, like the subconscious, because, all life is absorbing ideas of the environment. These comings are launched even when the person does not realize. The idea is to become aware and deploy that power that resides in each.
• The silk fan, by Lisa See: This novel allows us to understand what the position of women is today, from the position he has had at different times in history. See narrates how in nineteenth -century China, a girl is forced to break the bones of her because to have "lotus feet".
• The art war, by Steven Pressfield: The author states that the resistance that human beings deploy before new projects is the cause of many failures, so it investigates the nature of man and invites to confront what does not allow to move towards new objectives or goals.
• Damian, by Hermann Hesse:  This author always presents philosophical notions that invite reflection, perhaps this was what made the Nobel Prize for Literature win in 1946. In this work, the protagonist becomes obsessed with a thinker named Damian, who worries him through enigmas, such as the meaning of the Cain brand.
• Robert Fisher's Knight of the rusty armor: This book presents a reflection on the path that must be traveled in life and what is necessary to abandon to advance.
• Frankestein, from Mary Shelly: In a few days the author gave life to this incredible book, with only 19 years. It raises the story of a monster, crossing the boundaries between science, love and creation.
• Juan Salvador Gaviota, by Richard Bach: Juan Salvador is not a common seagull, something makes him special. The same reason why the rest of the seagulls rejects him. This book shows a beautiful story of overcoming and how high it can be reached in life.
• A thousand splendid soles, by Khaled Hosseini: This book forces us to leave the western world and its lifestyle to know what the lives of women in Afghanistan is, through the history of Mariam and Laila, who must assume marriage with a man who have not chosen, but also that has been imposed on them.
• Rebellion in La Grana, by George Orwell: All events that occur in a farm will be a reflection of how society can be managed. This work raises deep reflections on corruption, the State, political ideals and other.
• 1984, by George Orwell: The author wrote this work between 1947 and 1948. It raises the idea of ​​a government that refuses that citizens have freedom and autonomy, imposing a rigid control. The information is manipulated, there is also excessive surveillance. Power is focused on a political party. Another great classic to reflect on the role of the State and the individual in society.
• Paula, from Isabel Allende: Paula is a happy young woman and in love with her husband, although her life is simple and very different from that of her mother, Isabel. One day Paula is seriously ill and Isabel tries to keep the young woman alive, in an attempt to distract death, trying to find meaning to the absurdity that is lived.
• The foreigner, from Albert Camus: Meursault, the protagonist, is an employee who lives modestly in Algiers, where indifference reigns. But, after a fight, Mersault ends the life of an Arab, so he is arrested. He gives himself without resistance, with an awareness that makes him a hero of the absurd.
• Nothing from Carmen LaForet: Andrea is an orphan and sad young man who arrives in Barcelona to study lyrics. He suffers the oppression of his aunt and the environment that is breathed at his grandmother's house, but everything seems to change when he meets her friend Ena.
• Praise of slowness, by Carl Honoe: News is marked by vertiginosity and voracious desire to be happy. Therefore, the author proposes a change of perspective and movement, for a slower one.

These books to see the world different.

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