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11 Growth-Oriented Books To Read In 2021

Darrah Brustein
4 min readFeb 4, 2021

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Are you looking for a great new book for the new year? I poured through 40+ in 2020, and pulled out my favorites. You’ll notice that they’re all non-fiction, and mostly in the categories of personal development, spiritual growth, and social justice, so skip this if none of them are your jam… Or, better yet, consider branching out and giving one a try!

In no particular order, here are my faves and a link to each:

More Myself, Alicia Keys

From the first page, I immediately felt a kinship with Alicia. You know it from her songs and her presence, but she invites you into a different dimension here. Spirit, authenticity, transparency: all in here. She also delivers deep and hard-won life lessons that are universally important and will speak to you at a soul level. Saver this one!

The Gift: 12 Lessons to Save Your Life, Dr. Edith Eger

This is aptly titled because it is, in fact, a gift to the reader. Dr. Eger is many wonderful things, a few of which include: therapist, holocaust survivor, and gifted disseminator of life’s lessons into morsels of goodness that the reader can use for inspiration and/or action. It combines so many topics that we need at this time: grief, forgiveness, meaning, purpose, anger, love, and so much more. I definitely recommend learning from a lifetime of…

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Darrah Brustein
Darrah Brustein

Written by Darrah Brustein

On a mission to debunk "sleep when you're dead" culture + chasing others people's definitions of success to build a life of your own design. www.darrah.co

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