Books as Therapy

1.
Madame Bovary
Madame Bovary 3.71 avg rating β€” 363,723 ratings
2.
Matilda
Matilda 4.33 avg rating β€” 1,073,086 ratings
3.
Walden or, Life in the Woods
Walden or, Life in the Woods 3.78 avg rating β€” 200,864 ratings
4.
Love
Love
by: Stendhal
3.62 avg rating β€” 1,995 ratings
5.
The Symposium
The Symposium
by: Plato
4.09 avg rating β€” 85,870 ratings
6.
Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love
Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love 4.12 avg rating β€” 21,296 ratings
7.
Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina 4.10 avg rating β€” 906,445 ratings
8.
The Sorrows of Young Werther
The Sorrows of Young Werther 3.69 avg rating β€” 148,995 ratings
9.
How to Think More About Sex
How to Think More About Sex 3.47 avg rating β€” 5,542 ratings
10.
Adolphe
Adolphe 3.57 avg rating β€” 3,383 ratings
11.
Conditions of Love: The Philosophy of Intimacy
Conditions of Love: The Philosophy of Intimacy 3.92 avg rating β€” 903 ratings
12.
War and Peace
War and Peace 4.17 avg rating β€” 357,031 ratings
13.
The Art of Loving
The Art of Loving really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 91,485 ratings
14.
Essays In Love
Essays In Love 3.96 avg rating β€” 34,136 ratings
15.
A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
A Lover's Discourse: Fragments 4.36 avg rating β€” 13,079 ratings
16.
Letters from a Stoic
Letters from a Stoic
by: Seneca
4.33 avg rating β€” 52,598 ratings
17.
The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley, #6; Karla Trilogy, #2)
The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley, #6; Karla Trilogy, #2) 3.99 avg rating β€” 25,326 ratings
18.
Flow: The Classic Work On How To Achieve Happiness: The Psychology of Happiness
Flow: The Classic Work On How To Achieve Happiness: The Psychology of Happiness 4.11 avg rating β€” 86,241 ratings
19.
Lost Illusions
Lost Illusions 4.16 avg rating β€” 12,147 ratings
20.
Maxims and Moral Reflections
Maxims and Moral Reflections 4.03 avg rating β€” 4,315 ratings
21.
The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories 4.12 avg rating β€” 16,590 ratings
22.
How to Worry Less about Money
How to Worry Less about Money 3.47 avg rating β€” 1,124 ratings
23.
The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work 3.62 avg rating β€” 5,974 ratings
24.
The Nicomachean Ethics
The Nicomachean Ethics
by: Aristotle
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 57,327 ratings
25.
To Have and Have Not
To Have and Have Not 3.51 avg rating β€” 35,665 ratings
26.
Status Anxiety
Status Anxiety 3.89 avg rating β€” 21,215 ratings
27.
Middlemarch
Middlemarch 4.03 avg rating β€” 174,996 ratings
28.
What Should I Do with My Life?: The True Story of People Who Answered the Ultimate Question
What Should I Do with My Life?: The True Story of People Who Answered the Ultimate Question 3.69 avg rating β€” 8,627 ratings
29.
Ecce Homo
Ecce Homo 3.81 avg rating β€” 19,210 ratings
30.
Nicholas and the Gang
Nicholas and the Gang 4.25 avg rating β€” 5,302 ratings
31.
The Dying Animal
The Dying Animal 3.62 avg rating β€” 12,951 ratings
32.
A Scattering
A Scattering 4.32 avg rating β€” 326 ratings
33.
Families and How To Survive Them
Families and How To Survive Them 3.93 avg rating β€” 1,322 ratings
34.
Meditations
Meditations 4.28 avg rating β€” 320,853 ratings
35.
They F*** You Up: How to Survive Family Life
They F*** You Up: How to Survive Family Life 3.86 avg rating β€” 1,216 ratings
36.
The Rings of Saturn
The Rings of Saturn 4.23 avg rating β€” 16,868 ratings
37.
Home Is Where We Start from
Home Is Where We Start from 3.96 avg rating β€” 377 ratings
38.
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso 4.08 avg rating β€” 167,125 ratings
39.
Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality 3.64 avg rating β€” 7,782 ratings
40.
The Secret Power of Beauty: First Edition
The Secret Power of Beauty: First Edition 3.80 avg rating β€” 127 ratings
41.
Couch Fiction: A Graphic Tale of Psychotherapy
Couch Fiction: A Graphic Tale of Psychotherapy 3.99 avg rating β€” 1,574 ratings
42.
Mansfield Park
Mansfield Park 3.86 avg rating β€” 371,730 ratings
43.
Mythologies
Mythologies 4.08 avg rating β€” 16,795 ratings
44.
Henry V
Henry V 3.85 avg rating β€” 52,301 ratings
45.
Unto This Last and Other Writings
Unto This Last and Other Writings 3.93 avg rating β€” 367 ratings
46.
Civilization and Its Discontents
Civilization and Its Discontents 3.79 avg rating β€” 43,517 ratings
47.
The Architecture of Happiness
The Architecture of Happiness 3.86 avg rating β€” 14,210 ratings
48.
Sybil, or the Two Nations
Sybil, or the Two Nations 3.29 avg rating β€” 1,255 ratings
49.
An Intimate History of Humanity
An Intimate History of Humanity 4.11 avg rating β€” 1,681 ratings
50.
The Communist Manifesto
The Communist Manifesto
by: Karl Marx
3.67 avg rating β€” 189,298 ratings
51.
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations 3.88 avg rating β€” 34,384 ratings
52.
The Social Contract
The Social Contract 3.78 avg rating β€” 55,715 ratings
53.
A Little History of the World
A Little History of the World 4.10 avg rating β€” 30,758 ratings
54.
The Needs of Strangers
The Needs of Strangers 3.79 avg rating β€” 160 ratings
55.
The Art of the Novel
The Art of the Novel 3.98 avg rating β€” 7,049 ratings
56.
Swallows and Amazons (Swallows and Amazons, #1)
Swallows and Amazons (Swallows and Amazons, #1) 4.01 avg rating β€” 32,456 ratings
57.
Open City
Open City
by: Teju Cole
3.49 avg rating β€” 17,169 ratings
58.
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography 3.99 avg rating β€” 76,129 ratings
59.
How Proust Can Change Your Life
How Proust Can Change Your Life 3.76 avg rating β€” 18,288 ratings
60.
The Shadow of the Sun
The Shadow of the Sun 4.39 avg rating β€” 16,546 ratings
61.
Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It: Essays
Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It: Essays 3.50 avg rating β€” 2,837 ratings
62.
Days of Reading
Days of Reading 3.64 avg rating β€” 3,707 ratings
63.
U and I
U and I 3.76 avg rating β€” 977 ratings
64.
Lanzarote
Lanzarote 3.25 avg rating β€” 5,719 ratings
65.
The Art of Travel
The Art of Travel 3.82 avg rating β€” 25,536 ratings
66.
The Common Reader
The Common Reader 4.11 avg rating β€” 1,928 ratings
67.
High Windows
High Windows 4.09 avg rating β€” 2,423 ratings
68.
The Tiger Who Came to Tea
The Tiger Who Came to Tea 4.24 avg rating β€” 17,610 ratings
69.
The Death of the Moth and Other Essays
The Death of the Moth and Other Essays 4.12 avg rating β€” 1,393 ratings
70.
Essays
Essays 4.23 avg rating β€” 21,557 ratings
71.
The Consolations of Philosophy
The Consolations of Philosophy 4.01 avg rating β€” 33,137 ratings
72.
The Conquest of Happiness
The Conquest of Happiness 4.02 avg rating β€” 15,684 ratings
73.
Sinister Street
Sinister Street 3.86 avg rating β€” 87 ratings
74.
The Republic
The Republic
by: Plato
3.96 avg rating β€” 220,238 ratings
75.
The Wisdom of Life
The Wisdom of Life 4.07 avg rating β€” 15,421 ratings