 | Essays In Love by Alain de Botton
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £1.83 A disarming examination of love, which is surprisingly moving.
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 | How to Live on 24 Hours a Day by Arnold Bennett
Buy used from: £5.45 If you want to get more from life, Bennet has some interesting and useful suggestions.
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 | The Joy Diet: 10 Steps to a Happier Life by Martha N. Beck
Buy used from: £38.49 For those who like their self-help served up with self-depricating wit rather than self pity. Beck's funny and warm.
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 | Are Men Necessary?: When Sexes Collide by Maureen Dowd
Buy new: £7.99 / Used from: £0.01 Maureen Dowd's collection of essays is thought provoking and engaging. For the smart woman who doesn't think flashing her assets is the fast route to empowerment.
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 | Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer within (Pocket Classics) by Natalie Naimark-Goldberg
Buy used from: £4.46 Everyone has a story to tell. This book helps uncover the writer within.
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 | Live Alone and Like it: The Classic Guide for the Single Woman by Marjorie Hillis
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £1.31 This book may be dated but it's still great fun. Unlike most books aimed at single women, this book assumes they can live with style and dignity.
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 | Organizing from the Inside Out: The Foolproof System for Organizing Your Home, Your Office and Your Life by Julie Morgenstern
Buy new: £6.51 / Used from: £4.99 Sensible advice for those who seek a more ordered existence.
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 | Lucky by Alice Sebold
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £0.01 The circumstances and events this book describes are alien to me. What draws me to this account is its honesty. I believe good writing is transformative. Reading this book changed something inside.
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 | Nine Gates by Hirshfield
Buy new: £6.32 / Used from: £7.00 At some point, any serious reader needs to tackle poetry. This collection of essays will put you in the proper frame of mind.
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 | Man's Search for Meaning: The Classic Tribute to Hope from the Holocaust by Viktor E. Frankl
Buy new: £4.97 / Used from: £2.85 The personal essay that opens this book is one of the most moving things I have ever read.
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 | My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin
Buy used from: £8.56 I read this at a very young age and it has always stayed with me. I connected with the author's rural isolation and big dreams.
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 | Penguin Great Ideas : A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
Buy new: £3.56 / Used from: £1.10 Ubiquitous reading for any young women with pretensions of creativity. Woolf's voice is engaging and though somewhat dated much of it still rings true.
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 | Getting Things Done: How to Achieve Stress-free Productivity by David Allen
Buy new: £7.76 / Used from: £4.92 One of those rare self-help books that delivers on its promises. Follow its recommendations and watch your life become more organised,
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