7 Books to Change Your Life in 2025 (No Self-Help)

'Tis the season to be jolly, and also that of book recommendations. And so I thought I would recommend 7 books that I believe could genuinely change your life in 2025. As a bonus, I have deliberately excluded any self-help books. Not because I have anything against them, but just because they tend to dominate lists like these, and I wanted to do something a little different.

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Links:

Deceit, Desire, and the Novel: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Decei....t-Desire-Novel-Liter
The Plague: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Plagu....e-Penguin-Modern-Cla
Dostoevsky: a Writer in His Time: https://shorturl.at/ydGtW
Nicomachean ethics: https://www.gutenberg.org/file....s/8438/8438-h/8438-h
The Dangerous Life and Ideas of Diogenes the Cynic: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dange....rous-Life-Ideas-Diog
On Love: https://www.gutenberg.org/file....s/53720/53720-h/5372
The Burnout Society: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Burno....ut-Society-Byung-Chu


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