7 Books That Changed My Life 

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“The little prince” is a book that every time i read i get something different out of. These types of books are truly meaningful 💗

Sapiens is good but it’s important to remember a lot of the “facts” in the book are just the authors opinions... I wouldn’t taken everything in it as gospel. It’s important to think critically when reading non fiction.

Your description of 'Humankind' reminded me of what Mr Rogers said about when you see a tragedy on the news you should always look for the helpers. There are always helpers, who display such heart and generosity.

one of the main books that changed my life was Sofia's World, which sparked my interest in philosophy when I read it at 17 and made me pursue a career in it :) then also The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, which made me look at the topic of mental health much more carefully and beautifully (even though the book is a bit sad, as well as the author's life story, which I hold dear in my heart), The Book of the Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa and At the Heights of Despair by Emil Cioran, both which re-sparked my love for writing and helped me find my own voice

I can't believe you made me wanna read a book about taoism and winnie the pooh

I LOVE VICIOUS SO MUCH!! It brought me back to reading after 3 years and now it has a special place in my heart

I always find your voice soothing (especially rn since I'm sick.) Can't wait to read some of these books especially radio silence! ✨

Top 3 Mysteries of the Universe: 1. How were the Pyramids built? 2. What's inside a Black Hole? 3. How did Leonie get an Australian Accent?

Human Kind: A Hopeful History seems like a unique take on human history. The exploration of reality TV and the Golem Effect points that you mentioned are so interesting!

hey does she have a podcast? cuz i think her voice in a podcast would be so nice

I picked up a copy of The Tao of Pooh (and the Te of Piglet) from a charity shop a little over a year ago, and I love it! It’s so wonderfully written 💛

Alice Oseman is a genius. The way they write is so beautiful and unique and I don’t think I’ve ever loved an author more

I love re-reading 'The Sorrows of Love" by School of Life because not only is it super short and full of ideas, I always take something new out of it or I find myself seeing one of the "sorrows" through a different perspective. Anyway, great video! I like that you mentioned non-ficiton books :)

Until It Hurts To Stop by Jennifer R. Hubbard is a book that really resonated with me. It's a YA contemporary about a teenage girl that was bullied, and her coming to accept what happened to her and moving past it. If you've recently been bullied, make sure you've worked through your emotions first. But once you have, I highly recommend it!

love this video concept!! some books that have changed my life are In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan (changed my approach/outlook on writing especially but also just helped me appreciate whimsy and strangeness in the world alongside sadness and melancholia) and Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson (for its reflections on memory, grief, and transience). they're two books that i feel almost possessive over lol like talking about them to anyone else is scary because they're... mine...

The Tao of Pooh sounds so interesting, I've never heard of it before and I love Winnie the Pooh 💛 I'll have to check it out!

I really like Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson because he gives people that society doesn’t care about a voice and shows that their stories are worth telling :)

The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald is my "i get something new each time I read it" book and I LOVE VICIOUS FOR EVERY REASON YOU SAID AND MORE

the book that makes me feel better every time I reread it and is like the first book you mentioned is the little prince it really changed my life in so many ways and I cannot stress it enough how much it means to me

Oke ik heb ook de meeste mensen deugen gelezen, maar de Pygmalion studie heeft veel kritiek gekregen. Ik heb er een verslag over geschreven voor mijn studie sociologie. De self-fulfilling prophecy is een soort trend geweest in de sociale wetenschappen in de tijd van veel mensenrechten bewegingen, die nu niet vaak meer gebruikt wordt als theorie. De resultaten waren erg overdreven in de pygmalion studie, omdat de theorie populair was; kijk maar naar het artikel. Bijvoorbeeld bij eerste klassers was het effect groot, maar bij 4e, 5e en 6e klassers is het verschil insignificant. Wat een zeer belangrijk verschil is als je wilt zeggen dat bepaalde groepen kinderen daarom achtegehouden worden, terwijl dit effect met de jaren op de basisschool verdwijnt. Dit wordt niet genuanceerd in het bericht naar de wereld van de Pygmalion studie. Ook werden de kinderen alleen aan het begin en het einde van het schooljaar gemeten, en werden er geen observaties tussendoor gedaan. Ze kunnen daardoor niet met zekerheid zeggen dat de verwachtingen van de leraren de kinderen beter liet presteren. Elke andere replica heeft niet meer hetzelfde effect kunnen meten, behalve die van Brophy en Good (1970) waar hooguit uit geconcludeerd kan worden dat een differentiële behandeling van leerlingen door leraren verschil geeft in prestatie. Dat kan samenhangen met verwachtingen, maar ook met gedrag van de kinderen, geslacht, etc. Het bewijst daardoor zeker niet de selffulfilling prophecy. Als laatste zijn lerarenverwachtingen over het algemeen accuraat (Jussim & Harber, 2005), en zelfs als ze inaccuraat zijn, is het effect hiervan door middel van een selffulfilling prophecy op de prestatie van een kind erg klein. Dus het effect van verwachtingen positief of negatief moet niet te veel opgeblazen worden als een denivellerende fenomeen.

I've been working my way through a book series that I often think back to in my everyday life. It's the Anne of Green Gables series. A lot of people have read the first book as it's a children's classic and it's great, the netflix adaptation is also really good. But Anne grows up in each book and the second book onwards are more adult books. We see Anne go through lots of different situations and even though the book is set quite a while ago I can still relate to it. There's also lots of funny characters and Anne has a really positive outlook on life which is always uplifting to read. The aesthetic of your videos really reminds me of the vibe I've been getting from the Anne books. A very long recommendation but I'm really enjoying the books and hope you give them a go. Keep up the great videos I always look forward to the next one.

One of the only books I reread every year & always learn something new is called Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh. I acquired this copy that was a favorite of my deceased MIL. & as a nod to her I gifted this book to those who were with me when I eloped. Absolutely is one of the books I treasure THE most in my collection & I recommend it as a summer read, preferably annually 🥰

I think Radio Silence is gonna be one of my next reads, the way you talk about it makes me really want to read it 💕

Love the Tao of Pooh as well as its companion The Te of Piglet. "Watership Down" by Richard Adams is a book I reread every summer but still see new things in it all the time.

this was so relaxing to watch, I always love learning about the books that influenced other people, it's such a good way to find books I otherwise probably would never have considered reading! Thinking about the books that changed my life, I realised that it's not actually books I think are objectively good. In fact, there's often pretty big parts of them that I don't like! For example, Looking for Alaska definitely changed my life but I am 100% certain that I wouldn't enjoy it now and I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak which is the book I always recommend to everyone has an ending I don't like 😂

How can I LOVE the aesthetics of turning pages so much

okay, but what was the book you were flipping through? that looked really cool.

Your videos always make me feel like I've had a cosy time with a friend 💕

Omg yess finally! Ahh Leonie you are so beautiful! Everything about you is just so beautiful and amazing! Thank you for brightening everyone’s day! 💖

Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Kawaguchi! By the time I reread it, my grandma had unfortunately passed away and it hit different than the last time. It really helped me during the healing process

The book that changed my life for ever was The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruíz Zafón... I read it when I was a teenager almost 10 years ago and it changed my life forever, I also read it in the original language and it was perfect

ahh love your videos Leoni. Started watching you a while ago and you have resparked my love for reading. ❤

The Harry Potter books changed my entire brain chemistry when I was eight, but "Lord of the Rings" is what literally got me into English literature and now I'm set on getting my Master's degree lol

I read a book last year called A Ghost in the Throat - it's a mix of personal memoir and historical study as the author alternates between her current life as a mother and a brief look into her past, and also she is studying a woman in history called Eibhlin Dubh who wrote the Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire. It's a look at how women are remembered in history and also her own experiences as a woman and as a mother. It has so much beautiful writing in it, and I know at different stages of my life as a woman I will read this and identify with different things. Highly recommend!

I don't know if it has been translated to English, but "Allemaal willen we de hemel" by Els Beerten is a really special book to me.

Try...' The Last Lecture ' - Randy Pausch & ' What I talk about when I talk about running ' - Murakami

I don't think there's a book that's changed my life in a drastic way, but Arthur c Clarke has been a huge part of my life His work has always resonated with me the most and there's things from his book that have stuck with me ever since I first read them

Hi Leonie, could you share some of your favourite Dutch books? It would be great if it has translated ver. :)

This is also my favorite type of video! There are two major books that I can put under this category and that is Atlas Shrugged and House of Leaves.

I’ve been curious about sapiens and after hearing so many people talk about it I’ve decided I’m gonna take the dive and go for it ☺️ I’ve been wanting to get more into audiobooks but I never know where to start 😅

The fact that Leonie mentions Naruto make feel quite nostalgic all-of-sudden 😂

Yes to ‘Wings’ by Aprilynne Pike! That book got me into reading as well :D First time I heard it mentioned on a booktube channel!

I guess I really should get around to reading sapiens hahaha

😍😍😍 The Tao of Po is great, also go watch the Russian Winnie the Po cartoon, its focused on teaching children how to think and to think about their acts When it comes to Sapiens, the reduction of human constructs as just constructs doesn't remove their impact, value and reality. Honestly Sapiens seems like the poormans Schelers "Artefacts" and Heideggers "Sorge", just without any philosophical implication, wider context and explanation

Hello there, A New Earth, Facing Love Addictions, Women who Love too much, The Seat of the Soul, Thoughts from The Seat of the Soul and 20 Poemas de Amor y 1 Canción Desesperada (Neruda). :) 😀

Once I noticed that you always end your sentences on a high note, as if they were a question, I cannot unnotice it, I'm so sorry haha :D Lovely video! Love your recommendations.

I'm totally with you on vicious! A recent read that blew my mind in this way is Pet Sematary by Stephen King, it left me such an unexpected positive message about life and the inevitable occurrence of death although it is still a thriller book. I highly recommend it to those who have a hard time coping with grief. And I'll probably read something more human-positive like you said because I do find myself having a very fatalistic, tragic view of our times and society and I admit I'm very influenced my the media, tv, the news etc

This makes me think about all the books I used to read and re-read when I was much younger (something I stopped doing when I reached University level). Looking for Alaska by John Green held that special place in my heart for a long time, and now I would say it's Bloodchild by Octavia Butler!

Raymond Feist Magician book had the tutor let the apprentice figure out how to let his student discover magic on their own.. (The first person to create a craft didnt have a guidelines to follow they had to create them) Changed my outlook profoundly on being able to innovate new craft ideas. Goes along with my favorite latin quote: i will find a way or i will make one.

Love love loved this! Now I really want to pick up Humankune because it’s been on my shelf for ages now

I’ve never been this early holy shit. I still need to get my hands on Sapiens, and the uninhabitable earth sounds like something I’d really like to read! Amazing recommendations ❤️ also the “most of the time people are pretty ok with each other” finished me, that’s actually so true

I loved this video, and I’m so interested in reading The Uninhabitable Earth. From the top of my mind I can think of 2 books that have made an impact on my life: Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell, and Everyone’s a aliebn when ur a aliebn too by Jomnyy Sun. Vicious is such a great book! Oh also since I read Words in deep blue by Cath Crowley, I now write on my books which is something I never saw myself doing.

When you were talking about Humankind, it reminded me a bit of Factfulness! It shows that humanity isn't completely going to shit, but that there are a lot of things that already got better, because we, as humans, worked on it and made it better. I would really recommend it!

the perks of being a wallflower is that book that means something different to me every time i read it

Tao of Pooh 😭😭😭😭 SAME And Braiding Sweetgrass changed my life!!! And mushroom at the end of the world gave me pre-apocalypse hope

A book that recently changed my life is The Lord of the Rings - but in a way that would make me recommend that book. I hated the representation and lack of women so much, for the first time in my life I felt underrepresented because of my gender. Since then I'm veeery picky when it comes to sexism and female representation in the books I'm reading. And it has also become a topic that's been much more on my radar in general.

I know you're going to say the picture of dorian Gray. I KNOW

I clicked this video so fast my fingers are burning😂 Currently binging all of your videos and I love them

So excited about this video!! I clicked so fast lol Radio silence was definitely one of my best reads of january and honestly... it's such a great book. Alice Oseman can truly create a new world & characters and give you such a great perspective on things. Vicious by V.E Schwab as well.. that book was intense.

Twilight and the Hunger Games definitely changed my life. As a 20 year old adult, after loving Midnight Sun I reread Twilight and actually resonated with New Moon the 2nd time around. (The 1st time I thought her depression was dumb, I was 12 tho so). Twilight has also been very comforting during the pandemic, so it's changed my life for the better for sure. 😁🥰

The Famous Five got me into reading The Horla by Maupassant got me into reading short stories How I Live Now made me fall in love with YA and war stories

The Chaos Walking trilogy changed my life because it helped me rediscover my love for reading and gave me hope that things will get better.

The Throne of Glass series by SJM. She got me back into reading long epic fantasy series as an adult. I'm now reading Malazan and Wheel of Time.

Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom changed my outlook on life. It reminded me how lucky I am to simply exist, and it showed me the beauty in day to day life. :) 10/10

You are a beautiful human being and you should be proud of yourself. Greetings from a Romanian listener.

For me the most influential was Summerhill (A.S. Neil). Mainly because of what you mention with Humankind - it solidified my view that humans are good by default 😊 And I find the school's existance very inspirational!

Thank you for this video Leonie, it really made my day ♡

I hear so much about Radio Silence, I'm going to have to read it soon. After I get through my existing tbr.😅😅

Definitely going to buy that watch

What's the book called of which you keep turning pages from during clips?

I've recently discovered then and bought a bundle (more precisely I bought a bundle to my husband and he bought me one for our PhDs :D). Absolutely loooove them! :)

Another really good book on climate change that’s both realistic about the destruction but also hopeful about a way forward is Jason Hickel’s “Less Is More”. Can’t recommend it enough.

"Light a fire over my butt" this made me laugh lol. Also, I think that Sapiens is one of the best non-fiction books I've read too!💕

Please do a room tour!

The book that had the most impact on me in my personal life was becoming by Michelle Obama. I felt so empowered and reassured by it that it finally made me quite my job in an unhealthy environment (read black goo in nose and infertility and asmatic problems with lots of colleagues) where I was unhappy but earned a lot and getting my current job.

Dune and its anticlimax Dune Messias, by Frank Herbert, not for the prose but for the ideas , a winning combination of religion , ecology and politics

My favourite books all the time : the optimist creed by Christian de Larson, everything is fucked and the subtle art by mark Manson, the girl of dragon tattoo serie, fifty shades of grey made me know Thomas tallis chords music and teach me alot of things .

I love your wibes, we will meet someday I read but I read very less and selective content

I bought “The Uninhabitable Earth” because of you and I’ve yet to read it but I’m very excited too! Also do you have a goodreads?

Great video! Cute watches!

Okay but that watch is so nice o.O

hey gal are you doing a video for your reread of the Shadow and Bone series? 😊

I see Radio Silence, I click :)

I think Leonie would be the kind of person who can't be fooled by the Matrix.

I you like friends to enemys-storys i recommend you the movie "The Prestige" by Christopher Nolan, if you haven't watched it yet!

Sam's speech from the two towers is what changed my life Which apparently isn't in the books

At 5:34, does anyone know the program she is using or can you tell me it please. Its like old vintage footage. I like that

This video is so so good! It’s so nice to hear you talk ❤️❤️

Your face changed my life

lmao ik herriner toen ik 9 was dat mijn vader mij mijn eerste warrior cats boek gaf als cadea en ook de wilde kippen club ik heb dan de hele reeks uitgelezen van de beide boeken ,en ik hou gewoon van fantasie boeken ,nu merk ik wel dat ik een specifieke stijl heb (komt ook doordat ik heel veeeeel fanfction las lol, ) en ik las vroeger superveel boeken ,en dat is gewoon helaas gestopt door school en thuissituaties daarom dat ik naar fanfiction onsnaptte ,ik merk dat ik themas zoals goeie personages of neutrale personages ,dat op 1 of ander manier evil worden(zoals stiles stilinksi bijv in teenwolf) ma dan evil met een doordacht geldig reden en niet eenvoudig geschreven , ik klink heel confusing maar ik wou er blijven over praten van wat ik leuk vind ,recent ben ik op de booktube kant van youtube geraakt waarmee ik blij ben want zo heb ik goodreads ontdekt door jullie hier ,en nu heb ik meer keuzes om uit te kiezen ,boeken die ik vorig jaar las zijn bijv van rainbow rowell , good omens, en waarschinlijk nog wat anderen maar ik herriner die niet meer bc brain bad,sorry for mijn rant om 1 uur snachts woops :')

yes, radio silence made me realise what I actually want in life.

Could you make a content about sci-fi books recommendation

Twilight renaissance still going strong lmao

The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving. It was the first book to introduce me to real and lifelike lgbt characters.

"Homo Deus" and "Sapiens" are both great books, if you liked the second, I strongly recommend you to read the first as well!

Its pronounced dou-isim, I'm sorry if it's your accent and it's hard to adjust(I'm really sorry if so) but if it's not⬆️

I smiled when you mentioned naruto🧡

Comparing Vicious slightly to Naruto just made me add it to my TBR oops

Maybe you shouldn't push the book that says humanity is nice after the book that says humanity is so terrible isn't literally causing a mass extinct, destroying the plant and making everywhere less habitable.