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12 books with a reading profile close to The Fifth Mountain by Paulo Coelho. Thought-provoking; an easy read.

  1. 1 The Valkyries

    The Valkyries

    by Paulo Coelho

    inspirational, narrative

    Paulo Coelho describes forty days he and his wife Chris spent in the Mojave Desert in 1986, hoping to reach his guardian angel.

  2. 2 The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

    The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

    by Kate DiCamillo

    Also thought-provoking · inspirational, narrative

    Edward Tulane is a china rabbit with an expansive wardrobe of silk suits and a pocket watch, living with a girl named Abilene.

  3. 3 Hippie

    Hippie

    by Paulo Coelho

    inspirational, narrative

    Drawing from his own youth, Paulo Coelho recounts the experiences of Paulo, a young man with long hair seeking deeper meaning beyond the mainstream culture of 1970.

  4. 4 The Travelling Cat Chronicles

    The Travelling Cat Chronicles

    by Hiro Arikawa

    Also thought-provoking · inspirational, narrative

    The story follows Nana, a former stray cat with a hooked tail, and his owner, Satoru, as they drive across Japan in a silver van.

  5. 5 The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot

    The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot

    by Marianne Cronin

    inspirational, narrative

    In a Glasgow hospital terminal ward, seventeen-year-old Lenni Pettersson meets Margot Macrae, an eighty-three-year-old woman awaiting heart surgery.

  6. 6 And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer

    And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer

    by Fredrik Backman

    Also thought-provoking · inspirational, narrative

    An aging mathematician sits on a park bench that exists inside his mind, struggling to retain his memories as dementia begins to erase his world.

  7. 7 Sea Prayer

    Sea Prayer

    by Khaled Hosseini

    inspirational, narrative

    Written as a letter from a father to his sleeping son, this short narrative poem describes a family waiting on a dark beach to board a boat.

  8. 8 THEO OF GOLDEN

    THEO OF GOLDEN

    by Allen Levi

    inspirational, narrative

    Theo enters the quiet town of Golden with a specific, unusual mission.

  9. 9 The Girl with the Louding Voice

    The Girl with the Louding Voice

    by Abi Daré

    inspirational, narrative

    Fourteen-year-old Adunni lives in a rural Nigerian village where her father sells her into marriage to a local polygamist to pay the rent.

  10. 10 The Seed Keeper

    The Seed Keeper

    by Diane Wilson

    Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary

    Rosalie Iron Wing grows up learning the traditional Dakhóta methods of gathering and preserving seeds from her father in the woods of Minnesota.

  11. 11 The Stranger in the Lifeboat

    The Stranger in the Lifeboat

    by Mitch Albom

    inspirational, narrative

    After a luxury yacht explodes in the Atlantic Ocean, ten survivors crowd into a small life raft, battling thirst, hunger, and hopelessness.

  12. 12 The Space Between Us

    The Space Between Us

    by Thrity Umrigar

    narrative, literary

    Sera Dubash is a Parsi woman in Mumbai who has employed Bhima as a maid for over twenty years.

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