7 Best philosophy books like How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain de Botton

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How Proust Can Change Your Life

By: Alain de Botton

3.76

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

For anyone who ever wondered what Marcel Proust had in mind when he wrote the one-and-a-quarter-mil…

"Deprivation quickly drives us into a process of appreciation."

-Alain de Botton, How Proust Can Change Your Life

"It is, unfortunately, easier to lose a lover than complete In Search of Lost Time. "

-Alain de Botton, How Proust Can Change Your Life

"One cannot read a novel without ascribing to the heroine the traits of the one we love."

-Alain de Botton, How Proust Can Change Your Life

"For Proust, an injection of jealousy is the only thing capable of rescuing a relationship ruined by habit."

-Alain de Botton, How Proust Can Change Your Life

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1. Marcel Proust's Search for Lost Time: A Reader's Guide to The Remembrance of Things Past

By: Patrick Alexander

4.07

Format: 385 pages, Paperback

An accessible, irreverent guide to one of the most admired—and entertaining—novels of the past Rem… read more

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  • literature
  • nonfiction
  • books about books
  • literary criticism
"Those of us of a certain age will recognize the shock that Marcel felt when he entered the main salon and saw his fellow guests for the first time after the passage of years. At first he thought it w…"

-Patrick Alexander, Marcel Proust's Search for Lost Time: A Reader's Guide to The Remembrance of Things Past

Cover of The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust, Christopher Prendergast, Mark Treharne

2. The Guermantes Way

By: Marcel Proust , Christopher Prendergast , Mark Treharne

4.27

Format: 619 pages, Paperback

After the relative intimacy of the first two volumes of In Search of Lost Time, The Guermantes Way … read more

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  • literature
  • philosophy
"She was not yet dead. But I was already alone."

-Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way

"و خواندن کتاب تو را خوش می‌آید، چون تخیل با توست"

-Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way

"گاهی آدم چیزهای دور را بهتر از چیزهای نزدیک می‌شناسد"

-Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way

"You're as strong as the Pont Neuf. You'll live to bury us all!"

-Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way

Cover of Albertine disparue (À la recherche du temps perdu, #6) by Marcel Proust

3. Albertine disparue (À la recherche du temps perdu, #6)

By: Marcel Proust

3.40

Format: 300 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Albertine disparueest le dernier volume revu et remanie par Proust avant sa mort. Prevu d'abord sou… read more

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  • literature
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4. In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (In Search of Lost Time, #2)

By: Marcel Proust , Christopher Prendergast , James Grieve

4.35

Format: 26 pages, Paperback

In the Shadow of Young Girls in Floweris Proust's spectacular dissection of male and female adolesc… read more

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  • literature
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5. Trên Đường Băng

By: Tony Buổi Sáng

3.77

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Khi con tre, hay ra ngoai nhieu hon o nha. Hay nhao vo xin nguoi khac "boc het, lot sach" kha nang… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • self help
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6. What You Can Change and What You Can't: The Complete Guide to Successful Self-Improvement

By: Martin E.P. Seligman

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

In the climate of self-improvement that pervades our culture, there is an overwhelming amount of in… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
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7. Great Thinkers: Simple Tools from 60 Great Thinkers to Improve Your Life Today

By: The School of Life

5.00

Format: 384 pages,

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  • biography
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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8. The Wisdom of No Escape: How to Love Yourself and Your World

By: Pema Chödrön

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

It's true, as they say, that we can only love others when we first love ourselves and we can only e… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
Cover of Time Regained (In Search of Lost Time, #7) by Marcel Proust, Terence Kilmartin, D.J. Enright, Andreas Mayor

9. Time Regained (In Search of Lost Time, #7)

By: Marcel Proust , Terence Kilmartin , D.J. Enright , Andreas Mayor

3.70

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

The final volume of In Search of Lost Time chronicles the years of World War I, when, as M. de Char… read more

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  • literature
Cover of Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1) by Marcel Proust, Simon Vance, Lydia Davis

10. Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

By: Marcel Proust , Simon Vance , Lydia Davis

4.15

Format: 710 pages, Mass Market Paperback

«Et tout d'un coup le souvenir m'est apparu. Ce goût, c'était celui du petit morceau de madeleine q… read more

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  • literature
  • psychology
"Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure."

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

"the comfort of reclusion, the poetry of hibernation"

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

"Now are the woods all black, But still the sky is blue."

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

"Fall in love with a dog's bum, And thou'll think it pretty as a plum."

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

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11. How Proust Can Change Your Life

By: Alain de Botton

3.76

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

For anyone who ever wondered what Marcel Proust had in mind when he wrote the one-and-a-quarter-mil… read more

Similar categories in Alain de Botton's How Proust Can Change Your Life book and Alain de Botton's How Proust Can Change Your Life

  • self help
  • biography
  • literature
  • humor
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • books about books
  • literary criticism
"Deprivation quickly drives us into a process of appreciation."

-Alain de Botton, How Proust Can Change Your Life

"It is, unfortunately, easier to lose a lover than complete In Search of Lost Time. "

-Alain de Botton, How Proust Can Change Your Life

"One cannot read a novel without ascribing to the heroine the traits of the one we love."

-Alain de Botton, How Proust Can Change Your Life

"For Proust, an injection of jealousy is the only thing capable of rescuing a relationship ruined by habit."

-Alain de Botton, How Proust Can Change Your Life

12. Monsieur Proust

By: Barbara Bray , André Aciman , Céleste Albaret

2.83

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Celeste Albaret was Marcel Proust's housekeeper in his last years, when he retreated from the world… read more

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13. Pleasures and Days

By: Marcel Proust , A.N. Wilson

3.85

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

A stunning volume of philosophical reflections, short narratives, and prose poems, Pleasures and Da… read more

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  • literature
  • philosophy
  • essays
"آموخت که آدم به غیبت عادت می­کند و این عادت به نبودن عزیزان از نبودنشان ناگوارتر است."

-Marcel Proust, Pleasures and Days

"Es mejor soñar una vida que vivirla, aunque vivirla siga siendo soñarla, pero menos misteriosamente y con menos claridad a la vez, con un sueño oscuro y pesado, similar al sueño disperso en la débil …"

-Marcel Proust, Pleasures and Days

14. The Memory Book: The Classic Guide to Improving Your Memory at Work, at School, and at Play

By: Harry Lorayne , Jerry Lucas

3.86

Format: None pages, Paperback

Unleash the hidden power of your mind through Harry Lorayne and Jerry Lucas's simple, fail-safe mem… read more

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15. Wishcraft: How to Get What You Really Want

By: Barbara Sher , Annie Gottlieb

4.00

Format: 258 pages,

The impossible dream is no longer impossible with this innovative source book to career changing an… read more

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16. Throw Out Fifty Things: Clear the Clutter, Find Your Life

By: Gail Blanke

3.53

Format: 349 pages, Hardcover

"Our lives are so filled with junk from the past-from dried up tubes of glue to old grudges-that it… read more

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17. ADD-Friendly Ways to Organize Your Life

By: Judith Kolberg , Kathleen G. Nadeau

4.49

Format: 563 pages, Paperback

A professional organizer and a renowned ADD clinician join forces to present this guide that addres… read more

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18. Triumph: Life on the Other Side of Trials, Transplants, Transition and Transformation

By: Gregory S. Works

4.26

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Don’t let family history set the course for your future. Triumph was strategically designed to help… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • psychology
  • self help
"Choose joy."

-Gregory S. Works, Triumph: Life on the Other Side of Trials, Transplants, Transition and Transformation

"Be okay with having health-essential boundaries."

-Gregory S. Works, Triumph: Life on the Other Side of Trials, Transplants, Transition and Transformation

"God has been there with us every step of the way."

-Gregory S. Works, Triumph: Life on the Other Side of Trials, Transplants, Transition and Transformation

"Find people who are fighting the same illness that you are."

-Gregory S. Works, Triumph: Life on the Other Side of Trials, Transplants, Transition and Transformation

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19. Lost Time: Lectures on Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp

By: Józef Czapski

4.07

Format: 107 pages, Kindle Edition

During the Second World War, as a prisoner of war in a Soviet camp, and with nothing but memory to … read more

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  • literature
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • literary criticism
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20. AI Doctor: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare - A Guide for Users, Buyers, Builders, and Investors

By: Ronald M. Razmi

4.28

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Explores the transformative impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the healthcare industry AI … read more

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  • nonfiction
"It’s true that AI can mimic the human brain, but it can also outperform us mere humans by discovering complex patterns that no human being could ever process and identify."

-Ronald M. Razmi, AI Doctor: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare - A Guide for Users, Buyers, Builders, and Investors

"In short, physicians are getting more and more data, which requires more sophisticated interpretation and which takes more time. AI is the solution, enhancing every stage of patient care from researc…"

-Ronald M. Razmi, AI Doctor: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare - A Guide for Users, Buyers, Builders, and Investors

"Pilots used to fly planes manually, but now they operate a dashboard with the help of computers. This has made flying safer and improved the industry. Healthcare can benefit from the same type of app…"

-Ronald M. Razmi, AI Doctor: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare - A Guide for Users, Buyers, Builders, and Investors

"It’s estimated that AI could free up to 25% of clinician time across different specialties. This increased amount of time could mean less hurried encounters and more humane interactions, including mo…"

-Ronald M. Razmi, AI Doctor: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare - A Guide for Users, Buyers, Builders, and Investors

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21. Varieties of Melancholy: A Hopeful Guide to Our Sombre Moods

By: The School of Life

3.94

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

This is a book that celebrates the most neglected but valuable emotion we can melancholy. Melancho… read more

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9 Best literature books like How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain de Botton

Transform Your Habits

Marcel Proust's Search for Lost Time: A Reader's Guide to The Remembrance of Things Past

Patrick Alexander

4.07

Transform Your Habits

The Guermantes Way

Marcel Proust , Christopher Prendergast , Mark Treharne

4.27

Transform Your Habits

Albertine disparue (À la recherche du temps perdu, #6)

Marcel Proust

3.40

Transform Your Habits

In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (In Search of Lost Time, #2)

Marcel Proust , Christopher Prendergast , James Grieve

4.35

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5 best-selling philosophy books like The Wisdom of No Escape: How to Love Yourself and Your World by Pema Chödrön

Transform Your Habits

Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness (Shambhala Library)

Sharon Salzberg , Jon Kabat-Zinn

4.20

Transform Your Habits

Being Peace (Being Peace, #1)

Thich Nhat Hanh , Arnold Kotler

3.66

Transform Your Habits

The Wisdom of No Escape: How to Love Yourself and Your World

Pema Chödrön

5.00

Transform Your Habits

Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness

Jon Kabat-Zinn

4.15

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