Voluntary Simplicity: Toward a Way of Life That is Outwardly Simple, Inwardly Rich
10 best books like Voluntary Simplicity: Toward a Way of Life That is Outwardly Simple, Inwardly Rich (Duane Elgin): The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less, Soulful Simplicity: How Living with Less Can Lead to So Much More, The Complete Essays, The Story of Stuff: How Our Obsession with Stuff is Trashing the Planet, Our Communities, and our Health—and a Vision for Change, A Poetry Handbook, The Poetry Home Repair Manual: Practical Advice for Beginning Poets, Lightly: How to Live a Simple, Serene, and Stress-free Life, Your Money or Your Life, Goodbye, Things: The New Japanese Minimalism, Zero Waste Home: The Ultimate Guide to Simplifying Your Life by Reducing Your Waste
The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less
| Author | Barry Schwartz |
| ISBN | 0060005696 |
About the Book: The Paradox of Choice. In the spirit of Alvin Tofflers Future Shock, a social critique of our obsession with choice, and how it contributes to anxiety, dissatisfaction and regret. Whether we're buying a pair of jeans, ordering a cup of coffee, selecting a long-distance carrier, applying...
Soulful Simplicity: How Living with Less Can Lead to So Much More
| Author | Courtney Carver |
| ISBN | 0143130684 |
Courtney Carver shows us the power of simplicity to improve our health, build more meaningful relationships, and relieve stress in our professional and personal lives.
We are often on a quest for more--we give in to pressure every day to work more, own more, and do more. For Carver, this constant...
| Author | Michel de Montaigne |
| ISBN | 0140446044 |
Michel de Montaigne was one of the most influential figures of the Renaissance, singlehandedly responsible for popularising the essay as a literary form. This Penguin Classics edition of The Complete Essays is translated from the French and edited with an introduction and notes by M.A. Screech.
In...
The Story of Stuff: How Our Obsession with Stuff is Trashing the Planet, Our Communities, and our Health—and a Vision for Change
We have a problem with Stuff. With just 5 percent of the world's population, we're consuming 30 percent of the world's resources and creating 30 percent of the world's waste. If everyone consumed at U.S. rates, we would need three to five planets! This alarming fact drove Annie Leonard to create the Internet...
| Author | Mary Oliver |
| ISBN | 0156724006 |
A Poetry Handbook is something I wish I had read a lot earlier in my career as a student of literature, to say nothing of the tentative ventures I’ve made into writing poetry since I was young. A lot of people say this book is a good reiteration of things they learned in their college classes, but I sincerely...
| Author | Ted Kooser |
| ISBN | 0803259786 |
Ted Kooser has been writing and publishing poetry for more than forty years. In the pages of The Poetry Home Repair Manual, Kooser brings those decades of experience to bear. Here are tools and insights, the instructions (and warnings against instructions) that poets—aspiring or practicing—can...
Lightly: How to Live a Simple, Serene, and Stress-free Life
| Author | Francine Jay |
| ISBN | 1328585034 |
Life is weighing us down. Each day we add more possessions, more commitments, more worries, more stress to our lives. Striving for fulfillment, our closets become overstuffed, our calendars overscheduled, and our spirits overwhelmed. Instead of feeling happy, we just feel heavy.
Lightly offers...
| Author | Vicki Robin |
| ISBN | 0140286780 |
I could and will read and re-read this book, not for its literary value but for its simple explanations of concrete ways to observe your own connection with the material world. Whether or not you fully practice its program, it is the sanest and most convincing account of the importance of financial savvy...
Goodbye, Things: The New Japanese Minimalism
| Author | Fumio Sasaki |
| ISBN | 0393609030 |
Fumio Sasaki is not an enlightened minimalism expert; he’s just a regular guy who was stressed at work, insecure, and constantly comparing himself to others—until one day he decided to change his life by reducing his possessions to the bare minimum. The benefits were instantaneous and absolutely...
Zero Waste Home: The Ultimate Guide to Simplifying Your Life by Reducing Your Waste
| Author | Bea Johnson |
| ISBN | 1451697686 |
Part inspirational story of Bea Johnson (the “Priestess of Waste-Free Living”) and how she transformed her family’s life for the better by reducing their waste to an astonishing one liter per year; part practical, step-by-step guide that gives readers tools and tips to diminish their footprint...
| Author | Janet Luhrs |
| ISBN | 0553067966 |
Whether you are looking at small solutions for cutting down the stress in your life or taking the big leap toward the simpler life, this book can be your guide. Janet Luhrs, the nationally recognized founder and editor of the Simple Living Journal, brings together strategies, inspiration, resources,...
| Author | Jim Merkel |
| ISBN | 0865714738 |
Imagine you are first in line at a potluck buffet. The spread includes not just food and water, but all the materials needed for shelter, clothing, healthcare, and education. How do you know how much to take? How much is enough to leave for your neighbors behind you—not just the six billion people, but...
Make Your Place: Affordable, Sustainable Nesting Skills
| Author | Raleigh Briggs |
| ISBN | 0978866568 |
Raleigh Briggs teaches us how to craft a sustainable domestic life without relying on smelly, toxic, expensive consumer products. And it's not as hard as we may think! This hand written and drawn book of charming tutorials is both fun and accessible. It's full of simple skills that anyone can and should...
| Author | Anna Lappé |
| ISBN | 1596916591 |
Beyond what we already know about "food miles" and eating locally, the global food system is a major contributor to climate change, producing as much as one-third of greenhouse gas emissions. How we farm, what we eat, and how our food gets to the table all have an impact. And our government and the food...
| Author | Kalle Lasn |
| ISBN | 0688178057 |
America is no longer a country but a multimillion-dollar brand, says Kalle Lasn and his fellow "culture jammers". The founder of Adbusters magazine, Lasn aims to stop the branding of America by changing the way information flows; the way institutions wield power; the way television stations are run;...
Choosing Simplicity: Real People Finding Peace and Fulfillment in a Complex World
| Author | Linda Breen Pierce |
| ISBN | 0967206715 |
This ground breaking work goes beyond the books that tell you how to simplify your life. This book reveals what has happened in the lives of real people who have done it. Based on the author's three-year study of over 200 people from 40 states and eight countries, Choosing Simplicity is a delightful and...
How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius
| Author | Donald J. Robertson |
The life-changing principles of Stoicism taught through the story of its most famous proponent.
Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius was the final famous Stoic philosopher of the ancient world. The Meditations, his personal journal, survives to this day as one of the most loved self-help and spiritual...
Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic
| Author | John De Graaf |
| ISBN | 1576753573 |
affluenza, n. a painful, contagious, socially transmitted condition of overload, debt, anxiety, and waste resulting from the dogged pursuit of more.
We tried to warn you! The 2008 economic collapse proved how resilient and dangerous affluenza can be. Now in its third edition, this book...
The Overspent American: Why We Want What We Don't Need
| Author | Juliet B. Schor |
| ISBN | 0060977582 |
The Overspent American explores why so many of us feel materially dissatisfied, why we work staggeringly long hours and yet walk around with ever-present mental "wish lists" of things to buy or get, and why Americans save less than virtually anyone in the world. Unlike many experts, Harvard economist...
| Author | yung pueblo |
| ISBN | 1974607208 |
Thank you Andrews McMeel Publishing for providing an ARC in exchange for an honest review.
Reading this book feels personal as I look back to the lowest point in my life. All the painful feelings I had, as much as possible I keep them to myself. I endure my anger whenever I can and it's horrible....
Chakras Beyond Beginners: Awakening to the Power Within
| Author | David Pond |
| ISBN | 0738748595 |
Discover the path to your energetic core and bring each chakra into its full potential with Chakras Beyond Beginners. Building on concepts presented in Chakras for Beginners, David Pond takes you past basic understanding to explore the many ways chakras can enhance the flow of vital energy in all aspects...
I really enjoyed this book.
It is full of so much great advice that should be on the national curriculum for young adults prior to entering "the real world". It's the type of book that you wish you'd have read years ago - I certainly wish I'd had this in my arsenal 15 years ago, it would have saved me...
Super Mind: How to Boost Performance and Live a Richer and Happier Life Through Transcendental Meditation
| Author | Norman E. Rosenthal |
| ISBN | 0399174745 |
The noted research psychiatrist and New York Times-bestselling author explores how Transcendental Meditation permanently alters your daily consciousness, resulting in greater productivity, emotional resilience, and aptitude for success.
Most of us believe that we live in only three...
The Moneyless Manifesto Live Well. Live Rich. Live Free.
| Author | Mark Boyle |
| ISBN | 1856231011 |
That we need money to live – like it or not – is a self-evident truism. Right? Not anymore.
Drawing on almost three years of experience as The Moneyless Man, Mark Boyle not only demystifies money and the system that binds us to it, he also explains how liberating, easy and enjoyable it is to...
The Responsible Company: What We've Learned from Patagonia's First 40 Years
| Author | Yvon Chouinard |
| ISBN | 0980122783 |
The Responsible Company , by Yvon Chouinard, founder and owner of Patagonia, and Vincent Stanley, co-editor of its Footprint Chronicles, draw on the their 40 years' experience at Patagonia – and knowledge of current efforts by other companies – to articulate the elements of responsible business...
What a Time to Be Alone: The Slumflower's Guide to Why You Are Already Enough
| Author | Chidera Eggerue |
| ISBN | 1787132110 |
Sometimes it's not easy to find self-worth in a world that seems obsessed with telling us we're not good enough. Empowering, intimate and full of heart: this highly-anticipated debut book from the online sensation 'The Slumflower', aka Chidera Eggerue, the unstoppable force behind the ground-breaking...
Old Money, New Woman: How To Manage Your Money and Your Life
In ‘Old Money, New Woman’, author Byron Tully provides powerful insights and wit-soaked wisdom to help you make the most of your money and improve the quality of your life.Revealing 8 'Old Money Secrets' for women, the author shares time-tested tips and step-by-step strategies used by the women...
Playing with FIRE (Financial Independence Retire Early): How Far Would You Go for Financial Freedom?
| Author | Scott Rieckens |
| ISBN | 1608685802 |
What if a happier life was only a few simple choices away?
A successful entrepreneur living in Southern California, Scott Rieckens had built a “dream life”: a happy marriage, a two-year-old daughter, a membership to a boat club, and a BMW in the driveway. But underneath the surface, Scott...
| Author | Ken Cohen |
| ISBN | 1591792940 |
One of the West's few ordained Taoist priests introduces you to this ancient philosophy for effortless living on Taoism: Essential Teachings of the Way and Its Power. In easy-to-follow language, Ken Cohen reveals Lao Tzu's vast spiritual legacy, including: origins, philosophy, and religion; keys...
