Don’t know what to read? Thanks to this guide, written by an Instagram star, you’ll never run out of ideas again

There are many of them on the web, whether they come from literary magazines, from writers themselves (like Stephen King and the 10 best novels of the century according to him!) or from enthusiasts: lists of Books to have read at least once times in his life! If Michel Bussi was particularly marked by The Little Princewhich even inspired one of his successes, or Maxime Chattam by The Night of Times of Barjavel to whom his novel Luxis a wink, some readers rather want to discover contemporary novels, far from the great classics studied in particular at school! And that’s good because, in the guide 100 life-changing bookswritten by Maïté Defives, the oldest work dates back to 1939: Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier. The majority of books presented alongside it were published from the 2000s and especially 2020.

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“100 Life-Changing Books” is a guide to finding inspiration

Does the name Maïté Defives mean anything to you? It’s normal: the woman who today makes her living as a literary influencer works on social networks under the pseudonym MademoiselleLit. On Instagram, his account is followed by more than 100,000 subscribers who can discover his latest literary reviews or his meetings with authors. As she explains in the preamble to her guide, it is a novel by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Mr. Ibrahim and the flowers of the Koranwhich changed her life ten years ago, making her a compulsive reader but sometimes struggling to find which book to pick up. “ If I wanted to write this work, it is to in turn offer an inspiring tool “, she explains.

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“100 books that change lives”: reading for everyone, without fuss

Classified by themes and sub-themes, such as “Social Issues” then “A Book to Question Your Identity”, the hundred books presented in this guide give pride of place to many popular successes that you have surely heard of. On the program: My husband of Maud Ventura The Literary Circle of Potato Peeling Lovers d’Annie Barrows et Mary Ann Shaffer,The Unknown Portraitby Camille de Peretti, The Anomalyby Hervé Le Tellier,sad tiger de Neige Sinno or even Witches by Mona Chollet. But that’s not all: 100 life-changing books can be annotated like a reading notebook. Before, why not, being forwarded to another reader close to you!