12 book tips to give away at Amigo Secreto in 2022

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

At 35 years old, Nora Seed is a woman full of talents and few achievements. Regretting the choices she made in the past, she keeps asking herself what could have happened if she had lived differently. After being fired and her cat being run over, Nora sees little point in her existence and decides to put an end to it all. But when she finds herself in the Midnight Library, Nora is given a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to live all the lives she could have lived.

In this place between life and death, and thanks to the help of an old friend, Nora can finally move to Australia, rekindle old relationships – or start new ones -, be a rock star, a glaciologist, an Olympic swimmer … anyway, the options are endless. But are any of those other lives really better than the one she already has?

In The Midnight Library, Nora Seed finds herself in exactly the situation we all wish we could go through: going back in time and undoing something we regret. Faced with this possibility, Nora takes an inner dive, traveling through the books of the Midnight Library until she understands what is truly important in life and what makes it, in fact, worth living.

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In Search of Me by Viola Davis

Finding Me tells my story, from a ramshackle apartment in Central Falls, Rhode Island, to the stages of New York and beyond. This is the path I took in search of purpose and strength, but also to make myself heard in a world that didn’t understand me.

As I was writing Finding Me, I thought about how our stories don’t always get the attention they deserve. They are reinvented to fit into a crazy, competitive and critical world. I wrote this book for those who feel left out, who are looking for a way to understand and overcome a complicated past and find self-acceptance in place of shame.

I wrote it for those who need to be reminded that life is only worth living if we face it with radical honesty and the courage to drop the masks and just be… you.

In search of me is a deep reflection, a promise and a declaration of love to myself. I hope my story inspires you to creatively revolutionize your life and rediscover who you were before the world tried to define you.

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In Search of Ourselves, by Clóvis de Barros Filho and Pedro Calabrez

“In Search of Ourselves” is a small and pleasant journey through the history of the evolution of thought and human knowledge. The informal dialogue between Clóvis de Barros Filho and Pedro Calabrez presents answers from philosophy (with the ideas of Aristotle, Plato and Spinoza, among others) and from the sciences of the mind (psychology and neurosciences) ― and encourages the reader to reach their own conclusions . Clóvis and Calabrez bring philosophy and science closer together, revealing the complementarity of these visions. And both approach the reader with a relaxed and accessible text.

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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Legendary Hollywood star Evelyn Hugo has always been in the spotlight – whether starring in an Oscar-winning production, starring in a scandal or appearing with a new husband… for the seventh time. Now, about to turn eighty and reclusive in her apartment on the Upper East Side, the famous actress decides to tell her own story ― or her “true story” ―, but on one condition: that Monique Grant, a novice and hitherto unknown journalist, be the interviewer. By embarking on this mysterious endeavor, the young reporter begins to realize that nothing is by chance ― and that their trajectories may be deeply and irreversibly connected.

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Why Do We Do What We Do?, by Mario Sergio Cortella

Did you hit that laziness to go to the office on Monday? Has lack of time become a constant? Is the routine taking away the pleasure in everyday life? Are you in doubt about what your real purpose in life is? Philosopher and writer Mario Sergio Cortella unveils in Why do we do what we do? main concerns about work. Divided into twenty chapters, it addresses issues such as the importance of having a purposeful life, motivation in difficult times, values ​​and loyalty to yourself and your job.

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How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt

Traditional democracies collapsing? This is the question that Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt – two distinguished Harvard professors – answer when discussing how the election of Donald Trump became possible. A public and critical success in the United States and Europe, this is a fundamental work for the troubled times we are experiencing in Brazil and in much of the world, and an indispensable guide for maintaining and recovering threatened democracies.

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A Place Far Far From Here, by Delia Owens

At once an ode to nature, a gripping education novel and a surprising mystery story, “A Place Far Away From Here” reminds us that we are shaped by the child we once were and that we are all subject to the beauty and violence of the secrets we once held. nature guards. The work was included in the book club of Reese Witherspoon, who later became a producer of the film adaptation.

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Crooked Plow, by Itamar Vieira Junior

An epic and lyrical, realistic and magical text that reveals, beyond its plot, a powerful element of social insubordination. In the depths of the Bahian hinterland, the sisters Bibiana and Belonísia find an old and mysterious knife in the suitcase kept under their grandmother’s bed. Then an accident occurs. And forever their lives will be linked – to the point where one needs to be the voice of the other. In a plot conducted with mastery and melodious prose, the novel tells a story of life and death, of combat and redemption.

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The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason

With more than two million copies sold worldwide, “The Richest Man in Babylon” is a classic on how to multiply wealth and solve financial problems. Based on the success secrets of the ancient Babylonians ― the inhabitants of the richest and most prosperous city of their time ―, George S. Clason shows both wise and very current solutions to avoid the lack of money, how not to waste resources during times of opulence, seek knowledge and information instead of just profit, ensure an income for the future, maintain punctuality in paying debts and, above all, cultivate one’s skills, becoming increasingly skilled and aware.

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The Lost Daughter, by Elena Ferrante

The third novel by the author who became famous for her Neapolitan Tetralogy is centered on the conflicting feelings of Leda, a middle-aged university professor, who in the film adaptation is played by Oscar winner Olivia Colman. Relieved after the grown daughters move to Canada with their father, Leda decides to take a vacation on the southern coast of Italy. In the first days on the beach, she meets Nina (Dakota Johnson) and her little daughter, Elena, and becomes obsessed with both. The proximity to the young mother triggers a flood of memories from Leda’s own life and evokes secrets that she was never able to reveal to anyone.

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This Is How It Ends by Colleen Hoover

Considered the book of the year, which became a fever on TikTok and alone has accumulated more than a million copies sold in Brazil. “That’s How It Ends” is the most personal novel of Colleen Hoover’s career, discussing topics such as domestic violence and psychological abuse in a sensitive and direct way.

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