The Best Books to Pack for Spring Break: Our Team’s Top Picks
- neissa@igniteyourlifenow.
- Feb 27
- 7 min read
Spring break is right around the corner, which means it's the perfect time to start planning not just your travel itinerary but also your reading list! Whether you're heading to the beach, the mountains, or simply enjoying a staycation, a great book can be the perfect companion. Our team has rounded up our favorite recent reads—books that have inspired, entertained, and kept us turning the pages. So, if you’re looking for your next great escape through the power of words, we've got you covered!
Our Team's Best Book List
We've rounded up a list of must-reads that are perfect for relaxing and unwinding. No matter where your travels take you, these best books will keep you entertained, inspired, and immersed in a great story. Check out our favorites:
The Woman by Kristin Hannah
"From the celebrated author of The Nightingale and The Four Winds comes Kristin Hannah's The Women―at once an intimate portrait of coming of age in a dangerous time and an epic tale of a nation divided."
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Good Energy by Casey Means, MD
"What if depression, anxiety, infertility, insomnia, heart disease, erectile dysfunction, type 2 diabetes, Alzheimer’s, dementia, cancer and many other health conditions that torture and shorten our lives actually have the same root cause? This book is a A bold new vision for optimizing our health now and in the future"
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The One Year Love Language Minute Devotional by Gary Chapman
"The Love Languages Devotional by Gary Chapman (author of the New York Times bestseller The 5 Love Languages) is the Christian couple’s daily guide on how to express heartfelt love to your husband or wife."
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The Longevity Formula by Avanti Kumar-Singh
"Esteemed Ayurvedic practitioner Dr. Avanti Kumar-Singh invites us to reframe our approach to aging through The Longevity Formula―boosting longevity by reducing inflammation and increasing cellular repair. This approach to increasing our health span isn’t complicated, and it doesn’t require expensive tests or procedures. Instead, it offers simple, science-backed practices based in the time-honored tradition of Ayurveda."
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The Marvelous Pigness of Pigs: Respecting and Caring for All God's Creation by Joel Salatin
"As a man of deep faith and student of the Bible, and as a respected and successful ecological family farmer, Joel Salatin knows that God created heaven and earth and meant for all living organisms to be true to their nature and their endowed holy purpose. He intended for us to respect and care for His gift of creation, not to ravage and mistreat it for our own pleasure or wealth."
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Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestro
"There is nothing more essential to our health and well-being than breathing: take air in, let it out, repeat twenty-five thousand times a day. Yet, as a species, humans have lost the ability to breathe correctly, with grave consequences. Journalist James Nestor travels the world to figure out what went wrong and how to fix it."
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The 5AM Club: Own Your Morning. Elevate Your Life by Robin Sharma
"Based on the key insight that winning starts at the beginning of the day, Sharma shows how you can reduce stress, improve focus, unleash uncommon creativity, achieve exponential productivity and restore balance.
Just one hour a day can change your life."
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I've Been Thinking . .: Reflections, Prayers, and Meditations for a Meaningful Life by Maria Shriver
"As a prominent woman juggling many roles, Maria Shriver knows just how surprising, unpredictable, and stressful everyday life can be. In this moving and powerful book, she shares inspiring quotes, prayers, and reflections designed to get readers thinking, get them feeling, get them laughing, and help them in their journey to what she calls The Open Field--a place of acceptance, purpose, and passion--a place of joy."
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The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom
"In darkness God's truth shines most clear. Corrie ten Boom was the first licensed female watchmaker in the Netherlands who became a heroine of the Resistance, a survivor of Hitler's concentration camps, and one of the most remarkable ministers of hope in the twentieth century"
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The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself by Deepok Chopra
"Whether this is your first exploration of inner space, or you’ve devoted your life to the inward journey, this book will transform your relationship with yourself and the world around you. You’ll discover what you can do to put an end to the habitual thoughts and emotions that limit your consciousness."
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The 5 Resets: Rewire Your Brain and Body for Less Stress and More Resilience by Dr. Aditi Nerurkar M.D.
"Dr. Nerurkar illuminates why our everyday attempts at being “resilient”—like multitasking, sleeping less, and undergoing huge lifestyle overhauls—aren’t beneficial to our stressed brains. Instead, she prescribes practical, real-world solutions for our modern-day perils that are time efficient, cost-free, and can be applied to anyone’s life"
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Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carl S. Dweck
"After decades of research, world-renowned Stanford University psychologist Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D., discovered a simple but groundbreaking idea: the power of mindset. In this brilliant book, she shows how success in school, work, sports, the arts, and almost every area of human endeavor can be dramatically influenced by how we think about our talents and abilities"
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The Gift of the Red Bird: The Story of a Divine Encounter by Paula D'Arcy
"When Paula D'Arcy lost her husband and baby in a car crash, she began an inner search for a faith that was stronger than fear. She tells her story of spiritual exhaustion, her journey alone into the wilderness for three days, and the renewal she was blessed to experience."
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The Big Leap: A Guide to Transcending Personal Limits by Gay Hendricks
"With over 100,000 copies sold, New York Times bestselling author Gay Hendricks demonstrates how to go beyond your internal limits, release outdated fears and learn a whole new set of powerful skills and habits to liberate your authentic greatness. Fans of Wayne Dyer, Eckhart Tolle, Marianne Williamson, and Gabrielle Bernstein will discover the way to break down the walls to a better life."
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Lost Connections by Johann Hari
"There was a mystery haunting award-winning investigative journalist Johann Hari. He was thirty-nine years old, and almost every year he had been alive, depression and anxiety had increased in Britain and across the Western world. Why? he went on a forty-thousand-mile journey across the world to interview the leading experts about what causes depression and anxiety, and what solves them. He learned there is scientific evidence for nine different causes of depression and anxiety-and that this knowledge leads to a very different set of solutions: ones that offer real hope."
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Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth
The daughter of a scientist who frequently noted her lack of “genius,” Angela Duckworth is now a celebrated researcher and professor. It was her early eye-opening stints in teaching, business consulting, and neuroscience that led to her hypothesis about what really drives success: not genius, but a unique combination of passion and long-term perseverance.
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Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds by David Goggins
"For David Goggins, childhood was a nightmare - poverty, prejudice, and physical abuse colored his days and haunted his nights. But through self-discipline, mental toughness, and hard work, Goggins transformed himself from a depressed, overweight young man with no future into a U.S. Armed Forces icon and one of the world's top endurance athletes."
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The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk M.D
"In The Body Keeps the Score, Dr. Kolk uses recent scientific advances to show how trauma literally reshapes both body and brain, compromising sufferers’ capacities for pleasure, engagement, self-control, and trust. He explores innovative treatments—from neurofeedback and meditation to sports, drama, and yoga—that offer new paths to recovery by activating the brain’s natural neuroplasticity."
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Horse by Geraldine Brooks
"Kentucky, 1850. An enslaved groom named Jarret and a bay foal forge a bond of understanding that will carry the horse to record-setting victories across the South. When the nation erupts in civil war, an itinerant young artist who has made his name on paintings of the racehorse takes up arms for the Union. On a perilous night, he reunites with the stallion and his groom, very far from the glamor of any racetrack."
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If You Want to Walk on Water, You've Got to Get Out of the Boat: 10 Lessons to Trusting God by John Ortberg
"Deep within you lies the same faith and longing that sent Peter walking across the wind-swept Sea of Galilee toward Jesus. In what ways is the Lord telling you, as he did Peter, "Come"? Out on the risky waters of faith, Jesus is waiting to meet you in ways that will change you forever, deepening your character and your trust in God. The experience is terrifying. It's thrilling beyond belief. It's everything you'd expect of someone worthy to be called Lord."
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Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again by Johann Hari
"In the United States, teenagers can focus on one task for only sixty-five seconds at a time, and office workers average only three minutes. Like so many of us, Johann Hari was finding that constantly switching from device to device and tab to tab was a diminishing and depressing way to live. He tried all sorts of self-help solutions—even abandoning his phone for three months—but nothing seemed to work. So Hari went on an epic journey across the world to interview the leading experts on human attention—and he discovered that everything we think we know about this crisis is wrong."
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No matter where your spring break adventures take you, a good book can make the journey even more memorable. We hope this list gives you some inspiration for your next page-turner! If you have a favorite book recommendation, we’d love to hear it—drop it in the comments and share the literary love. Happy reading and happy travels!