13 Inspirational Books For Young Women To Read

Be Free. Be You. is all about the journey to wholeness and happiness through loving and embracing the real you. With humor, empathy, and honesty, Achea Redd takes you through the ups and downs of her own life and uses her story to show you the path to self-love and authenticity. Let this book be your guide to finding happiness in the person you really are.

We’ve always been told to follow our dreams, but what happens when those dreams aren’t working out? Divorce? Infertility? Loss of a job or a loved one? We quickly learn that often times those plans don’t work out and we run into dead ends along the paths we work so hard to create for ourselves.

Follow Your Detour is a book about just that! It shares the author, Lindsay’s, own journey of loss and how she embraced the most difficult dead end in her life as a detour. The concept of a detour is critical in life. Understanding that sometimes detours end up leading us on journeys better than we could have imagined or planned for ourselves helps us find purpose in our pain and faith in the future.

No matter what you’re going through, this book will help you find the courage to accept it, overcome your fears of uncertainty, and push forward towards finding the real you and discovering the greatness that’s out there waiting for you. All you have to do is follow that detour!

As we look to be the best in our career fields, relationships, and lives, the book challenges readers to think about the whys and hows of where we are—are we letting doubt and hesitation stand in the way or do we have enough faith in the unknown to take a leap? What are we sacrificing? Do we really take the time to think of the costs? The book asks us to reflect on what we’re doing with the one life we’ve been gifted, and the ways people we encounter along the way play a role in who we become.

The book chronicles the life of Olivia Jones, whose life takes a devastating turn at 15 years old, destroying her faith in God. She feels that she is God’s victim, and that she has been deceived by His love. Plagued with the pain of her past, and bound by the brokenness of those closest to her, Olivia finds herself in an unending cycle of crisis that shatters her already feeble world. Out of desperation, Olivia makes a decision that changes the rest of her life – she decides to walk through her pain.

I really expected very little when I saw the colorful cover; I thought it would be fluff regurgitated from the 100s of other books I’ve read. Not so! Singh has a really relatable voice, and like I said: more than one good idea. Here’s what stuck out to me: Singh’s practice of recording what stress she encountered through the day and looking for solutions to prevent the same stressers from popping up again, digging into the layers of an attitude to understand where it originated in your life, and wonderful real-life examples of how she deals with her team and tackles big creative projects.

Whether a woman wants to start her own YouTube empire, grow a different business, or be a star in corporate, there are lots of good ideas for her in this book.

And there was. An exciting job teaching at a prestigious school in China. Grasping on to the fierce determination she’d had since childhood, Lori found herself in Guangzhou, China, where she fell in love with the culture and with a man from a tiny town in Hubei province. What followed was a transformative adventure―one that will inspire readers to use the bitter to make life even sweeter.