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The Little Book of Lykke: The Danish Search for the World's Happiest People
Meik Wiking
3.93 AVERAGE
465 reviews for:
The Little Book of Lykke: The Danish Search for the World's Happiest People
Meik Wiking
3.93 AVERAGE
informative
reflective
fast-paced
hopeful
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
What a wonderful little book! Wiking does a great job of giving clear data and offering inspiring suggestions. It wasn't too heavy handed with the science but very accessible. One of the better books on happiness I've read.
hopeful
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inspiring
reflective
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funny
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relaxing
fast-paced
This was a real joy to read. He even managed to find a good story about cake! Even though this is nonfiction, it explains the desperate need for fiction, especially literary fiction, to the wellbeing of humanity. Definitely worth reading in 2025 America. Seriously, this is a cheery, encouraging, and engaging explanation of everything we’re getting wrong and how to fix it. It even includes the morning he woke up expecting to read about America’s first female president and woke up feeling horrible for America. It’s so fitting.
While I didn't love this one as much as The Little Book of Hygge, it wasn't all that far behind. It is another light, funny, charming, and practical look at what makes a happy life.
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
relaxing
medium-paced
very much enjoyed this book.
am looking to slow life down, reduce screen time, encourage mobility, engage community members with friendliness, and overall greater engagement with friends and loved ones.
data driven with good examples through story.
am looking to slow life down, reduce screen time, encourage mobility, engage community members with friendliness, and overall greater engagement with friends and loved ones.
data driven with good examples through story.
definitely meant to be a coffee table book where anyone can open it up to any page and get some bite sized niche info in an aesthetically pleasing manner but reading it like a book didn’t do much for me…what they suggested wasn’t groundbreaking by any means and what they called out wasn’t any new knowledge. It was cool to get country-level examples and some statistics to back up what they were proclaiming but despite it being a self help book I’m not sure if k gained much from it by the end…
This was okay. Not quite as whole and cohesive as its predecessor, The Little Book of Hygge. Content-wise, this one reads more like a series of stories and reports of studies around happiness. At times it felt like I was reading a well-written magazine article or series of them, as opposed to a book that really gelled.
While I did enjoy this book, I can tell that aspects of it are already fading from my memory. The first book, though, I'm still thinking about years after reading it.
While I did enjoy this book, I can tell that aspects of it are already fading from my memory. The first book, though, I'm still thinking about years after reading it.