Books often create images in our imagination.
Those images can become powerful visual journal entries. The scenes, characters, and emotions from literature offer endless inspiration for artistic reflection.
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20 Books That Inspire Reflection
1
The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Prompt: What message from childhood still guides me?
2
1984
George Orwell
Prompt: What fears about the future do I carry?
3
The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho
Prompt: What is my personal legend?
4
The Stranger
Albert Camus
Prompt: When have I felt disconnected from the world?
5
Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse
Prompt: What does my spiritual journey look like?
6
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
Prompt: What first impression did I get wrong?
7
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Prompt: What guilt have I carried?
8
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Prompt: What do I reach for that remains out of grasp?
9
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez
Prompt: What patterns repeat in my family?
10
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
Prompt: What injustice shaped my understanding of the world?
11
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
Prompt: What passion has consumed me?
12
The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger
Prompt: What do I wish I could protect?
13
Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes
Prompt: What impossible dream do I pursue?
14
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
Prompt: What independence have I fought for?
15
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
Prompt: What would my hidden portrait show?
16
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
Prompt: What comfort would I sacrifice for freedom?
17
Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
Prompt: What does an ordinary day contain?
18
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath
Prompt: What does feeling trapped look like?
19
Beloved
Toni Morrison
Prompt: What haunts my present from the past?
20
The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka
Prompt: When have I felt transformed overnight?
Try This Prompt
“What scene from this book deserves a visual page?”