Live a life full of the greats of literature: Camus, Canetti, Emerson, Saint-Exupéry, Yourcenar, among others.

What can books do for us? Is reading useful? Is it therapeutic? Can it make us happy or provide us with the spiritual resources necessary to shield us from adversity? Can literature be prescribed? Does it benefit the body as much as the soul?

Day after day science continues to confirm the benefits of books. Studies show that the effects of reading can be compared to those of meditation and medicine. Readers sleep better, maintain lower levels of stress and depression and higher levels of self-esteem. Reading prolongs life and changes us in essential ways: good fiction expands our horizons, helps us to better understand others and makes us more empathetic. Each chapter of Book Therapy is a formula to get close to the authors, contexts, passages and reflections that have provided Jordi Nadal, author and editor of these and many more pages, comfort during difficult times and served as a guide for every important decision. This book is a manual for living more lives than your own, which will help confirm the validity of the words of Montesquieu, "I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve."