Great Inspirational Books for Inmates and Friends and Family of Inmates

When you have a child in prison or jail or for that matter in a rehab or other facility away from home, you may need some help financially, mentally and emotionally. You need friends and family, too, but these books can also help.

Great Inspirational Books for Inmates and Friends and Family of Inmates

1. Chicken Soup for the Soul: Living Your Dreams, 10th Anniversary Special Edition – This book is loaded with goal setting tips and inspirational stories that will motivate you to realize any of your goals in life.

2. Self Improvement: The Top 101 Experts Who Help Us Improve Our Lives (Paperback) by David Riklan – Riklan studied self-help experts that are most often searched for on the Internet. Then he devised an ingenious format for describing how they got started, what their message is all about, and how to find out more about them. A great way to get started.

3. Angry All The Time: An Emergency Guide To Anger Control
 Ronald T. Potter-Efron — This is an update of a best-selling classic on anger management that teaches how to understand and control episodes of uncontrolled anger.

4. Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren – This huge selling book gives a 40-day personal spiritual journey, and describes what Warren says are God’s five main purposes for all people.

5. Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust by Immaculee Ilibagiza —A truly heartbreaking and equally inspirational story of courage and faith.

6. Man’s Search For Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl – Tells his story of living in a concentration camp under the most horrific conditions imaginable and still found the strength to keep going.

7. Days of Grace by Arthur Ashe – In a world where athletes are all too often the opposite of role models, this autobiography tells us of an extraordinary man who achieved as much with his mind as he did with his athletic prowess.

8. The Real Bling: How to Get the Only Thing You Need by Brian McClellan—inspirational and motivational self-empowerment tools from a hip-hop perspective.

9. A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Martin Luther King – There will never be another like him, but still we can learn from his example.

10. We Got Fired! 
by Harvey Mackay – True stories of extraordinarily successful people who, as the title tells us, were not always quite so successful.