I liked the general idea of a novel cure, books for all circumstances and troubles. From the titles mentioned I found the ones I have already read fitting the relevant problems. A bit odd I often thought the lists of the 10 best books in a certain situation. I read the German translation of this book and noticed something quite curious: the German version only lists 253 books whereas the English one lists 751. And not all of the ones from the English version appear in the German edition but were replaced by ones written by German-speaking authors. I can understand this replacement as the book was made suitable for the German market but I don‘t know what made them cut the number of books so dramatically. The book is a good work of reference of people who don‘t read very much but would like a book matching their current situation. I found it fun to browse through but it‘s nothing I‘d buy for myself.