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New Year 2011: Books About Starting Over (PHOTOS)

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As we begin to ring in the New Year, we reflect on the past and think about making changes for the future. Some New Year's resolutions are big changes and others are small tweaks. Either way, now is the time to make adjustments in your life.

While you do, here are a collection of books about new beginnings -- about starting over, trying new things and diving into something different. Maybe they will serve as inspiration and help start the year off on the right foot.

Let us know what other books you would recommend in a similar vein in the comment section below.

Starting Over
'Eat Pray Love' by Elizabeth Gilbert(01 of11)
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'Iron and Silk' by Mark Salzman(02 of11)
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'Travels with Charley' by John Steinbeck(03 of11)
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'Always Running' by Luis Rodriguez(04 of11)
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'Seven Years In Tibet' by Heinrich Harrer(05 of11)
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'A Catcher In The Rye' by J.D. Salinger (06 of11)
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'Disgrace' by J. M. Coetzee(07 of11)
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'Into The Wild' by Jon Krakauer(08 of11)
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'This Boy's Life' by Tobias Wolff(09 of11)
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'The Scarlet Letter' by Nathaniel Hawthorne(10 of11)
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'The Grapes of Wrath' by John Steinbeck(11 of11)
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