25 Best nonfiction books like Move by Move: Life Lessons on and off the Chessboard by Maurice Ashley

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Move by Move: Life Lessons on and off the Chessboard

By: Maurice Ashley

3.71

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A little book of life advice drawing on the timeless wisdom of chess from Maurice Ashley, the first…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Move by Move: Life Lessons on and off the Chessboard by Maurice Ashley , here is a list of 25 books like this:

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1. Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai

By: William Scott Wilson , None

3.59

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Hagakure("In the Shadow of Leaves") is a manual for the samurai classes consisting of a series of s… read more

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  • nonfiction

2. The Zone of Interest

By: Martin Amis

3.76

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

From one of England's most renowned authors, an unforgettable new novel that provides a searing por… read more

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3. 101 Questions to Ask Before You Get Engaged

By: H. Norman Wright

3.46

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

The Perfect Remedy for Cold Feet! More than half of all couples who become engaged this year will n… read more

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4. Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

By: Morgan Housel

4.19

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

“Want to understand the changing world? Start with what stays the same. That’s the amazing conclusi… read more

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  • nonfiction
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5. Somehow: Thoughts on Love

By: Anne Lamott

3.95

Format: 204 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, Wow , a joyful celebration of lo… read more

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  • nonfiction
"I don’t know"

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

"…nobody in isolation becomes who they were designed to be."

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

"Sometimes it all just sucks, as Jesus says somewhere in the Gospels (although off the top of my head I can’t recall chapter and verse."

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

"When I first got sober, a man told me that upon waking every morning, instead of reciting the standard flowery recovery prayer, he said, “Whatever,“ and at night when he turned off his lights to go t…"

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

Cover of Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters by Charan Ranganath

6. Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters

By: Charan Ranganath

3.95

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Memory is far more than a record of the past. In this groundbreaking tour of the mind and brain, on… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • personal development
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7. Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

By: Cal Newport

3.73

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

Do fewer things. Work at a natural pace. Obsess over quality. From the New York Times bestsellin… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • personal development
"What are we really doing here?"

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

"Wouldn’t it be nice to have a job like that where you didn’t have to worry about being productive?"

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

"The world of cognitive work lacks coherent ideas about how our efforts should be organized and measured."

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

"The pandemic didn’t introduce this trend so much as push its worst excesses beyond the threshold of tolerability."

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

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8. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

By: Jonathan Haidt

4.46

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in t… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Socially prescribed perfectionism is closely related to anxiety; people who suffer from anxiety are more prone to it. Being a perfectionist also increases your anxiety because you fear the shame of p…"

-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

"Girls in virtual networks are subjected to hundreds of times more social comparison than girls had experienced for all of human evolution. They are exposed to more cruelty and bullying because social…"

-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

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9. Fire Exit

By: Morgan Talty

3.79

Format: 243 pages, Hardcover

The blood that came out of me was blood that ran through her veins. It’s strange: all blood looks t… read more

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"...what's more sacred than laughter at the dinner table?"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

"That's my life, though--not knowing, but wishing. [Charles Lamosway]"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

"We are made of stories, and if we don't know them--the ones that make us--how can we ever be fully realized? How can we ever be who we really are?"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

"...I was thinking and thinking about how, in just the past year, I had just started to know her, but then I began to unknow her, getting farther and farther away like watching a boat drift from the s…"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

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10. The Little Book of Stoicism: Timeless Wisdom to Gain Resilience, Confidence, and Calmness

By: Jonas Salzgeber

4.18

Format: 287 pages, Kindle Edition

“How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?”– Epictetus, Stoic philoso… read more

Similar categories in Jonas Salzgeber's The Little Book of Stoicism: Timeless Wisdom to Gain Resilience, Confidence, and Calmness book and Maurice Ashley's Move by Move: Life Lessons on and off the Chessboard

  • nonfiction
  • personal development
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11. The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis

By: George Stephanopoulos

4.45

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

George Stephanopoulos, former senior advisor to President Clinton and for more than 20 years anchor… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Move by Move: Life Lessons on and off the Chessboard by Maurice Ashley

12. Move by Move: Life Lessons on and off the Chessboard

By: Maurice Ashley

3.71

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A little book of life advice drawing on the timeless wisdom of chess from Maurice Ashley, the first… read more

Similar categories in Maurice Ashley's Move by Move: Life Lessons on and off the Chessboard book and Maurice Ashley's Move by Move: Life Lessons on and off the Chessboard

  • nonfiction
  • personal development
  • chess
Cover of Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well by Amy C. Edmondson

13. Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well

By: Amy C. Edmondson

3.95

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A revolutionary guide that will transform your relationship with failure, from the pioneering resea… read more

Similar categories in Amy C. Edmondson's Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well book and Maurice Ashley's Move by Move: Life Lessons on and off the Chessboard

  • nonfiction
  • personal development
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14. The Wisdom of the Bullfrog: Leadership Made Simple (But Not Easy)

By: William H. McRaven

4.42

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed, bestselling author of  Make Your Bed —a short, inspirational book of advice and… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • personal development
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15. How to Make a Few Billion Dollars

By: Brad Jacobs

4.01

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Do you have a burning passion to make a lot of money in business? Are you ready to turbocharge your… read more

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  • nonfiction
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16. Good Energy: The Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health

By: Casey Means

4.21

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A bold new vision for optimizing our health now and in the future. What if depression, anxiety, … read more

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  • nonfiction
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17. Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI

By: Ethan Mollick

4.13

Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition

**A New York Times Bestseller**'Co-Intelligence is the very best book I know about the ins, outs, a… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Lessons in Stoicism: What Ancient Philosophers Teach Us About How to Live by John   Sellars

18. Lessons in Stoicism: What Ancient Philosophers Teach Us About How to Live

By: John Sellars

4.20

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

A deeply comforting and enlightening book on how Stoicism can inspire us to lead more thoughtful li… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • personal development
"Queremos creer que la humanidad ha evolucionado —y, con suerte, mejorado— en los últimos dos mil años, pero Séneca nos demuestra que muchos de los asuntos con los que la gente se debate hoy en día no…"

-John Sellars, Lessons in Stoicism: What Ancient Philosophers Teach Us About How to Live

"Marco Aurelio podría muy bien haberse mostrado como un emperador romano en busca de una reputación como sabio filósofo estoico, pero lo que uno se encuentra en las Meditaciones no es más que un hombr…"

-John Sellars, Lessons in Stoicism: What Ancient Philosophers Teach Us About How to Live

"El proceso pasa por tres fases, señala Séneca: la primera, un primer impulso involuntario, es decir, una reacción fisiológica natural que escapa a nuestro control; la segunda, un juicio —que sí está …"

-John Sellars, Lessons in Stoicism: What Ancient Philosophers Teach Us About How to Live

"Crisipo comparaba el hecho de estar bajo los efectos de una emoción con correr demasiado deprisa. Una vez que se ha cogido cierta cantidad de impulso, no es fácil detenerse. El movimiento está fuera …"

-John Sellars, Lessons in Stoicism: What Ancient Philosophers Teach Us About How to Live

Cover of Stop Checking Your Likes: Shake Off the Need for Approval and Live an Incredible Life by Susie Moore

19. Stop Checking Your Likes: Shake Off the Need for Approval and Live an Incredible Life

By: Susie Moore

4.07

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Your freedom’s knocking. Are you ready? Millions of us waste huge chunks of our days checking our … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • personal development
Cover of How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind by Regan Penaluna

20. How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind

By: Regan Penaluna

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From a bold new voice in nonfiction, an exhilarating account of the lives and works of influential … read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Where the Falcon Flies: A 3,400 Kilometre Odyssey From My Doorstep to the Arctic by Adam Shoalts

21. Where the Falcon Flies: A 3,400 Kilometre Odyssey From My Doorstep to the Arctic

By: Adam Shoalts

4.32

Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition

From Canada’s most accomplished adventurer and storyteller comes a gripping journey into the vastne… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Formula: How Rogues, Geniuses, and Speed Freaks Reengineered F1 into the World's Fastest-Growing Sport by Joshua Robinson

22. The Formula: How Rogues, Geniuses, and Speed Freaks Reengineered F1 into the World's Fastest-Growing Sport

By: Joshua Robinson

4.41

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

🎧Listening Length = 10 hours and 40 minutes NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Wall Street Journal rep… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Right Thing, Right Now: Justice in an Unjust World by Ryan Holiday

23. Right Thing, Right Now: Justice in an Unjust World

By: Ryan Holiday

4.21

Format: 365 pages, Kindle Edition

In his New York Times bestselling book, Discipline Is Destiny, Ryan Holiday made the Stoic case for… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • personal development
Cover of Break the Cycle: A Guide to Healing Intergenerational Trauma by Mariel Buqué

24. Break the Cycle: A Guide to Healing Intergenerational Trauma

By: Mariel Buqué

4.32

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The definitive, paradigm-shifting guide to healing intergenerational trauma—weaving together scient… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • personal development
"Take the Intergenerational ACES Questionnaire."

-Mariel Buqué, Break the Cycle: A Guide to Healing Intergenerational Trauma

"Take the Intergenerational ACES (Adverse Childhood Experiences) Questionnaire."

-Mariel Buqué, Break the Cycle: A Guide to Healing Intergenerational Trauma

"Three core areas became the focus: (1) What happened to you? (2) What happened before you? and (3) What happened around you?"

-Mariel Buqué, Break the Cycle: A Guide to Healing Intergenerational Trauma

Cover of The Next Millionaire Next Door: Enduring Strategies for Building Wealth by Thomas J. Stanley

25. The Next Millionaire Next Door: Enduring Strategies for Building Wealth

By: Thomas J. Stanley

3.62

Format: 272 pages, ebook

Over the past 40 years, Tom Stanley and his daughter Sarah Stanley Fallaw have been involved in res… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • personal development
Cover of Practical Optimism: The Art, Science, and Practice of Exceptional Well-Being by Sue Varma

26. Practical Optimism: The Art, Science, and Practice of Exceptional Well-Being

By: Sue Varma

4.05

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A practical program rooted in optimism to help you live fully and joyfully in an imperfect, turbule… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Career Confidence: No-BS Stories and Strategies for Finding Your Power by Robynn Storey

27. Career Confidence: No-BS Stories and Strategies for Finding Your Power

By: Robynn Storey

3.89

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Learn how to bet on yourself and build the professional life you want as you grow in your career pa… read more

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Cover of red helicopter―a parable for our times: lead change with kindness, plus a little math by James  Rhee

28. red helicopter―a parable for our times: lead change with kindness, plus a little math

By: James Rhee

4.35

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Embrace your agency, lead change, and fly free—in the business of life and… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Possible: How We Survive (and Thrive) in an Age of Conflict by William Ury

29. Possible: How We Survive (and Thrive) in an Age of Conflict

By: William Ury

4.24

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The author of the world’s best-selling book on negotiation draws on his nearly fifty years of exper… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Marketing Artificial Intelligence: AI, Marketing, and the Future of Business by Paul Roetzer

30. Marketing Artificial Intelligence: AI, Marketing, and the Future of Business

By: Paul Roetzer

3.78

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Artificial intelligence is forecasted to have trillions of dollars of impact on businesses and the … read more

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Transform Your Habits

Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters

Charan Ranganath

3.95

Transform Your Habits

Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

Cal Newport

3.73

Transform Your Habits

The Little Book of Stoicism: Timeless Wisdom to Gain Resilience, Confidence, and Calmness

Jonas Salzgeber

4.18

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Move by Move: Life Lessons on and off the Chessboard

Maurice Ashley

3.71

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4.64

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David Brooks

4.14

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Charles Duhigg

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