A Therapeutic Journey: Lessons from The School of Life
By: Alain de Botton
4.04
Format: 418 pages, Kindle Edition
Alain de Botton's redemptive volume charts a course from collapse to recovery with kindness, compas…
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2. The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves
By: Stephen Grosz
3.71
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
Echoing Socrates' time-honoured statement that the unexamined life is not worth living, psychoanaly… read more
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4. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
By: Salman Rushdie
4.10
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more
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- essays
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"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
5. 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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"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
6. Safe Haven
By: Shankari Chandran
4.18
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
The new novel from the Miles Franklin award-winning author of Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens. It was… read more
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7. Parade
By: Rachel Cusk
3.70
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more
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"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
8. Mania
By: Lionel Shriver
3.69
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
'Seldom is a book as funny, important and timely … I was laughing out loud at the same time as my b… read more
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9. A Simpler Life
By: The School of Life
4.05
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
This book explores ideas around minimalism, simplicity and how to live comfortably with less. Th… read more
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10. The House That Joy Built
By: Holly Ringland
3.88
Format: 260 pages, Kindle Edition
An uplifting, powerful and inspiring book about breaking through fear and finding joy through creat… read more
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11. I Don't: The Case Against Marriage
By: Clementine Ford
4.13
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Incendiary feminist and bestselling author Clementine Ford presents the inarguable case against mar… read more
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12. Magic Pill: The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight-Loss Drugs
By: Johann Hari
4.31
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The bestselling author of Lost Connections and Stolen Focus offers a revelatory look at the drugs u… read more
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13. Arrangements in Blue
By: Amy Key
3.84
Format: 223 pages, Hardcover
Arrangements in Blue elegantly honors the life lived completely by—and for—oneself. Inspired by Jon… read more
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14. What They Forgot to Teach You at School
By: The School of Life
4.03
Format: 81 pages, Kindle Edition
We probably went to school for what felt like a very long time. We probably took care with our home… read more
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15. A Therapeutic Journey: Lessons from The School of Life
By: Alain de Botton
4.04
Format: 418 pages, Kindle Edition
Alain de Botton's redemptive volume charts a course from collapse to recovery with kindness, compas… read more
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16. 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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17. Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI
By: Madhumita Murgia
4.10
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A riveting story of what it means to be human in a world changed by artificial intelligence, reveal… read more
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18. How to Be Sad: Everything I've Learned About Getting Happier by Being Sad
By: Helen Russell
3.99
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
"In any human life there are going to be periods of unhappiness. That is part of the human experien… read more
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19. The Forever War: America’s Unending Conflict with Itself
By: Nick Bryant
4.43
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The Forever War tells the story of how America's political polarization is 250 years in the making,… read more
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20. An Autobiography of Trauma: A Healing Journey
By: Peter A. Levine
4.01
Format: 205 pages, Kindle Edition
• Shares the author’s personal journey to heal his severe childhood trauma as well as his breakthro… read more
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21. How Ready Are You For Love?: A path to more fulfilling and joyful relationships (School of Life)
By: The School of Life
4.00
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
A guided questionnaire to help understand ourselves and our romantic relationships more clearly . … read more
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"An affair is a destructive and inarticulate response to a feeling of disappointment."-The School of Life, How Ready Are You For Love?: A path to more fulfilling and joyful relationships (School of Life)
"As pschologists will point out, what dooms couples isn't that they argue; it's that they don't know how to make up."-The School of Life, How Ready Are You For Love?: A path to more fulfilling and joyful relationships (School of Life)
"One of the greatest sources of difficulty in relationships stems paradoxically from the strength of a person's wish not be 'difficult"-The School of Life, How Ready Are You For Love?: A path to more fulfilling and joyful relationships (School of Life)
"Anyone can be polite and good. The vaulable achievement is to learn how to be different, authentic and 'bad' - that is, to allow ourselves to be known."-The School of Life, How Ready Are You For Love?: A path to more fulfilling and joyful relationships (School of Life)
