9 must-read self help books like Friendship: The Evolution, Biology, and Extraordinary Power of Life's Fundamental Bond by Lydia Denworth

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Friendship: The Evolution, Biology, and Extraordinary Power of Life's Fundamental Bond

By: Lydia Denworth

3.66

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

An engaging and deeply reported investigation of friendship: its evolution, purpose, and centrality…

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1. How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed

By: Slavenka Drakulić

4.13

Format: 197 pages, Paperback

Hailed by feminists and scholars as one of the most important contributions to women's studies in r… read more

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  • nonfiction
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"Humor is the only way to overcome depression"

-Slavenka Drakulić, How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed

"Category of 'enemy' could spread to the whole nation"

-Slavenka Drakulić, How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed

"Only when there is no privacy can there be total control"

-Slavenka Drakulić, How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed

"How could you forget something you never learned or had?!"

-Slavenka Drakulić, How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed

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2. Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb

4.10

Format: 426 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of The Black Swan and one of the foremost philosophers of our time, Nas… read more

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  • science
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"Only the autodidacts are free."

-Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

"More data means more information, but it also means more false information."

-Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

"Convincing - and confident - disciplines, say, physics, tend to use little statistical backup, while political science and economics, which have never produced anything of note, are full of elaborate…"

-Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

"Further, in writing, I feel corrupt and unethical if I have to look up a subject in a library as part of the writing itself. This acts as a filter--it is the only filter. If the subject is not intere…"

-Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

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3. A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East

By: David Fromkin

4.21

Format: 635 pages, Paperback

The critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling account of how the modern Middle East came into… read more

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"Reginald Wingate… wrote that “Moslems in general have hitherto regarded the Hejaz revolt, and our share in it, with suspicion or dislike"

-David Fromkin, A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East

"Clayton and his colleagues believed French colonial administration to be incapable of allowing a country to retain its own character. What the French termed their “civilizing mission"

-David Fromkin, A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East

"[T]he sheer magnitude of Britain’s commitment and loss at Gallipoli made it seem vital years later that she should play a major role in the postwar Middle East to give some sort of meaning to so grea…"

-David Fromkin, A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East

"Fear of Russian expansionism was at the heart of the Porte’s policy. The Turkish ambassador told Deedes that if the Allies won the war, they would cause or allow the Ottoman Empire to be partitioned,…"

-David Fromkin, A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East

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4. Parasyte 2

By: Hitoshi Iwaaki

4.34

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

PERSONAL DEMON Shin looks like an ordinary high school boy, but he has a terrible secret: an ali… read more

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5. The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die

By: Keith Payne , Keith Payne

3.20

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

"The Broken Ladderis an important, timely, and beautifully written account of how inequality affect… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • psychology

6. The Dark Side of the Light Chasers: Reclaiming Your Power, Creativity, Brilliance and Dreams

By: Debbie Ford

3.92

Format: 358 pages,

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7. The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives

By: Leonard Mlodinow

3.48

Format: None pages,

In this irreverent and illuminating book, acclaimed writer and scientist Leonard Mlodinow shows us … read more

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8. Parallel Worlds: A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos

By: Michio Kaku

3.77

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

In this thrilling journey into the mysteries of our cosmos, bestselling author Michio Kaku takes us… read more

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9. The Schopenhauer Cure

By: Irvin D. Yalom

4.14

Format: None pages, Paperback

Suddenly confronted with his own mortality after a routine checkup, eminent psychotherapist Julius … read more

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10. Who

By: Geoff Smart , None

3.07

Format: None pages,

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11. Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them

By: Joshua D. Greene

4.67

Format: 46 pages, Hardcover

Our brains were designed for tribal life, for getting along with a select group of others (Us) and … read more

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12. Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

By: Robert M. Sapolsky

4.25

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the … read more

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"I’m being diplomatic. Many readers will know of the “replication crisis"

-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

"Obviously, imposing these classifications on determinism, free will, and moral responsibility is wildly simplified. A key simplification is pretending that most people have clean “yes"

-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

"You cannot decide all the sensory stimuli in your environment, your hormone levels this morning, whether something traumatic happened to you in the past, the socioeconomic status of your parents, you…"

-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

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13. Being You: A New Science of Consciousness

By: Anil Seth

4.10

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Being You is not as simple as it sounds. Somehow, within each of our brains, billions of neurons wo… read more

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14. Platonic: How the Science of Attachment Can Help You Make—and Keep—Friends

By: Marisa G. Franco

4.06

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A lively, data-driven guide to finding your people from psychologist Dr. Marisa G. Franco about the… read more

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  • audiobook
  • relationships
  • science
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • self help
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15. This Is Not a Book About Benedict Cumberbatch: The Joy of Loving Something--Anything--Like Your Life Depends On It

By: Tabitha Carvan

3.82

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Why We Can't Sleep meets Furiously Happy in this hilarious, heartfelt memoir about one woman's midl… read more

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16. Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding

By: Daniel E. Lieberman

4.18

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

If exercise is healthy (so good for you!), why do many people dislike or avoid it? These engaging s… read more

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"Eating sensibly and exercising don't guarantee long life and good health; they just decrease the risk of getting sick."

-Daniel E. Lieberman, Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding

"The mantra of this book is that nothing about the biology of exercise makes sense except in the light of evolution, and nothing about exercise as a behavior makes sense except in the light of anthrop…"

-Daniel E. Lieberman, Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding

"We evolved to be physically active as we age, and in turn being active helps us age well. Further, the longer we stay active, the greater the benefit, and it is almost never too late to benefit from …"

-Daniel E. Lieberman, Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding

"For generation after generation, our ancestors young and old woke up each morning thankful to be alive and with no choice but to spend several hous walking, digging, and doing other physical activiti…"

-Daniel E. Lieberman, Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding

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17. The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?

By: Michael J. Sandel

4.19

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

These are dangerous times for democracy. We live in an age of winners and losers, where the odds ar… read more

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  • nonfiction
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"A wealthy CEO could justify his or her advantages to a lower paid worker on a factory floor as: "I am not worthier then you nor morally deserving of the privileged position I hold. My generous compen…"

-Michael J. Sandel, The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?

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18. Hi Honey, I'm Homo!: Sitcoms, Specials, and the Queering of American Culture

By: Matt Baume

4.35

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

There's a secret storyline hidden across some of the most popular sitcoms of the 20th century. F… read more

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19. Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving

By: Celeste Headlee

3.87

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Despite our constant search for new ways to 'hack' our bodies and minds for peak performance, human… read more

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  • personal development
  • psychology
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  • self help
"In many ways I think we've lost the sight of the purpose of free time. We seem to immediately equate idleness with laziness but those two things are very different. "Leisure" is not a synonym for "in…"

-Celeste Headlee, Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving

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20. The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness

By: Robert Waldinger

4.16

Format: 352 pages, ebook

What makes for a happy life, a fulfilling life? A good life? In their book, the directors of the Ha… read more

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  • relationships
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21. Survival of the Friendliest: Understanding Our Origins and Rediscovering Our Common Humanity

By: Brian Hare

4.05

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A powerful new theory of human nature suggests that our unique friendliness is the secret to our su… read more

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"This progression is a manifestation of synaptic pruning. When our brains are growing, we make more neurons than we need. As we navigate our lives, solving problems and adapting to different environme…"

-Brian Hare, Survival of the Friendliest: Understanding Our Origins and Rediscovering Our Common Humanity

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22. Plays Well with Others: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Relationships Is (Mostly) Wrong

By: Eric Barker

4.09

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

AN INSTANT USA TODAY and PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BESTSELLER From the author of the  Wall Street Journal  … read more

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  • science
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"To Aristotle, friends “are disposed toward each other as they are disposed to themselves: a friend is another self."

-Eric Barker, Plays Well with Others: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Relationships Is (Mostly) Wrong

"Edith Wharton in the 1800s? “There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not as a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one’s self."

-Eric Barker, Plays Well with Others: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Relationships Is (Mostly) Wrong

"Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman found that when you survey people in the moment, their happiness levels are highest while with friends... To be fair, research by Beverley Fair shows that we're the…"

-Eric Barker, Plays Well with Others: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Relationships Is (Mostly) Wrong

"Without institutional obligations, the upkeep of friendships require must be very deliberate... However, the weakness of friendship is also the source of its immeasurable strength. Why do true friend…"

-Eric Barker, Plays Well with Others: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Relationships Is (Mostly) Wrong

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23. Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis

By: Jared Diamond

3.90

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

In his international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our … read more

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"Britain never regained its naval and economic dominance over the world, and it remains notoriously conflicted (“Brexit"

-Jared Diamond, Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis

"Allende had good ideas, but he executed them poorly. Although he correctly recognized Chile’s problems, he adopted wrong solutions to those problems."

-Jared Diamond, Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis

"Nations and individuals accept national and individual responsibility to take action to solve the problem, or else deny responsibility by self-pity, blaming others, and assuming the role of victim."

-Jared Diamond, Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis

"Rigidity or inflexibility can be the result of a previous history of abuse or trauma, or of an upbringing that offered a child no permission to experiment or to deviate from the family norms. Flexibi…"

-Jared Diamond, Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis

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24. Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry

By: Randolph M. Nesse

3.97

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A founder of the field of evolutionary medicine uses his decades of experience as a psychiatrist to… read more

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"Like fever and pain, anxiety and low mood are useful normal responses to some situations."

-Randolph M. Nesse, Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry

"Selection shaped our brains and bodies to maximize reproduction at enormous costs to human happiness."

-Randolph M. Nesse, Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry

"The body is not shaped for maximum health or longevity; it is shaped for maximum transmission of its genes."

-Randolph M. Nesse, Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry

"Eating disorders are not caused by abnormal genes; they are caused by normal genes interacting with abnormal environments."

-Randolph M. Nesse, Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry

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25. Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage

By: Rachel E. Gross

4.42

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A scientific journey to the center of the new female body. The Latin term for the female genital… read more

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"Medicine is supposed to be unbiased," she says. "But when we look at the bigger picture of it, we can see that it is far from that."

-Rachel E. Gross, Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage

"Darwin's attitudes toward women were a direct outgrowth of his ideas about other animals—or, rather, each reinforced the other. Throughout his career, he insisted that female animals were less capabl…"

-Rachel E. Gross, Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage

"Your vagina is another planet. If you could shrink down to the size of a grain of sand and go between your own legs, you'd find a wondrous realm of humid jungles, cool caves, and viscous pits of mucu…"

-Rachel E. Gross, Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage

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26. Friendship: The Evolution, Biology, and Extraordinary Power of Life's Fundamental Bond

By: Lydia Denworth

3.66

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

An engaging and deeply reported investigation of friendship: its evolution, purpose, and centrality… read more

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27. Innate: How the Wiring of Our Brains Shapes Who We Are

By: Kevin J. Mitchell

4.17

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A leading neuroscientist explains why your personal traits are more innate than you think What make… read more

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"There is a power in accepting people the way they are—our friends, partners, workmates, children, siblings, and especially ourselves. People really are born different from each other and those differ…"

-Kevin J. Mitchell, Innate: How the Wiring of Our Brains Shapes Who We Are

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28. Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia

By: Sabrina Strings

4.25

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

In her first book, sociologist Strings (sociology, Univ. of California, Irvine) explores the histor… read more

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"...the current anti-fat bias in the United States and in much of the West was not born in the medical field. Racial scientific literature since at least the eighteenth century has claimed that fatnes…"

-Sabrina Strings, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia

"Together, the two traveled to the south of France, where Bernier earned a medical degree in just three months. The degree, however, carried the somewhat suspect stipulation that his fast-tracked medi…"

-Sabrina Strings, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia

"...racial discourse was deployed by elite Europeans and white Americans to create social distinctions between themselves and fat racial Others. Black people, as well as so-called degraded or hybrid w…"

-Sabrina Strings, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia

"The legacy of Protestant moralism and race science as it related to fat and thin persons loomed large. Indeed, many early to mid-twentieth-century physicians relied on moral and racial logics to rail…"

-Sabrina Strings, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia

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29. India's Founding Moment: The Constitution of a Most Surprising Democracy

By: Madhav Khosla

3.93

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

How India's Constitution came into being and instituted democracy after independence from British r… read more

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30. Well, This Is Me: A Cartoon Collection from the New Yorker's Asher Perlman

By: Asher Perlman

4.49

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

The perfect gift for every single person on the planet. Well, This Is Me is the debut cartoon co… read more

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31. 1923: The Forgotten Crisis in the Year of Hitler’s Coup

By: Mark William Jones

4.09

Format: 382 pages, Kindle Edition

'Gripping . . . thoroughly researched and beautifully written . . . a warning for our times' Alex W… read more

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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4.25

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Anil Seth

4.10

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4.27

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Hi Honey, I'm Homo!: Sitcoms, Specials, and the Queering of American Culture

Matt Baume

4.35

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Matt Singer

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