7 best-selling cycling books like Start at the End: How Reverse-Engineering Can Lead to Success by Dan Bigham

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Start at the End: How Reverse-Engineering Can Lead to Success

By: Dan Bigham

4.16

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

An inspiring and thought-provoking new book that explains the power of applying reverse-engineering…

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Cover of How Bad Do You Want It? Mastering the Psychology of Mind over Muscle by Matt Fitzgerald

1. How Bad Do You Want It? Mastering the Psychology of Mind over Muscle

By: Matt Fitzgerald

4.10

Format: 265 pages, Paperback

The greatest athletic performances spring from the mind, not the body. Elite athletes have know… read more

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"Exercising mental fitness was a daily battle for him, but a battle he chose."

-Matt Fitzgerald, How Bad Do You Want It? Mastering the Psychology of Mind over Muscle

"It was a very hard race from the word go with a combination of great runners and a tough course,"

-Matt Fitzgerald, How Bad Do You Want It? Mastering the Psychology of Mind over Muscle

"What is the logic of punishing yourself each day, of striving to become better, more efficient, tougher?"

-Matt Fitzgerald, How Bad Do You Want It? Mastering the Psychology of Mind over Muscle

"Interpreting running as an opportunity to discover and become his best self, and to give his best to others, through the relentless pursuit of toughness, or guts—a kind of courage."

-Matt Fitzgerald, How Bad Do You Want It? Mastering the Psychology of Mind over Muscle

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2. Playing for Pizza

By: John Grisham

3.52

Format: 262 pages, Hardcover

Rick Dockery was the third-string quarterback for the Cleveland Browns. In the AFC Championship gam… read more

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"And with that they passed another little milestone, took another step together. From flirting, to casual sex, to a more intense variety. From quick e-mails to much longer chats by phone. From a long-…"

-John Grisham, Playing for Pizza

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3. Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

By: Christopher McDougall

4.57

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Full of incredible characters, amazing athletic achievements, cutting-edge science, and, most of al… read more

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  • science
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4. The Climb: The Autobiography

By: David Walsh , Chris Froome

5.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

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  • cycling
Cover of Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong by Eric Barker

5. Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong

By: Eric Barker

4.11

Format: 224 pages, ebook

Much of the advice we’ve been told about achievement is logical, earnest…and downright wrong. In Ba… read more

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  • business
  • science

6. Racing Through the Dark

By: David Millar , Jeremy Whittle

4.14

Format: None pages, Hardcover

By his 18th birthday David Millar was living and racing in France, sleeping in rented rooms, tipped… read more

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7. Swim, Bike, Run: Our Triathlon Story

By: Alistair Brownlee , None , None

3.23

Format: 218 pages, ebook

Swim, Bike, Run - The ultimate guide to triathlon by Olympics heroes Alistair and Jonathan Brownlee… read more

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8. Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

By: Tim Marshall

4.20

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In the bestselling tradition of Why Nations Fail and The Revenge of Geography, an award-winning jou… read more

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  • science
"All great nations spend peacetime preparing for the day war breaks out."

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

"India and Pakistan can agree on one thing: neither wants the other one around."

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

"What is now the EU was set up so that France and Germany could hug each other so tightly in a loving embrace that neither would be able to get an arm free with which to punch the other."

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

"THE MIDDLE OF WHAT? EAST OF WHERE? THE REGION’S VERY name is based on a European view of the world, and it is a European view of the region that shaped it. The Europeans used ink to draw lines on map…"

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

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9. Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters

By: Brian Klaas

4.13

Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition

Want to know what chaos theory can teach us about human events? In the perspective-altering traditi… read more

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  • science
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10. Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance

By: Alex Hutchinson

4.13

Format: 333 pages, Kindle Edition

From the National Magazine Award-winning Runner’s World columnist, frequent New Yorker online contr… read more

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11. Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness

By: Steve Magness

3.85

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From beloved performance expert, executive coach, and coauthor of Peak Performance Steve Magness co… read more

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  • business
  • science
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12. 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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  • business
"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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13. The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity

By: Carlo M. Cipolla

3.86

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

"A masterly book" --Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of The Black Swan"A classic" --Simon Kuper, Finan… read more

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"A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person."

-Carlo M. Cipolla, The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity

"احتمالية أن يكون شخص ما غبيا، مستقلة عن أي سمة أخرى يتصف بها هذا الشخص"

-Carlo M. Cipolla, The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity

"The Second law of human stupidity: The probability that a certain person be stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person"

-Carlo M. Cipolla, The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity

"If you lose we will be equals and stay friends forever, and if you win you'll take my precious blue flower as a prize and we stay friends forever. How lucky you are!"

-Carlo M. Cipolla, The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity

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14. 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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  • business
  • science
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15. The Tour According to G: My Journey to the Yellow Jersey

By: Geraint Thomas

4.20

Format: 250 pages, Kindle Edition

For years Geraint Thomas appeared blessed with extraordinary talent but jinxed at the greatest bike… read more

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  • cycling
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16. The Secret Cyclist: Real Life as a Rider in the Professional Peloton

By: The Secret Cyclist

3.64

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Who is The Secret Cyclist and why all the secrecy? "Every public aspect of our lives is so tight… read more

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"To me, cycling can be glorious and it can be grubby, but quite often, it’s neither. It’s just pedalling for hours and hours for relatively little in return."

-The Secret Cyclist, The Secret Cyclist: Real Life as a Rider in the Professional Peloton

"It takes a special kind of person to want to be a professional cyclist. If you have another opportunity, such as university, you really have to think long and hard about it, because unless you’re ver…"

-The Secret Cyclist, The Secret Cyclist: Real Life as a Rider in the Professional Peloton

"If you want to know the truth about the latest equipment, don’t ask a pro. At least not one that’s speaking on the record. We’re told what to use and we have to be positive about it, even when it suc…"

-The Secret Cyclist, The Secret Cyclist: Real Life as a Rider in the Professional Peloton

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17. Hidden Genius: The secret ways of thinking that power the world's most successful people

By: Polina Marinova Pompliano

3.92

Format: 252 pages, Hardcover

What distinguishes the truly exceptional from the merely great? After five years of writing The Pr… read more

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  • business
  • science
Cover of There and Back: Photographs from the Edge by Jimmy Chin

18. There and Back: Photographs from the Edge

By: Jimmy Chin

4.75

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The Academy Award–winning director of Free Solo and National Geographic photographer presents the f… read more

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19. Start at the End: How Reverse-Engineering Can Lead to Success

By: Dan Bigham

4.16

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

An inspiring and thought-provoking new book that explains the power of applying reverse-engineering… read more

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  • cycling
  • business
  • science
Cover of Faster: The Obsession, Science and Luck Behind the World's Fastest Cyclists by Michael Hutchinson

20. Faster: The Obsession, Science and Luck Behind the World's Fastest Cyclists

By: Michael Hutchinson

4.13

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

For professional cyclists, going faster and winning are, of course, closely related. Yet surprising… read more

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  • cycling
  • science
"I lived in a world where, one way or another, everything was divided into things that might make me faster and things that might make me slower. Pretty much anything pleasant fell into the second cat…"

-Michael Hutchinson, Faster: The Obsession, Science and Luck Behind the World's Fastest Cyclists

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21. The Beast, the Emperor and the Milkman: A Bone-shaking Tour through Cycling’s Flemish Heartlands

By: Harry Pearson

3.85

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Cycling is wildly popular all over Belgium, but in the northern, Dutch-speaking half of the country… read more

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11 best-selling science books like Start at the End: How Reverse-Engineering Can Lead to Success by Dan Bigham

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How Bad Do You Want It? Mastering the Psychology of Mind over Muscle

Matt Fitzgerald

4.10

Transform Your Habits

Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

Christopher McDougall

4.57

Transform Your Habits

Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong

Eric Barker

4.11

Transform Your Habits

Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

Tim Marshall

4.20

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AI Doctor: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare - A Guide for Users, Buyers, Builders, and Investors

Ronald M. Razmi

4.28

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Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI

Ethan Mollick

4.13

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AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future

Kai-Fu Lee

3.86

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Scary Smart: The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World

Mo Gawdat

3.82

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