Living for Pleasure: An Epicurean Guide to Life (Guides to the Good Life)
By: Emily A. Austin
4.24
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
If we all want happiness and pleasure so much, then why are we so bad at getting it? Pleasure fe…
Want to Read $ 11.49"We desire not only that we get something, but that we be pleased when we get it."-Emily A. Austin, Living for Pleasure: An Epicurean Guide to Life (Guides to the Good Life)
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1. Exercises in Style
By: Barbara Wright , Raymond Queneau , Barbara Wright
4.06
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
The plot of Exercises in Style is quite simple: a man gets into an argument with another passenger … read more
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"C'est en écrivant qu'on devient écriveron"-Barbara Wright, Exercises in Style
2. Down Cemetery Road (The Oxford Investigations, #1)
By: Mick Herron
3.89
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
CWA Gold Dagger winner Mick Herron's debut novel introduces Sarah Tucker, whose search for a missin… read more
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"He had never really lost his youth; he just kept it in a small room off the landing."-Mick Herron, Down Cemetery Road (The Oxford Investigations, #1)
"So she was waiting for the lecture; prolonged silence always led to the lecture. It was the last thing Sarah needed, and a list of the first things would have filled a book: a hug, a bath, an ear, so…"-Mick Herron, Down Cemetery Road (The Oxford Investigations, #1)
"On discovering a fire, the instructions ran, shout Fire and try to put it out. It was useful, heart-of the matter advice, and could be extended almost indefinitely in any direction. On discovering yo…"-Mick Herron, Down Cemetery Road (The Oxford Investigations, #1)
3. Woes of the True Policeman
By: Roberto Bolaño , Natasha Wimmer
3.88
Format: 136 pages, Hardcover
Begun in the 1980s and worked on until the author's death in 2003, Woes of the True Policemanis Rob… read more
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4. The Art of Happiness
By: Epicurus , George K. Strodach
4.19
Format: 294 pages, ebook
New to Penguin Classics and the perfect companion volume to bestselling author Daniel Klein's new b… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- self help
5. Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion
By: Alain de Botton
3.47
Format: 156 pages, Hardcover
What if religions are neither all true or all nonsense? The boring debate between fundamentalist be… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- psychology
- self help
6. The Last Voice You Hear (The Oxford Investigations, #2)
By: Mick Herron
3.90
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
Zoe Boehm doesn't do death. It's a rule. Yet here she is--in this new ambitious detective novel fro… read more
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7. A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
By: William B. Irvine
4.48
Format: None pages, Hardcover
One of the great fears many of us face is that despite all our effort and striving, we will discove… read more
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8. How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain
By: Lisa Feldman Barrett
3.67
Format: 117 pages, Hardcover
A new theory of how the brain constructs emotions that could revolutionize psychology, health care,… read more
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9. Reality Hunger: A Manifesto
By: David Shields
2.92
Format: None pages, Hardcover
An open call for new literary and other art forms to match the complexities of the twenty-first cen… read more
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10. The Medium is the Massage
By: Marshall McLuhan , Quentin Fiore , Jerome Agel
4.25
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Medium is the Massageis Marshall McLuhan's most condensed, and perhaps most effective, presenta… read more
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11. The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
By: Stephen Greenblatt
4.34
Format: 132 pages, Paperback
One of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work… read more
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12. Scarcity Brain: Fix Your Craving Mindset and Rewire Your Habits to Thrive with Enough
By: Michael Easter
3.97
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Reveals the biological and evolutionary foundations behind your brain’… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
- self help
"Embrace short-term discomfort to find a long-term benefit."-Michael Easter, Scarcity Brain: Fix Your Craving Mindset and Rewire Your Habits to Thrive with Enough
13. This Is What Happened
By: Mick Herron
3.42
Format: 263 pages, Hardcover
From CWA Gold Dagger winner Mick Herron comes a shocking, twisted novel of psychological suspense a… read more
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14. Everest, Inc.: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World
By: Will Cockrell
4.00
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Featuring original interviews with mountain guides and climbers—including Jimmy Chin and Conrad Ank… read more
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- nonfiction
15. Lives of the Stoics: The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius
By: Ryan Holiday
4.04
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling authors of The Daily Stoic comes an inspiring guide to the lives of the Stoics… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- psychology
- self help
"When good men come to bad ends,"-Ryan Holiday, Lives of the Stoics: The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius
"No parent should outlive their children. To lose eight of them? So young? It staggers the mind. “Unfair"-Ryan Holiday, Lives of the Stoics: The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius
"You owe it to yourself and to the world to actively engage with the brief moment you have with this planet. You cannot retreat exclusively into ideas. You must contribute."-Ryan Holiday, Lives of the Stoics: The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius
"It is a striking contrast, an emperor and a slave sharing and loving the same philosophy, the latter figure greatly influencing the former, but it is not a contradiction—nor would it have seemed odd …"-Ryan Holiday, Lives of the Stoics: The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius
16. Life Is in the Transitions: Mastering Change at Any Age
By: Bruce Feiler
3.95
Format: 366 pages, Kindle Edition
A New York Times bestseller! A pioneering and timely study of how to navigate life's biggest tran… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- psychology
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"Primed to expect that our lives will follow a predictable path, we’re thrown when they don’t. We have linear expectations but nonlinear realities... We’re all comparing ourselves to an ideal that no …"-Bruce Feiler, Life Is in the Transitions: Mastering Change at Any Age
17. The Catch (Slough House, #6.5)
By: Mick Herron
3.99
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Set in the same world as the Slough House series, this explosive novella by bestselling spy-master … read more
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18. End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration
By: Peter Turchin
4.04
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
“Peter Turchin brings science to history. Some like it and some prefer their history plain. But eve… read more
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- nonfiction
19. Lessons for Living: What Only Adversity Can Teach You
By: Phil Stutz
4.24
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Profound essays that cut through the messiness of life to help you get the good from the bad—by fam… read more
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20. I Think, Therefore I Draw: Understanding Philosophy Through Cartoons
By: Thomas Cathcart
3.61
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A hilarious new exploration of philosophy through cartoons from the duo who brought you the New Yor… read more
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21. Living for Pleasure: An Epicurean Guide to Life (Guides to the Good Life)
By: Emily A. Austin
4.24
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
If we all want happiness and pleasure so much, then why are we so bad at getting it? Pleasure fe… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
- self help
"We desire not only that we get something, but that we be pleased when we get it."-Emily A. Austin, Living for Pleasure: An Epicurean Guide to Life (Guides to the Good Life)
