12 must-read self help books like The Existentialist's Survival Guide: How to Live Authentically in an Inauthentic Age by Gordon Marino

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The Existentialist's Survival Guide: How to Live Authentically in an Inauthentic Age

By: Gordon Marino

3.68

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Soren Kierkegaard, Frederick Nietzsche, Jean-Paul Sartre, and other towering figures of existential…

"We pay someone to mow our backyards and spend hours searching the internet to find the best deal for our next vacation. What’s our problem?"

-Gordon Marino, The Existentialist's Survival Guide: How to Live Authentically in an Inauthentic Age

"We pay someone to mow our backyards and spend hours searching the internet to find the best deal for our next vacation. What’s our problem?"

-Gordon Marino, The Existentialist's Survival Guide: How to Live Authentically in an Inauthentic Age

If you liked the self help plot in The Existentialist's Survival Guide: How to Live Authentically in an Inauthentic Age by Gordon Marino , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. American Philosophy: A Love Story

By: John Kaag

3.85

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

John Kaag is a dispirited young philosopher at sea in his marriage and his career when he stumbles … read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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2. Becoming Myself: A Psychiatrist's Memoir

By: Irvin D. Yalom

4.19

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling writer and psychotherapist Irvin D. Yalom puts himself on the couch in a lapidary memoi… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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3. The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy

By: David Graeber

3.61

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Where does the desire for endless rules, regulations, and bureaucracy come from? How did we come to… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • history
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4. The Gay Science

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Walter Kaufmann

4.11

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Nietzsche called The Gay Science "the most personal of all my books." It was here that he first pro… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
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5. At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails

By: Sarah Bakewell

3.95

Format: 254 pages, Hardcover

Paris, near the turn of 1933. Three young friends meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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6. Existentialism Is a Humanism

By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Arlette Elkaïm-Sartre , Annie Cohen-Solal , None

4.25

Format: 159 pages, Paperback

It was to correct common misconceptions about his thought that Sartre accepted an invitation to spe… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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7. Sartre in 90 Minutes

By: Paul Strathern

2.96

Format: 63 pages, Paperback

Sarte's life and ideas presented in entertaining and accessible fashion--another title in our highl… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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8. Nabokov's Favorite Word Is Mauve: What the Numbers Reveal About the Classics, Bestsellers, and Our Own Writing

By: Ben Blatt

3.96

Format: 425 pages, Hardcover

What are our favorite authors' favorite words? Which bestselling writer uses the most cliches? How … read more

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  • nonfiction
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9. Ogilvy on Advertising

By: David Ogilvy

3.71

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

A candid and indispensable primer on all aspects of advertising from the man Time has called "the m… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
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10. Daily Rituals: How Artists Work

By: Mason Currey

5.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Franz Kafka, frustrated with his living quarters and day job, wrote in a letter to Felice Bauer in … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • self help

11. The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

By: Ken Robinson , Lou Aronica

2.75

Format: None pages,

Ante un futuro cada vez mas incierto, este libro nos motiva a buscar lo mejor de nosotros mismos, l… read more

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12. The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening

By: Søren Kierkegaard , Edna Hatlestad Hong , Howard Vincent Hong

4.06

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

A companion piece to The Concept of Anxiety, this work continues Soren Kierkegaard's radical and co… read more

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13. Exile and the Kingdom

By: Albert Camus , Justin O'Brien

3.46

Format: 32 pages,

These six stories, written at the height of Camus' artistic powers, all depict people at decisive, … read more

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14. The Burnout Society

By: Byung-Chul Han

5.00

Format: 172 pages,

Our competitive, service-oriented societies are taking a toll on the late-modern individual. Rather… read more

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15. Antigone / Oedipus the King / Electra

By: Sophocles , Edith Hall , H.D.F. Kitto

3.73

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

This volume contains three masterpieces by the Greek playwright Sophocles, widely regarded since an… read more

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16. Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion

By: Paul Bloom

4.00

Format: 231 pages, Hardcover

New York Post Best Book of 2016 We often think of our capacity to experience the suffering of other… read more

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17. Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals

By: Immanuel Kant , Christine M. Korsgaard , Mary J. Gregor

4.27

Format: 197 pages, paper

Immanuel Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals ranks alongside Plato's Republic and Aristo… read more

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18. Red Valkyries: The Revolutionary Women of Eastern Europe

By: Kristen R. Ghodsee

4.18

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

The overlooked revolutionary women of Eastern Europe and their contribution to socialist feminist h… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
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19. Every Tool's a Hammer: Life Is What You Make It

By: Adam Savage

4.18

Format: 320 pages, ebook

In this New York Times bestselling “imperative how-to for creativity” (Nick Offerman), Adam Savage—… read more

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  • self help
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"When we say we need to teach kids how to “fail,"

-Adam Savage, Every Tool's a Hammer: Life Is What You Make It

"The completeness in me would not let this [missing of the lunchbox] stand. Once I caught the bug to fill out the frame of the 2001 Heywood Floyd tabloid that I have in my head, I couldn't shake off m…"

-Adam Savage, Every Tool's a Hammer: Life Is What You Make It

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20. Hiking with Nietzsche: On Becoming Who You Are

By: John Kaag

3.67

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A revelatory Alpine journey in the spirit of the great Romantic thinker Friedrich NietzscheHiking w… read more

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  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"As it turns out, to ‘become who you are’ is not about finding a ‘who’ you have always been looking for. It is not about separating ‘you’ off from everything else. And it is not about existing as you …"

-John Kaag, Hiking with Nietzsche: On Becoming Who You Are

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21. Look Again: The Power of Noticing What Was Always There

By: Tali Sharot

3.69

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Thinking Fast and Slow and The Power of Habit , a groundbreaking new study of how disru… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
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22. How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius

By: Donald J. Robertson

4.36

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The life-changing principles of Stoicism taught through the story of its most famous proponent.Roma… read more

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  • audiobook
  • biography
  • history
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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23. Move The Body, Heal The Mind: Overcome Anxiety, Depression, and Dementia and Improve Focus, Creativity, and Sleep

By: Jennifer Heisz

3.80

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A noted neuroscientist reveals groundbreaking research on how fitness and exercise can combat menta… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
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24. How to Tell a Story: The Essential Guide to Memorable Storytelling from The Moth

By: Meg Bowles

3.86

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The definitive guide to telling an unforgettable story in any setting, drawing on twenty-five years… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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25. Languishing: How to Feel Alive Again in a World That Wears Us Down

By: Corey Keyes

3.68

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The Emory University sociologist who coined the term languishing—low-grade mental weariness that af… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
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26. How to Live a Good Life: A Guide to Choosing Your Personal Philosophy

By: Massimo Pigliucci

3.74

Format: 303 pages, Kindle Edition

A collection of essays by fifteen philosophers presenting a thoughtful, introductory guide to choos… read more

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  • audiobook
  • history
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • self help
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27. The Existentialist's Survival Guide: How to Live Authentically in an Inauthentic Age

By: Gordon Marino

3.68

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Soren Kierkegaard, Frederick Nietzsche, Jean-Paul Sartre, and other towering figures of existential… read more

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  • audiobook
  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • theology
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • self help
"We pay someone to mow our backyards and spend hours searching the internet to find the best deal for our next vacation. What’s our problem?"

-Gordon Marino, The Existentialist's Survival Guide: How to Live Authentically in an Inauthentic Age

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28. Truth Is the Arrow, Mercy Is the Bow: A DIY Manual for the Construction of Stories

By: Steve Almond

4.54

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

The long-awaited book about the craft of creative writing from Steve Almond, beloved teacher, mento… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • self help
"What we're doing as writers is convincing strangers to translate our specks of ink into stories capable of generating rescue."

-Steve Almond, Truth Is the Arrow, Mercy Is the Bow: A DIY Manual for the Construction of Stories

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29. Spellbound

By: Daniel Z. Lieberman

4.06

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Psychologist Daniel Z. Lieberman, MD, reveals how to join forces with your unconscious to make bett… read more

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  • history
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • self help
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30. Freud and Psychoanalysis: Six Introductory Lectures

By: John Forrester

3.86

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

John Forrester’s passionate yet probing engagement with Freud and psychoanalysis is legendary. Here… read more

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31. Safe Enough: Crime Stories by the Author of Jack Reacher

By: Lee Child

3.36

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the world's number one thriller writer, twenty pulse-pounding short stories are collected for … read more

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  • audiobook

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Transform Your Habits

American Philosophy: A Love Story

John Kaag

3.85

Transform Your Habits

Becoming Myself: A Psychiatrist's Memoir

Irvin D. Yalom

4.19

Transform Your Habits

Sartre in 90 Minutes

Paul Strathern

2.96

Transform Your Habits

Every Tool's a Hammer: Life Is What You Make It

Adam Savage

4.18

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Transform Your Habits

Hey, Whipple, Squeeze This: A Guide to Creating Great Ads

Luke Sullivan

4.64

Transform Your Habits

All Marketers Are Liars: The Power of Telling Authentic Stories in a Low-Trust World

Seth Godin

4.61

Transform Your Habits

Ogilvy on Advertising

David Ogilvy

3.71

Transform Your Habits

The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing: Violate Them at Your Own Risk

Al Ries , Jack Trout

3.54

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