The Monocle Book of Gentle Living
By: Monocle
3.94
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A timely handbook helping readers think about how to slow down, reconnect, and live a gentler life.…
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1. No Logo
By: Naomi Klein
3.89
Format: 528 pages, Paperback
With a new Afterword to the 2002 edition, No Logo employs journalistic savvy and personal testament… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- design
"(...) losing one's job is much less frightening when getting it seemed an accident in the first place."-Naomi Klein, No Logo
"When Nike says, just do it, that's a message of empowerment. Why aren't the rest of us speaking to young people in a voice of inspiration?"-Naomi Klein, No Logo
"Competitive branding became a necessity of the machine age — within a context of manufactured sameness; image-based difference had to be manufactured along with the product."-Naomi Klein, No Logo
"Despite different cultures, middle-class youth all over the world seem to live their lives as if in a parallel universe. They get up in the morning, put on their Levi's and Nikes, grab their caps and…"-Naomi Klein, No Logo
2. The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia
By: Michael Booth
3.86
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Journalist Michael Booth has lived among the Scandinavians for more than ten years and has grown in… read more
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- nonfiction
"This ungodly act is simply something that Finns do, like the British and their DIY, or the French and their adultery."-Michael Booth, The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia
"They go out, they drink a lot of beer and they eat dead pigs, and then they go home and have sex with strangers afterwards."-Michael Booth, The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia
"They had inherited a poor, patriarchal, and formal society, and turned it into a rich, feminist, and fiercely egalitarian one."-Michael Booth, The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia
"The country now has the second highest GDP per capita in the world after Luxembourg, and Luxembourg is hardly a proper country."-Michael Booth, The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia
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4. Vi er ikke her for å ha det morsomt
By: Nina Lykke
3.55
Format: 275 pages, Hardcover
Knut er en middelaldrende forfatter som aldri har kommet tilbake på nivå med suksessromanen han skr… read more
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5. The Creative Act: A Way of Being
By: Rick Rubin
4.04
Format: 406 pages, Hardcover
From the legendary music producer, a master at helping people connect with the wellsprings of their… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- design
- self help
"Find the sustainable rituals that best support your work."-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
"In terms of priority, inspiration comes first. You come next. The audience comes last."-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
"When it comes to the creative process, patience is accepting that the majority of the work we do is out of our control."-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
"Turning something from an idea into a reality can make it seem smaller. It changes from unearthly to earthly. The imagination has no limits. The physical world does. The work exists in both."-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
6. Kurashi at Home: How to Organize Your Space and Achieve Your Ideal Life
By: Marie Kondō
3.62
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From the #1 bestselling sensation and Netflix star comes her inspirational visual guide to elevatin… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- design
- self help
"It's hard to change someone else. But we can change ourselves."-Marie Kondō, Kurashi at Home: How to Organize Your Space and Achieve Your Ideal Life
"The true purpose of tidying is not to cut down on your possessions or declutter your space. The ultimate goal is to spark joy every day and lead a joyful life."-Marie Kondō, Kurashi at Home: How to Organize Your Space and Achieve Your Ideal Life
"Ultimately, I think the purpose of life is to be happy and fulfilled. I don't mean this in a selfish 'me first' way. When we exude an aura of happiniess, this positive energy spreads to those around …"-Marie Kondō, Kurashi at Home: How to Organize Your Space and Achieve Your Ideal Life
7. Baking Yesteryear: The Best Recipes from the 1900s to the 1980s
By: B. Dylan Hollis
4.47
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A decade-by-decade cookbook that highlights the best (and a few of the worst) baking recipes from t… read more
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- nonfiction
8. 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
9. Butter
By: Asako Yuzuki
3.60
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist inten… read more
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"Dessert was home-made candied chestnuts, chiffon cake baked with amazake and rice flour, and cups of gingery chai. Biting into the cake, Rika discovered that it was perfectly fluffy, with a pleasing …"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
"Soon after, Rika heard the sizzle of butter melting in a hot frying pan. It smelt to her like life itself. Maybe because it was animal fat, there was rough, raw depth and fragrance to its smell, whic…"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
"Milk was originally blood. In that case, was the butter in the Babaji story actually a metaphor for all the carnage that took place under the cover of the jungle? What seemed pure, white and creamy h…"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
"The whipped butter had already started melting across the waffles' latticed brown surface, creating a golden trickling waterfall that pooled in their hollows. Rika bit into the dough, savoring how ju…"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
10. Deadly Animals
By: Marie Tierney
4.16
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Finding a dead body is not normal. But Ava is not a normal teenager. In this chilling debut mystery… read more
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11. 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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- nonfiction
12. Intermezzo
By: Sally Rooney
4.34
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.… read more
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13. The Bookshop Woman
By: Nanako Hanada
3.60
Format: 204 pages, ebook
A love story to climbing all the way down a book's rope, free diving to its bottom, and then resurf… read more
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- nonfiction
14. Life Is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way
By: Kieran Setiya
3.58
Format: 234 pages, Hardcover
A NEW YORKER AND THE ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF 2022" Life Is Hard is a humane consolation for challeng… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- self help
15. The Memory of Lavender and Sage
By: Aimie K. Runyan
4.09
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Food critic Tempèsta Luddington has always felt like the odd person out in her family, ever since s… read more
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16. The Great Divide: Australia's Housing Mess and How to Fix It (Quarterly Essay #92)
By: Alan Kohler
4.31
Format: 161 pages, Kindle Edition
What caused Australia's housing crisis -- and how we might fix it One of the great mysteries of Au… read more
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- nonfiction
17. Zuzana Čaputová: Nestratiť sa sama sebe
By: Erik Tabery
4.81
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Dialóg Zuzany Čaputovej a šéfredaktora týždenníka Respekt Erika Taberyho trval viac ako dva roky. A… read more
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- nonfiction
18. Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century
By: Simon Kuper
4.17
Format: 271 pages, Kindle Edition
'Kuper is a shrewd observer [in] this entertaining mix of memoir and anthropology' The Sunday Times… read more
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- nonfiction
19. The Monocle Book of Gentle Living
By: Monocle
3.94
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A timely handbook helping readers think about how to slow down, reconnect, and live a gentler life.… read more
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- nonfiction
- design
- self help
20. Scaffolding
By: Lauren Elkin
3.86
Format: 388 pages, Kindle Edition
The story of two couples who live in the same apartment in north-east Paris almost fifty years apar… read more
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21. The Fashion Business Manual: An Illustrated Guide to Building a Fashion Brand
By: Fashionary
4.49
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
The Fashion Business Manual is everything you need to start building your fashion brand. It takes y… read more
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- design
- self help
