What is Culture For? (Essay Books)
By: The School of Life
4.07
Format: 112 pages, Kindle Edition
Our societies frequently proclaim their enormous esteem for culture. Music, film, literature and th…
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1. Widow Basquiat: A Love Story
By: Jennifer Clement
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
The beautifully written, deeply affecting story of Jean-Michel Basquiat's partner, her past, and th… read more
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- art
- nonfiction
2. Things I Don't Want to Know
By: Deborah Levy
4.09
Format: 109 pages, Hardcover
'Perhaps when Orwell described sheer egoism as a necessary quality for a writer, he was not thinkin… read more
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- nonfiction
"Now that we were mothers we were all shadows of our former selves, chased by the women we used to be before we had children."-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know
"When happiness is happening it feels as if nothing else happened before it, it is a sensation that happens only in the present tense."-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know
"The fact that lipstick and mascara and eye shadow were called 'Make Up' thrilled me. Everywhere in the world there were made up people and most of them were women."-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know
"To become a WRITER I had to learn to INTERRUPT, to speak up, to speak a little louder, and then LOUDER, and then to just speak in my own voice which is NOT LOUD AT ALL."-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know
3. How to Worry Less About Money
By: John Armstrong
3.72
Format: 78 pages,
Dinheiro pode fazer voce feliz? Nossa relacao com dinheiro dura a vida inteira, mas livros sobre o … read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- self help
4. The Year of Living Danishly: My Twelve Months Unearthing the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country
By: Helen Russell
4.10
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Denmark is officially the happiest nation on Earth. When Helen Russell is forced to move to rural J… read more
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- nonfiction
- self help
5. Hot Milk
By: Deborah Levy
3.94
Format: 489 pages, Hardcover
Sofia, a young anthropologist, has spent much of her life trying to solve the mystery of her mother… read more
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6. A Very Easy Death
By: Simone de Beauvoir , Patrick O'Brian
4.04
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
A Very Easy Death has long been considered one of Simone de Beauvoir’s masterpieces. The profoundly… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
"«A ella le gustaba la vida mundana y lo seguía alegremente»."-Simone de Beauvoir, A Very Easy Death
"«No se muere de haber nacido, ni de haber vivido, ni de vejez. Se muere de "algo"»."-Simone de Beauvoir, A Very Easy Death
"When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets."-Simone de Beauvoir, A Very Easy Death
"Sorumlusu olmadığım halde, benim olan, hiçbir zaman da bağışlatamayacağım bir günahın, umutsuzluk içinde, cezasını çekiyordum."-Simone de Beauvoir, A Very Easy Death
7. The End of the Affair
By: Graham Greene , Monica Ali
3.90
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
"A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses a moment of experience from which to look… read more
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"As long as one suffers one lives."-Graham Greene, The End of the Affair
"I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist."-Graham Greene, The End of the Affair
"Why do we have this desire to tease the innocent? Is it envy?"-Graham Greene, The End of the Affair
"I can never think of you as a friend. You can do without a friend."-Graham Greene, The End of the Affair
8. The Gifts of Reading
By: Robert Macfarlane
4.02
Format: 293 pages, Paperback
In this luminous essay, Robert Macfarlane reflects on the unique emotional response resonance of bo… read more
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9. The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
By: Andrew Solomon
3.00
Format: None pages,
Sometimes, the legacy of depression includes a wisdom beyond one's years, a depth of passion unexpe… read more
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10. How to Think More About Sex
By: Alain de Botton
3.68
Format: None pages, Paperback
Covering such topics as adultery, lust, pornography and impotence, Alain de Botton argues that 21st… read more
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11. How to Age
By: Anne Karpf
3.57
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
The School of Life is dedicated to exploring life's big questions in highly-portable paperbacks, fe… read more
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12. Art as Therapy
By: Alain de Botton , John Armstrong
3.96
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
What is art for? In the engaging, lively, and controversial new book, bestselling philosopher Alain… read more
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13. A Little History of Philosophy
By: Nigel Warburton
3.78
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Philosophy begins with questions about the nature of reality and how we should live. These were the… read more
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14. Notes on a Nervous Planet
By: Matt Haig
3.96
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A follow-up to Matt Haig's internationally bestselling memoir, Reasons to Stay Alive, a broader loo… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- self help
"Be kind to yourself."-Matt Haig, Notes on a Nervous Planet
"Don’t worry about things you can’t control."-Matt Haig, Notes on a Nervous Planet
"Don’t let anyone or anything make you feel you aren’t enough."-Matt Haig, Notes on a Nervous Planet
"Accept feelings and accept that they are just that: feelings."-Matt Haig, Notes on a Nervous Planet
15. Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
By: Evelyn Waugh
4.00
Format: 452 pages, Paperback
An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here. The most nostalgic and reflective of Evely… read more
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"Here my last love had died."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
"No one is ever holy without suffering."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
"I had been there before; I knew all about it."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
"So through a world of piety I made my way to Sebastian."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
16. August Blue
By: Deborah Levy
3.68
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A new novel from the Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy, the celebrated author of The Man Who Saw E… read more
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"We agreed that whatever happened next in the world, we would still rub conditioner into our hair after we washed it and comb it through to the ends, we would soften our lips with rose-, strawberry-, …"-Deborah Levy, August Blue
17. Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)
By: Deborah Levy
4.29
Format: 297 pages, Hardcover
'Three bicycles. Seven ghosts. A crumbling apartment block on the hill. Fame. Tenderness. The statu… read more
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- nonfiction
"É difícil reivindicar fragilidade e força em igual proporção, mas é essa mistura que nos constitui a todos"-Deborah Levy, Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)
"A história neste livro era sobre uma mulher que oferece a sua vida a um homem. Não se deve tentar isso em casa, mas é normalmente aí que acontece."-Deborah Levy, Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)
"The story in this book was about a woman who has gifted her life to a man. This is not something to be tried at home but it is usually where it happens."-Deborah Levy, Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)
"One of these men told me at a book festival that if he did not transgress too many boundaries in his marriage, there would always be a comforting pair of slippers warming for him by the fire...Will t…"-Deborah Levy, Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)
18. Okay Days
By: Jenny Mustard
3.76
Format: 340 pages, Hardcover
‘A perfect Millennial love story ... with its acidic dialogue and languid sex scenes. A charming an… read more
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"She'd learned by that point that she couldn't fix people. all she needed to know, really, in any human transaction, was wether it was right for her; wether it fit. That was why she'd dumped Luke when…"-Jenny Mustard, Okay Days
19. The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
By: Deborah Levy
4.18
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
A searching examination of all the dimensions of love, marriage, mourning, and kinship from two-tim… read more
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- nonfiction
"Sometimes we want to unbelong as much as we want to belong."-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
"It was a big release from the terror of death to finally acknowledge that it is also always absurd."-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
"I might one day risk falling in love again, but I was not going to lose my heart to the cardiologist."-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
"To unfold any number of ideas through all the dimensions of time is the great adventure of the writing life."-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
20. The Best of Me
By: David Sedaris
4.21
Format: 387 pages, Hardcover
“Genius… It is miraculous to read these pieces… You must read The Best of Me.” —Andrew Sean Greer, … read more
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"I can't bear to hear other people's dreams unless I myself am in them."-David Sedaris, The Best of Me
21. Why We're Polarized
By: Ezra Klein
4.22
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Discover how American politics became a toxic system, why we participate in it, and what it means f… read more
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- nonfiction
"Unfortunately, the term “identity politics"-Ezra Klein, Why We're Polarized
"The key idea here is “negative partisanship"-Ezra Klein, Why We're Polarized
"So here, then, is the last fifty years of American politics summarized: we became more consistent in the party we vote for not because we came to like our party more—indeed, we’ve come to like the pa…"-Ezra Klein, Why We're Polarized
"The political media is biased, but not toward the Left or Right so much as toward loud, outrageous, colorful, inspirational, confrontational. It is biased toward the political stories and figures who…"-Ezra Klein, Why We're Polarized
22. Pretend I'm Dead
By: Jen Beagin
3.69
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Miranda July meets Mary Karr in this brilliant debut novel from Jen Beagin, Whiting Award winner an… read more
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"You respect me?" Sheila asked, surprised. "As a person?" "No, as a pigeon."-Jen Beagin, Pretend I'm Dead
"She smiled. It was rare for her to find someone attractive physically and also to like what came out of their mouth."-Jen Beagin, Pretend I'm Dead
"He was one of the fortunate ones. He'd emerged from childhood a whole person and his past wasn't some vast immovable mass with its own weather system."-Jen Beagin, Pretend I'm Dead
23. Everything Is OK
By: Debbie Tung
4.31
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
From the bestselling author of Quiet Girl in a Noisy World comes a gently humorous and poignant col… read more
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- nonfiction
- self help
24. Misunderstanding in Moscow
By: Simone de Beauvoir
3.71
Format: 110 pages, Paperback
Nicole and André, a retired French couple, take a summer holiday to Russia. It is the 1960s and Rus… read more
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"I could have been someone else, but then it would be someone else questioning herself about her self."-Simone de Beauvoir, Misunderstanding in Moscow
"Já se passaram três anos? [...] A rapidez com que os anos se passaram era angustiante. Quantas vezes ainda teria três anos para viver?"-Simone de Beauvoir, Misunderstanding in Moscow
"Sim, ela vai esquecer a igreja branca e dourada como tinha esquecido tantas outras. Aquela curiosidade que havia mantido quase intacta lhe parecia com frequência como uma sobrevivência obstinada: mas…"-Simone de Beauvoir, Misunderstanding in Moscow
"Cada manhã, antes mesmo de abrir os olhos, ela reconhecia sua cama, seu quarto. Mas, às vezes, quando dormia de tarde, experimentava ao acordar aquela estupefação pueril: por que eu sou eu? Como se a…"-Simone de Beauvoir, Misunderstanding in Moscow
25. How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division
By: Elif Shafak
4.00
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
The must-read, pocket-sized Big Think book of 2020 Ours is the age of contagious anxiety. We fee… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- self help
"Biti lišen glasa znači biti lišen utjecaja na vlastiti život."-Elif Shafak, How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division
"Do not be afraid of complexity. Be afraid of people who promise an easy shortcut to simplicity."-Elif Shafak, How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division
"Uskraćivanjem spremnosti da saslušamo druge osiguravamo da se i oni osjećaju kao da ih nitko ne čuje. I krug se nastavlja, i sa svakim okretajem sve se više pogoršava."-Elif Shafak, How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division
"Onog trenutka kad prestanemo slušati mišljenja koja se razlikuju od naših, prestajemo i učiti. Jer istina je da od jednakog i jednoličnog ne učimo baš mnogo. Obično učimo iz razlika."-Elif Shafak, How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division
26. Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain
By: David Eagleman
4.17
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From the best-selling author of Incognito and Sum comes a revelatory portrait of the human brain ba… read more
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- nonfiction
- self help
"... So the basis of behavioral improvement is not simply the repeated performance of a task; it also requires neuromodulatory systems to encode relevance. Without acetylcholine, the ten thousand hour…"-David Eagleman, Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain
"The difference between predictions and outcomes is the key to understanding a strange property of learning: if you’re predicting perfectly, your brain doesn’t need to change further… Changes in the b…"-David Eagleman, Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain
"The fact is that the future is hard to predict. Whatever the case, as we move toward the horizon, the only certainty is that we will increasingly choose our own plug-and-play peripheral devices. We a…"-David Eagleman, Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain
"Several emerging companies, still in their infancy, hope to increase the speed of brain communication to the outside world by writing and reading neural data rapidly by means of direct plug-ins. The …"-David Eagleman, Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain
27. Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays
By: Chelsea Hodson
3.75
Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition
A highly anticipated collection, from the writer Maggie Nelson has called, “bracingly good…refreshi… read more
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- nonfiction
"I’ve always liked men who look as if they’re from another time."-Chelsea Hodson, Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays
"I didn't keep a journal then. I was busy, or I thought I was, but mostly I thought anything important would stay with me."-Chelsea Hodson, Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays
"I’m trying to write something so good, so pure, so perfect that I’ll never have to have children; I’ll have created something that can stand in for me, that can live on after me.."-Chelsea Hodson, Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays
"Money can do that if you let it--if you close your eyes and enter its dream, the one where you are well dressed, fit, successful, in love with exactly the right person. The gym I used to belong to co…"-Chelsea Hodson, Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays
28. Welcome to the New World
By: Jake Halpern
4.07
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Now in a full-length book, the New York Times Pulitzer Prize–winning graphic story of a refugee fam… read more
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- nonfiction
29. Wabi Sabi: Japanese Wisdom for a Perfectly Imperfect Life
By: Beth Kempton
3.91
Format: 267 pages, Kindle Edition
'A truly transformative read' Sunday Times STYLE 'More than ever, we need books like this' Jessi… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- self help
"We have to stop telling ourselves that everyone is watching, waiting for us to fail. They really aren’t."-Beth Kempton, Wabi Sabi: Japanese Wisdom for a Perfectly Imperfect Life
"Wabi sabi teaches us to be content with less in a way that feels like more. Less stuff, more soul. Less hustle, more ease. Less chaos, more calm. Less mass consumption and more unique creation. Less …"-Beth Kempton, Wabi Sabi: Japanese Wisdom for a Perfectly Imperfect Life
"The Japanese see the seasons as signposts, visible reminders of our own natural rhytms. In modern life, these often get disrupted, as we extend our days with strong artificial light, interrupt our se…"-Beth Kempton, Wabi Sabi: Japanese Wisdom for a Perfectly Imperfect Life
"A wabi sabi inspired world view opens up a space for love. Just as we're not perfect, neither is anyone else. What difference would it make if you saw others with your heart instead of seeing and jud…"-Beth Kempton, Wabi Sabi: Japanese Wisdom for a Perfectly Imperfect Life
30. How To Understand Art (Art Essentials) (Art Essentials, 15)
By: Janetta Rebold Benton
4.07
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
A clear and concise overview of the fundamentals shared by visual arts across the globe, enabling t… read more
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- art
- nonfiction
31. What is Culture For? (Essay Books)
By: The School of Life
4.07
Format: 112 pages, Kindle Edition
Our societies frequently proclaim their enormous esteem for culture. Music, film, literature and th… read more
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- philosophy
- art
- nonfiction
- self help
