9 best-selling design books like Now is Better by Stefan Sagmeister

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Now is Better

By: Stefan Sagmeister

3.83

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

Stefan Sagmeister’s newest project encourages long-term thinking and reminds us that many things in…

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1. Batman: Year One

By: Dennis O'Neil , Frank Miller , David Mazzucchelli , Richmond Lewis

4.24

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

A new edition of one of the most important and critically acclaimed Batman adventures ever, written… read more

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"Alfred: Hmf. I suppose you'll take up flying next, like that fellow in Metropolis."

-Dennis O'Neil, Batman: Year One

"I requested off this damn night shift four times now. Barbara needs me. Barbara and little James. So I hope it's boy, so what?"

-Dennis O'Neil, Batman: Year One

"You can never escape me. Bullets don't harm me. Nothing harms me. But I know pain. I KNOW pain. Sometimes I share it. With someone like you."

-Dennis O'Neil, Batman: Year One

"Ladies. Gentlemen. You have eaten well. You've eaten Gotham's wealth. Its spirit. Your feast is nearly over. From this moment on...none of you are safe."

-Dennis O'Neil, Batman: Year One

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2. Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change

By: Victor Papanek

4.25

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Design for the Real World has, since its first appearance twenty-five years ago, become a classic. … read more

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  • art
  • design
"You are responsible for what you put into the world."

-Victor Papanek, Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change

"There are professions more harmful than industrial design, but only a very few of them."

-Victor Papanek, Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change

"Advertising design, in persuading people to buy things they don`t need, with money they don`t have, in order to impress others who don`t care, is probably the phoniest field in existence today."

-Victor Papanek, Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change

"It would be tedious to continue piling example upon example, statistic upon statistic. For at a certain point, a feeling of deep lethargy sets in, and our reaction is: 'What's the use?' or 'What can …"

-Victor Papanek, Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change

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3. Cats Galore: A Compendium of Cultured Cats

By: Susan Herbert

4.58

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

What happens when a cat becomes the subject of da Vinci’s Mona Lisa or takes the starring role in H… read more

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  • art
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4. Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works

By: Erik Spiekermann , E.M. Ginger

3.70

Format: 640 pages, Paperback

A guide to typography. It draws in the reader with its design and layout, making use of more than 2… read more

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  • art
  • design
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5. Best Served Cold

By: Joe Abercrombie

3.93

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Springtime in Styria. And that means war. Springtime in Styria. And that means revenge. There have … read more

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6. The Elements of Color

By: Johannes Itten , Ernst van Hagen

4.47

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

This is the most complete document of one of the landmarks of modern education in art - the famous … read more

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  • art
  • design

7. The Heroes (First Law World, #5)

By: Joe Abercrombie

3.49

Format: 182 pages, ebook

They say Black Dow's killed more men than winter, and clawed his way to the throne of the North up … read more

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8. Hercule Poirot's Christmas (Hercule Poirot, #20)

By: Agatha Christie

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

Motives for Murder: A fortune in uncut diamonds, hidden by an eccentric old man - A woman's love, t… read more

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9. Red Country (First Law World, #6)

By: Joe Abercrombie

4.11

Format: 70 pages, ebook

They burned her home. They stole her brother and sister. But vengeance is following. Shy South hope… read more

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10. Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets

By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb

3.67

Format: 363 pages, Paperback

Fooled by Randomness is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb's landmark Incerto series, an in… read more

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11. The Big Four (Hercule Poirot, #5)

By: Agatha Christie

3.68

Format: 113 pages, Paperback

Framed in the doorway of Poirot's bedroom stood an uninvited guest, coated from head to foot in dus… read more

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12. The Politics of Design: A (Not So) Global Manual for Visual Communication

By: Ruben Pater

3.79

Format: 1 pages, Paperback

The Politics of Design shows the importance of visual literacy when communicating across borders an… read more

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13. Thinking with Type

By: Ellen Lupton

3.44

Format: None pages, Paperback

The organization of letters on a blank sheet--or screen--is the most basic challenge facing anyone … read more

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14. We Had to Remove This Post

By: Hanna Bervoets

2.93

Format: 136 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Leila Slimani’s The Perfect Nanny or Ling Ma's Severance: a tight, propulsive, chill… read more

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"Yena's insecurities were soap bubbles that I had to keep popping, like in that game you play on your phone, but new ones kept appearing and I didn't want to lose, I didn't want to lose her,..."

-Hanna Bervoets, We Had to Remove This Post

"They want me to give them something new, things they'd never dare look at, things that are far beyond their imagination, which is why Gregory asks, "But whats the worst thing you ever saw?" rather th…"

-Hanna Bervoets, We Had to Remove This Post

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15. Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making

By: Tony Fadell

4.33

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Written for anyone who wants to grow at work—from young grads navigating their first jobs to CEOs d… read more

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  • design
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16. Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity

By: Peter Attia

4.37

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A groundbreaking manifesto on living better and longer that challeng… read more

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17. The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort To Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self

By: Michael Easter

4.29

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Discover the evolutionary mind and body benefits of living at the edges of your comfort zone and re… read more

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18. Underland: A Deep Time Journey

By: Robert Macfarlane

4.22

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

In Underland, Robert Macfarlane delivers an epic exploration of the Earth’s underworlds as they exi… read more

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19. 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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"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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20. The Cafe on the Edge of the World: A Story About the Meaning of Life

By: John P. Strelecky

3.55

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

In a small cafe at a location so remote it stands in the middle of the middle of nowhere, John--a m… read more

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"Man schafft nicht alles. Niemand tut das. Deshalb sollte man sich über die Dinge freuen, zu denen man kommt."

-John P. Strelecky, The Cafe on the Edge of the World: A Story About the Meaning of Life

"Why is it that we spend so much of our time preparing for when we can do what we want, instead of just doing what we want right now?"

-John P. Strelecky, The Cafe on the Edge of the World: A Story About the Meaning of Life

"As I was floating on the surface, I realized something: When the turtle was swimming, it linked its movements to the movements of the water. When a wave was coming at him, he would float, and paddle …"

-John P. Strelecky, The Cafe on the Edge of the World: A Story About the Meaning of Life

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21. Conversations on Love

By: Natasha Lunn

4.25

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A celebration of love in all its forms, featuring conversations with: Philippa Perry on falling in … read more

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"And I grew to understand that the grief I felt equalled the love. - Greg Wise"

-Natasha Lunn, Conversations on Love

"The things I flew past in the race to get what I didn't have were actually the gifts all along."

-Natasha Lunn, Conversations on Love

"I'm here for the good and the bad and everything in between". True friends see through any level of performance or denial or avoidance."

-Natasha Lunn, Conversations on Love

"It's important when you've good news to tell the right people. People who understand the dream or have a dream of their own. Otherwise, you end up feeling deflated."

-Natasha Lunn, Conversations on Love

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22. 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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  • art
  • design
"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

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23. Cult Classic

By: Sloane Crosley

3.29

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Hilariously insightful and delightfully suspenseful, Cult Classic is an original: a masterfully cra… read more

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"You know who gets to drink coffee at fuck-you hours, I thought? The French."

-Sloane Crosley, Cult Classic

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24. No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention

By: Reed Hastings

4.28

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Shortlisted for the 2020 Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Netflix cofounder… read more

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25. Wiedersehen im Café am Rande der Welt: Eine inspirierende Reise zum eigenen Selbst (Das Café am Rande der Welt 2) (German Edition)

By: John P. Strelecky

4.02

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

Einst war der Erzähler John ein gestresster Manager, heute führt er ein ausgeglichenes und glücklic… read more

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26. Allein

By: Daniel Schreiber

3.87

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Zu keiner Zeit haben so viele Menschen allein gelebt, und nie war elementarer zu spüren, wie brutal… read more

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"Doch der springende Punkt all dieser Serien, das, worauf sie immer zusteuern, wird leicht übersehen: Sie enden damit, dass ausnahmslos alle ihrer Protagonistinnen und Protagonisten Partnerinnen und P…"

-Daniel Schreiber, Allein

"Ich glaube, dass Schriftstellerinnen und Schriftsteller so gerne wandern gehen, weil es ein gutes Mittel gegen die dunklen Zustände ist, die einen, ob man es will oder nicht, bei der einsamen Arbeit …"

-Daniel Schreiber, Allein

"Das Glück der Freundschaft besteht gerade nicht in ihrem Ideal. Es stellt sich nicht ein, wenn lediglich die eigenen Bedürfnisse nach der Aufmerksamkeit anderer Menschen erfüllt werden, wenn wir sie …"

-Daniel Schreiber, Allein

"Bei Durchblättern von Büchern, die ich immer wieder zur Hand nehme, stoße ich auf Unterstreichungen wie diese: »Heute, so scheint es ihm, schreibt er mehr aus einer freien Position heraus. … Er sagt …"

-Daniel Schreiber, Allein

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27. Logódesign - Ötlettár - Inspiráció 50 mestertől

By: Steven Heller

3.70

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Bármerre nézünk, a logók mindenütt ott vannak. Eszméket, elveket és persze konkrét dolgokat jelenít… read more

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  • design
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28. CAPS LOCK

By: Ruben Pater

4.14

Format: 552 pages, Paperback

Capitalism could not exist without the coins, banknotes, documents, information graphics, interface… read more

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  • art
  • design
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29. Now is Better

By: Stefan Sagmeister

3.83

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

Stefan Sagmeister’s newest project encourages long-term thinking and reminds us that many things in… read more

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  • art
  • design
Cover of Best Before: The Evolution and Future of Processed Food (Bloomsbury Sigma) by Nicola Temple

30. Best Before: The Evolution and Future of Processed Food (Bloomsbury Sigma)

By: Nicola Temple

3.51

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Long before there was the ready meal, humans processed food to preserve it and make it safe. From f… read more

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31. Type Tricks: Layout Design: Your Personal Guide to Layout Design

By: Sofie Beier

4.50

Format: None pages, None

Type Tricks: Layout Design is the follow-up to Type Tricks and the second book in the trilogy of us… read more

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  • design

7 must-read art books like Now is Better by Stefan Sagmeister

Transform Your Habits

Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change

Victor Papanek

4.25

Transform Your Habits

Cats Galore: A Compendium of Cultured Cats

Susan Herbert

4.58

Transform Your Habits

Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works

Erik Spiekermann , E.M. Ginger

3.70

The Elements of Color

Johannes Itten , Ernst van Hagen

4.47

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20 Top self help books like The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort To Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self by Michael Easter

Transform Your Habits

How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

David Brooks

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Die with Zero: Getting All You Can from Your Money and Your Life

Bill Perkins

3.91

Transform Your Habits

Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

Charles Duhigg

4.05

Transform Your Habits

Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

Morgan Housel

4.19

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