6 must-read design books like A Modern Way to Live: 5 Design Principles from The Modern House, an illustrated interior design coffee table book by Matt Gibberd

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A Modern Way to Live: 5 Design Principles from The Modern House, an illustrated interior design coffee table book

By: Matt Gibberd

4.14

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

Beautifully designed and featuring breathtaking photography, this book from the creator of The Mode…

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1. The Emigrants

By: Michael Hulse , W.G. Sebald

4.17

Format: 237 pages, Paperback

At first The Emigrants appears simply to document the lives of four Jewish émigrés in the twentieth… read more

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"It is hard, said Mme Landau, when I told her about those railway lessons, in the end it is hard to know what it is that someone dies of. Yes, it is very hard, said Mme Landau, one really doesn't know."

-Michael Hulse, The Emigrants

"The tiny features below, taken together with the gentle mass of Montblanc towering above them, the Vanoise glacier almost invisible in the shimmering distance, and the Alpine panorama that occupied h…"

-Michael Hulse, The Emigrants

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2. After the Quake

By: Haruki Murakami , Jay Rubin

3.77

Format: 147 pages, Paperback

1995年1月、地震はすべてを一瞬のうちに壊滅させた。そして2月、流木が燃える冬の海岸で、あるいは、小箱を携えた男が向かった釧路で、かえるくんが地底でみみずくんと闘う東京で、世界はしずかに共振をはじ… read more

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"Are you prepared to die?"

-Haruki Murakami, After the Quake

"This life is nothing but a short, painful dream."

-Haruki Murakami, After the Quake

"Words left their mouths to hang frozen in midair."

-Haruki Murakami, After the Quake

"Opera lovers may be the narrowest people in the world."

-Haruki Murakami, After the Quake

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3. domino: Your Guide to a Stylish Home

By: None

3.99

Format: 208 pages,

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  • design
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4. Get Your Sh*t Together: How to Stop Worrying About What You Should Do So You Can Finish What You Need to Do and Start Doing What You Want to Do (A No F*cks Given Guide)

By: Sarah Knight

3.58

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

the no-f*cks-given, no-holds-barred guide to living your best lifeDo you ever find yourself snowed … read more

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"Big life changes are made in small, manageable chunks."

-Sarah Knight, Get Your Sh*t Together: How to Stop Worrying About What You Should Do So You Can Finish What You Need to Do and Start Doing What You Want to Do (A No F*cks Given Guide)

"The annoy so outweighed the joy that I had to take action."

-Sarah Knight, Get Your Sh*t Together: How to Stop Worrying About What You Should Do So You Can Finish What You Need to Do and Start Doing What You Want to Do (A No F*cks Given Guide)

"Proven fact: You can never finish something you didn't start."

-Sarah Knight, Get Your Sh*t Together: How to Stop Worrying About What You Should Do So You Can Finish What You Need to Do and Start Doing What You Want to Do (A No F*cks Given Guide)

"Strategize, focus, commit. That's what having your shit together looks like."

-Sarah Knight, Get Your Sh*t Together: How to Stop Worrying About What You Should Do So You Can Finish What You Need to Do and Start Doing What You Want to Do (A No F*cks Given Guide)

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5. The Kinfolk Home: Interiors for Slow Living

By: Kinfolk Magazine , Nathan Williams

4.20

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

New York Timesbestseller When The Kinfolk Table was published in 2013, it transformed the way reade… read more

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  • architecture
  • art
  • design
Cover of The Summer Book by Tove Jansson, Esther Freud, Thomas Teal, Sophia Jansson

6. The Summer Book

By: Tove Jansson , Esther Freud , Thomas Teal , Sophia Jansson

2.50

Format: 62 pages, Paperback

An elderly artist and her six-year-old granddaughter while away a summer together on a tiny island … read more

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7. Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less

By: Alex Soojung-Kim Pang

3.44

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

"Rest is such a valuable book. If work is our national religion, Pang is the philosopher reintegrat… read more

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8. 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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9. From Bauhaus to Our House

By: Tom Wolfe

3.67

Format: 244 pages, Paperback

The strange saga of American architecture in the twentieth century makes for both high comedy and i… read more

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  • architecture
  • art
  • design
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10. True Grit

By: Charles Portis

3.20

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Mattie Ross, 14, from Dardanelle, Arkansas, narrates half a century later, her trip in the winter o… read more

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11. Marching Powder: A True Story of Friendship, Cocaine, and South America's Strangest Jail

By: Rusty Young , Thomas McFadden

3.95

Format: 145 pages, Paperback

Rusty Young was backpacking in South America when he heard about Thomas McFadden, a convicted Engli… read more

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12. Leonardo da Vinci

By: Walter Isaacson

3.72

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

A #1 New York Timesbestseller "A powerful story of an exhilarating mind and life...a study in creat… read more

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13. Mythologies

By: Roland Barthes , Annette Lavers

4.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

"No denunciation without its proper instrument of close analysis," Roland Barthes wrote in his pref… read more

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14. Dalva

By: Jim Harrison

5.00

Format: 30 pages,

From her home on the California coast, Dalva hears the broad silence of the Nebraska prairie where … read more

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15. Elon Musk

By: Walter Isaacson

4.40

Format: 688 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate… read more

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"[Musk] concluded that Trump as president was no different than he was as a candidate. The buffoonery was not just an act. "Trump might be one of the world’s best bullshitters ever," he says. "Like my…"

-Walter Isaacson, Elon Musk

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16. Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

By: Morgan Housel

4.19

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

“Want to understand the changing world? Start with what stays the same. That’s the amazing conclusi… read more

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Cover of Wear It Well: Reclaim Your Closet and Rediscover the Joy of Getting Dressed by Allison Bornstein

17. Wear It Well: Reclaim Your Closet and Rediscover the Joy of Getting Dressed

By: Allison Bornstein

4.03

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Define your style and use fashion as a tool for self-discovery  using the Three-Word Method and AB … read more

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18. No One Is Talking About This

By: Patricia Lockwood

3.55

Format: 210 pages, Hardcover

A book that asks: Is there life after the internet? As this urgent, genre-defying book opens, a… read more

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"Couldn't he see her arms all full of the sapphires of the instant?"

-Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This

"The Flat Earth Society announced it had members all over the globe."

-Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This

"Every fiber in her being strained. She was trying to hate the police."

-Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This

"What do you mean you've been spying on me, with this thing in my hand that is an eye?"

-Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This

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19. Four Thousand Weeks

By: Oliver Burkeman

4.22

Format: 271 pages, Hardcover

The average human lifespan is absurdly, insultingly brief. Assuming you live to be eighty, you have… read more

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"We’ve been granted the mental capacities to make almost infinitely ambitious plans, yet practically no time at all to put them into action."

-Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks

"Rendering yourself more efficient — either by implementing various productivity techniques or by driving yourself harder—won’t generally result in the feeling of having ‘enough time,’ because, all el…"

-Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks

"The problem with trying to make time for everything that feels important—or just for enough of what feels important—is that you definitely never will. The reason isn’t that you haven’t yet discovered…"

-Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks

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20. 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

Cover of Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food by Chris van Tulleken

21. Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food

By: Chris van Tulleken

4.43

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A manifesto to change how you eat and how you think about the human body. It’s not you, it’s the… read more

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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

Cover of The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma by Mustafa Suleyman

23. The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma

By: Mustafa Suleyman

3.86

Format: 332 pages, Hardcover

A warning of the unprecedented risks that AI and other fast-developing technologies pose to global … read more

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24. Second Place

By: Rachel Cusk

3.68

Format: 186 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the Outline trilogy, a fable of human destiny and decline, enacted in a closed s… read more

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  • art
"Some people write simply because they don’t know how to live in the moment and have to reconstruct it and live in it afterwards."

-Rachel Cusk, Second Place

"Muutoksen ja toiston kaava on niin tiukasti yhteydessä tietynlaiseen harmoniaan elämässä, ja vapauden harjoittaminen on alisteista sille aivan kuin opinkappaleelle. Muutoksia täytyy annostella kohtuu…"

-Rachel Cusk, Second Place

"Joskus minun vain täytyy saada puhua jotta tuntisin itseni todelliseksi, ja toivoisin että sinäkin puhuisit minulle." Hän makasi vaiti pimeässä ja tuijotti kattoon. Sitten hän sanoi: "Minusta tuntuu …"

-Rachel Cusk, Second Place

"It struck me how the human capacity for receptivity is a kind of birthright, an asset given to us in the moment of our creation by which we are intended to regulate the currency of our souls. Unless …"

-Rachel Cusk, Second Place

Cover of The Home Edit: Stay Organized: The Ultimate Guide to Making Systems Stick by Clea Shearer

25. The Home Edit: Stay Organized: The Ultimate Guide to Making Systems Stick

By: Clea Shearer

3.78

Format: 247 pages, Kindle Edition

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the authors of The Home Edit and The Home Edit Life and hosts of t… read more

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26. Gone Viking

By: Helen Russell

3.56

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Be bold. Be brave. Be Viking...The uplifting, laugh out loud debut novel from the bestselling autho… read more

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27. Collision of Power: Trump, Bezos, and THE WASHINGTON POST

By: Martin Baron

4.20

Format: 549 pages, Kindle Edition

“A closely observed, gripping chronicle of politics and journalism during a decade of turmoil.” — T… read more

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28. What Artists Wear

By: Charlie Porter

4.12

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An eye-opening and richly illustrated journey through the clothes worn by artists, and what they re… read more

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  • art
  • design
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29. The Counting House

By: Gary Sernovitz

3.87

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The Chief Investment Officer of a prestigious university sits at the center of modern hundreds of … read more

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30. A Modern Way to Live: 5 Design Principles from The Modern House, an illustrated interior design coffee table book

By: Matt Gibberd

4.14

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

Beautifully designed and featuring breathtaking photography, this book from the creator of The Mode… read more

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  • architecture
  • art
  • design
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31. The New Traditional

By: Barclay Butera

3.14

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Accessible, luxe home design and furnishings that express who you are and the experiences of your l… read more

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4.20

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3.67

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4.04

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Rachel Cusk

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