The Power of Mind: A Tibetan Monk's Guide to Finding Freedom in Every Challenge
By: Khentrul Lodro T'haye
4.49
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
A modern guide to lojong—ancient Buddhist techniques for transforming all circumstances, including …
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1. The Art Of Living
By: Thich Nhat Hanh
4.43
Format: 206 pages, Paperback
Master the art of living from one of the world’s most revered spiritual leaders. Thich Nhat Hanh… read more
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- buddhism
- nonfiction
- self help
"I think (too much), therefore I am (not there to live my life)."-Thich Nhat Hanh, The Art Of Living
"Whether this moment is happy or not depends on you. It`s you who makes the moment happy, not the moment that makes you happy. With mindfulness, concentration, and insight, any moment can become a hap…"-Thich Nhat Hanh, The Art Of Living
"Breathing in, I see all my ancestors in me: my mineral ancestors, plant ancestors, mammal ancestors, and human ancestors. My ancestors are always present, alive in every cell of my body, and I play a…"-Thich Nhat Hanh, The Art Of Living
"I see that this body—made of the four elements—is not really me, and I am not limited by this body. I am the whole of the river of life, of blood ancestors and spiritual ancestors, that has been cont…"-Thich Nhat Hanh, The Art Of Living
2. Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
By: Shunryu Suzuki , Huston Smith , Trudy Dixon , Richard Baker
4.21
Format: 138 pages, Paperback
“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.” So begins… read more
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- buddhism
- nonfiction
- self help
"Waves are the practice of the water."-Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
"You do not say, “This is enlightenment,"-Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
"Sincerity itself is the railroad track."-Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
"Zen practice is to open up our small mind."-Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
3. Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience
By: Sharon Salzberg , None , None
3.65
Format: 135 pages, Paperback
In this beautifully written work, one of America's most beloved meditation teachers offers discerni… read more
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- buddhism
- nonfiction
- self help
4. Being Peace (Being Peace, #1)
By: Thich Nhat Hanh , Arnold Kotler
3.66
Format: 341 pages, Paperback
Since its publication in 1987, "Being Peace" has become a classic of contemporary religious literat… read more
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- buddhism
- nonfiction
- self help
5. The Corrections
By: Jonathan Franzen
3.84
Format: 653 pages, Paperback
"The Corrections" is a grandly entertaining novel for the new century - a comic, tragic masterpiece… read more
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"To be so vigorous and healthy and yet so nothing. "-Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
"Brooklyn was like Philadelphia made better by its proximity to Manhattan."-Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
"His problem consisted of a burning wish not to have done the things he'd done."-Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
"Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude."-Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
6. Still Here: Embracing Aging, Changing and Dying
By: Ram Dass , Richard Alpert
4.30
Format: None pages, Paperback
More than thirty years ago, an entire generation sought a new way of life, looking for fulfillment … read more
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- nonfiction
- self help
7. Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner
By: Scott Cunningham
3.98
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
Cunningham's classic introduction to Wicca is about how to live life magically, spiritually, and wh… read more
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8. Seeds of Hope: Wisdom and Wonder from the World of Plants
By: Michael Pollan , Jane Goodall , Gail Hudson
0.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Renowned naturalist and bestselling author Jane Goodall examines the critical role that trees and p… read more
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9. This Is Your Mind on Plants
By: Michael Pollan
3.86
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In This Is Your Mind on Plants, Michael Pollan dives deep into three plant drugs--opium, caffeine, … read more
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- nonfiction
"[Taloma] offered prayers for us and for our troubled country and world. She invoked the spirit of the cactus in teaching us how to heal ourselves and how, once healed, we could better help to heal ot…"-Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind on Plants
"The war on drugs is in truth a war on some drugs, their enemy status the result of historical accident, cultural prejudice, and institutional imperative. The taxonomy on behalf of which this war is b…"-Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind on Plants
"How can you possibly expect to write anything when you can't concentrate? That's pretty much all writers do: take the blooming multiplicity of the world and our experience of it, literally concentrat…"-Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind on Plants
"There's a parable here somewhere, about the difference between journalism and history. What might appear to be "the story" in the present moment may actually be a distraction from it, a shiny object …"-Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind on Plants
10. Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.87
Format: 190 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER. The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road returns with the second v… read more
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"I would like to belong but I dont."-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
"The notion of nothing is an inconceivable notion"-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
"Love is quite possibly a mental disorder itself."-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
"Rage is only for what you believe can be fixed. All the rest is grief."-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
11. The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery
By: Brianna Wiest
4.09
Format: 250 pages, Kindle Edition
This is a book about self-sabotage. Why we do it, when we do it, and how to stop doing it—for good.… read more
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- self help
- nonfiction
- mental health
"Don’t worry about doing it well; just do it."-Brianna Wiest, The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery
"Without breaks, faults, and gaps, nothing could grow and nothing would become."-Brianna Wiest, The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery
"No wonder why we build our own cages and stay in them, even though there's no lock on the door."-Brianna Wiest, The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery
"Arrive into the present. There is a saying that if you are anxious, it's because you are living in the future. And if you are depressed, it's because you are living in the past. When you are living i…"-Brianna Wiest, The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery
12. A Haunting on the Hill
By: Elizabeth Hand
3.35
Format: 326 pages, Hardcover
From three-time Shirley Jackson, World Fantasy, and Nebula Award-winning author Elizabeth Hand come… read more
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13. An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
By: Ed Yong
4.47
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A grand tour through the hidden realms of animal senses that will transform the way you perceive th… read more
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- nonfiction
"It's ironic that we associate taste with connoisseurship, subtlety, and fine discrimination when it is among the coarsest of senses."-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"We are closer than ever to understanding what it is like to be another animal, but we have made it harder than ever for other animals to be."-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal can only tap into a small fraction of realities fullness. Each is enclos…"-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"A striking pattern emerged on days with the most intense solar storms, grey whales were 4 times more likely to beach themselves. This correlation doesn't prove that whales have a compass but it stron…"-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
14. Victory City
By: Salman Rushdie
3.80
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Hidden in a clay pot. Sealed with wax. Buried at the heart of a ruined palace amidst the ashes of o… read more
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"History is a consequence not only of people's actions, but also of their forgetfulness."-Salman Rushdie, Victory City
"History is the consequence not only of people’s actions, but also of their forgetfulness."-Salman Rushdie, Victory City
"fHistory is the consequence not only of people's actions, but also of their forgetfulness."-Salman Rushdie, Victory City
"In death do triumph and failure humbly meet. We learn far less from victory than from defeat."-Salman Rushdie, Victory City
15. 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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- nonfiction
- 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
16. The Practice of Groundedness: A Transformative Path to Success That Feeds—Not Crushes—Your Soul
By: Brad Stulberg
4.13
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Join thousands of readers and learn about the foundations of sustainable excellence and concrete ha… read more
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- self help
- nonfiction
- mental health
17. Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life
By: Dacher Keltner
3.64
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Awe is mysterious. How do we begin to quantify the goose bumps we feel when we see the Grand Canyon… read more
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- nonfiction
- self help
18. Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
By: Katherine May
3.62
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times-bestselling author of Wintering, an invitation to rediscover the feelings o… read more
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- self help
- nonfiction
- mental health
"Sometimes we are visited by destruction. Other times, it seems, the world flexes its claws and lets us feel its hot breath, just to remind us how small we are, how helpless."-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
"I have started to look up the meaning of place names recently. It is perhaps an interest that awakens in you ass you age, this enthusiasm for peering back through time to find lost meaning."-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
"Sacred places are no longer given to us, and they are rarely shared between whole communities. They are now containers for our own knowing, our own meanings. They don't translate across minds. It fal…"-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
"You do not need to walk in the wilderness to make contact with the wild. If you know your stories--if you understand the mythologies of your land--then you can leap from a sunlit stroll with your dog…"-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
19. You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It's Making the World a Weirder Place
By: Janelle Shane
4.15
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
"You look like a thing and I love you" is one of the best pickup lines ever... according to an arti… read more
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- nonfiction
"Then [the AI] guesses that o is often followed by ck. Gold. It has made some progress. Behold its idea of the perfect joke: Whock Whock Whock Whock Whock Whock Whock Whock Whock Whock Whock"-Janelle Shane, You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It's Making the World a Weirder Place
20. The Water Dancer
By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
4.06
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here and here. Young Hiram Walker was bo… read more
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"...it was never the costume that made the Quality, but how the lady wore it."-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Water Dancer
"It's like summer wear the world out, and by October everyone is just ready for a nap"-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Water Dancer
"The tree of our family was parted - branches here, roots there - parted for their lumber."-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Water Dancer
"And by then, I well knew what would be done upon that land, how the sin of theft would be multiplied by the sin of bondage."-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Water Dancer
21. Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries
By: Greg Melville
4.00
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A lively tour through the history of US cemeteries that explores how, where, and why we bury our de… read more
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- nonfiction
"Every life holds an epic tale, even if no one alive remembers it."-Greg Melville, Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries
22. How We Live Is How We Die
By: Pema Chodron
4.30
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
As much as we might try to resist, endings happen in every moment—the end of a breath, the end of a… read more
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- buddhism
- nonfiction
- self help
23. Land of Milk and Honey
By: C Pam Zhang
3.54
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The award-winning author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold returns with a rapturous and revelatory… read more
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" Real food is whatever cooks are proud to make. "-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
"We all die. We have only the choice, if we are privileged, of whether death comes with a whimper or a bang; of what worlds we taste before we go."-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
"My employer was attuned to patterns of human behavior in which he could not take part; because he failed to be swept up in their currents, he could, from his remove, map the tides."-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
"What sustains in the end are doomed romances, and nicotine, and crappy peanut butter, damn the additives and cholesterol because life is finite and not all nourishment can be measured."-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
24. The Psychology of Stupidity
By: Jean-François Marmion
3.20
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Stupidity is all around us. But in order to vanquish it, we must first understand it. In The Psycho… read more
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- self help
"Fighting stupidity tends to reinforce it."-Jean-François Marmion, The Psychology of Stupidity
25. Lost & Found: A Memoir
By: Kathryn Schulz
4.09
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Eighteen months before Kathryn Schulz's father died, she met the woman she would marry. In Lost & F… read more
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- nonfiction
"For now, at least, the world is ours to notice and to change, and that seems to me sufficient. It is true that loss will ultimately part us from it, but it is also true, as I said earlier, that we ha…"-Kathryn Schulz, Lost & Found: A Memoir
"One consequence of losing a parent—obvious enough, although it hadn't occurred to me beforehand—is that it reconfigures the rest of your family. All my life, it had been the four of us; to the extent…"-Kathryn Schulz, Lost & Found: A Memoir
"What an astonishing thing it is to find someone. Loss may alter our sense of scale, reminding us that the world is overwhelmingly large while we are incredibly tiny. But finding does the same; the on…"-Kathryn Schulz, Lost & Found: A Memoir
26. Violets
By: Shin Kyung-Sook
3.60
Format: 218 pages, Paperback
We join San in 1970s rural South Korea, a young girl ostracised from her community. She meets a gir… read more
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"Only my death can make her love me. And if I have to die, I’ll die right here,"-Shin Kyung-Sook, Violets
27. Real Change: Mindfulness to Heal Ourselves and the World
By: Sharon Salzberg
4.09
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From one of most prominent figures in the field of meditation comes a guidebook for how to use mind… read more
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- self help
- buddhism
- nonfiction
- mental health
28. Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature
By: Sarah Hart
3.92
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice “Wide-ranging and thoroughly winning.” ―Jordan Elle… read more
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29. 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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30. The Other Side of Nothing: The Zen Ethics of Time, Space, and Being
By: Brad Warner
4.39
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
A reader-friendly guide to Zen Buddhist ethics for modern times In the West, Zen Buddhism has a re… read more
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31. The Power of Mind: A Tibetan Monk's Guide to Finding Freedom in Every Challenge
By: Khentrul Lodro T'haye
4.49
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
A modern guide to lojong—ancient Buddhist techniques for transforming all circumstances, including … read more
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