This Exquisite Loneliness: What Loners, Outcasts, and the Misunderstood Can Teach Us About Creativity
By: Richard Deming
3.48
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
"...Rich and sensitive." — The Wall Street Journal “Loneliness is everywhere these days. But thi…
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1. The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
By: Marcel Proust , None , Terence Kilmartin , D.J. Enright
4.39
Format: 957 pages, Paperback
The Modern Library’s fifth volume of In Search of Lost Time contains both The Captive (1923) and Th… read more
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"...every social class has its own pathology..."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"Love is space and time made perceptible to the heart."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"There are optical errors in time as there are in space."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
2. Love in a Fallen City
By: Eileen Chang , Karen S. Kingsbury
4.20
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
Eileen Chang is one of the great writers of twentieth-century China, where she enjoys a passionate … read more
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3. Splinters
By: Leslie Jamison
3.86
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes the riveti… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
4. Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood
By: Ed Zwick
4.03
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
This heartfelt and wry career memoir from the director of Blood Diamond, The Last Samurai, Legends … read more
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"One of Patsy Broderick's choicer comments was to describe my writing as ' limp as a penis ."-Ed Zwick, Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood
"I called Matthew Broderick. The radiophone was working again. 'Hi, Matthew, I hear you want to talk about the script. Over .' 'Yeah, well, I have a lot of notes…' He neglected to say “ over ."-Ed Zwick, Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood
"From the moment we met Patsy Broderick was contemptuous, demeaning, and volatile. As Matthew sat in opaque silence, I was forced to defend, in excruciating detail, my rationale for every line in ever…"-Ed Zwick, Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood
5. The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time
By: Yascha Mounk
4.08
Format: 414 pages, Kindle Edition
One of our leading public intellectuals traces the origin of a set of ideas about identity and soci… read more
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- psychology
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- sociology
- audiobook
6. Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton, and Me
By: Bernie Taupin
3.58
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
** NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** An evocative, clear-eyed, and revealing memoir by Bernie Taupin, th… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
7. Platonic: How the Science of Attachment Can Help You Make—and Keep—Friends
By: Marisa G. Franco
4.06
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A lively, data-driven guide to finding your people from psychologist Dr. Marisa G. Franco about the… read more
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- psychology
- mental health
- nonfiction
- sociology
- audiobook
8. The Amen Effect: Ancient Wisdom to Mend Our Broken Hearts and World
By: Sharon Brous
4.54
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From one of our country’s most prominent rabbis, an inspiring book about the power of community bas… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- audiobook
9. The Backyard Bird Chronicles
By: Amy Tan
4.14
Format: 320 pages, Flexibound
A gorgeous, witty account of birding, nature, and the beauty around us that hides in plain sight. … read more
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"If there is anything I have learned these past six years, it is this: Each bird is surprising and thrilling in its own way. But the most special is the bird that pauses when it is eating, looks and a…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
"The (Anna's Hummingbird) males are deadbeat dads that contribute nothing to making the nest, or to feeding either the female or the nestlings. They are off to find other females they can impress with…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
"During daylight hours, they (Anna's Hummingbirds) feed every 15 minutes, be it tiny insects or nectar from flowers or feeders. If they don't consume food often enough, they can die during the day. If…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
"I asked Bernd Heinrich if he knew why feeder birds, like finches, discard so many seeds. It turns out he and other scientiests did research on this back in the 1990s - of course, he did -measuring di…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
10. All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess
By: Becca Rothfeld
3.76
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An acclaimed debut author's glorious call to throw off restraint and balance in culture in favor of… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- audiobook
11. Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters
By: Charan Ranganath
3.95
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Memory is far more than a record of the past. In this groundbreaking tour of the mind and brain, on… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
- mental health
12. Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock
By: Jenny Odell
3.61
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In her first book, How to Do Nothing, Jenny Odell wrote about the importance of disconnecting from … read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Most living entities and systems on this planet obviously do not live by the Western human clock (though some, like the crows who memorize a city's daily garbage truck route, do of course adapt to th…"-Jenny Odell, Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock
13. Scarcity Brain: Fix Your Craving Mindset and Rewire Your Habits to Thrive with Enough
By: Michael Easter
3.97
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Reveals the biological and evolutionary foundations behind your brain’… read more
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- audiobook
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- psychology
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"Embrace short-term discomfort to find a long-term benefit."-Michael Easter, Scarcity Brain: Fix Your Craving Mindset and Rewire Your Habits to Thrive with Enough
14. The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
By: Amanda Montell
3.54
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Cultish and host of the podcast Sounds Like a Cult, a delicious blen… read more
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- mental health
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- sociology
- audiobook
"While magical thinking is an age-old quirk, overthinking feels distinct to the modern era—a product of our innate superstitions clashing with information overload, mass loneliness, and a capitalistic…"-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
"Information transmission research suggests that folks with higher anxiety are quicker to engage with, and slower to disengage from, negative information; so "as a trait and state," anxiety itself per…"-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
15. Brooklyn Crime Novel
By: Jonathan Lethem
3.52
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping story of community, crime, and gentrification, tracing over fifty years of life in one B… read more
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16. Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
By: Henry Grabar
4.20
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
An entertaining, enlightening, and utterly original investigation into one of the most quietly infl… read more
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- sociology
- audiobook
17. I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself: One Woman's Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris
By: Glynnis MacNicol
3.59
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
When you’re a woman smack in so-called “middle age” you are not promised anything at all other than… read more
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- audiobook
18. Tiny Traumas: When You Don't Know What's Wrong, But Nothing Feels Quite Right
By: Meg Arroll
3.72
Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition
When little things have big impacts. This book is for anyone who feels that they’re sleepwalking th… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
- mental health
19. Alphabetical Diaries
By: Sheila Heti
4.02
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling confessional from the award-winning, beloved author of Pure Colour. Sheila Heti kept a… read more
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20. The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control: A Path to Peace and Power
By: Katherine Morgan Schafler
4.19
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From psychotherapist Katherine Morgan Schafler, an invitation to every “recovering perfectionist” t… read more
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"Energy management beats time management."-Katherine Morgan Schafler, The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control: A Path to Peace and Power
"Feeling less in danger is not the same as feeling safe."-Katherine Morgan Schafler, The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control: A Path to Peace and Power
"Enthusiasm itself will not be enough to sustain an endeavor."-Katherine Morgan Schafler, The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control: A Path to Peace and Power
"Forgiveness is not a line you cross, it's a path you walk on."-Katherine Morgan Schafler, The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control: A Path to Peace and Power
21. The Way Forward (The Inward Trilogy)
By: Yung Pueblo
4.42
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
The #1 New York Times bestselling poet returns with his most inspiring collection yet. In this thir… read more
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22. The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
By: John Koenig
4.46
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “It’s undeniably thrilling to find words for our strangest feelings…Koeni… read more
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"liberosis n. the desire to care less about things—to loosen your grip on your life, to stop glancing behind you every few steps, afraid that someone will snatch it from you before you reach the end z…"-John Koenig, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
"harke n. a painful memory that you look back upon with unexpected fondness, even though you remember having dreaded it at the time; a tough experience that has since been overridden by the pride of h…"-John Koenig, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
"Maybe there is no single self to speak of. Maybe you're a shifting collage of many different personas, each as authentic as the next. A kaleidoscope of ever-moving fragments, reflecting a thousand li…"-John Koenig, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
"But maybe all along, we had the story backward. Maybe we were the ones who cast out the jungle, who striped it naked, and tried to teach it good and evil, breaking it down into pieces that served a p…"-John Koenig, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
23. Rebellion: How Antiliberalism Is Tearing America Apart--Again
By: Robert Kagan
4.48
Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition
A chilling and clear-eyed warning about the threats to our democracy posed by the increasing radica… read more
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24. Mood Swings
By: Frankie Barnet
3.73
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In a pre-apocalyptic world not unlike our own, a young Instagram poet starts an affair with a Calif… read more
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25. The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science: A Scientist's Warning
By: Peter J. Hotez
3.89
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
Dr. Peter Hotez discusses how an anti-vaccine movement became a dangerous political campaign promot… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
- audiobook
26. Liars
By: Sarah Manguso
3.89
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars out of us… read more
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"I was in charge of everything and in control of nothing."-Sarah Manguso, Liars
"I needed my suffering to be acknowledged. After that, maybe I’d think about getting through it."-Sarah Manguso, Liars
27. Reasons Not to Worry: How to Be Stoic in Chaotic Times: A Practical Guide to Stoicism for Self-Improvement and Personal Growth
By: Brigid Delaney
4.01
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In this heartfelt and soul-searching work, brimming with warmth, humor, and insight, the beloved Gu… read more
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"You are more likely to feel an inner disturbance if you set your heart and mind on something that is beyond your control to obtain."-Brigid Delaney, Reasons Not to Worry: How to Be Stoic in Chaotic Times: A Practical Guide to Stoicism for Self-Improvement and Personal Growth
28. The Light Room
By: Kate Zambreno
3.60
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
“Kate Zambreno has invented a new form. It is a kind of absolute present, real life captured in clo… read more
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29. This Exquisite Loneliness: What Loners, Outcasts, and the Misunderstood Can Teach Us About Creativity
By: Richard Deming
3.48
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
"...Rich and sensitive." — The Wall Street Journal “Loneliness is everywhere these days. But thi… read more
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- mental health
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- sociology
- audiobook
30. Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics
By: Elle Reeve
4.27
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
This tour de force of investigative journalism—in the vein of The Next Civil War and Why We’re Pola… read more
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- nonfiction
- sociology
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31. The Power of Wonder: The Extraordinary Emotion That Will Change the Way You Live, Learn, and Lead
By: Monica C. Parker
4.04
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Wall Street Journal Bestseller An eye-opening journey through the magical, yet surprisingly litt… read more
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