Escape Everything!
By: Robert Wringham
4.02
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
We will each spend an average of 87,000 hours at work before we die. We will spend another 5,000 ho…
Want to Read $ 11.99"All we do is work to maximise our consumption privileges and to be able to tell people at parties that we’re a lawyer, an artist or a police officer."-Robert Wringham, Escape Everything!
"All we do is work to maximise our consumption privileges and to be able to tell people at parties that we’re a lawyer, an artist or a police officer."-Robert Wringham, Escape Everything!
"All we do is work to maximise our consumption privileges and to be able to tell people at parties that we’re a lawyer, an artist or a police officer."-Robert Wringham, Escape Everything!
"Should consumerism be the last thing we accomplish as a species, after all this evolution and the miraculous series of accidents that granted our sentience? Would that not be an utterly dull and inane end to our history?"-Robert Wringham, Escape Everything!
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1. Goodbye, Things: The New Japanese Minimalism
By: Fumio Sasaki , None
3.89
Format: 202 pages, Hardcover
Fumio Sasaki is not an enlightened minimalism expert; he's just a regular guy who was stressed at w… read more
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2. The Freedom Manifesto
By: Tom Hodgkinson
4.33
Format: 306 pages, Paperback
The author of How to Be Idle, Tom Hodgkinson, now shares his delightfully irreverent musings on wha… read more
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3. On Love
By: Alain de Botton
3.97
Format: 194 pages, Paperback
"The longing for a destiny is nowhere stronger than in our romantic life" we are told at the outset… read more
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"Must being in love always mean being in pain?"-Alain de Botton, On Love
"Because I have this thing about birthdays--they always remind me of death and forced jollity."-Alain de Botton, On Love
"The telephone becomes an instrument of torture in the demonic hands of a beloved who doesn't call."-Alain de Botton, On Love
"Does beauty give birth to love? Or does love give birth to beauty? Did I love Chloe because she was beautiful? Or was she beautiful because I loved her?"-Alain de Botton, On Love
4. Schuld
By: Ferdinand von Schirach
4.43
Format: 63 pages, Hardcover
Ein Mann bekommt zu Weihnachten statt Gefangnis neue Zahne. Ein Junge wird im Namen der Illuminaten… read more
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5. Die with Zero: Getting All You Can from Your Money and Your Life
By: Bill Perkins
3.91
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A Common-Sense Guide to Living Rich….Instead of Dying Rich Imagine if by the time you died, you did… read more
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- nonfiction
- self help
"Your biggest fear ought to be wasting your life and time, not "Am I going to have x number of dollars when I'm 80?"-Bill Perkins, Die with Zero: Getting All You Can from Your Money and Your Life
6. The Year of Less: How I Stopped Shopping, Gave Away My Belongings, and Discovered Life Is Worth More Than Anything You Can Buy in a Store
By: Cait Flanders
3.47
Format: 189 pages, Hardcover
WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER In her late twenties, Cait Flanders found herself stuck in the co… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- self help
"I wanted to be surrounded by those who valued living over working, Spending time outdoors over spending time online, and doing things for themselves over paying for every possible convenience"-Cait Flanders, The Year of Less: How I Stopped Shopping, Gave Away My Belongings, and Discovered Life Is Worth More Than Anything You Can Buy in a Store
"Stuff I purchased with every intention of using, but only because I told myself it would somehow help. I wasn't good enough, but this stuff would make me better. I wanted to read, wear, and do everyt…"-Cait Flanders, The Year of Less: How I Stopped Shopping, Gave Away My Belongings, and Discovered Life Is Worth More Than Anything You Can Buy in a Store
"I couldn't ever blame them for trying to get me to shop with them or ship for myself or simply enjoy my money - this was a behavior many people learned and exhibited in all kinds of circumstances in …"-Cait Flanders, The Year of Less: How I Stopped Shopping, Gave Away My Belongings, and Discovered Life Is Worth More Than Anything You Can Buy in a Store
7. The Creak on the Stairs (Forbidden Iceland, #1)
By: Eva Björg Ægisdóttir
3.92
Format: 315 pages, Kindle Edition
When a body of a woman is discovered at a lighthouse in the Icelandic town of Akranes, it soon beco… read more
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8. 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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- nonfiction
- self help
"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
9. Die Wut, die bleibt
By: Mareike Fallwickl
4.30
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Aufwühlend, wütend, hellsichtig: Mareike Fallwickls neuer Roman. Helene, Mutter von drei Kindern… read more
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10. Kummer aller Art
By: Mariana Leky
4.15
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Alle wirken innerlich blitzblank, nur in unserem Inneren sieht es aus wie bei Hempels unterm Sofa, … read more
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11. 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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- nonfiction
- self help
12. Motherhood
By: Sheila Heti
3.66
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the author of How Should a Person Be? (“one of the most talked-about books of the year”—Time M… read more
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"Maybe motherhood means honoring one's mother."-Sheila Heti, Motherhood
"Alone, one feels the whole universe, and none of one's personality."-Sheila Heti, Motherhood
"To fit oneself into the smallest spaces in the hopes of being loved -that is entirely womanly"-Sheila Heti, Motherhood
"The Jewish religion says it's not a child until it's two-thirds out of the woman's body--until the head has completely emerged."-Sheila Heti, Motherhood
13. Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
By: Cal Newport
4.06
Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition
Minimalism is the art of knowing how much is just enough. Digital minimalism applies this idea to o… read more
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- nonfiction
- self help
"Who could justify trading a lifetime of stress and backbreaking labor for better blinds? Is a nicer-looking window treatment really worth so much of your life?"-Cal Newport, Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
"Digital minimalism definitively does not reject the innovations of the internet age, but instead rejects the way so many people currently engage with these tools."-Cal Newport, Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
"The thought process that went into building these applications, Facebook being the first of them, . . . was all about: “How do we consume as much of your time and conscious attention as possible?"-Cal Newport, Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
"For many people, their compulsive phone use papers over a void created by a lack of a well-developed leisure life. Reducing the easy distraction without also filling the void can make life unpleasant…"-Cal Newport, Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
14. Stillness Is the Key
By: Ryan Holiday
4.23
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In The Obstacle Is the Way and Ego Is the Enemy, bestselling author Ryan Holiday made ancient wisdo… read more
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- nonfiction
- self help
"Build a life you don't need to escape from."-Ryan Holiday, Stillness Is the Key
"Routine, done for long enough and done sincerely enough, becomes more than routine. It becomes ritual—it becomes sanctified and holy."-Ryan Holiday, Stillness Is the Key
"If solitude is the school of genius, as the historian Edward Gibbon put it, then the crowded, busy world is the purgatory of the idiot."-Ryan Holiday, Stillness Is the Key
"Put yourself in tough situations. Accept challenges. Familiarize yourself with the unfamiliar. That's how you widen your perspective and your understanding."-Ryan Holiday, Stillness Is the Key
15. How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
By: Jenny Odell
3.68
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
When the technologies we use every day collapse our experiences into 24/7 availability, platforms f… read more
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- nonfiction
- self help
16. Stop Overthinking: 23 Techniques to Relieve Stress, Stop Negative Spirals, Declutter Your Mind, and Focus on the Present (The Path to Calm Book 1)
By: Nick Trenton
3.76
Format: 191 pages, Kindle Edition
Overcome negative thought patterns, reduce stress, and live a worry-free life.Overthinking is the b… read more
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- nonfiction
- self help
17. The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work
By: Simone Stolzoff
4.17
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
"Superb."—Oliver Burkeman A challenge to the tyranny of work and a call to reclaim our lives fro… read more
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- nonfiction
- self help
"We shouldn’t work less just because it allows us to be better workers. We should work less because it allows us to be better humans."-Simone Stolzoff, The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work
18. Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto
By: Tricia Hersey
4.08
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Far too many of us have claimed productivity as the cornerstone of success. Brainwashed by capitali… read more
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- nonfiction
- self help
19. Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving
By: Celeste Headlee
3.87
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Despite our constant search for new ways to 'hack' our bodies and minds for peak performance, human… read more
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- nonfiction
- self help
"In many ways I think we've lost the sight of the purpose of free time. We seem to immediately equate idleness with laziness but those two things are very different. "Leisure" is not a synonym for "in…"-Celeste Headlee, Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving
20. Slow: Simple Living for a Frantic World
By: Brooke McAlary
3.88
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Are you constantly striving to keep up with life's busy expectations? It's easy to feel consumed wi… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- self help
"Did slowing down and simplifying make our lives easier? Not really. And certainly not in the beginning. Simpler, yes, but not easier. What it did do was put the important things front and center."-Brooke McAlary, Slow: Simple Living for a Frantic World
"Because what is privilege if not an opportunity? Opportunity to make things better for everyone? Opportunity to see inequity and rectify it? Opportunity to take these immense and lucky gifts and make…"-Brooke McAlary, Slow: Simple Living for a Frantic World
"I've realized that in order to leave the world a better place than I found it - to be compassionate and caring - I need to be strong, I need to be vulnerable, I need to be healthy and vital and full …"-Brooke McAlary, Slow: Simple Living for a Frantic World
"permission. You are allowed to make changes to the way you're living. You're allowed to look after yourself. You're allowed to decide what is important to you. And you're allowed to create a life wit…"-Brooke McAlary, Slow: Simple Living for a Frantic World
21. Konsum. Warum wir kaufen, was wir nicht brauchen
By: Carl Tillessen
3.90
Format: 223 pages, Paperback
Die Pandemie hat uns vorübergehend auf einen kalten Konsum-Entzug gesetzt. Doch sie hat uns nicht g… read more
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- nonfiction
- self help
22. The Trees
By: Percival Everett
4.06
Format: 309 pages, Paperback
When a pair of detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrive in Money, Mississippi… read more
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"Unknown Male is a name,"-Percival Everett, The Trees
"Goddamnit, I hate murder more than just about anything,"-Percival Everett, The Trees
"You should know I consider police shootings to be lynchings"-Percival Everett, The Trees
"People should know, understand that not all Thursdays are the same."-Percival Everett, The Trees
23. A Simpler Life
By: The School of Life
4.05
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
This book explores ideas around minimalism, simplicity and how to live comfortably with less. Th… read more
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- nonfiction
- self help
24. Das Licht ist hier viel heller
By: Mareike Fallwickl
4.29
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Maximilian Wenger war einer der Großen, ein Bestsellerautor, ein Macher. Jetzt steht er vor einem S… read more
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25. Girls Who Lie (Forbidden Iceland, #2)
By: Eva Björg Ægisdóttir
4.05
Format: 276 pages, Kindle Edition
When a depressed, alcoholic single mother disappears, everything suggests suicide, but when her bod… read more
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26. The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life
By: Paul Millerd
4.00
Format: 222 pages, Kindle Edition
With 40k global sales, The Pathless Path has become a surprise best-seller. The book has received a… read more
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- nonfiction
- self help
27. Escape Everything!
By: Robert Wringham
4.02
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
We will each spend an average of 87,000 hours at work before we die. We will spend another 5,000 ho… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- self help
"All we do is work to maximise our consumption privileges and to be able to tell people at parties that we’re a lawyer, an artist or a police officer."-Robert Wringham, Escape Everything!
"Should consumerism be the last thing we accomplish as a species, after all this evolution and the miraculous series of accidents that granted our sentience? Would that not be an utterly dull and inan…"-Robert Wringham, Escape Everything!
"If we were all minimalists instead of conspicuous consumers, there would be less demand on the world’s resources and we’d have a smaller, less berserk economy. We’d be less likely to harm the only pl…"-Robert Wringham, Escape Everything!
"With today’s technology, social attitudes and appetite for self-actualisation, we’d ideally look upon our work with a sense of pride, involvement and accomplishment. But we’re rarely given the chance…"-Robert Wringham, Escape Everything!
28. Mein Leben in drei Kisten
By: Anne Weiss
3.86
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Wie ich den Krempel rauswarf und das Glück reinließ Minimalismus und Aufräumen liegen voll im Tr… read more
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- nonfiction
29. Agnes geht
By: Katja Keweritsch
3.74
Format: 341 pages, Kindle Edition
»Sollte das Leben nicht eigentlich genau so sein? Ohne Socken, mit Wind in den Haaren.« Nach ein… read more
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30. Generation Weltuntergang: Warum wir schon mitten im Klimawandel stecken, wie schlimm es wird und was wir jetzt tun müssen
By: Stefan Bonner
4.08
Format: 321 pages, Kindle Edition
Superstürme, Dürre, Dauerregen, Überschwemmungen – der Klimawandel ist da. Das Bestsellerduo Bonner… read more
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- nonfiction
31. Business for Bohemians: Live Well, Make Money
By: Tom Hodgkinson
3.71
Format: 253 pages, Kindle Edition
Everyone should work for themselves. But don't cashflow forecasts, tax returns and P&Ls all sound a… read more
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- nonfiction
- self help
"Making stuff is easy. Selling it is not."-Tom Hodgkinson, Business for Bohemians: Live Well, Make Money
