13 must-read nonfiction books like Accountable: The Rise of Citizen Capitalism by Michael O'Leary

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Accountable: The Rise of Citizen Capitalism

By: Michael O'Leary

4.29

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

This provocative book takes us inside the fight to save capitalism from itself. Corporations are…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Accountable: The Rise of Citizen Capitalism by Michael O'Leary , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase

By: Mark Forsyth

4.36

Format: 205 pages, Hardcover

The idiosyncratic, erudite and brilliantly funny new book from Mark Forsyth, bestselling author of … read more

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  • nonfiction
"I’ve been too fucking busy, and vice versa."

-Mark Forsyth, The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase

"John Ronald Reuel Tolkien wrote his first story aged seven. It was about a “green great dragon."

-Mark Forsyth, The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase

"A ham sandwich is better than nothing. Nothing is better than eternal happiness. So eternal happiness is beaten by a ham sandwich."

-Mark Forsyth, The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase

"The Bible is chock-a-block with such unnecessary but beautiful antitheses. God, whatever his other failings, is a great rhetorician."

-Mark Forsyth, The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase

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2. Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success

By: Adam M. Grant

4.19

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Give and Take highlights what effective networking, collaboration, influence, negotiation, and lead… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business

3. Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist

By: None

4.12

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'I see [Raworth] as the John Maynard Keynes of the 21st Century: by ref… read more

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4. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)

By: Robert M. Pirsig

3.78

Format: 540 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Robert M. Pirsig's Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is an examination of how we live, a medi… read more

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"This forest silence improves anyone."

-Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)

"The more you read, the more you calm down."

-Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)

"For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses. "

-Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)

"To all appearances he was just drifting. In actuality he was just drifting."

-Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)

5. Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions

By: Brian Christian , Tom Griffiths

3.95

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A fascinating exploration of how insights from computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday l… read more

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6. Who's in Charge? Free Will and the Science of the Brain

By: Michael S. Gazzaniga

4.19

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A powerful orthodoxy in the study of the brain has taken hold in recent years: Since physical laws … read more

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7. The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

By: Michael Pollan

3.66

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Today, buffeted by one food fad after another, America is suffering from what can only be described… read more

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8. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

By: Timothy Snyder

4.12

Format: None pages, Paperback

An historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America's turn towards authorita… read more

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9. Designing Your Life: Build a Life that Works for You

By: None , Dave Evans

3.82

Format: 287 pages, Paperback

*** The #1 New York Times Bestseller *** Whether we're 20, 40, 60 or older, many of us are still l… read more

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10. How Will You Measure Your Life?

By: Clayton M. Christensen , Karen Dillon , James Allworth

3.73

Format: 112 pages, ebook

In 2010 world-renowned innovation expert Clayton M. Christensen gave a powerful speech to the Harva… read more

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11. Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts

By: Annie Duke

3.83

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In Super Bowl XLIX, Seahawks coach Pete Carroll made one of the most controversial calls in footbal… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
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12. 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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  • nonfiction
  • business
"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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13. Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It

By: Chris Voss

4.36

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A former FBI hostage negotiator offers a new, field-tested approach to negotiating – effective in a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
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14. 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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  • nonfiction
  • business
"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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15. The Body: A Guide for Occupants

By: Bill Bryson

4.32

Format: 450 pages, Hardcover

In the bestselling, prize-winning A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson achieved the se… read more

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  • nonfiction
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16. Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione

By: Jonathan Haidt

4.21

Format: 420 pages, Paperback

Una suggestiva indagine dei meccanismi profondi che regolano la nostra esistenza, le decisioni che … read more

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  • nonfiction
"Reasoning can take you wherever you want to go."

-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione

"Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second."

-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione

"Anyone who values truth should stop worshipping reason."

-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione

"Science is a smorgasbord, and google will guide you to the study that's right for you."

-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione

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17. 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
  • business
"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

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18. The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves

By: J.B. MacKinnon

4.20

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Consuming less is our best strategy for saving the planet—but can we do it? In this thoughtful and … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
"We can't stop shopping, we must stop shopping. It isn't only that consumption is distorting the climate, felling the forests, cluttering out lives, filling our heads with a throwaway mindset, even st…"

-J.B. MacKinnon, The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves

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19. The Man Who Broke Capitalism: How Jack Welch Gutted the Heartland and Crushed the Soul of Corporate America―and How to Undo His Legacy

By: David Gelles

4.01

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller New York Times reporter and “Corner Office” columnist David Gelles revea… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
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20. 7 Rules of Power: Surprising--but True--Advice on How to Get Things Done and Advance Your Career

By: Jeffrey Pfeffer

4.06

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

If you want to "change lives, change organizations, change the world," the Stanford business school… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
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21. Accountable: The Rise of Citizen Capitalism

By: Michael O'Leary

4.29

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

This provocative book takes us inside the fight to save capitalism from itself. Corporations are… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • economics
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