7 must-read nonfiction books like Self-Sufficiency for the 21st Century: The Complete Guide to Sustainable Living Today by James Strawbridge

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Self-Sufficiency for the 21st Century: The Complete Guide to Sustainable Living Today

By: James Strawbridge

4.58

Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition

Find your route to a more sustainable lifestyle with Dick Strawbridge and his son, James. We can a…

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1. Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

By: Neil Postman , Andrew Postman

4.15

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

Television has conditioned us to tolerate visually entertaining material measured out in spoonfuls … read more

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"The written word endures, the spoken word disappears"

-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

"We rarely talk about television, only about what’s on television"

-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

"Writing is defined as "a conversation with no one and yet with everyone."

-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

"With television, we vault ourselves into a continuous, incoherent present."

-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

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2. Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

By: Christopher McDougall

4.57

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Full of incredible characters, amazing athletic achievements, cutting-edge science, and, most of al… read more

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3. The Resilient Farm and Homestead: An Innovative Permaculture and Whole Systems Design Approach

By: Ben Falk

4.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

"The Resilient Homestead" is a manual for developing durable, beautiful, and highly functional huma… read more

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4. The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World

By: Tim Flannery , Peter Wohlleben , Jane Billinghurst , Suzanne Simard

4.07

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben shares his deep love of woods and forests and explains… read more

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"A tree’s most important means of staying connected to other trees is a “wood wide web"

-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World

"Trees could solve the problems if people trying to improve things would only allow them to takeover"

-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World

"So many questions remain unanswered. Perhaps we are poorer for having lost a possible explanation or richer for having gained a mystery. But aren't both possibilities equally intriguing?"

-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World

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5. The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.25

Format: 387 pages, Paperback

Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestio… read more

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"... “Dangerous!"

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

"Freedom is never very safe."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

"Who do you think is lying to us?"

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

"Where does your soul go when you die in Hell?"

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

6. Dark of the Moon (Virgil Flowers, #1)

By: John Sandford

3.79

Format: 368 pages,

Virgil Flowers -- tall, lean, late thirties, three times divorced, hair way too long for a cop's --… read more

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7. Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic

By: Esther Perel

3.79

Format: 704 pages,

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8. The Self-Sufficient Life and How to Live It: The Complete Back-To-Basics Guide

By: Deirdre Headon , John Seymour

3.57

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The only book that teaches all the skills needed to live independently in harmony with the land, fr… read more

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9. The Art of Fermentation: An in-Depth Exploration of Essential Concepts and Processes from Around the World

By: Sandor Ellix Katz

1.00

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the 2013 James Beard Foundation Book Award for Reference and Scholarship, and a New York … read more

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10. The Transition Handbook: From oil dependency to local resilience

By: Rob Hopkins

5.00

Format: 172 pages, Paperback

We live in an oil-dependent world. Most people don't want to think about what happens when the oil … read more

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11. The New Organic Grower: A Master's Manual of Tools and Techniques for the Home and Market Gardener

By: Eliot Coleman , None

3.00

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

With more than 45,000 sold since 1989, The New Organic Growerhas become a modern classic. In this n… read more

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12. Preludes & Nocturnes (The Sandman, #1)

By: Neil Gaiman , Mike Dringenberg , Malcolm Jones III , Sam Kieth , Todd Klein , None

4.25

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

New York Times best-selling author Neil Gaiman's transcendent series SANDMAN is often hailed as the… read more

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"I am hope."

-Neil Gaiman, Preludes & Nocturnes (The Sandman, #1)

"You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime."

-Neil Gaiman, Preludes & Nocturnes (The Sandman, #1)

"I think I’ll dismember the world and then I’ll dance in the wreckage."

-Neil Gaiman, Preludes & Nocturnes (The Sandman, #1)

"Some things are too big to be seen; some emotions too huge to be felt."

-Neil Gaiman, Preludes & Nocturnes (The Sandman, #1)

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13. If I Were You

By: Lynn Austin

4.18

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling and eight-time Christy Award-winning author Lynn Austin comes a remarkable novel o… read more

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14. The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois

By: Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

4.52

Format: 816 pages, Hardcover

A magisterial epic—an intimate yet sweeping novel with all the luminescence and force of Homegoing;… read more

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"These are the incongruities of memory. It is hard to hold on to the entirety of something, but pieces may be held up to light."

-Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois

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15. Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up

By: Abigail Shrier

4.06

Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition

In virtually every way that can be measured, Gen Z's mental health is worse than that of previous g… read more

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"Children’s and adolescents’ sense of self is still developing. They cannot correct the interpretations or recommendations of a therapist."

-Abigail Shrier, Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up

"When I agreed with my therapist, I told her so. When I didn’t, we talked about that. And when I felt I needed to move on, I did. Which is to say: I was an adult in therapy. I had swum life’s choppy w…"

-Abigail Shrier, Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up

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16. Call Your Daughter Home

By: Deb Spera

4.23

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A stunning tour de force following three fierce, unforgettable Southern women in the years leading … read more

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17. Big Lies in a Small Town

By: Diane Chamberlain

4.14

Format: 391 pages, Hardcover

North Carolina, 2018: Morgan Christopher's life has been derailed. Taking the fall for a crime she … read more

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"Perhaps now that she'd told the story, it would lose its power over her. She hoped she would never have to repeat it to anyone ever again."

-Diane Chamberlain, Big Lies in a Small Town

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18. Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It

By: Richard V. Reeves

4.07

Format: 298 pages, Hardcover

"A landmark, one of the most important books of the year" - David Brooks, New York Times“Real, prac… read more

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"True equality between groups that are different in any way can be attained only by providing for the differences". That´s Margaret Mead again, in 1974. Mead´s idea of true equality might now be label…"

-Richard V. Reeves, Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It

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19. Self-Sufficiency for the 21st Century: The Complete Guide to Sustainable Living Today

By: James Strawbridge

4.58

Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition

Find your route to a more sustainable lifestyle with Dick Strawbridge and his son, James. We can a… read more

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12 must-read audiobook books like The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World by Tim Flannery, Peter Wohlleben, Jane Billinghurst, Suzanne Simard

Transform Your Habits

The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness

Sy Montgomery

4.33

Transform Your Habits

I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life

Ed Yong

4.18

Transform Your Habits

The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World

Tim Flannery , Peter Wohlleben , Jane Billinghurst , Suzanne Simard

4.07

Transform Your Habits

Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

Merlin Sheldrake

4.35

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