The Conscious Creative: Practical Ethics for Purposeful Work
By: Kelly Small
4.07
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
It can be difficult to live according to your values in a complicated world. The Conscious Creative…
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1. Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
By: Natalie Goldberg
4.21
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
For more than twenty years Natalie Goldberg has been challenging and cheering on writers with her b… read more
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- nonfiction
- self help
"keep your hand moving"-Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
"Write about “leaving."-Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
"Begin with “I remember."-Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
"We learn writing by doing it."-Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
2. Bird by Bird
By: Anne Lamott
4.24
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
A newer edition of this title can be found here. "Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten… read more
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- nonfiction
- self help
"Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird."-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
"A writer paradoxically seeks the truth and tells lies every step of the way."-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
"If your wife locks you out of the house, you don't have a problem with your door."-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
"You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too."-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
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4. Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men
By: Lundy Bancroft
3.25
Format: 40 pages, Paperback
In this groundbreaking bestseller, Lundy Bancroft--a counselor who specializes in working with abus… read more
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5. On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good
By: Elise Loehnen
3.80
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking exploration of the ancient rules women unwittingly follow in order to be considere… read more
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- nonfiction
- personal development
- self help
"When you don't stop, you don't have to feel."-Elise Loehnen, On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good
6. The Summer Skies
By: Jenny Colgan
3.84
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Jenny Colgan takes us to the gloriously windswept islands of nor… read more
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7. Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory
By: Sarah Polley
4.32
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Oscar-nominated screenwriter, director, and actor Sarah Polley's Run Towards the Danger explores me… read more
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- nonfiction
"His love was all around the edges, but sometimes it was hard for both of us to see, I think."-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory
"The past was affecting how I moved through the world, while present life was affecting how the past moved through me."-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory
"The past and present, I have come to realize, are in constant dialogue, acting upon one another in a kind of reciprocal pressure dance."-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory
"It can seem perplexing from the outside, this pull that many women experience to make things better for those who have hurt us. The impulse to smooth things over the keep ourselves safe..."-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory
8. Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story
By: Bono
4.20
Format: 564 pages, Hardcover
Bono--artist, activist, and the lead singer of Irish rock band U2--has written a memoir: honest and… read more
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"Fame is a currency. I want to spend mine on the right stuff."-Bono, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story
"Wisdom is the recovery of innocence at the far end of experience"-Bono, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story
"I remain more suspicious of religion than most people who'd never darken the door of a church."-Bono, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story
"the only true way to be victorious is to surrender. To each other. To love. To the higher power."-Bono, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story
9. Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself
By: Nedra Glover Tawwab
4.28
Format: 282 pages, ebook
End the struggle, speak up for what you need, and experience the freedom of being truly yourself. … read more
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- nonfiction
- personal development
- self help
"We don't naturally fall into perfect relationship; we create them"-Nedra Glover Tawwab, Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself
"I’m not doing this to disrespect you. I’m doing this to respect myself."-Nedra Glover Tawwab, Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself
"Assume that people know only what you tell them, honor only what you request, and can't read your mind."-Nedra Glover Tawwab, Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself
10. The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
By: Sonya Renee Taylor
4.23
Format: 137 pages, Paperback
A global movement guided by love. Humans are a varied and divergent bunch with all manner of bel… read more
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- nonfiction
- self help
"There is gorgeous potential and heinous instinct in us all."-Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
"Being different is difficult in a world that tells us there is a "normal."-Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
"The most powerful antidote to a world of body terrorism is a world of compassion. Giving yourself the gift of grace is an act of revolution!"-Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
"Systems do not maintain themselves; even our lack of intervention is an act of maintenance. Every structure in every society is upheld by the active and passive assistance of other human beings."-Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
11. 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
- personal development
- business
- self help
"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
12. Out There
By: Kate Folk
4.13
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
With a focus on the weird and eerie forces that lurk beneath the surface of ordinary experience, Ka… read more
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13. Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
By: Amanda Montell
3.85
Format: 309 pages, Hardcover
The author of the widely praised Wordslut analyzes the social science of cult influence: how cultis… read more
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- nonfiction
"Without language, there are no "cults"."-Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
"Some say people who join cults are “lost."-Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
"With words, we breathe reality into being."-Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
"The nimble direct sales industry always finds a way to reinvent itself - the capitalist cockroach that just won't stop reincarnating."-Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
14. 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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- business
- nonfiction
- design
- 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
15. The Book of Delights: Essays
By: Ross Gay
4.16
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
Ross Gay’s The Book of Delights is a genre-defying book of essays—some as short as a paragraph; som… read more
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- nonfiction
"The more stuff you love the happier you will be."-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays
"...which is simply called sharing what we love, what we find beautiful, which is an ethics."-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays
"Is sorrow the true wild? And if it is—and if we join them—your wild to mine—what’s that? For joining, too, is a kind of annihilation. What if we joined our sorrows, I’m saying. I’m saying: What if th…"-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays
"...in witnessing someone's being touched, we are also witnessing someone's being moved, the absence of which in ourselves is a sorrow, and a sacrifice. And witnessing the absence of movement in ourse…"-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays
16. Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
By: Melissa Febos
4.24
Format: 171 pages, Paperback
Memoir meets craft masterclass in this “daring, honest, psychologically insightful” exploration of … read more
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- nonfiction
- self help
"Writing is a form of freedom more accessible than many"-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
"...The more we believe we ought to be something that we are not, the more money we will spend in that mission."-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
"Every single thing I have created worth a damn has been a practice of love, healing, and redemption. I know this process to be divine."-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
"I have found that a fulfilling writing life is one in which the creative process merges with the other necessary processes of good living, which only the individual can define."-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
17. Beyond the Trees: A Journey Alone Across Canada's Arctic
By: Adam Shoalts
3.95
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
National bestseller A thrilling odyssey through an unforgiving landscape, from "Canada's greate… read more
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- nonfiction
18. What We Owe the Future
By: William MacAskill
3.84
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
An Oxford philosopher makes the case for "longtermism"—that positively influencing the long-term fu… read more
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- nonfiction
19. When We Lost Our Heads
By: Heather O'Neill
3.97
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A spellbinding story about two girls whose friendship is so intense it not only threatens to destro… read more
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"Her heart leaped like a frog out of a child’s fist."-Heather O'Neill, When We Lost Our Heads
"Loving everyone is the same thing as loving nobody at."-Heather O'Neill, When We Lost Our Heads
"She felt jealousy pounding like enemy soldiers at the gate."-Heather O'Neill, When We Lost Our Heads
"Her words squiggled onto the page like the laces of a girl running for her life with untied boots."-Heather O'Neill, When We Lost Our Heads
20. Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces
By: Elamin Abdelmahmoud
4.21
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
An enlightening and deliciously witty collection of essays on Blackness, faith, pop culture, and th… read more
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- nonfiction
"We do things out of fear and we do things out of love and no one tells you what happens when you act from both places at once."-Elamin Abdelmahmoud, Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces
"I am a student of migration stories. I am pulled toward accounts of lives rearranged by the journey from one place to another."-Elamin Abdelmahmoud, Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces
"It is a profound, transformative gift to have someone see you as you’d like to be seen, even if you don’t see yourself that way."-Elamin Abdelmahmoud, Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces
"Love is a practice, a trail you carve out by traveling the same path over and over and over until it becomes familiar, until it lights the way home."-Elamin Abdelmahmoud, Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces
21. 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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- nonfiction
- self help
"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
22. Magic Words
By: Jonah Berger
3.90
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A NEXT BIG IDEA CLUB 'MUST-READ' New York Times bestselling author Jonah Berger’s cutting-edge rese… read more
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- business
- self help
23. Their Vicious Games
By: Joelle Wellington
3.99
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A Black teen desperate to regain her Ivy League acceptance enters an elite competition only to disc… read more
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24. Do Listen: Understand what's really being said. Find a new way forward. (Listening Book, Mindfulness Books, Self Growth Books) (Do Books)
By: Bobette Buster
3.71
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
At a time when a bit more listening might serve us well, Do Listen is a handy guide to the art of c… read more
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- nonfiction
25. Do Improvise: Less Push. More Pause. Better Results. A New Approach to Work (and Life)
By: Robert Poynton
3.67
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Everyday we deal with the unplanned and the unexpected - from a broken toaster to losing (or gainin… read more
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- personal development
- nonfiction
- design
- business
- self help
26. Daughters of the Deer
By: Danielle Daniel
4.40
Format: 327 pages, Paperback
In this haunting, groundbreaking, historical novel, Danielle Daniel imagines the lives of her ances… read more
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27. You Will Find Your People: How to Make Meaningful Friendships as an Adult
By: Lane Moore
3.29
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
From Lane Moore, the critically acclaimed author of How to Be Alone, comes a searingly intimate, ye… read more
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- nonfiction
- personal development
- self help
28. Extra Bold: A Feminist, Inclusive, Anti-racist, Nonbinary Field Guide for Graphic Designers
By: Ellen Lupton
4.30
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Extra Bold is the inclusive, practical, and informative (design) career guide for everyone! Part… read more
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- business
- nonfiction
- design
29. Anatomy of a Breakthrough: How to Get Unstuck When It Matters Most
By: Adam Alter
3.96
Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition
A groundbreaking guide to breaking free from the thoughts, habits, jobs, relationships, and even bu… read more
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- personal development
- business
- self help
30. Do Pause: You are not a To Do list. (Do Books, 19)
By: Robert Poynton
3.87
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Machines are designed to run constantly; people aren’t. Our coping mechanisms are meditation apps, … read more
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- personal development
- business
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31. The Conscious Creative: Practical Ethics for Purposeful Work
By: Kelly Small
4.07
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
It can be difficult to live according to your values in a complicated world. The Conscious Creative… read more
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