The Art of the Interesting: What We Miss in Our Pursuit of the Good Life and How to Cultivate It
By: Lorraine Besser
3.85
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Ready to live your best possible life? It's time to make it interesting. Do you know anyone wh…
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1. The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center
By: Rhaina Cohen
3.95
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Why do we place romantic partnership on a pedestal? What do we lose when we expect one person to me… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
- self help
2. Look Again: The Power of Noticing What Was Always There
By: Tali Sharot
3.69
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Thinking Fast and Slow and The Power of Habit , a groundbreaking new study of how disru… read more
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- psychology
- self help
3. The Transcendent Brain: Spirituality in the Age of Science
By: Alan Lightman
3.88
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of Einstein's Dreams comes a rich, fascinating answer to the question, Ca… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
4. The PLAN: Manage Your Time Like a Lazy Genius
By: Kendra Adachi
4.24
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of The Lazy Genius Way brings her beloved Kind Big Sister Ene… read more
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- nonfiction
- self help
5. Creation Lake
By: Rachel Kushner
3.67
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of th… read more
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"Charisma does not originate inside the person called "charismatic." It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist."-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"Plus, Lucien said, a lot of them had come from other social milieus and had tattoos from earlier lives, since people who change affinities are the same kinds of people who are attracted to the perman…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"My biker and these tramps, as people who organize their life around some subculture or other: People can sometimes pretend so thoroughly that they forget they are pretending. At which point, it could…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"I could sense him gathering a false hindsight that afternoon in the Place des Vosges, shaping a retrospective narrative, the thing a person tells himself about fate, about how everything had seemed f…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
6. Hope for Cynics: The Surprising Science of Human Goodness
By: Jamil Zaki
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Cynicism is making us sick; Stanford Psychologist Dr. Jamil Zaki has the cure—a “ray of light for … read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
- self help
7. The Art of the Interesting: What We Miss in Our Pursuit of the Good Life and How to Cultivate It
By: Lorraine Besser
3.85
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Ready to live your best possible life? It's time to make it interesting. Do you know anyone wh… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
- self help
8. Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts
By: Oliver Burkeman
4.51
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
From Oliver Burkeman, author of the New York Times bestseller Four Thousand Weeks, a four-week jour… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
- self help
9. Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering
By: Malcolm Gladwell
4.16
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Twenty-five years after the publication of his groundbreaking first book, Malcolm Gladwell returns … read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
- self help
10. Blind Spots: When Medicine Gets It Wrong, and What It Means for Our Health
By: Marty Makary
4.62
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From Johns Hopkins medical expert Dr. Marty Makary, the New York Times-bestselling author of The Pr… read more
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11. The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door
By: H.G. Parry
4.38
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
From the author of The Magician's Daughter comes The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door, a mythic, ma… read more
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12. A Very Short History of the Israel–Palestine Conflict
By: Ilan Pappé
4.40
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A short primer unravelling the Israel–Palestine conflict from the nineteenth century to todayThe de… read more
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- nonfiction
"We need to change how we talk about Israel and Palestine. There is no point in talking about peace, as if both sides are equally at fault, when the process we’re really talking about is decolonisatio…"-Ilan Pappé, A Very Short History of the Israel–Palestine Conflict
13. What the Chicken Knows: A New Appreciation of the World's Most Familiar Bird
By: Sy Montgomery
3.94
Format: 91 pages, Kindle Edition
A charming and eye-opening exploration of the special relationship between humans and chickens from… read more
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- nonfiction
14. Tech Agnostic: How Technology Became the World's Most Powerful Religion, and Why It Desperately Needs a Reformation
By: Greg Epstein
4.08
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
An urgently needed exploration of global technology worship, and a measured case for skepticism and… read more
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- nonfiction
15. How to Build a Fashion Icon: Notes on Confidence from the World’s Only Image Architect
By: Law Roach
3.70
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking confidence manifesto by world famous stylist and image architect Law Roach Law Roa… read more
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- self help
16. Shift: Managing Your Emotions—So They Don't Manage You
By: Ethan Kross
3.92
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
'I cannot think of a better time for a book like Shift or a better author to write it' - Angela Duc… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
- self help
17. The DOSE Effect: Optimize Your Brain and Body by Boosting Your Dopamine, Oxytocin, Serotonin, and Endorphins
By: T.J. Power
4.20
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A neuroscientist’s powerful framework for enhancing quality of life through the regulation of four … read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
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18. Reset: How to Change What's Not Working
By: Dan Heath
4.24
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Made to Stick, Switch, and The Power of Moments co… read more
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- psychology
- self help
19. Pillars of Creation: How the James Webb Telescope Unlocked the Secrets of the Cosmos
By: Richard Panek
4.10
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The James Webb Space Telescope is transforming the universe right before our eyes—and here, for the… read more
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20. Win the Inside Game: How to Move from Surviving to Thriving, and Free Yourself Up to Perform
By: Steve Magness
4.05
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In this highly anticipated book, the bestselling author of Do Hard Things Steve Magness—“one of the… read more
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- psychology
- self help
21. Life in Three Dimensions: How Curiosity, Exploration, and Experience Make a Fuller, Better Life
By: Shigehiro Oishi
4.01
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From one of our foremost psychologists, a trailblazing book that turns the idea of a good life on i… read more
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