How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question
By: Michael Schur
4.14
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the creator of The Good Place and the cocreator of Parks and Recreation, a hilarious, thought-…
Want to Read $ 13.99"Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better. —MAYA ANGELOU"-Michael Schur, How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question
"Part of the wonder of being human is that we get to learn about the extraordinary levels of virtue of which other humans are capable."-Michael Schur, How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question
"Our behaviors create deep grooves in our personalities, like a heavy chair forming impressions in a shaggy rug, and it becomes harder and harder to escape them."-Michael Schur, How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question
"... There is no way to achieve a higher-level enjoyment from running, because there's no way to achieve any enjoyment from running, because there is nothing enjoyable about running. Running is awful, and no one should ever doe it unless they are being chased by a bear."-Michael Schur, How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question
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1. Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama
By: Bob Odenkirk
3.60
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
In this hilarious, heartfelt memoir, the star of Mr. Show, Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, and Nob… read more
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"The 'better angels of our nature' may be the ones we want leading us forward, but the worser angels are the ones that we seem to want to watch onscreen."-Bob Odenkirk, Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama
"I figured I'd work in forestry, since I like the outdoors. In fact, in high school I filled out some kind of career-planning assessment and it said just that: 'Go into the forest and don't come back."-Bob Odenkirk, Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama
"Cads kill me. Men who go through life making wisecracks, being overtly rude, taking advantage, being self-obsessed disasters. They're just funny to me. Because of this hobbyhorse, one of my favorite …"-Bob Odenkirk, Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama
2. Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
By: Charles Duhigg
4.05
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780593243916. Who and what are supercommunicators? They're the … read more
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"Strong leaders didn't help people align. In fact, groups with a dominant leader had the least amount of neural synchrony."-Charles Duhigg, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
"To communicate with someone, we must connect with them. When we absorb what someone is saying and they comprehend what we say, it's because our brains have, to some degree, aligned."-Charles Duhigg, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
3. The Office BFFs: Tales of The Office from Two Best Friends Who Were There
By: Jenna Fischer
4.23
Format: 321 pages, ebook
An intimate, behind-the-scenes, richly illustrated celebration of beloved The Office co-stars Jenna… read more
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"Invest in the people in your lives. Find that friend who makes you feel ten feet tall and bulletproof. Build them up and encourage them. Show up for each other no matter how big or small the occasion…"-Jenna Fischer, The Office BFFs: Tales of The Office from Two Best Friends Who Were There
4. The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward
By: Daniel H. Pink
3.84
Format: 239 pages, Hardcover
From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of When and Drive, a new book about the transforming … read more
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5. The Nineties
By: Chuck Klosterman
3.87
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
The Nineties: a wise and funny reckoning with the decade that gave us slacker/grunge irony about th… read more
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"The nineties were a fertile period for the self-indulgent genius."-Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties
"In the nineties, doing nothing on purpose was a valid option, and a specific brand of cool became more important than almost anything else. The key to that coolness was disinterest in conventional su…"-Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties
6. How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question
By: Michael Schur
4.14
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the creator of The Good Place and the cocreator of Parks and Recreation, a hilarious, thought-… read more
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"Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better. —MAYA ANGELOU"-Michael Schur, How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question
"Part of the wonder of being human is that we get to learn about the extraordinary levels of virtue of which other humans are capable."-Michael Schur, How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question
"Our behaviors create deep grooves in our personalities, like a heavy chair forming impressions in a shaggy rug, and it becomes harder and harder to escape them."-Michael Schur, How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question
"... There is no way to achieve a higher-level enjoyment from running, because there's no way to achieve any enjoyment from running, because there is nothing enjoyable about running. Running is awful,…"-Michael Schur, How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question
7. Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things
By: Adam M. Grant
4.12
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
#1 New York Times Bestseller“This brilliant book will shatter your assumptions about what it takes … read more
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8. 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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"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
9. Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again
By: Johann Hari
4.24
Format: 357 pages, Hardcover
Our ability to pay attention is collapsing. From the New York Times bestselling author of Chasing t… read more
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"We live in a culture that is constantly amping us up with stress and stimulation."-Johann Hari, Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again
"We are now exposed to ten times the amount of artificial light that people were exposed to just fifty years ago."-Johann Hari, Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again
"If you see the world through fragments, your empathy often doesn’t kick in, in the way that it does when you engage with something in a sustained, focused way."-Johann Hari, Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again
"In situations of low stress and safety, mind-wandering will be a gift, a pleasure, a creative force. In situations of high stress or danger, mind-wandering will be a torment."-Johann Hari, Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again
10. Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere
By: Maria Bamford
3.77
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
A brutally honest and hilariously frenetic memoir about show business, mental health, and the comfo… read more
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11. Happy-Go-Lucky
By: David Sedaris
4.17
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
David Sedaris, the “champion storyteller,” ( Los Angeles Times ) returns with his first new collect… read more
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12. An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
By: Ed Yong
4.47
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A grand tour through the hidden realms of animal senses that will transform the way you perceive th… read more
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"It's ironic that we associate taste with connoisseurship, subtlety, and fine discrimination when it is among the coarsest of senses."-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"We are closer than ever to understanding what it is like to be another animal, but we have made it harder than ever for other animals to be."-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal can only tap into a small fraction of realities fullness. Each is enclos…"-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"A striking pattern emerged on days with the most intense solar storms, grey whales were 4 times more likely to beach themselves. This correlation doesn't prove that whales have a compass but it stron…"-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
13. Poverty, by America
By: Matthew Desmond
4.27
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more
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"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
14. Hello, Molly!: A Memoir
By: Molly Shannon
4.13
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
A candid, compulsively readable, hilarious, and heartbreaking memoir of resilience and redemption b… read more
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"But I thought, I can do whatever I want. I can be friends with whoever I want. I'm going to be friends with the freaks and the geeks and I don't have to fit into any clique. And I'm Free! And I like …"-Molly Shannon, Hello, Molly!: A Memoir
15. The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
By: Amanda Montell
3.54
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Cultish and host of the podcast Sounds Like a Cult, a delicious blen… read more
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- psychology
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- adult
- self help
"While magical thinking is an age-old quirk, overthinking feels distinct to the modern era—a product of our innate superstitions clashing with information overload, mass loneliness, and a capitalistic…"-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
"Information transmission research suggests that folks with higher anxiety are quicker to engage with, and slower to disengage from, negative information; so "as a trait and state," anxiety itself per…"-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
16. 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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"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
17. Soul Boom: Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution
By: Rainn Wilson
3.83
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
**New York Times Bestseller** Comedic actor, producer, and writer Rainn Wilson, cofounder of th… read more
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18. Sea of Tranquility
By: Emily St. John Mandel
4.07
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
A novel of art, time travel, love, and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 t… read more
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- audiobook
"It seems like it’s been fairly well contained,"-Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility
"You should have told me my cat was a time traveler."-Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility
"There's a low-level, specific pain and having to accept that putting up with you requires a certain generosity of spirit in your loved ones."-Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility
"What if one were to dissolve into the wilderness like salt into water. He wants to go home. For the first time, Edwin begins to worry about his sanity."-Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility
19. The World's Worst Assistant
By: Sona Movsesian
3.80
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From Conan O’Brien’s longtime assistant and cohost of his podcast, Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend, a … read more
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"Mein Assistent findet das Streben nach dem göttlichen griechischen Staat Arete „lahm“ und sollte „einen Schwanz essen“. - Conan O'Brien"-Sona Movsesian, The World's Worst Assistant
20. 28 Summers
By: Elin Hilderbrand
4.19
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
By the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Summer of '69: Their secret love affair has lasted f… read more
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- audiobook
"Art isn't optional for humans."-Elin Hilderbrand, 28 Summers
"Maybe we forget so that we can go on."-Elin Hilderbrand, 28 Summers
"The past is neither fixed nor fixable."-Elin Hilderbrand, 28 Summers
"Pay attention to what you pay attention to."-Elin Hilderbrand, 28 Summers
