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Antony and Cleopatra

William Shakespeare

3.71 (42,577)
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The Friction Project

Robert I. Sutton

3.74 (775)
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The Intelligent Investor

Benjamin Graham

4.24 (144,869)
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Rafa

Rafael Nadal

4.06 (12,114)
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Benjamin Franklin

Walter Isaacson

4.05 (146,758)
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Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman

4.17 (560,434)
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Leading for Innovation

Frances Hesselbein

3.62 (21)
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Startup

Jerry Kaplan

4.21 (670)
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Freakonomics

Steven D. Levitt

4.01 (883,788)
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The Final Diagnosis

Arthur Hailey

4.11 (6,014)
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Naomi Osaka

Ben Rothenberg

4.17 (269)
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The Things They Carried

Tim O’Brien

4.14 (336,245)
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Daring Greatly

Brené Brown

4.29 (235,345)
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What If We Get It Right?

Ayana Elizabeth Johnson

4.46 (1,354)
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Neverwhere

Neil Gaiman

4.16 (554,372)
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Midnights Children

Salman Rushdie

3.98 (130,354)
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In This Economy?

Kyla Scanlon

3.87 (919)
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Case in Point 5

Marc P. Cosentino

3.98 (2,069)
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Citizenville

Gavin Newsom

3.70 (610)
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Lean In

Sheryl Sandberg

3.95 (266,488)
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The Dot-Com City

Alexandra Lange

3.77 (47)
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Alexander Hamilton

Ron Chernow

4.22 (193,796)
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb

Richard Rhodes

4.40 (23,796)
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Animal Farm

George Orwell

4.01 (4,322,574)
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The Anxious Generation

Jonathan Haidt

4.34 (126,265)
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Social

Matthew D. Lieberman

4.06 (2,987)
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Graph Databases

Ian Robinson

3.64 (436)
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Read Write Own

Chris Dixon

3.96 (1,933)
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Zero to One

Peter Thiel

4.15 (378,854)
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Make It Stick

Peter C. Brown

4.16 (21,396)
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A Nation of Deadbeats

Scott Reynolds Nelson

3.68 (130)
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Private Equity

Carrie Sun

3.61 (4,141)
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Brave New Words

Salman Khan

3.66 (2,609)
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Cabin

Patrick Hutchison

4.10 (4,805)
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A Web for Everyone

Sarah Horton

4.37 (260)
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On Call

Anthony Fauci

4.53 (10,535)
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Team of Rivals

Doris Kearns Goodwin

4.28 (195,608)
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John Adams

David McCullough

4.08 (372,407)
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The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up

Marie Kondo

3.88 (385,153)
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Red Queen

Victoria Aveyard

3.99 (1,126,838)
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Ubik

Philip K. Dick

4.11 (118,108)
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The Sympathizer

Viet Thanh Nguyen

4.01 (131,987)
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Sapiens

Yuval Noah Harari

4.34 (1,191,552)
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A Splendid Exchange

William J. Bernstein

4.16 (3,299)
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Pebbles of Perception

Laurence Endersen

4.07 (795)
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Reclaiming Conversation

Sherry Turkle

3.81 (5,070)
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The Vegetarian

Han Kang

3.64 (307,892)
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Algorithms to Live By

Brian Christian

4.13 (33,944)
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Late to the Ball

Gerald Marzorati

3.71 (490)
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Mathematical Mindsets

Jo Boaler

4.44 (2,733)
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The Rise and Fall of American Growth

Robert J. Gordon

4.19 (2,081)
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Teaching to Transgress

bell hooks

4.45 (12,230)
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Atlas Obscura

Joshua Foer

4.24 (8,047)
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Foundation

Isaac Asimov

4.17 (578,411)
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The Power

Naomi Alderman

3.75 (246,035)
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Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat

Samin Nosrat

4.40 (86,517)
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The Omnivore's Dilemma

Michael Pollan

4.19 (208,659)
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The Broken Ladder

Keith Payne

4.21 (3,961)
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Micromotives and Macrobehavior

Thomas C. Schelling

3.99 (1,177)
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Captivate

Vanessa Van Edwards

4.12 (7,690)
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One Hundred Years of Solitude

Gabriel García Márquez

4.12 (1,063,889)
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The Culture Code

Daniel Coyle

4.25 (33,585)
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The Innovation Blind Spot

Ross Baird

4.09 (292)
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How to Take Smart Notes

Sönke Ahrens

4.09 (12,992)
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Principles

Ray Dalio

4.11 (64,372)
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My Life and Work

Henry Ford

4.18 (5,325)
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Stranger in a Strange Land

Robert A. Heinlein

3.92 (322,676)
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Hungry City

Carolyn Steel

4.13 (543)
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The Undoing Project

Michael Lewis

3.99 (62,754)
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How to Be Heard

Celine Coggins

4.27 (15)
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The Art of Gathering

Priya Parker

3.96 (25,583)
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Winners Take All

Anand Giridharadas

4.13 (16,904)
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Don Quixote

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

3.91 (295,629)
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A Brief History of Time

Stephen Hawking

4.21 (464,758)
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The Next American City

Mick Cornett

3.46 (256)
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Humble Pi

Matt Parker

4.10 (20,913)
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Timefulness

Marcia Bjornerud

4.07 (1,646)
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Moneyland

Oliver Bullough

4.19 (6,733)
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The Last Lecture

Randy Pausch

4.26 (358,613)
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The Scientists

John Gribbin

4.11 (1,223)
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Endure

Alex Hutchinson

4.12 (18,188)
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Sandworm

Andy Greenberg

4.35 (9,435)
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The Jungle

Upton Sinclair

3.78 (151,838)
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Soft Science

Franny Choi

3.91 (3,918)
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Business adventures

John Brooks

3.81 (24,307)
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The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr.

4.34 (23,658)
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Connected Strategy

Nicolaj Siggelkow

3.98 (182)
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Legacy and the Queen

Annie Matthew

4.19 (514)
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Humble Pie

Gordon Ramsay

3.82 (5,550)
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Academia Next

Bryan Alexander

3.65 (69)
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The Book of Disquiet

Fernando Pessoa

4.40 (35,437)
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Ask Your Developer

Jeff Lawson

4.22 (1,305)
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Coconut & Sambal

Lara Lee

4.31 (176)
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Games People Play

Eric Berne

3.73 (39,963)
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Exercised

Daniel E. Lieberman

4.18 (9,851)
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How to Lead

David M. Rubenstein

3.85 (1,759)
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The Ministry for the Future

Kim Stanley Robinson

3.87 (39,460)
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The Splendid and the Vile

Erik Larson

4.30 (131,066)
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The Polymath

Peter Burke

3.26 (335)
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Venice

Cees Nooteboom

3.89 (349)
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Why We're Polarized

Ezra Klein

4.22 (18,306)
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The Mom Test

Rob Fitzpatrick

4.37 (12,724)
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Parable of the Sower

Octavia E. Butler

4.20 (233,591)
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Pacific Coasting

Danielle Kroll

4.37 (168)
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The Socrates Express

Eric Weiner

4.14 (3,890)
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The Making of Prince of Persia

Jordan Mechner

4.10 (1,836)
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The Genius of Athletes

Noel Brick

3.71 (41)
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Working in Public

Nadia Eghbal

3.93 (909)
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Project Hail Mary

Andy Weir

4.50 (827,581)
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start your own f*cking brand

Maria Erixon

3.86 (29)
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The Comfort Crisis

Michael Easter

4.26 (30,886)
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Introduction to Urban Science

Luís M. A. Bettencourt

4.20 (5)
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The Master

Christopher Clarey

4.19 (3,699)
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The Power of Us

Jay J. Van Bavel et.al

4.02 (363)
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Street Data

Shane Safir

4.22 (808)
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The Tyranny of Big Tech

Josh Hawley

4.04 (884)
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Cloud Cuckoo Land

Anthony Doerr

4.25 (252,310)
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NPR's Podcast Start Up Guide

Glen Weldon

4.26 (196)
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Masters of Scale

Reid Hoffman

4.08 (1,198)
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My Life in Full

Indra Nooyi

4.24 (9,483)
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Regeneration

Paul Hawken

4.35 (671)
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Dilla Time

Dan Charnas

4.56 (4,283)
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Lessons in Chemistry

Bonnie Garmus

4.28 (1,655,962)
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The Nineties

Chuck Klosterman

3.87 (28,922)
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The Internet For Dummies

John R. Levine

3.50 (125)
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Both/And

Huma Abedin

4.32 (5,829)
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Write Useful Books

Rob Fitzpatrick

4.54 (685)
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The Wall

Marlen Haushofer

4.03 (26,600)
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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

Gabrielle Zevin

4.13 (1,232,075)
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Speed & Scale

John Doerr

4.21 (1,538)
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The Hero With a Thousand Faces

Joseph Campbell

4.13 (43,973)
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How To Make The Best Coffee At Home

James Hoffmann

4.40 (2,362)
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Running with Purpose

Jim Weber

3.91 (572)
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Free Time

Jenny Blake

4.18 (287)
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Building a Second Brain

Tiago Forte

4.04 (20,227)
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Unreasonable Hospitality

Will Guidara

4.44 (26,154)
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You've Been Played

Adrian Hon

3.77 (284)
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Graphic Design in the Post Digital Age A Survey of Practices Fuelled by Creative Coding

Demian Conrad

3.62 (8)
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Carrie Soto Is Back

Taylor Jenkins Reid

4.20 (653,965)
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Engineering in Plain Sight

Grady Hillhouse

4.23 (675)
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How to Live with Objects

Monica Khemsurov

3.80 (91)
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Japanese Interiors

Mihoko Iida

3.93 (56)
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Money and Love

Myra Strober

3.85 (205)
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The Creative Act

Rick Rubin

3.99 (66,941)
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How Big Things Get Done

Bent Flyvbjerg

4.29 (7,829)
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Together

Vivek Murthy

4.23 (7,909)
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Pale Blue Dot

Carl Sagan

4.34 (38,574)
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Free-Range Kids

Lenore Skenazy

3.89 (6,592)
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Pour Your Heart Into It

Howard Schultz

4.02 (12,197)
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The executive look

Mortimer Levitt

4.60 (5)
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Purple Cow

Seth Godin

3.78 (55,113)
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The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

James McBride

3.93 (289,453)
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Flow

Mihály Csíkszentmihályi

4.11 (85,828)
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Tokyo Vice

Jake Adelstein

3.90 (16,559)
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Rework

Jason Fried

3.98 (172,646)
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Infinite Jest

David Foster Wallace

4.25 (98,245)
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The Hidden Brain

Shankar Vedantam

3.99 (2,981)
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The Soul of a New Machine

Tracy Kidder

4.12 (9,211)
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Tattoos on the Heart

Gregory Boyle

4.48 (28,714)
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Nonviolent Communication

Marshall B. Rosenberg

4.33 (46,469)
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Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Paulo Freire

4.30 (37,640)
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How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk

Adele Faber

4.27 (37,286)
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Your Money or Your Life

Joe Dominguez

3.99 (29,764)
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Fight Club

Chuck Palahniuk

4.18 (627,368)
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The Design of Everyday Things

Donald A. Norman

4.15 (46,297)
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Decoded

Jay-Z

3.86 (8,607)
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Logical Chess

Irving Chernev

4.30 (1,751)
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The Grand Design

Stephen Hawking

4.06 (76,350)
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Quiet

Susan Cain

4.08 (464,127)
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Open City

Teju Cole

3.49 (17,114)
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Managing Research, Development and Innovation

Ravi Jain

3.12 (16)
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The Personal MBA

Josh Kaufman

4.10 (45,664)
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A Walk in the Woods

Bill Bryson

4.07 (434,233)

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