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Solo: How to Work Alone

Solo: How to Work Alone

ByRebecca Seal

2020 • 3 Readers • 304 pages

Books Promiscuously Read: Reading as a Way of Life

Books Promiscuously Read: Reading as a Way of Life

ByHeather Cass White

2021 • 4 Readers • 176 pages • 5

A Broken Blade

#1 of 4 in The Halfling Saga

ByMelissa Blair

2022 • 124 Readers • 409 pages • 3.7

Disconnected: How to Stay Human in an Online World

Disconnected: How to Stay Human in an Online World

ByEmma Gannon

2022 • 5 Readers • 192 pages

Who Speaks for the Damned

#15 of 19 in Sebastian St. Cyr

Who Speaks for the Damned

ByC.S. Harris

2020 • 4 Readers • 4.3

A Miscellany

ByE.E. Cummings

384 pages

The Longing for Less: Living with Minimalism

The Longing for Less: Living with Minimalism

ByKyle Chayka

2020 • 11 Readers • 272 pages • 4

300 Arguments

BySarah Manguso

2017 • 12 Readers • 104 pages • 3.7

Wabi Sabi

ByBeth Kempton

2018 • 15 Readers • 256 pages • 4.5

Unter Verdacht

#1 of 5 in Mitford Murders

ByJessica Fellowes,Andrea Brandl(Translator)

2017 • 17 Readers

Ctrl, Alt; Delete: How I Grew Up Online

Ctrl, Alt; Delete: How I Grew Up Online

ByEmma Gannon

2016 • 2 Readers

Book Architecture

Book Architecture

ByStuart Horwitz

2015 • 2 Readers • 156 pages

The King of Madison Avenue

The King of Madison Avenue

ByKenneth Roman

2010 • 1 Reader • 304 pages

Writer for Hire

Writer for Hire

ByKelly James Enger

2012 • 1 Reader • 224 pages

Wild Problems

ByRuss Roberts

2022 • 8 Readers • 225 pages • 2

How to Read Poetry Like a Professor: A Quippy and Sonorous Guide to Verse

How to Read Poetry Like a Professor: A Quippy and Sonorous Guide to Verse

ByThomas C. Foster

2018 • 10 Readers • 176 pages • 3

The Will To Power

The Will To Power

ByFriedrich Nietzsche

1901 • 36 Readers • 4

The Hermetica

ByTim Freke,Peter Gandy

2008 • 3 Readers • 192 pages

Process and reality

Process and reality

ByAlfred North Whitehead

1929 • 9 Readers • 448 pages

The Secret History of the World

The Secret History of the World

ByJonathan Black

2007 • 13 Readers • 496 pages • 3.3

The Road to Eleusis

The Road to Eleusis

ByR. Gordon Wasson,Albert Hofmann,+2 more

1978 • 4 Readers • 192 pages • 4.3

Cosmic Queries

ByNeil deGrasse Tyson,James Trefil

2021 • 13 Readers • 312 pages • 4.4

The Conscious Mind

The Conscious Mind

ByDavid J. Chalmers

1996 • 8 Readers • 432 pages

Write for Your Life

Write for Your Life

ByAnna Quindlen

2022 • 8 Readers • 240 pages • 4

Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004 to 2021

Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004 to 2021

ByMargaret Atwood

2022 • 16 Readers • 496 pages • 4

Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth

Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth

ByNoa Tishby

2021 • 3 Readers • 352 pages

Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box

Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box

ByThe Arbinger Institute

2018 • 8 Readers • 1

High Achiever

ByTiffany Jenkins

2017 • 14 Readers • 384 pages • 3.8

90 Days to Your Novel: A Day-By-Day Plan for Outlining & Writing Your Book

90 Days to Your Novel: A Day-By-Day Plan for Outlining & Writing Your Book

BySarah Domet

2010 • 2 Readers • 289 pages • 3

Elements of Fiction

Elements of Fiction

ByWalter Mosley

2019 • 2 Readers • 128 pages

How to Write like Tolstoy

How to Write like Tolstoy

ByRichard A. Cohen

2016 • 1 Reader • 323 pages

Writing Your Novel from Start to Finish: A Guidebook for the Journey

Writing Your Novel from Start to Finish: A Guidebook for the Journey

ByJoseph Bates

2015 • 3 Readers • 272 pages • 5

Writing Deep Scenes

Writing Deep Scenes

ByMartha Alderson,Jordan E. Rosenfeld

2015 • 4 Readers • 256 pages

Well of Darkness

#1 of 3 in Sovereign Stone

Well of Darkness

ByMargaret Weis,Tracy Hickman

2000 • 11 Readers • 450 pages • 3

How to Be a Leader

Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers

How to Be a Leader

ByPlutarch

2019 • 10 Readers • 416 pages • 4

Caesar: Life of a Colossus

Caesar: Life of a Colossus

ByAdrian Goldsworthy

2006 • 38 Readers • 583 pages • 4

Nation of Victims

Nation of Victims

ByVivek Ramaswamy

2022 • 5 Readers • 288 pages • 4.5

The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization

The End of the World is Just the Beginning

ByPeter Zeihan

2022 • 64 Readers • 336 pages • 3.6

Life as We Made It: How 50,000 Years of Human Innovation Refined—and Redefined—Nature

Life as We Made It: How 50,000 Years of Human Innovation Refined—and Redefined—Nature

ByBeth Shapiro

2021 • 2 Readers • 352 pages • 5

Meteorite

ByTim Gregory

2020 • 2 Readers • 320 pages • 5

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What It Means to Be Moral

What It Means to Be Moral

ByPhil Zuckerman

2019 • 2 Readers

The Idea of the Brain

The Idea of the Brain

ByMatthew Cobb

2020 • 5 Readers • 496 pages • 5

Flesh and Blood (Kay Scarpetta, #22)

#22 of 25 in Kay Scarpetta

Flesh and Blood

ByPatricia Cornwell

2014 • 13 Readers • 369 pages • 3.7

How to Win Friends and Influence People in the Digital Age

How to Win Friends and Influence People in the Digital Age

ByDale Carnegie Training (Firm),Dale Carnegie

2011 • 9 Readers • 272 pages • 3

A Brief History of Japan: Samurai, Shogun and Zen: The Extraordinary Story of the Land of the Rising Sun

A Brief History of Japan: Samurai, Shogun and Zen: The Extraordinary Story of the Land of the Rising Sun

ByJonathan Clements

2017 • 4 Readers • 304 pages • 4

The Battle for Your Brain

The Battle for Your Brain

ByNita Farahany

2023 • 12 Readers • 320 pages • 4

Victorian London

Victorian London

ByLiza Picard

2005 • 10 Readers • 496 pages • 3

The Carbon Almanac: It's Not Too Late

The Carbon Almanac: It's Not Too Late

ByThe Carbon Almanac Network

2022 • 4 Readers • 352 pages • 5

A Day of Fallen Night

#0 of 2 in The Roots of Chaos

A Day of Fallen Night

BySamantha Shannon

2023 • 436 Readers • 881 pages • 4.3

The Good Enough Parent

The Good Enough Parent

ByThe School of Life

2021 • 5 Readers • 192 pages • 5

The Lion Tracker's Guide to Life

The Lion Tracker's Guide to Life

ByBoyd Varty

2014 • 13 Readers • 160 pages • 2

How to Fight

#6 of 9 in Mindfulness Essentials

ByThich Nhat Hanh

2017 • 15 Readers • 128 pages • 4.3

Professor Moriarty

Professor Moriarty

ByKim Newman

2011 • 13 Readers • 483 pages • 4

Hour of the Wolf

#7 of 9 in Inspector Van Veeteren

Hour of the Wolf

ByHåkan Nesser,Laurie Thompson(Translator)

1999 • 4 Readers

All the Queen's Men

#2 of 5 in Her Majesty the Queen Investigates

All the Queen's Men

ByS. J. Bennett

2021 • 16 Readers • 352 pages • 3.9

Kingdom of Ash and Briars

#1 of 3 in The Nissera Chronicles

Kingdom of Ash and Briars

ByHannah West

2016 • 15 Readers • 2

Cursed

#2 of 3 in Gilded

ByMarissa Meyer

2019 • 73 Readers • 492 pages • 4

Iron Heart

#2 of 2 in Crier's War

ByNina Varela

2020 • 57 Readers • 416 pages • 4.2

Hell Bent

#2 of 2 in Alex Stern

ByLeigh Bardugo

2023 • 562 Readers • 496 pages • 4

Deep Learning

ByJohn D. Kelleher

2019 • 2 Readers • 298 pages

The Demon in the Machine

The Demon in the Machine

ByPaul Davies

2019 • 9 Readers • 320 pages • 3.5

The Mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon

The Mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon

ByStephanie Dalley

2013 • 3 Readers • 304 pages • 4

How to Write a Sentence and How to Read One

How to Write a Sentence

ByStanley Fish

2011 • 12 Readers • 165 pages • 3.2

The Poison King

The Poison King

ByAdrienne Mayor

2009 • 11 Readers • 448 pages • 4

City of Last Chances

#1 of 2 in The Tyrant Philosophers

City of Last Chances

ByAdrian Tchaikovsky

2022 • 155 Readers • 543 pages • 3.7

The Foxglove King

#1 of 1 in The Nightshade Kingdom

The Foxglove King

ByHannah F. Whitten

2023 • 182 Readers • 400 pages • 3.6

Can't Spell Treason Without Tea

#1 of 4 in Tomes & Tea

Can't Spell Treason Without Tea

ByRebecca Thorne

2022 • 195 Readers • 443 pages • 4.2

Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments

#2 of 3 in Edinburgh Nights

Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments

ByT.L. Huchu

2022 • 30 Readers • 3.5

Virginia Woolf

ByGillian Gill

2019 • 3 Readers • 432 pages

Refuse to Be Done: How to Write and Rewrite a Novel in Three Drafts

Refuse to Be Done: How to Write and Rewrite a Novel in Three Drafts

ByMatt Bell

2022 • 15 Readers • 168 pages • 4.7

The Missing of Clairdelune

#2 of 4 in La Passe-Miroir

The Missing of Clairdelune

ByChristelle Dabos,Hildegarde Serle(Translator)

2015 • 28 Readers • 540 pages • 4.2

The Smallest Lights in the Universe: A Memoir

The Smallest Lights in the Universe: A Memoir

BySara Seager

2020 • 10 Readers • 308 pages • 3.7

Creativity

ByJohn Cleese

2020 • 25 Readers • 112 pages • 4.1

Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates

Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates

ByBrian Kilmeade,Don Yaeger

2015 • 15 Readers • 238 pages • 3

A Death in Door County

#1 of 3 in Monster Hunter Mystery

A Death in Door County

ByAnnelise Ryan

2022 • 18 Readers • 337 pages • 3.9

The Revelations

The Revelations

ByErik Hoel

2021 • 3 Readers • 368 pages • 2

I Love Capitalism!: An American Story

I Love Capitalism!: An American Story

ByKen Langone

2018 • 4 Readers • 320 pages • 2

The City of Babylon

The City of Babylon

ByStephanie Dalley

2021 • 1 Reader • 399 pages

The Creative Act: A Way of Being

The Creative Act: A Way of Being

ByRick Rubin

2023 • 326 Readers • 5h 45m • 3.7

The Ikigai Journey: A Practical Guide to Finding Happiness and Purpose the Japanese Way

The Ikigai Journey

ByFrancesc Miralles,Hector Garcia Puigcerver

2017 • 5 Readers • 224 pages • 3.3

Time and How to Spend It

Time and How to Spend It

ByJames Wallman

2019 • 2 Readers • 320 pages

How Propaganda Works

How Propaganda Works

ByJason Stanley

2016 • 2 Readers • 376 pages

Portable Magic

ByEmma Smith

2022 • 4 Readers • 247 pages

The Sun & Its Shade

#2 of 4 in The Night & Its Moon

The Sun & Its Shade

ByPiper C.J.

11 Readers • 3.3

100 Things We've Lost to the Internet

100 Things We've Lost to the Internet

ByPamela Paul

2021 • 10 Readers • 286 pages • 3.3

The God of Endings

The God of Endings

ByJacqueline Holland

2023 • 94 Readers • 480 pages • 3.8

Reality+

ByDavid J. Chalmers

2022 • 12 Readers • 544 pages • 3.8

The World of Lore: Dreadful Places

#3 of 3 in The World of Lore

The World of Lore: Dreadful Places

ByAaron Mahnke

2018 • 13 Readers • 4

Make Something Up: Stories You Can't Unread

Make Something Up: Stories You Can't Unread

ByChuck Palahniuk

24 Readers • 4.1

Why Marx Was Right

Why Marx Was Right

ByTerry Eagleton

2011 • 21 Readers • 258 pages • 4

Live Life in Crescendo

Live Life in Crescendo

ByStephen R. Covey,Cynthia Covey Haller

2022 • 2 Readers • 304 pages

Act of Oblivion

Act of Oblivion

ByRobert Harris

2022 • 46 Readers • 463 pages • 4.5

A Line to Kill

#3 of 5 in Hawthorne & Horowitz

ByAnthony Horowitz

2021 • 68 Readers • 400 pages • 3.8

Mortmain Hall

#2 of 5 in Rachel Savernake

ByMartin Edwards

2019 • 4 Readers • 311 pages • 3.5

Bruno, Chief of Police

#1 of 16 in Bruno, Chief of Police

Bruno, Chief of Police

ByMartin Walker

2008 • 17 Readers • 352 pages • 3.3

Krapp's Last Tape and Other Dramatic Pieces

Krapp's Last Tape and Other Dramatic Pieces

BySamuel Beckett

1958 • 3 Readers • 96 pages • 4

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How to Do Things with Emotions

How to Do Things with Emotions

ByOwen Flanagan

1 Reader

Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life

Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life

ByDaniel C. Dennett

1996 • 30 Readers • 598 pages • 4.6

The Empathy Diaries

The Empathy Diaries

BySherry Turkle

2021 • 13 Readers • 386 pages • 4

The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit

The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit

BySeth Godin

2007 • 148 Readers • 106 pages • 3.4