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Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

ByCal Newport

2024 • 324 Readers • 256 pages • 3.8

When the Angels Left the Old Country

When the Angels Left the Old Country

BySacha Lamb

53 Readers • 4.5

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Aelius Aristides and The Sacred Tales

Aelius Aristides and The Sacred Tales

The Story of the Lost Child

#4 of 4 in L'amica geniale

The Story of the Lost Child

ByElena Ferrante,Ann Goldstein(Translator)

Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

ByElena Ferrante

The Story of a New Name

The Story of a New Name

ByElena Ferrante,Ann Goldstein(Translator)

Liliana's Invincible Summer

Liliana's Invincible Summer

ByCristina Rivera Garza

Wednesday's Child: Stories

Wednesday's Child: Stories

ByYiyun Li

2023 • 15 Readers • 4.2

Solito

ByJavier Zamora

2022 • 153 Readers • 401 pages • 4.5

My Friends

ByHisham Matar

2024 • 52 Readers • 394 pages • 4.2

Memorial Days: A Memoir

Memorial Days: A Memoir

ByGeraldine Brooks

2025 • 2 Readers

Cleavage: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us

Cleavage: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us

ByJennifer Finney Boylan

2025 • 21 Readers • 3.5

The Lion Women of Tehran

The Lion Women of Tehran

ByMarjan Kamali

2024 • 81 Readers • 321 pages • 4.2

Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine

Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine

ByUché Blackstock

2024 • 23 Readers • 305 pages • 4.5

The Undying

ByAnne Boyer

2019 • 17 Readers • 320 pages • 4.5

Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts

Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts

ByOliver Burkeman

2024 • 72 Readers • 169 pages • 4.3

The Price We Pay

The Price We Pay

ByMarty Makary

2019 • 12 Readers • 288 pages

The Poppy War

#1 of 3 in The Poppy War

ByR. F. Kuang

2018 • 2,120 Readers • 544 pages • 4

Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism

Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism

ByAnne Applebaum

2020 • 67 Readers • 208 pages • 3.7

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The Social Transformation of American Medicine

The Social Transformation of American Medicine: The Rise of a Sovereign Profession and the Making of a Vast Industry

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Where Is My Flying Car?

Where Is My Flying Car?: A Memoir of Future Past

ByJ. Storrs Hall

7 Readers

How to Tell When We Will Die: On Pain, Disability, and Doom

How to Tell When We Will Die: On Pain, Disability, and Doom

ByJohanna Hedva

2024 • 24 Readers

The Tusks of Extinction

The Tusks of Extinction

ByRay Nayler

2024 • 101 Readers • 4h 1m • 3.6

Health and Safety: A Breakdown

Health and Safety: A Breakdown

ByEmily Witt

2024 • 7 Readers • 273 pages • 3.8

Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative

Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative

ByIsabella Hammad

2024 • 8 Readers • 5

Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again

Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again

ByEric J. Topol

2019 • 12 Readers • 400 pages • 4

Enter Ghost

ByIsabella Hammad

2023 • 49 Readers • 336 pages • 4.1

Piranesi

BySusanna Clarke

2019 • 2,577 Readers • 246 pages • 4.2

Martyr! A Novel

ByKaveh Akbar

2024 • 322 Readers • 353 pages • 4.1

She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders

She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders

ByJennifer Finney Boylan

2003 • 3 Readers • 4

The Ministry of Time

The Ministry of Time

ByKaliane Bradley

2024 • 737 Readers • 352 pages • 3.8

Feel-Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You

Feel-Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You

ByAli Abdaal

2023 • 10 Readers • 176 pages • 2.8

Big Swiss

ByJen Beagin

2023 • 409 Readers • 336 pages • 3.7

Sandwich

ByCatherine Newman

2024 • 53 Readers • 256 pages • 3.9

I Who Have Never Known Men

I Who Have Never Known Men

ByJacqueline Harpman

1995 • 680 Readers • 208 pages • 4.3

Pure Colour

BySheila Heti

2022 • 108 Readers • 149 pages • 3.3

The Secret History

The Secret History

ByDonna Tartt

1992 • 2,134 Readers • 578 pages • 4

Addicted to Busy: Why Life Has Got So Hectic

Addicted to Busy: Why Life Has Got So Hectic

ByOliver Burkeman

1 Reader

Beautyland

ByMarie-Helene Bertino

2024 • 146 Readers • 336 pages • 4.3

Blue Sisters

ByCoco Mellors

2024 • 235 Readers • 304 pages • 4

Sociopath: A Memoir

Sociopath: A Memoir

ByPatric Gagne

2024 • 201 Readers • 368 pages • 3.7

Why Are We So Angry?: And What Is It Doing to the World?

Why Are We So Angry?: And What Is It Doing to the World?

ByOliver Burkeman

2018 • 2 Readers • 3

Crossing to Safety

Crossing to Safety

ByWallace Stegner

1987 • 79 Readers • 368 pages • 4.4

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

ByDavid Grann

2023 • 724 Readers • 9 pages • 4.1

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017

ByRashid Khalidi(Author, Narrator),Fajer Al-Kaisi(Narrator)

2020 • 189 Readers • 10h 30m • 4.5

Autocracy, Inc.

Autocracy, Inc.

ByAnne Applebaum

2024 • 30 Readers • 224 pages • 3.4

Luster

ByRaven Leilani

2020 • 349 Readers • 203 pages • 3.6

Moby-Dick: or, The Whale

Moby-Dick: or, The Whale

ByHerman Melville

1851 • 1,159 Readers • 822 pages • 3.6

There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

ByHanif Abdurraqib

2024 • 62 Readers • 352 pages • 8h 41m • 4.7

The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight

The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight

ByAndrew Leland

2023 • 37 Readers • 369 pages • 4.2

James

ByPercival Everett

2024 • 470 Readers • 320 pages • 4.4

This Is How You Lose the Time War

This Is How You Lose the Time War

ByAmal El-Mohtar,Max Gladstone

2019 • 2,489 Readers • 223 pages • 3.9

The Fraud

ByZadie Smith

2023 • 123 Readers • 483 pages • 3.4

Orbital

BySamantha Harvey

2023 • 285 Readers • 207 pages • 3.8

Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

ByOliver Burkeman

2021 • 662 Readers • 5h 53m • 4.2

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The Trinity of Fundamentals

The Trinity of Fundamentals

ByWisam Rafeedie

2023 • 12 Readers

Rebel Health

BySusannah Fox

2024 • 1 Reader • 195 pages

The Dream Hotel

The Dream Hotel

ByLaila Lalami

2025 • 26 Readers

Fates and furies

Fates and Furies

ByLauren Groff

An Immense World

An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

ByEd Yong

2022 • 308 Readers • 464 pages • 4.4

Parasol Against the Axe

Parasol Against the Axe

ByHelen Oyeyemi

2024 • 22 Readers • 231 pages • 2.7

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The Diary of a Young Girl

The Diary of a Young Girl

8 Readers • 3.8

The Message

ByTa-Nehisi Coates

2024 • 128 Readers • 257 pages • 4.6

Of Mice and Men

Of Mice and Men

ByJohn Steinbeck

1869 • 2,328 Readers • 162 pages • 3.8

Creation Lake

ByRachel Kushner

4 • 119 Readers • 311 pages • 3.7

Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis

Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis

ByJonathan Blitzer

2024 • 33 Readers • 545 pages • 4.4

Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

BySalman Rushdie

2024 • 108 Readers • 225 pages • 3.9

The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness

The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness

ByJonathan Haidt

2024 • 232 Readers • 401 pages • 4.4

Wolf Hall

#1 of 3 in Thomas Cromwell

ByHilary Mantel

2009 • 595 Readers • 26 pages • 4

Bring Up the Bodies

#2 of 3 in Thomas Cromwell

Bring Up the Bodies

ByHilary Mantel

2012 • 240 Readers • 432 pages • 4.3

The God of the Woods

The God of the Woods

ByLiz Moore

2024 • 524 Readers • 490 pages • 4.1

Matrix

ByLauren Groff

2021 • 245 Readers • 272 pages • 3.6

The White Album

The White Album: Essays

ByJoan Didion

1979 • 148 Readers • 224 pages • 3.9

Intermezzo

BySally Rooney

2024 • 418 Readers • 448 pages • 3.9

When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s

When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s

ByJohn Ganz

2024 • 25 Readers • 373 pages • 4.1

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Which Country Has the World's Best Health Care?

Which Country Has the World's Best Health Care?

ByEzekiel J. Emanuel

2020 • 3 Readers

Grief Is for People

Grief is for People

BySloane Crosley

The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi

#1 of 2 in Amina al-Sirafi

The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi

ByS. A. Chakraborty

The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir

The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir

ByMichele Harper

2020 • 3 Readers • 4

A Children's Bible

A Children's Bible

ByLydia Millet

All Fours

ByMiranda July

I Cheerfully Refuse

I Cheerfully Refuse

ByLeif Enger

The Rabbit Hutch

The Rabbit Hutch

ByTess Gunty(Author/Narrator),Kyla Garcia(Narrator)

Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us

Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us

ByRachel Aviv

The Dutch House

The Dutch House

ByAnn Patchett

2019 • 451 Readers • 353 pages • 4

How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

ByDavid Brooks

2023 • 95 Readers • 320 pages • 4.1

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For the Love of Men

For the Love of Men: A New Vision for Mindful Masculinity

ByLiz Plank

2019 • 1 Reader

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Braiding Sweetgrass

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

ByRobin Wall Kimmerer(Narrator)

14 Readers • 4.4

The Obelisk Gate

#2 of 3 in The Broken Earth

The Obelisk Gate

ByN.K. Jemisin

We Will Not Cancel Us

We Will Not Cancel Us

Byadrienne maree brown

2020 • 7 Readers • 50 pages • 3

The Idiot

ByElif Batuman

2017 • 394 Readers • 434 pages • 3.7

Calypso

ByDavid Sedaris

East of Eden

ByJohn Steinbeck

1952 • 1,366 Readers • 601 pages • 4.5

Dessert Person

ByClaire Saffitz

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Sorry, Sorry, Sorry

Sorry, Sorry, Sorry: The Case for Good Apologies

The Last Unicorn

1 The Last Unicorn

The Last Unicorn

ByPeter S. Beagle

The Familiar

ByLeigh Bardugo

Trust

ByHernan Diaz,Ada Arduini(Translator)

Why Won't You Apologize?

Why Won't You Apologize?

ByHarriet Lerner

2017 • 8 Readers • 208 pages • 4.5

The Song of Achilles

The Song of Achilles

ByMadeline Miller

2011 • 2,989 Readers • 384 pages • 4.3