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Instant Enlightenment Summary
Instant Enlightenment
Fast, Deep, and Sexy
by David Deida 2007 256 pages
3.40
271 ratings
Spirituality
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Life Is What You Make It Summary
Life Is What You Make It
Find Your Own Path to Fulfillment
by Peter Buffett 2010 272 pages
3.8
2.6K ratings
Self Help
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Entitled Summary
Entitled
How Male Privilege Hurts Women
by Kate Manne 2020 269 pages
4.2
6.0K ratings
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Notes on the Synthesis of Form Summary
Notes on the Synthesis of Form
by Christopher W. Alexander 1964 224 pages
4.06
752 ratings
Design
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Cults Summary
Cults
Faith, Healing and Coercion
by Marc Galanter 1999 304 pages
3.77
111 ratings
Cults
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The Extinction of Experience Summary
The Extinction of Experience
Being Human in a Disembodied World
by Christine Rosen 2024 272 pages
3.65
1.8K ratings
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Democracy Summary
Democracy
Eleven writers and leaders on what it is – and why it matters
by Margaret Atwood 2024 144 pages
3.99
242 ratings
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The Book of the Courtier Summary
The Book of the Courtier
by Baldassare Castiglione 2003 470 pages
3.62
2.8K ratings
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Philosophy
The Four-Way Path Summary
The Four-Way Path
A Guide to Purushartha and India's Spiritual Traditions for a Life of Happiness, Success, and Purpose
by Héctor García 2024 240 pages
3.63
639 ratings
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An Introduction to Ontology Summary
An Introduction to Ontology
by Nikk Effingham 2013 224 pages
3.58
59 ratings
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The Perfect You Summary
The Perfect You
A Blueprint for Identity
by Caroline Leaf 2017 320 pages
4.01
489 ratings
Self Help
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Christian
Carpe Diem Summary
Carpe Diem
Seizing the Day in a Distracted World
by Roman Alexander Krznaric 2017 288 pages
3.76
383 ratings
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Self Help
Psychology
Heaven and Hell Summary
Heaven and Hell
by Aldous Huxley 1956 80 pages
3.52
1.3K ratings
Philosophy
Classics
Psychology
Essays on Catholicism, Liberalism and Socialism; Considered in Their Fundamental Principles Summary
Essays on Catholicism, Liberalism and Socialism; Considered in Their Fundamental Principles
by Juan Donoso Cortés 1851 86 pages
4.13
135 ratings
Philosophy
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Sufism Summary
Sufism
The Transformation of the Heart
by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee 1995 224 pages
4.13
205 ratings
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Islam
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René Girard's Mimetic Theory Summary
René Girard's Mimetic Theory
by Wolfgang Palaver 2008 419 pages
4.21
168 ratings
Philosophy
Psychology
Anthropology
The Gnostic Religion Summary
The Gnostic Religion
The Message of the Alien God and the Beginnings of Christianity
by Hans Jonas 2001 396 pages
4.23
473 ratings
Religion
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History
The Price of Greatness Summary
The Price of Greatness
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and the Creation of American Oligarchy
by Jay Cost 2018 256 pages
3.71
239 ratings
History
Politics
American History
Christian Nationalism Summary
Christian Nationalism
A Biblical Guide For Taking Dominion And Discipling Nations
by Andrew Torba 2022 89 pages
3.82
353 ratings
Politics
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Rumi Summary
Rumi
Poet and Mystic
by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi 1978 192 pages
3.89
81 ratings
Poetry
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The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy Summary
The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy
by Christopher Lasch 1995 276 pages
3.98
1.4K ratings
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Philosophy
Latter-Day Pamphlets Summary
Latter-Day Pamphlets
by Thomas Carlyle 2001 308 pages
3.9
94 ratings
Politics
Philosophy
History
The Extended Mind Summary
The Extended Mind
by Richard Menary 2010 382 pages
3.76
41 ratings
Philosophy
Psychology
Science
A History of Histories Summary
A History of Histories
Epics, Chronicles, Romances and Inquiries from Herodotus and Thucydides to the Twentieth Century
by J.W. Burrow 2008 544 pages
3.78
456 ratings
History
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Ancient History
The View from Ninety Summary
The View from Ninety
Reflections on How to Live a Long, Contented Life
by Charles B. Handy 2025 187 pages
4.06
85 ratings
Memoir
Management
Biography
A Slap in the Face Summary
A Slap in the Face
Why Insults Hurt--And Why They Shouldn't
by William B. Irvine 2013 264 pages
3.70
516 ratings
Philosophy
Psychology
Self Help
Civilization on Trial Summary
Civilization on Trial
by Arnold J. Toynbee 1948 0 pages
3.83
150 ratings
History
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Religion
A Lot of People Are Saying Summary
A Lot of People Are Saying
The New Conspiracism and the Assault on Democracy
by Russell Muirhead 2019 232 pages
3.61
770 ratings
Politics
Sociology
Philosophy
Tech Agnostic Summary
Tech Agnostic
How Technology Became the World's Most Powerful Religion, and Why It Desperately Needs a Reformation
by Greg Epstein 2024 368 pages
3.51
137 ratings
Technology
Philosophy
Science
EL PRÍNCIPE - Maquiavelo Summary
EL PRÍNCIPE - Maquiavelo
by Nicolás Maquiavelo 2023 125 pages
3.88
577 ratings
Philosophy
100 Truths You Will Learn Too Late Summary
100 Truths You Will Learn Too Late
by Luca Dellanna 2019 189 pages
4.18
113 ratings
Self Help
Philosophy
Personal Development
Believing Is Seeing Summary
Believing Is Seeing
A Physicist Explains How Science Shattered His Atheism and Revealed the Necessity of Faith
by Michael Guillen 2021 288 pages
4.18
944 ratings
Science
Christian
Religion
The One-Straw Revolution Summary
The One-Straw Revolution
by Masanobu Fukuoka 2006 181 pages
4.33
9.2K ratings
Gardening
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Food
The Loom of Language Summary
The Loom of Language
An Approach to the Mastery of Many Languages
by Frederick Bodmer 1985 720 pages
4.16
396 ratings
Language
Linguistics
History
Reality Transurfing 3 Summary
Reality Transurfing 3
Forward to the Past
by Vadim Zeland 2009 176 pages
4.44
941 ratings
Spirituality
Self Help
Psychology
Coming Back to Life Summary
Coming Back to Life
The Updated Guide to the Work That Reconnects
by Joanna Macy 2014 376 pages
4.28
546 ratings
Spirituality
Environment
Nature
The Everyday Stoic Summary
The Everyday Stoic
Simple Rules for a Good Life
by William Mulligan 2024 256 pages
4.02
364 ratings
Philosophy
Self Help
Collections
The Nature of True Virtue Summary
The Nature of True Virtue
by Jonathan Edwards 2003 114 pages
3.99
143 ratings
Theology
Philosophy
Christian
The Death of Socrates and the Life of Philosophy Summary
The Death of Socrates and the Life of Philosophy
An Interpretation of Plato's Phaedo
by Peter J. Ahrensdorf 1995 248 pages
3.63
16 ratings
Philosophy
The Indispensable Right Summary
The Indispensable Right
Free Speech in an Age of Rage
by Jonathan Turley 2024 432 pages
4.36
390 ratings
Politics
History
Philosophy
The Guru Papers Summary
The Guru Papers
Masks of Authoritarian Power
by Joel Kramer 1993 408 pages
4.25
153 ratings
Psychology
Cults
Religion
Lost & Found Summary
Lost & Found
A Memoir
by Kathryn Schulz 2022 256 pages
4.11
9.4K ratings
Memoir
Grief
LGBT
How We Change Summary
How We Change
by Ross Ellenhorn 2020 391 pages
3.82
419 ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Science
Albert Camus Summary
Albert Camus
A Life
by Olivier Todd 1996 448 pages
4.03
837 ratings
Biography
Philosophy
France
In the Long Run Summary
In the Long Run
The Future as a Political Idea
by Jonathan White 2024 271 pages
3.78
72 ratings
Politics
Philosophy
Persephone Rising Summary
Persephone Rising
Awakening the Heroine Within
by Carol S. Pearson 2015 400 pages
4.01
193 ratings
Mythology
Psychology
Self Help
The Mismeasure of Man Summary
The Mismeasure of Man
by Stephen Jay Gould 1996 446 pages
4.06
9.3K ratings
Science
History
Psychology
Awake! Summary
Awake!
William Blake and the Power of the Imagination
by Mark Vernon 2025 312 pages
4.5
20 ratings
Poetry
Philosophy
Biography
Captains Of Consciousness Summary
Captains Of Consciousness
Advertising And The Social Roots Of The Consumer Culture
by Stuart Ewen 2001 272 pages
4.11
229 ratings
History
Sociology
Politics
Elite Capture Summary
Elite Capture
How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics
by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò 2022 157 pages
3.98
4.0K ratings
Politics
Philosophy
Race
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