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The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck Summary

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The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck

A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

by Mark Manson 2016 212 pages

An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

by James Clear 2018 306 pages

A Brief History of Humankind

by Yuval Noah Harari 2011 456 pages

A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

by Steven D. Levitt 2005 352 pages

by Malcolm Gladwell 2008 309 pages

How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

by Malcolm Gladwell 2000 204 pages

The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

by Malcolm Gladwell 2005 296 pages

Thinking, Fast and Slow

by Daniel Kahneman 2011 499 pages

The Art of War Landmark Edition

The Classic of Strategy with Historical Notes and Introduction by PEN Award-Winning Author Mitch Horowitz

by Sun Tzu 2021 161 pages

Why We Do What We Do in Life a

by Charles Duhigg 2012 313 pages

by Spencer Johnson 1998 94 pages

The Secret to Love That Lasts

by Gary Chapman 1990 208 pages

The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

by Susan Cain 2012 333 pages

A Short History of Nearly Everything

by Bill Bryson 2003 544 pages

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up

The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing

by Marie Kondō 2010 224 pages

10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

by Austin Kleon 2012 174 pages

What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know

by Malcolm Gladwell 2019 675 pages

We Should All Be Feminists

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 2012 52 pages

A Brief History of Tomorrow

by Yuval Noah Harari 2015 449 pages

The Body Keeps the Score

Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

by Bessel van der Kolk 2014 464 pages

by Richard Dawkins 2006 374 pages

by Jordan B. Peterson 2018 409 pages

Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

by Sheryl Sandberg 2013 240 pages

How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

by Brené Brown 2012 287 pages

Creative Living Beyond Fear

by Elizabeth Gilbert 2015 240 pages

A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

by Christopher McDougall 2009 306 pages

by Robert Greene 1999 452 pages

Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

by Matthew Walker 2017 368 pages

The Gifts of Imperfection

by Brené Brown 2010 137 pages

Medicine and What Matters in the End

by Atul Gawande 2014 282 pages

The Omnivore's Dilemma

A Natural History of Four Meals

by Michael Pollan 2006 710 pages

Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

by Hans Rosling 2018 342 pages

Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus

by John Gray 2008 368 pages

Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

by Malcolm Gladwell 2013 305 pages

Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

by Cal Newport 2016 286 pages

by Aziz Ansari 2015 279 pages

21 Lessons for the 21st Century

by Yuval Noah Harari 2018 372 pages

Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

by Caroline Criado Pérez 2019 448 pages

Inside the Doomsday Machine

by Michael Lewis 2010 287 pages

The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

by David Allen 2001 267 pages

The Origins of Our Discontents

by Isabel Wilkerson 2020 544 pages

Little Things That Can Change Your Life...And Maybe the World

by William H. McRaven 2017 128 pages

A Journey Through the Madness Industry

by Jon Ronson 2011 272 pages

The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

by Adam M. Grant 2021 307 pages

The Power of Passion and Perseverance

by Angela Duckworth 2016 333 pages

by bell hooks 1999 272 pages

Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance

by Steven D. Levitt 2009 288 pages

The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

by Greg McKeown 2011 260 pages

Time Management for Mortals

by Oliver Burkeman 2021 245 pages

by Brené Brown 2018 320 pages

The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

by Daniel H. Pink 2009 272 pages

by Dalai Lama XIV 1998 322 pages

The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find and Keep Love

by Amir Levine 2010 304 pages

The Impact of the Highly Improbable

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb 2007 480 pages

Braving the Wilderness

by Brené Brown 2017 197 pages

How to Be an Antiracist

by Ibram X. Kendi 2019 305 pages

by Michael Pollan 2008 244 pages

Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles

by Steven Pressfield 2002 165 pages

Prisoners of Geography

by Tim Marshall 2015 319 pages

Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

by Michelle Alexander 2010 314 pages

The New Science of a Lost Art

by James Nestor 2020 280 pages

The Little Book of Hygge

Danish Secrets to Happy Living

by Meik Wiking 2016 225 pages

Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

by Timothy Snyder 2017 126 pages

What Happened To You?

Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing

by Bruce D. Perry 2021 304 pages

by Malcolm Gladwell 2009 319 pages

A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century

by Thomas L. Friedman 2005 672 pages

A Guide for Occupants

by Bill Bryson 2019 450 pages

Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience

by Brené Brown 2021 301 pages

A Short History of Private Life

by Bill Bryson 2010 512 pages

by Mark Manson 2019 288 pages

Women Who Run With the Wolves

by Clarissa Pinkola Estés 1992 537 pages

Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World

by Cal Newport 2019 304 pages

by Richard H. Thaler 2008 384 pages

Why Your Twenties Matter--And How to Make the Most of Them Now

by Meg Jay 2012 336 pages

Girl, Stop Apologizing

A Shame-Free Plan for Embracing and Achieving Your Goals

by Rachel Hollis 2019 240 pages

by Michael Lewis 2014 274 pages

The Hidden Life of Trees

What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World

by Peter Wohlleben 2015 272 pages

by Ryan Holiday 2016 226 pages

The Reckoning. The Rumble. The Revolution

by Brené Brown 2015 336 pages

The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life

by Emily Nagoski 2015 400 pages

The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life

by Héctor García 2016 204 pages

by John Grisham 2006 435 pages

How to Change Your Mind

What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence

by Michael Pollan 2018 464 pages

by Rutger Bregman 2019 480 pages

Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

by David Epstein 2019 352 pages

Why You Can't Pay Attention—and How to Think Deeply Again

by Johann Hari 2022 348 pages

The Checklist Manifesto

How to Get Things Right

by Atul Gawande 2009 215 pages

Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion

by Jonathan Haidt 2012 530 pages

So You've Been Publicly Shamed

by Jon Ronson 2015 304 pages

The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle

by Emily Nagoski 2019 277 pages

When Things Fall Apart

Heart Advice for Difficult Times

by Pema Chödrön 1996 208 pages

Lasting Happiness in a Changing World

by Dalai Lama XIV 2016 354 pages

Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

by Mikki Kendall 2020 267 pages

10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

by Austin Kleon 2014 131 pages

The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex

by Mary Roach 2008 303 pages

Things That Gain from Disorder

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb 2012 426 pages

How Non-Conformists Move the World

by Adam M. Grant 2016 320 pages

The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain

by Steven D. Levitt 2014 268 pages

How to Change Things When Change Is Hard

by Chip Heath 2010 322 pages

by Joseph Campbell 1988 293 pages

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