12 Rules for Life
Twelve essays on responsibility from posture to truth to petting cats.
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The Year of Magical Thinking
After sudden loss at dinner, Didion records the year mind keeps expecting return.
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Naked
Growing up odd in Carolina, working bad jobs, and learning to watch people closely and kindly.
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Lean In
Sit at the table, negotiate, share home load, and change offices while knowing advice skews elite.
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Homo Deus
After ruling the world, humans chase upgrades and delegate feeling to systems that know patterns.
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Bad Blood
How Theranos sold finger prick miracles, faked tests, and silenced staff who knew patients were at risk.
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We Should All Be Feminists
Adichie turns her 2012 TEDx talk into a short sharp essay on gender, using stories from Lagos and America to argue equality helps everyone.
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The Twilight Saga Breaking Dawn Part 1: The Official Illustrated Movie Companion
Official photo guide to the Breaking Dawn Part 1 film, from the wedding to Isle Esme to the birth scene crew work.
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Malcolm X traces his life from Michigan childhood through Harlem, prison, and the Nation of Islam to Mecca in this 1965 memoir told to Alex Haley.
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Talking to Strangers
Gladwell asks why we misread strangers, from spies and frauds to traffic stops, and why good intentions still fail.
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Berendt spends five years in Savannah and gets drawn into the Jim Williams murder trials, among eccentrics and root doctors.
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If You Tell
Three sisters survive fear in a Raymond farmhouse and help police face long hidden murders.
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Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
Sedaris on snow days, rental houses, Dutch Christmas, and the family that made him funny.
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Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
Thiel argues monopolies create value through vertical progress, not by copying competition.
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Ways of Seeing
Seven short essays on how pictures, ads, and nudes teach us to look.
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Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time
Mortenson fails K2 builds schools in Pakistan after Korphe kindness.
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Think and Grow Rich
Hill teaches desire, faith and autosuggestion, distilling lessons from Carnegie interviews into thirteen principles for success.
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The Prince
Machiavelli advises Lorenzo on rule through fear and love, fortune, cruelty and mercy.
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The Power of Now
Tolle argues pain comes from mind chatter and peace from full attention to now.
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The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing
Marie Kondo teaches the KonMari method: keep only what sparks joy, tidied by category for a lasting home reset.
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The Lean Startup
Ries lays out Build-Measure-Learn, MVPs, pivots and validated learning for building companies under extreme uncertainty.
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The Last Lecture
Dying professor Pausch lectures really achieving childhood dreams.
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The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
The Ten Booms hide Jews in Haarlem, suffer Ravensbruck, lose Betsie, and learn forgiveness.
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The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
Washington rowers led by Joe Rantz chase gold in Hitler's Berlin in 1936.
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