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Mort
Terry Pratchett
The Tainted Cup
Robert Jackson Bennett
East of Eden
John Steinbeck
The Gate of the Feral Gods
Matt Dinniman
Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High
Kerry Patterson
The Misleading Mind: How We Create Our Own Problems and How Buddhist Psychology Can Help Us Solve Them
Karuna Cayton
I recommend
Books I’d put in your hands.
Recommendations coming soon.
Read recently
The books that have kept me company.
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King of Ashes
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I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman
The Stranger
Albert Camus
Klara and the Sun
Kazuo Ishiguro
Positive Intelligence: Why Only 20% of Teams and Individuals Achieve Their True Potential and How You Can Achieve Yours
Shirzad Chamine
Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt
Trust
Hernan Diaz
Greenlights
Matthew McConaughey
Heart-Shaped Box
Joe Hill
The Rachel Incident
Caroline O'Donoghue
Die with Zero: Getting All You Can from Your Money and Your Life
Bill Perkins
For the Love of Men: A New Vision for Mindful Masculinity
Liz Plank
The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort to Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self
Michael Easter
The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook
Matt Dinniman
Carl's Doomsday Scenario
Matt Dinniman
Heart the Lover
Lily King
The River Is Waiting
Wally Lamb
The Strength of the Few
James Islington
Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will
Robert M. Sapolsky
Mindfulness in Plain English
Bhante Henepola Gunarantana
The Women
Kristin Hannah
Blue Sisters
Coco Mellors
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
Jenny Odell
The Idiot
Elif Batuman
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All the Light We Cannot See
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How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
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The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the Greater Philosophers
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The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself
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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
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Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life
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A Clash of Kings
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A Storm of Swords
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A Dance with Dragons
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The One That Got Away
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A Torch Against the Night
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Before They Are Hanged
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The Blade Itself
Joe Abercrombie
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A Darker Shade of Magic
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Death's End
Cixin Liu
Vicious
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The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
Mark Manson
The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done
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Malcolm Gladwell
