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Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice from Dear Sugar
Cheryl Strayed
4.15 average rating, · 144.9k ratings
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This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
David Foster Wallace
4.47 average rating, · 40k ratings
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All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks
4.00 average rating, · 148k ratings
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Conversations on Love
Natasha Lunn
4.19 average rating, · 50.5k ratings
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On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It
Seneca
4.16 average rating, · 48.2k ratings
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Twilight and Philosophy: Vampires, Vegetarians, and the Pursuit of Immortality
Rebecca Housel
4.41 average rating, · 23.5k ratings
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Gratitude
Oliver Sacks
4.17 average rating, · 25k ratings
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The Consolations of Philosophy
Alain de Botton
4.01 average rating, · 34.9k ratings
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An Anthropologist on Mars
Oliver Sacks
4.15 average rating, · 24.2k ratings
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The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
Esmé Weijun Wang
4.12 average rating, · 20.9k ratings
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All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
Robert Fulghum
4.00 average rating, · 24.9k ratings
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El peligro de estar cuerda
Rosa Montero
4.09 average rating, · 19.4k ratings
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A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
Hanif Abdurraqib
4.58 average rating, · 10.5k ratings
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Harry Potter and Philosophy: If Aristotle Ran Hogwarts
David Baggett
4.48 average rating, · 11.9k ratings
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The Wisdom of Life
Arthur Schopenhauer
4.05 average rating, · 16.8k ratings
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Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
Rachel Aviv
4.10 average rating, · 15.3k ratings
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The Conquest of Happiness
Bertrand Russell
4.02 average rating, · 16.5k ratings
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Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
Friedrich Nietzsche
4.23 average rating, · 10.9k ratings
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The Trouble With Being Born
Emil M. Cioran
4.07 average rating, · 11.8k ratings
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You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience
Tarana Burke
4.51 average rating, · 7.6k ratings
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Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science
Carl Sagan
4.05 average rating, · 11k ratings
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The Ultimate Harry Potter and Philosophy: Hogwarts for Muggles
Gregory Bassham
4.36 average rating, · 8k ratings
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The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
Thomas Ligotti
4.01 average rating, · 9.9k ratings
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A Natural History of the Senses
Diane Ackerman
4.15 average rating, · 8k ratings
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