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Golden Son

by Pierce Brown

4.5

Darrow has risen within Gold society as a decorated student, but his mission to dismantle the Society from within deepens as he navigates treacherous political and military warfare across the solar system.

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Half of a Yellow Sun

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

4.5

Set during the Nigerian-Biafran War of the late 1960s, the novel follows three characters — twin sisters and a British writer — through one of Africa's most devastating postcolonial conflicts.

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4.5

Cognitive behavioral therapist Donald Robertson weaves together Marcus Aurelius's biography with the Stoic philosophy he practiced, showing how ancient techniques map onto modern psychological methods.

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Obviously Awesome

by April Dunford

4.5

A step-by-step process for positioning technology products that cuts through the confusion about what positioning is, why it matters, and how to do it well.

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Rhythm of War

by Brandon Sanderson

4.5

The fourth Stormlight Archive novel follows the war against the Fused as Kaladin confronts depression, Navani discovers the nature of anti-Stormlight, and Eshonai's past is finally told.

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Stoner

by John Williams

4.5

The quiet, ordinary life of William Stoner — Missouri farm boy, English professor, failed husband and father — told with such precision and compassion that it becomes a meditation on what makes a life worth living.

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The Bands of Mourning

by Brandon Sanderson

4.5

Wax and Wayne pursue the legendary Bands of Mourning — a set of metalminds said to grant any user the full power of the Lord Ruler — leading them into uncharted lands and the revelation of a hidden civilization.

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The Body Is Not an Apology

by Sonya Renee Taylor

4.5

Activist and poet Sonya Renee Taylor argues that radical self-love — the unconditional acceptance of your body exactly as it is — is not a personal practice but a political act that dismantles systems of oppression.

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The Lost Metal

by Brandon Sanderson

4.5

The finale of the Wax and Wayne series pits Elendel against an existential threat while the Cosmere's larger machinations come into direct contact with the Scadrian world for the first time.

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Thinking in Systems

by Donella Meadows

4.5

Environmental scientist Donella Meadows provides a primer on systems thinking — the art of seeing the world as interconnected structures of feedback, stocks, and flows — with applications from ecology to economics to policy.

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Towers of Midnight

by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson

4.5

Perrin Aybara finally confronts the Prophet of the Dragon while Mat Cauthon prepares a desperate mission to rescue Moiraine from the Aelfinn and Eelfinn. The Last Battle draws close as every major character moves into their final position.

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When Things Fall Apart

by Pema Chödrön

4.5

Buddhist teacher Pema Chödrön offers compassionate teachings on how to work with fear, loss, and groundlessness — arguing that these experiences, properly met, are paths to awakening rather than obstacles to it.

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Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

by Brandon Sanderson

4.5

Yumi is a yoki-hijo on a world of geothermal heat, summoning spirits through elaborate rituals. Painter is an artist on a world of perpetual darkness, holding back nightmare creatures with his brush. When their lives inexplicably intersect, each must learn from the other while solving the mystery of their connection.

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As a Man Thinketh

by James Allen

4.4

A brief, luminous 1903 essay arguing that the mind is the garden of human life — that thought determines character, achievement, health, and circumstances.

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Bring Up the Bodies

by Hilary Mantel

4.4

Thomas Cromwell orchestrates the fall of Anne Boleyn so that Henry VIII can pursue Jane Seymour — a second act of court destruction more morally troubling than the first. Winner of the Man Booker Prize.

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Broken Harbor

by Tana French

4.4

Detective Mick 'Scorcher' Kennedy investigates the brutal murder of a young family in a half-built ghost estate — and discovers a connection to his own past he cannot afford to acknowledge.

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Built to Last

by Jim Collins

4.4

A six-year research project examining eighteen visionary companies that had outperformed the general stock market by a factor of 15 since 1926.

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Defiant

by Brandon Sanderson

4.4

Spensa returns from the Nowhere with new understanding of her cytonic abilities as humanity makes its final stand against the Superiority, and the truth about the Delvers and the nature of consciousness itself must be resolved.

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Faithful Place

by Tana French

4.4

Undercover detective Frank Mackey's carefully constructed life unravels when the suitcase of the girl he loved — and believed had abandoned him twenty-two years ago — is found in a derelict house on Faithful Place.

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Inspired

by Marty Cagan

4.4

The definitive guide to modern technology product management — how the best product teams at companies like Amazon, Google, and Netflix discover and deliver products that customers love.

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Leaders Eat Last

by Simon Sinek

4.4

Why some teams pull together and others don't — an investigation into the biology and anthropology of leadership and organisational safety.

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Loving What Is

by Byron Katie

4.4

Byron Katie presents The Work — a four-question inquiry method that dismantles stressful thoughts and reveals the peace that remains when we stop arguing with reality.

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Momofuku

by David Chang

4.4

David Chang's memoir and cookbook tells the story of how a Korean-American chef opened a ramen shop with almost no money and built one of the most influential restaurant empires in American culinary history.

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