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The War of Art

by Steven Pressfield

4.4

Steven Pressfield names the force that stops creative work — Resistance — and provides a philosophical framework for overcoming it through professional discipline.

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The Well of Ascension

by Brandon Sanderson

4.4

With the Lord Ruler dead, Elend Venture struggles to hold together a fragile new government while Vin faces threats from within and without — and begins to question the prophecy that supposedly guides them.

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A Crown of Swords

by Robert Jordan

4.3

In the aftermath of Dumai's Wells, Rand hunts the Forsaken Sammael in Illian while Mat and Elayne seek the Bowl of the Winds in Ebou Dar. The series' political complexity deepens as the Dragon Reborn's actions reshape nations.

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A Room with a View

by E.M. Forster

4.3

Lucy Honeychurch travels to Florence with her cousin and chaperone, encounters a room with a view and a young man who insists on honesty, and discovers that choosing her own life is harder than she expected.

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Dune Messiah

by Frank Herbert

4.3

Twelve years after his jihad swept across the known universe, Paul Muad'Dib sits on the throne of an empire built on ten billion dead. His prescience is a prison, his legend a weapon turned against him, and a conspiracy is forming to finally bring him down.

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Emotional Agility

by Susan David

4.3

Harvard Medical School psychologist Susan David presents a framework for moving through difficult emotions with flexibility, clarity, and self-compassion rather than suppression or rumination.

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Firefight

by Brandon Sanderson

4.3

The Reckoners take their fight to Babylon Restored — the flooded ruins of Manhattan — pursuing the Epic known as Regalia while David confronts the possibility that not all Epics are irredeemably corrupt.

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Homo Deus

by Yuval Noah Harari

4.3

A sweeping vision of humanity's future as Homo sapiens pursues the ancient goals of immortality, bliss, and divinity — and what we risk losing in the process.

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In Defense of Food

by Michael Pollan

4.3

Michael Pollan's response to the nutritionism that has dominated American food culture — a short, elegant argument that the answer to the question of what to eat is simpler than the food industry and nutrition science want us to believe.

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It's in His Kiss

by Julia Quinn

4.3

Hyacinth Bridgerton recruits the roguish Gareth St. Clair to translate his grandmother's Italian diaries — and discovers that the diaries contain a secret that changes both their lives.

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King of Scars

by Leigh Bardugo

4.3

King Nikolai Lantsov of Ravka battles a dark curse living within him while navigating the political threats gathering at his borders — and two women he trusts with his kingdom but not his secret.

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Metabolical

by Robert Lustig

4.3

Robert Lustig argues that chronic disease is driven by processed food and metabolic dysfunction — and that the current medical and food industry response actively worsens the problem.

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My Ántonia

by Willa Cather

4.3

Jim Burden looks back on the Bohemian immigrant girl who defined his Nebraska childhood and shaped everything he has become.

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Neverwhere

by Neil Gaiman

4.3

Richard Mayhew helps a wounded girl on a London street and falls through the cracks of reality into London Below — a dark mirror city beneath the streets, populated by the people society forgot.

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Norse Mythology

by Neil Gaiman

4.3

Neil Gaiman retells the Norse myths — from the creation of the Nine Worlds to Ragnarök — in his own voice, bringing the gods of the northern tradition vividly to life.

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Old Man's War

by John Scalzi

4.3

On his 75th birthday, John Perry enlists in an interstellar military that promises old soldiers a new young body — but at a cost he couldn't have imagined.

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Rule of Wolves

by Leigh Bardugo

4.3

Nikolai and Zoya must end a devastating war, forge an unlikely alliance with their oldest enemy, and face the darkest power the Grishaverse has ever produced — before it consumes everything they have built.

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4.3

In a small Illinois town in October, a carnival arrives just after midnight — Cooger and Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show — and two thirteen-year-old boys discover that its attractions offer exactly what people most desire, at a price that cannot be paid.

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Stardust

by Neil Gaiman

4.3

Young Tristran crosses the wall separating his English village from the magical kingdom of Faerie to retrieve a fallen star for the girl he loves — only to find the star is a person with her own ideas about being retrieved.

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Starsight

by Brandon Sanderson

4.3

Spensa goes undercover among the alien Superiority to discover the truth behind their war against humanity, only to find that the conflict — and her own abilities — are far more complicated than she was told.

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Steelheart

by Brandon Sanderson

4.3

Ten years after a cosmic event granted ordinary people superhuman abilities, the Epics have taken over as tyrants rather than heroes. David Charleston joins the Reckoners — ordinary humans who hunt Epics — to kill Steelheart, the most powerful Epic alive.

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Sula

by Toni Morrison

4.3

The friendship between Nel Wright and Sula Peace, two Black women in the Bottom — a hilltop community in Ohio — over five decades, and what Sula's freedom costs both of them.

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