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The Art of War

by Sun Tzu

4.3

The ancient Chinese military treatise attributed to Sun Tzu, comprising thirteen chapters on military strategy that have been applied to business, law, sports, and competitive endeavors for 2,500 years.

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The Bee Sting

by Paul Murray

4.3

An Irish family — parents, teenage daughter, and young son — each narrate their version of the secrets and crises that are simultaneously destroying and revealing them.

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The Big Leap

by Gay Hendricks

4.3

Gay Hendricks identifies the hidden self-sabotage patterns that cap our success and happiness, and offers a practical path to living and working in our Zone of Genius.

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The Black Echo

by Michael Connelly

4.3

LAPD detective Harry Bosch investigates the murder of a Vietnam veteran found dead in a drainpipe in the Hollywood Hills — and discovers a trail leading to a daring bank heist tied to the tunnels both men once crawled through in the war.

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The Forever War

by Joe Haldeman

4.3

A soldier fighting an interstellar war discovers that time dilation means each tour of duty lasts years, while centuries pass at home — making Earth progressively unrecognisable.

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The Lost City of Z

by David Grann

4.3

David Grann investigates the disappearance of British explorer Percy Fawcett, who vanished in the Amazon in 1925 while searching for an ancient lost civilization he called Z.

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The Magic of Thinking Big

by David J. Schwartz

4.3

David Schwartz argues that the size of your success is determined by the size of your belief — and provides practical techniques for cultivating bigger thinking in every area of life.

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The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

by Robert A. Heinlein

4.3

Luna's penal colony population, assisted by a self-aware computer, organises a revolution against Earth's authority in this Hugo Award-winning political science fiction novel.

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4.3

Drawing on Stoic philosophy and historical examples, Ryan Holiday argues that the obstacles we face are not impediments to success but the very material from which it is made.

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4.3

A standalone epic fantasy featuring three women across three continents facing the return of a world-ending dragon, woven through with questions of faith, queerness, and the nature of historical truth.

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The Secret Place

by Tana French

4.3

A year after a boy was murdered on the grounds of a Dublin girls' boarding school, a card appears on the school's anonymous message board: 'I know who killed him.' Detective Stephen Moran sees his chance to make the Murder Squad.

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The Wicked King

by Holly Black

4.3

Jude holds the power behind the throne, controlling the High King she placed there — but court intrigue and her impossible feelings for Cardan threaten everything she has built.

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The Willpower Instinct

by Kelly McGonigal

4.3

Health psychologist Kelly McGonigal distills the science of self-control from her popular Stanford course, presenting research-based strategies for strengthening willpower and understanding why it fails.

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Warbreaker

by Brandon Sanderson

4.3

Two sisters from a conservative mountain kingdom are sent to the colorful, decadent city of the Gods, where the divine Returned don't believe in their own religion and a war is being engineered by forces neither fully understands.

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A Scanner Darkly

by Philip K. Dick

4.2

An undercover narc in near-future California becomes addicted to the drug he's surveilling, losing his grip on his own identity in this partly autobiographical novel by Philip K. Dick.

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A Walk to Remember

by Nicholas Sparks

4.2

A rebellious teenager falls for the quiet minister's daughter in a small North Carolina town — and discovers what it truly means to love someone, and what it costs.

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4.2

A Regency Cinderella: Benedict Bridgerton dances with a mysterious masked woman at a masquerade ball and cannot forget her — but Sophie Beckett is a servant who knows their worlds can never meet.

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Blood Meridian

by Cormac McCarthy

4.2

A nameless teenager joins a gang of mercenary scalp-hunters in the 1850s Southwest, entering a world of almost incomprehensible violence presided over by the monstrous Judge Holden.

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Calamity

by Brandon Sanderson

4.2

The Reckoners track the source of Epic powers to Ildithia — the former Atlanta — and David confronts the cosmic force behind Calamity itself, with the future of both Epics and ordinary humans at stake.

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Cat's Cradle

by Kurt Vonnegut

4.2

A writer researching the life of the atomic bomb's inventor discovers ice-nine — a form of water that freezes solid at room temperature — in the hands of dangerous and careless people. Vonnegut's darkest comedy.

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Childhood's End

by Arthur C. Clarke

4.2

Alien Overlords arrive over Earth and usher in an unprecedented era of peace and prosperity — but the price is humanity's future.

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City of Ashes

by Cassandra Clare

4.2

Clary Fray must protect those she loves as Valentine prepares to raise a demon army, while the revelation about her relationship to Jace casts a shadow over everything.

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Crossing the Chasm

by Geoffrey A. Moore

4.2

The definitive guide to the critical gap in technology adoption — the chasm between early adopters and the mainstream market — and how to cross it.

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