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#2

The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone

2016 • 207 Readers • 336 pages 3.7

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Hope In The Dark

2004 • 89 Readers • 152 pages 4

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Upstream: Selected Essays

2016 • 188 Readers • 192 pages 3.9

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Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space

2016 • 27 Readers • 241 pages 3.5

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Time Travel: A History

2016 • 78 Readers • 304 pages 3.4

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The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction

2016 • 134 Readers • 544 pages 3.8

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Hold Still

2015 • 27 Readers • 482 pages 3.8

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The Course of Love

2016 • 145 Readers • 240 pages 4.1

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Hidden Figures

2016 • 333 Readers • 384 pages 3.9

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The Abundance

2016 • 14 Readers • 304 pages 3.7

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When Breath Becomes Air

2016 • 1,042 Readers • 256 pages 4.4

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On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes

2013 • 61 Readers • 308 pages 3.2

#17

Advice to Little Girls

1867 • 1 Reader 4

#18

This Explains Everything

2013 • 35 Readers • 432 pages 3.3

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Time Warped

2012 • 17 Readers • 342 pages 3.5

#20

Self-Portrait as Your Traitor

2013 • 2 Readers • 112 pages

#23

Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking

2013 • 19 Readers • 496 pages 3.5

#24

Eighty Days

2013 • 21 Readers • 453 pages 3.6

#25

Don't Go Back to School: A Handbook for Learning Anything

2013 • 10 Readers • 204 pages 2

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Cover 2

1975 • 1 Reader 2

#28

Beethoven

2014 • 18 Readers • 1,077 pages 5

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Words Are My Matter

2016 • 31 Readers • 316 pages 4

#30

Consciousness

2017 • 17 Readers • 194 pages 4

#32

A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines

2006 • 28 Readers • 230 pages 3.5

#33

Cover 1

1951 • 2 Readers • 192 pages

#34

The Myth of Sisyphus

197 • 640 Readers • 162 pages 4.1

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The  wave in the mind

8 About Writing

2004 • 35 Readers • 314 pages 4.1

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Conversations with Kafka

2012 • 4 Readers • 228 pages 4

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Cover 8

#1 of 2 in Writer's Diary

1886 • 1 Reader • 805 pages

#40

When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

1996 • 204 Readers • 164 pages 4.2

#41

Cover 1

2015 • 2 Readers • 29 pages 3

#43

No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters

2017 • 99 Readers • 241 pages 4

#44

Nine Gates

1997 • 3 Readers • 240 pages

#45

A Field Guide to Getting Lost

2005 • 137 Readers • 209 pages 3.6

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The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland

#4 of 4 in The Grampian Quartet

1977 • 53 Readers • 141 pages 3.9

#47

Resistance, Rebellion and Death

1960 • 18 Readers • 271 pages 4.3

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#48

Escape from Freedom

1941 • 72 Readers • 324 pages 4.1

#49

Letters to a Young Poet

#103 of 14 in Penguin Little Black Classics

1929 • 387 Readers • 109 pages 4.3

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The conquest of happiness

73 Readers 4.1

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#51

The Prophet

1923 • 458 Readers • 240 pages 4.1

#52

First and last notebooks

1970 • 1 Reader • 368 pages

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Letters to Vera

2014 • 14 Readers • 864 pages 3

#55

The Wisdom of Insecurity

197 • 163 Readers • 152 pages 3.9

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#56

Mindset:The New Psychology of Success

2006 • 407 Readers • 320 pages 4

#57

Everything in Its Place: First Loves and Last Tales

2019 • 16 Readers • 288 pages 3.8

#58

Wind, Sand and Stars

1939 • 65 Readers • 160 pages 4.3

#59

Leaves of Grass

1 Iowa Whitman Series

19 • 354 Readers • 454 pages 4

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Why Love Hurts: A Sociological Explanation

2011 • 7 Readers • 293 pages

#63

What I believe

1925 • 24 Readers • 48 pages 4.3

#65

The Faraway Nearby

2013 • 48 Readers • 259 pages 4.4

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#66

Call Them by Their True Names

2018 • 32 Readers • 188 pages 4

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#69

Portraits From Memory and Other Essays

1956 • 4 Readers • 252 pages

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Cover 6

1882 • 5 Readers

#72

A General Theory of Love

2000 • 27 Readers • 288 pages 3.5