Drop dead healthy one man's humble quest for bodily perfection

Drop dead healthy one man's humble quest for bodily perfection

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A.J. Jacobs
A.J. Jacobs
2012 • 418 pages

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318 books

Memoir Autobiography

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Lab Girl
It's What I Do : A Photographer's Life of Love and War
Sex Object
Skyfaring
You'll Grow Out of It
Seeking Rapture

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822 books

Nonfiction

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Under the Banner of Heaven
The Strange Case of the Broad Street Pump: John Snow and the Mystery of Cholera
An American Requiem
A Fair Country
The Happiness Project
Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things
In Search of Grace

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70 books

Science And Health

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Lab Girl
Neurotribes
Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment
The Naked Lady Who Stood on Her Head: A Psychiatrist's Stories of His Most Bizarre Cases
The nurses
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

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21 books

Sports

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The three-year swim club
The Hustle
Godforsaken Sea
Drop dead healthy one man's humble quest for bodily perfection
The System
Running Like a Girl: Notes on Learning to Run
In the City of Bikes: The Story of the Amsterdam Cyclist

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359 books

Nonfiction

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What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
Обезьяны, нейроны и душа
The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment
The Year of Living Biblically
The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World
The Grand Design
No Logo

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128 books

Health

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Good Calories, Bad Calories
Yoga Anatomy
365 WODs: Burpees, Deadlifts, Snatches, Squats, Box Jumps, Situps, Kettlebell Swings, Double Unders, Lunges, Pushups, Pullups, and More
Drop dead healthy one man's humble quest for bodily perfection
The Epigenetics Revolution
Why We Get Fat

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25 books

Humor

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What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
Drop dead healthy one man's humble quest for bodily perfection
The Year of Living Biblically
The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World
The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment
Thing Explainer

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22 books

Biography

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H.P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life
The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World
The Year of Living Biblically
The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment
The Psychopath Whisperer: The Science of Those Without Conscience
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Owned

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The 5th Wave
Babyville
Bright Lights, Big Ass
The Catcher in the Rye
Catching Fire
The Center of Everything
Civil War

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Popular Science

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Islands of Abandonment
What We Cannot Know: Explorations at the Edge of Knowledge
The Music of the Primes
Fast Asleep: How to Get a Really Good Night's Rest
Seeing Further: Ideas, Endeavours, Discoveries and Disputes — The Story of Science Through 350 Years of the Royal Society
QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter

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Have

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What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
How To
The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
The Only Plane in the Sky: The Oral History of 9/11
A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
Crisis in the Red Zone
A Warning

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126 books

Health

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Mermaid Queen: The Spectacular True Story Of Annette Kellerman, Who Swam Her Way To Fame, Fortune & Swimsuit History!
My Own Country
Living Oprah
The Spare Room
Unfinished Business: One Man's Extraordinary Year of Trying to Do the Right Things

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Just For Fun

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Standing in the Rainbow
How Perfect Is That
Jackson and Bud's Bumpy Ride: America's First Cross-Country Automobile Trip
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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
Mister Magnolia
Silverlicious

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Challenge

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Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads
The Shift
Notes from a Blue Bike: The Art of Living Intentionally in a Chaotic World
I Dare Me
Helping Me Help Myself: One Skeptic, Ten Self-Help Gurus, and a Year on the Brink of the Comfort Zone
Yes Man
Julie & Julia

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723 books

Non Fiction

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Here and Nowhere Else: Late Seasons of a Farm and Its Family
August Wilson: A Life
The Year of Lear : Shakespeare in 1606
Shakespeare in Parts
The Other Dr. Gilmer: Two Men, a Murder, and an Unlikely Fight for Justice
The British Are Coming
The Woman They Could Not Silence

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Audio

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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
My Name is Red
Florence of Arabia
The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey
Read On-- Audiobooks
Prodigal Summer
Bellwether

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Health Medicine

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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Far from the Tree