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1,000 Books to Read Before You Die: A Life-Changing List by James Mustich

1,000 Books to Read Before You Die: A Life-Changing List

James Mustich

960 pages • 2018 • 2 editions

nonfiction essays reference informative slow-paced
5.0 cook_memo...'s review
Becoming by Michelle Obama

Becoming

Michelle Obama

448 pages • 2018 • 107 editions

nonfiction memoir politics hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced
5.0 cook_memo...'s review
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven Pinker

Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

Steven Pinker

576 pages • 2018 • 35 editions

nonfiction philosophy science informative inspiring fast-paced
5.0 cook_memo...'s review
How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence by Michael Pollan

How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence

Michael Pollan

464 pages • 2018 • 46 editions

nonfiction health memoir philosophy challenging informative slow-paced
5.0 cook_memo...'s review
Tough Mothers: Amazing Stories of History's Mightiest Matriarchs by Jason Porath

Tough Mothers: Amazing Stories of History's Mightiest Matriarchs

Jason Porath

244 pages • 2018 • 2 editions

nonfiction biography feminism history informative inspiring lighthearted slow-paced
5.0 cook_memo...'s review
Marcel's Letters: A Font and the Search for One Man's Fate by Carolyn Porter

Marcel's Letters: A Font and the Search for One Man's Fate

Carolyn Porter

352 pages • 2017 • 4 editions

nonfiction biography history memoir emotional medium-paced
5.0 cook_memo...'s review
Stranger Things: Worlds Turned Upside Down: The Official Behind-The-Scenes Companion by Gina McIntyre

Stranger Things: Worlds Turned Upside Down: The Official Behind-The-Scenes Companion

Gina McIntyre

224 pages • 2018 • 8 editions

nonfiction horror adventurous medium-paced
5.0 cook_memo...'s review
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling

Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

Hans Rosling

342 pages • 2018 • 94 editions

nonfiction economics psychology science hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced
5.0 cook_memo...'s review
I've Been Thinking . . .Reflections, Prayers, and Meditations for a Meaningful Life by Maria Shriver

I've Been Thinking . . .Reflections, Prayers, and Meditations for a Meaningful Life

Maria Shriver

240 pages • 2018 • 6 editions

nonfiction memoir self help inspiring reflective slow-paced
5.0 cook_memo...'s review
Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger by Rebecca Traister

Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger

Rebecca Traister

320 pages • 2018 • 11 editions

nonfiction feminism politics reflective slow-paced
5.0 cook_memo...'s review