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Viktor Emil Frankl
Man’s Search for Meaning. Washington Square Press, 1985.
Brendan Buhler
The Enormous Impact of Tiny Microbes. Simon and Schuster, 2015.
Kavitha A. Davidson
Dilemmas of the Modern Fan. University of Texas Press, 2020.
Isabel Allende
On Impatient Love, Long Life, and Good Witches. Ballantine Books, 2021.
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Tim Ferriss
The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers. Mariner Books, 2016.
David Leavitt
Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer. Atlas Books, 2006.
Kate Moore
The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women. Sourcebooks, 2017.
Nate Pedersen
A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything. Workman Publishing, 2017.
Josephy Murphy
The Power of Your Subconscious Mind. Way to Success, 2019.
Jasmine Brown
The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians, from the Civil War to the 21st Century. Beacon Press, 2023.
Olivia Campbell
How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine. Park Row Books, 2021.
Nicole LePera
Recognize Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self. Harper Wave, 2021.
Arthur C. Brooks
Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life. Portfolio, 2022.
Tania Gergel
The Brief Life and Towering Exploits of History’s Greatest Conqueror as Told by His Original Biographers. Penguin Books, 2004.
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Kavitha A. Davidson
Dilemmas of the Modern Fan. University of Texas Press, 2020.
Eric Berne
The Psychology of Human Relationships. Grove Press, 1964.
Jia Jiang
How I Beat Fear and Became Invincible. Harmony, 2015.
Dan Harris
A 10% Happier How-to Book. Harmony, 2017.
Isabel Allende
On Impatient Love, Long Life, and Good Witches. Ballantine Books, 2021.
Robert Greene
The 48 Laws of Power. Penguin Books, 1998.
Viktor Emil Frankl
Man’s Search for Meaning. Washington Square Press, 1985.
Loretta Graziano
Dopamine, Endorphin, Oxytocin, Serotonin. Createspace, 2012.
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Brendan Buhler
The Enormous Impact of Tiny Microbes. Simon and Schuster, 2015.
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Dilemmas of the Modern Fan. University of Texas Press, 2020.
Viktor Emil Frankl
Man’s Search for Meaning. Washington Square Press, 1985.
Susan Forward
When the People in Your Life Use Fear, Obligation, and Guilt to Manipulate You. HarperCollins Publishers, 2001.
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Dopamine, Endorphin, Oxytocin, Serotonin. Createspace, 2012.
Isabel Allende
On Impatient Love, Long Life, and Good Witches. Ballantine Books, 2021.
James Lovelock
The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence. The MIT Press, 2019.
Yusra Mardini
From Refugee to Olympian—My Story of Rescue, Hope, and Triumph. Pan MacMillan, 2018
Belinda Luscombe
The Art and Science of Staying Together. Random House, 2019.
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Rejection Proof
Jia Jiang
A fascinating look at rejection from every angle, from understanding and overcoming the fear of rejection to learning how to increase your chances of a yes while becoming perfectly okay with a no.
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