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2305 expert-reviewed books — rated honestly, recommended confidently.

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The War of Art

by Steven Pressfield

4.4

Steven Pressfield names the force that stops creative work — Resistance — and provides a philosophical framework for overcoming it through professional discipline.

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The Warren Buffett Way

by Robert Hagstrom

4.4

An analysis of Warren Buffett's investment principles and the business tenets, financial tenets, and management qualities he looks for before buying a company.

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The Well of Ascension

by Brandon Sanderson

4.4

With the Lord Ruler dead, Elend Venture struggles to hold together a fragile new government while Vin faces threats from within and without — and begins to question the prophecy that supposedly guides them.

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Thief of Time

by Terry Pratchett

4.4

A clockmaker is commissioned to build a perfect clock that would stop time, bringing the Auditors of Reality one step closer to a universe without the messy unpredictability of life. The History Monks dispatch Lu-Tze, a sweeper with a formidable past, and his new apprentice Lobsang Ludd to prevent it. Death's granddaughter Susan is also involved.

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Traveling Mercies

by Anne Lamott

4.4

Anne Lamott's spiritual memoir traces her journey from alcoholism and despair to faith, motherhood, and community — a funny, honest, and fiercely unsentimental account of finding grace in the most ordinary places.

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Twisted Games

by Ana Huang

4.4

Princess Bridget of Eldorra has a bodyguard named Rhys who has one rule: don't fall for the client. He's good at his job and bad at that rule. A royal forced-proximity romance that takes the bodyguard trope and leans into its inherent power dynamics without ignoring them — Bridget is also subject to the rules of a royal institution that has opinions about who she loves.

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Twisted Lies

by Ana Huang

4.4

Stella Chen is a social media influencer with a stalker she is trying to ignore. Christian Harper is a billionaire with secrets he is trying to keep. When Stella needs protection and Christian needs a cover story, they strike a deal that is supposed to be purely transactional — but the arrangement keeps evolving into something neither planned for.

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4.4

Wallace Price was a ruthless lawyer who worked himself to death. Now he is a ghost, refusing to cross over, being escorted to a tea shop in a small town where a ferryman named Hugo helps the dead accept their deaths. Under the Whispering Door is about learning, too late and then not too late, what makes a life worth living.

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Vengeful

by V.E. Schwab

4.4

Five years after Vicious, Victor Vale is still evading capture and hunting Eli, while a new ExtraOrdinary named Marcella Riggins rises with destruction at her fingertips and an agenda of her own. Three storylines converge in Schwab's expansion of the Villains universe — a world where everyone with powers has reasons to use them.

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Vicious

by V.E. Schwab

4.4

Victor Vale and Eli Ever were college roommates and best friends — until their thesis research on near-death experiences led them to discover how to grant humans extraordinary powers. Ten years later, Victor has escaped from prison with one goal: to find the man who put him there and kill him. A superhero story told from the villain's perspective.

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Vile Bodies

by Evelyn Waugh

4.4

The Bright Young Things of 1920s London party relentlessly while Adam Fenwick-Symes tries and fails to marry Nina. Waugh's second novel captures the feverish emptiness of the interwar generation with satirical accuracy that becomes, by the end, something closer to despair.

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We Were Eight Years in Power

by Ta-Nehisi Coates

4.4

A collection of Ta-Nehisi Coates's most important essays from the Obama years, each introduced with a new personal reflection, tracing both the trajectory of his thinking about race in America and the arc from Obama's election to Trump's — arguing that white supremacy was the connective tissue between both.

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Winning the Loser's Game

by Charles Ellis

4.4

The investment classic arguing that for most investors, the winning strategy is to stop trying to beat the market and instead minimise costs, taxes, and mistakes.

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Winter Garden

by Kristin Hannah

4.4

Two sisters discover their cold, distant mother was once something entirely different — a young woman in Leningrad during the Siege, telling a fairy tale that is really the story of her own survival. Alternating between contemporary Oregon and wartime Soviet Russia, Winter Garden is about secrets kept across generations.

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Work Optional

by Tanja Hester

4.4

A guide to designing a financially independent life where work is a choice, not a necessity — covering early retirement, semi-retirement, and career pivots.

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Yours Truly

by Abby Jimenez

4.4

Two rival doctors begin a fake relationship to fend off their respective annoying ex and overbearing family — and discover, via a series of increasingly heartfelt letters, that their feelings have stopped being fictional.

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Zodiac Academy: Ruthless Fae

by Caroline Peckham

4.4

The Vega twins return to Zodiac Academy for their second semester — and the Heirs' campaign to break them intensifies even as unexpected alliances and undeniable attractions begin to complicate everything.

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A Crown of Swords

by Robert Jordan

4.3

In the aftermath of Dumai's Wells, Rand hunts the Forsaken Sammael in Illian while Mat and Elayne seek the Bowl of the Winds in Ebou Dar. The series' political complexity deepens as the Dragon Reborn's actions reshape nations.

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4.3

The direct sequel to A Psalm for the Wild-Built — Sibling Dex and the robot Mosscap leave the wilderness and enter the human world, where Mosscap asks its central question: what do people need?

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A Room with a View

by E.M. Forster

4.3

Lucy Honeychurch travels to Florence with her cousin and chaperone, encounters a room with a view and a young man who insists on honesty, and discovers that choosing her own life is harder than she expected.

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4.3

Wallace's first essay collection includes his piece on the Illinois State Fair, an extended essay on David Lynch, 'E Unibus Pluram' on television and American fiction, and the title essay on a Caribbean cruise — the funniest and most formally inventive piece of literary journalism of the 1990s.

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