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The Burnout Society Summary
The Burnout Society
by Byung-Chul Han 2010 60 pages
3.88
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The Posthuman Summary
The Posthuman
by Rosi Braidotti 2013 180 pages
3.81
500+ ratings
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All About Love Summary
All About Love
New Visions
by bell hooks 1999 240 pages
4.04
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We Should All Be Feminists Summary
We Should All Be Feminists
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 2012 65 pages
4.40
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Alice in Wonderland and Philosophy Summary
Alice in Wonderland and Philosophy
Curiouser And Curiouser
by William Irwin 2009 211 pages
4.12
1k+ ratings
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Self-Reliance Summary
Self-Reliance
An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series
by Ralph Waldo Emerson 1841 51 pages
4.00
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On Tyranny Summary
On Tyranny
Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
by Timothy Snyder 2017 127 pages
4.22
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Mythologies Summary
Mythologies
by Roland Barthes 1957 160 pages
4.09
16k+ ratings
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The Ultimate Harry Potter and Philosophy Summary
The Ultimate Harry Potter and Philosophy
Hogwarts for Muggles
by William Irwin 2010 304 pages
4.37
7k+ ratings
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On the Suffering of the World Summary
On the Suffering of the World
by Arthur Schopenhauer 1850 132 pages
3.87
2k+ ratings
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Totality and Infinity Summary
Totality and Infinity
An Essay on Exteriority
by Emmanuel Levinas 1961 314 pages
4.22
1k+ ratings
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The Power of the Powerless Summary
The Power of the Powerless
by VΓ‘clav Havel 1978 228 pages
4.21
3k+ ratings
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Liquid Love Summary
Liquid Love
On the Frailty of Human Bonds
by Zygmunt Bauman 2003 176 pages
3.76
6k+ ratings
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Walden & Civil Disobedience Summary
Walden & Civil Disobedience
by Henry David Thoreau 1849 320 pages
3.94
38k+ ratings
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The Consolations of Philosophy Summary
The Consolations of Philosophy
by Alain de Botton 2000 265 pages
4.01
32k+ ratings
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The Myth of Sisyphus Summary
The Myth of Sisyphus
by Albert Camus 1942 192 pages
4.18
75k+ ratings
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Braiding Sweetgrass Summary
Braiding Sweetgrass
Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
by Robin Wall Kimmerer 2013 408 pages
4.53
100k+ ratings
Science
Indigenous
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101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think Summary
101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
by Brianna Wiest 2016 450 pages
3.75
60k+ ratings
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The Lord of the Rings and Philosophy Summary
The Lord of the Rings and Philosophy
One Book to Rule Them All
by Gregory Bassham 2003 240 pages
4.27
5k+ ratings
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Books About Books
What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures Summary
What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures
by Malcolm Gladwell 2009 444 pages
3.85
100k+ ratings
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Status Anxiety Summary
Status Anxiety
by Alain de Botton 2004 306 pages
3.89
20k+ ratings
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Capitalist Realism Summary
Capitalist Realism
Is There No Alternative?
by Mark Fisher 2009 81 pages
4.22
34k+ ratings
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On Bullshit Summary
On Bullshit
by Harry G. Frankfurt 2005 67 pages
3.58
14k+ ratings
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How to Do Nothing Summary
How to Do Nothing
Resisting the Attention Economy
by Jenny Odell 2019 232 pages
3.67
52k+ ratings
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Bird by Bird Summary
Bird by Bird
by Anne Lamott 1994 238 pages
4.24
100k+ ratings
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The Matrix and Philosophy Summary
The Matrix and Philosophy
Welcome to the Desert of the Real
by William Irwin 2002 280 pages
3.90
2k+ ratings
Philosophy
Film
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Breaking Bad and Philosophy Summary
Breaking Bad and Philosophy
Badder Living through Chemistry
by Robert Arp 2012 242 pages
3.30
100+ ratings
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Pop Culture
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The Anthropocene Reviewed Summary
The Anthropocene Reviewed
Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
by John Green 2021 304 pages
4.36
100k+ ratings
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Seven Brief Lessons on Physics Summary
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
by Carlo Rovelli 2014 81 pages
3.99
62k+ ratings
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The Age of Magical Overthinking Summary
The Age of Magical Overthinking
Notes on Modern Irrationality
by Amanda Montell 2024 259 pages
3.47
21k+ ratings
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The Rebel Summary
The Rebel
by Albert Camus 1951 320 pages
4.14
17k+ ratings
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Modern Love Summary
Modern Love
True Stories of Love, Loss, and Redemption
by Daniel Jones 2007 304 pages
4.19
13k+ ratings
Romance
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Short Stories
Hood Feminism Summary
Hood Feminism
Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
by Mikki Kendall 2020 267 pages
4.37
57k+ ratings
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Tiny Beautiful Things Summary
Tiny Beautiful Things
Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
by Cheryl Strayed 2012 354 pages
4.16
100k+ ratings
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The Truth About Everything Summary
The Truth About Everything
by Brianna Wiest 2013 126 pages
3.83
1k+ ratings
Self Help
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Aspects of the Novel Summary
Aspects of the Novel
by E.M. Forster 1927 192 pages
3.81
4k+ ratings
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Literary Criticism
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The Art of Living a Meaningless Existence Summary
The Art of Living a Meaningless Existence
Ideas from Philosophy That Change the Way You Think
by Robert Pantano 2022 236 pages
4.37
1k+ ratings
Philosophy
Self Help
Psychology
The Architecture of Happiness Summary
The Architecture of Happiness
by Alain de Botton 2006 288 pages
3.86
13k+ ratings
Architecture
Philosophy
Art
The Cancer Journals Summary
The Cancer Journals
by Audre Lorde 1980 104 pages
4.43
4k+ ratings
Memoir
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The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction Summary
The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction
by Alan Jacobs 2011 162 pages
3.94
2k+ ratings
Books About Books
Education
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A 2nd Helping of Chicken Soup for the Soul Summary
A 2nd Helping of Chicken Soup for the Soul
101 More Stories to Open the Heart and Rekindle the Spirit
by Jack Canfield 1994 352 pages
3.98
1k+ ratings
Self Help
Inspirational
Short Stories
This Is Me Letting You Go Summary
This Is Me Letting You Go
by Heidi Priebe 2016 120 pages
4.07
10k+ ratings
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Aftermath Summary
Aftermath
On Marriage and Separation
by Rachel Cusk 2012 153 pages
3.66
3k+ ratings
Memoir
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Feminism
The Conquest of Happiness Summary
The Conquest of Happiness
by Bertrand Russell 1930 183 pages
4.02
15k+ ratings
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Psychology
Self Help
Pleasure Activism Summary
Pleasure Activism
The Politics of Feeling Good
by Adrienne Maree Brown 2019 441 pages
4.24
8k+ ratings
Feminism
Politics
Social Justice
Diagnosis Summary
Diagnosis
Solving the Most Baffling Medical Mysteries
by Lisa Sanders 2019 320 pages
4.00
3k+ ratings
Medicine
Science
Medical
Telling True Stories Summary
Telling True Stories
A Nonfiction Writers' Guide from the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University
by Mark Kramer 2007 317 pages
4.08
1k+ ratings
Writing
Journalism
Essays
Glitch Feminism Summary
Glitch Feminism
A Manifesto
by Legacy Russell 2020 178 pages
3.79
2k+ ratings
Feminism
Theory
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Talking Zen Summary
Talking Zen
Reflections on Mind, Myth, and the Magic of Life
by Alan W. Watts 1994 208 pages
4.25
100+ ratings
Philosophy
Buddhism
Spirituality
About Writing Summary
About Writing
Seven Essays, Four Letters, & Five Interviews
by Samuel R. Delany 2006 432 pages
4.26
100+ ratings
Writing
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