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Autodidactism Books
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A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra)
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avg rating 4.19 — 21,910 ratings — published 2014
The Art of Learning: A Journey in the Pursuit of Excellence (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.04 — 20,908 ratings — published 2007
The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 3,825 ratings — published 2003
Learn More, Study Less (ebook)
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avg rating 3.57 — 477 ratings — published 2014
Independent Scholar's Handbook: How to Turn Your Interest in Any Subject into Expertise (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 62 ratings — published 1982
Peak Learning: How to Create Your Own Lifelong Education Program for Personal Enlightenment andProfessional Success (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.51 — 134 ratings — published 1980
Success Without a College Degree: Dissolving the Roadblocks Between You and Success (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.40 — 15 ratings — published 2001
How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 27,879 ratings — published 1940
Don't Go Back to School: A Handbook for Learning Anything
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avg rating 3.67 — 567 ratings — published 2013
I Used to Know That: General Science (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.65 — 116 ratings — published 2010
I Used to Know That: History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.56 — 308 ratings — published 2010
Experience and Education (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 3,584 ratings — published 1938
The Rapture Of Maturity: A Legacy Of Lifelong Learning (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.25 — 16 ratings — published 2004
How to Tutor Your Own Child: Boost Grades and Inspire a Lifelong Love of Learning--Without Paying for a Professional Tutor (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 86 ratings — published 2011
A Guidebook to Learning: For a Lifelong Pursuit of Wisdom (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.68 — 104 ratings — published 1986
What You Need To Read To Know Just About Everything: The 25 best books for a self education and why (Paperback)
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avg rating 2.78 — 9 ratings — published 2002
Self University: The Price of Tuition Is the Desire to Learn : Your Degree Is a Better Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.75 — 71 ratings — published 1989
DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.63 — 577 ratings — published 2010
The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to Quit School and Get a Real Life and Education (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 1,365 ratings — published 1991
Advanced Banter: The QI Book of Quotations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as autodidactism)
avg rating 3.85 — 869 ratings — published 2008
I Used to Know That: Philosophy: Stuff You Forgot From School (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as autodidactism)
avg rating 3.46 — 52 ratings — published 2011
Linguistics: A Complete Introduction (Teach Yourself)
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avg rating 3.85 — 144 ratings — published 2014
New System of Chemical Philosophy (ebook)
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avg rating 3.00 — 2 ratings — published
Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.95 — 15,591 ratings — published 2019
Get Better at Anything: 12 Maxims for Mastery (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.71 — 488 ratings — published
Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 146,204 ratings — published 2021
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 79,592 ratings — published 2019
How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.32 — 2,800 ratings — published 2018
The Polymath: Unlocking the Power of Human Versatility (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.87 — 408 ratings — published 2019
The Self-Taught Programmer: The Definitive Guide to Programming Professionally (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.95 — 977 ratings — published 2017
Mindshift: Break Through Obstacles to Learning and Discover Your Hidden Potential (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.87 — 1,778 ratings — published 2017
The First 20 Hours: How to Learn Anything...Fast (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.46 — 8,048 ratings — published
The 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.94 — 11,113 ratings — published 2012
Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 22,581 ratings — published 2014
How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 6,665 ratings — published 1998
Geometry: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.62 — 29 ratings — published
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 589,490 ratings — published 2011
Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.56 — 1,011 ratings — published 2017
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.44 — 46,023 ratings — published 2017
The Principles of Psychology (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 278 ratings — published 1983
Outlines of psychology (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.63 — 19 ratings — published 1896
Experiments in Plant Hybridisation (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 157 ratings — published 1865
The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 230 ratings — published 1983
The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.19 — 21,502 ratings — published 1977
Chance, Love, and Logic: Philosophical Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.31 — 68 ratings — published 1923
Micrographia: Or Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses With Observations and Inquiries Thereupon (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.80 — 110 ratings — published 1655
Autobiography (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.76 — 1,103 ratings — published 1873
Elements of Chemistry (Dover Books on Chemistry)
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avg rating 3.91 — 378 ratings — published 1789
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 122,125 ratings — published 1859
A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive: Being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence and the Methods of Scientific Investigation (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 122 ratings — published 1843
“This book is for the people who don't want to pick a single focus and abandon all their other interests. It's for the curious, or those who find delight in learning new things, creating and morphing between identities.”
― How to Be Everything
― How to Be Everything
“For self-educated scientists and thinkers such as Charles Darwin, Srinivasa Ramanujan, Leonardo-da-Vinci, Michael Faraday, myself and many others, education is a relentless voyage of discovery. To us education is an everlasting quest for knowledge and wisdom.”
― The Education Decree
― The Education Decree





