Modern Life Books
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Normal People (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.81 — 1,868,358 ratings — published 2018
A Man Called Ove (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.38 — 1,213,994 ratings — published 2012
Intermezzo (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.81 — 341,390 ratings — published 2024
Yellowface (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.73 — 1,031,708 ratings — published 2023
Truly Madly Guilty (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.60 — 317,249 ratings — published 2016
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 1,355,155 ratings — published 2022
Anxious People (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 806,148 ratings — published 2019
A Little Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.28 — 928,446 ratings — published 2015
Lessons in Chemistry (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 1,784,313 ratings — published 2022
Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.22 — 77,715 ratings — published 2022
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.84 — 504,553 ratings — published 2016
The Hero With a Thousand Faces (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 45,064 ratings — published 1949
American Fantasy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.80 — 137 ratings — published 2026
Clash!: 8 Cultural Conflicts That Make Us Who We Are (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.70 — 367 ratings — published 2013
Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.94 — 9,892 ratings — published 2025
The Life Impossible (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.47 — 153,654 ratings — published 2024
Menti tribali. Perché le brave persone si dividono su politica e religione (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.19 — 66,036 ratings — published 2012
Dream State (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.59 — 23,351 ratings — published 2025
Funny Story (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.19 — 1,275,914 ratings — published 2024
Dedicated: The Case for Commitment in an Age of Infinite Browsing (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.78 — 1,586 ratings — published 2021
This Sceptred Isle: The Twentieth Century, Vol 4: 1959-1979 (Audio CD)
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avg rating 3.87 — 31 ratings — published 1999
Demon Copperhead (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.47 — 794,825 ratings — published 2022
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 126,904 ratings — published 2021
People We Meet on Vacation (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.85 — 1,689,248 ratings — published 2021
Paris Peasant (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.65 — 1,316 ratings — published 1926
Big Little Lies (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.31 — 1,116,653 ratings — published 2014
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
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avg rating 3.98 — 2,460,505 ratings — published 2020
Horrorstör (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.65 — 124,676 ratings — published 2014
My Dark Vanessa (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.10 — 425,856 ratings — published 2020
The Establishment: And How They Get Away with It (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.10 — 9,083 ratings — published 2014
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.39 — 4,100,259 ratings — published 2017
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 107,362 ratings — published 2017
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 589,169 ratings — published 2011
Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.05 — 95,375 ratings — published 2019
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.86 — 1,408,574 ratings — published 2016
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 189,229 ratings — published 2016
The Beekeeper of Aleppo (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 178,387 ratings — published 2019
Convenience Store Woman (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.67 — 374,111 ratings — published 2016
An American Marriage (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.93 — 385,652 ratings — published 2018
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 79,028 ratings — published 1968
Our Culture, What's Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 1,581 ratings — published 2005
Beartown (Beartown, #1)
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avg rating 4.29 — 597,351 ratings — published 2016
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.04 — 359,127 ratings — published 2014
The Rosie Project (Don Tillman, #1)
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avg rating 4.01 — 594,742 ratings — published 2013
The Confusion of Languages (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.63 — 4,159 ratings — published 2017
After You (Me Before You, #2)
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avg rating 3.75 — 418,538 ratings — published 2015
The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 14,619 ratings — published 2017
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 1,425,706 ratings — published 2017
The Lie of the Land (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.72 — 2,500 ratings — published 2017
What Alice Forgot (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 513,849 ratings — published 2010
“Before this generation lose the wisdom, one advice - read books.”
― Wealth of Words
― Wealth of Words
“Now, 75 years [after To Kill a Mockingbird], in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.
[Open Letter, O Magazine, July 2006]”
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[Open Letter, O Magazine, July 2006]”
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