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The Psychology of Money Morgan Housel · 2020 · ★ 4.0 · 272p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness doing well with money isn’t necessarily about what you know. It’s about how you behave. And behavior is hard to teach, even to really smart people. How to manage money, invest it, and make business decisions are typically considered to involve a lot of mathematical calculations, where data and formulae tell us exactly what to do. But in the real… Shares: Community pick

The Power of Now Eckhart Tolle · 1999 · ★ 4.5 · 142p · ≈ 4h · Moderate A #1 New York Times bestsellerA Wall Street Journal bestsellerA USA Today bestsellerTranslated into 69 languagesOver 20 million copies soldOne of the most influential and enduring books of the twenty-first century, Eckhart Tolle’s simple yet transformative guide to peace and fulfillmentNew World Library is the authorized publisher of The Power of Now. It’s no wonder that The Power of Now has… Shares: Community pick

North of Boston Robert Frost · 1910 · 141p · ≈ 4h · Challenging From the book:SOMETHING there is that doesn't love a wall, That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it, And spills the upper boulders in the sun; And makes gaps even two can pass abreast. The work of hunters is another thing: I have come after them and made repair Where they have left not one stone on a stone, But they would have the rabbit out of hiding, To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I… Shares: Personal copy, Library

Essays, first series Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1876 · ★ 3.5 · 376p · ≈ 12h · Challenging Emerson, Alfred Kazin observes in his Introduction, "was a great writer who turned the essay into a form all his own." His celebrated essays--the twelve published in Essays: First Series (1841) and eight in Essays: Second Series (1844)--are here presented for the first time in an authoritative one-volume edition, which incorporates all the changes and corrections Emerson made after their initial… Shares: American essays, Essays, Philosophy

Hey rub-a-dub-dub Theodore Dreiser · 1920 · ★ 4.0 · 312p · ≈ 10h · Challenging This collection contains numerous essays about the idea of the literary American character and several dramatic works from Dreiser. Dreiser held the collection in high regard, but it was panned by critics on its release. Many of Dreiser's unique obsessions, from the political to the scientific, are explored in these essays. Shares: American essays, Essays

Let Me Tell You What I Mean Joan Didion · 2021 · ★ 4.2 · 184p · ≈ 6h · Moderate From one of our most iconic and influential writers: a timeless collection of mostly early pieces that reveal what would become Joan Didion's subjects, including the press, politics, California robber barons, women, and her own self-doubt. Here are six pieces written in 1968 from the "Points West" Saturday Evening Post column Joan Didion shared from 1964 to 1969 with her husband, John Gregory… Shares: American essays, Essays

Lectures in America Gertrude Stein · 1935 · 246p · ≈ 8h · Challenging "This collection, a retrospective exhibit of the work of a woman who created a unique place for herself in the world of letters, contains a sample of practically every period and every manner in Gertrude Stein's career. It includes The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas in its entirety; selected passages from The Making of Americans; "Melanctha"from Three Lives; portraits of the painters Cezanne,… Shares: Personal copy, Library, Essays

England, my England D. H. Lawrence · 1915 · ★ 3.5 · 242p · ≈ 8h · Challenging A slim collection of short stories, written during the eight years or so previous to its publications date of 1922. Shares: Personal copy, Library

The Deserted Village Oliver Goldsmith · 1770 · 30p · ≈ 1h · Demanding This long poem by eighteenth-century Anglo-Irish poet Oliver Goldsmith about the destruction of an English village was published in New York in 1917, with 35 illustrations by the Etching Club. Shares: Personal copy, Library

Kant; a collection of critical essays Robert Paul Wolff · 1967 · ★ 3.5 · 415p · ≈ 13h · Moderate This book analyses and explains the central passage of Kant's philosophy, the "Transcendental Analytic" of the Critique of Pure Reason. It proceeds in the manner of a textual commentary, discussing and explaining each section of the Analytic in turn. The purpose, however, is not merely to comment chapter by chapter on what Kant has written, but rather to reorganise and interpret his argument so… Shares: Essays, Philosophy

Short stories Guy de Maupassant · 1893 · ★ 4.5 · 334p · ≈ 11h · Challenging This is a works of the short stories by Guy de Maupassant. The Diamond Necklace  The Diary of a Madman  Farewell The False Gems The Gamekeeper The Horla  The Inn In the Moonlight The Mad Woman The Marquis de Fumerol The Moribund The Piece of String The Story of a Farm Girl Theodule Sabot's Confession The Trip of the Horla Useless Beauty "Who Knows?" The Wolf The Wreck The Wrong… Shares: Personal copy, Library

Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1910 · 380p · ≈ 12h · Challenging Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the preeminent figures of the American literature. The leading expositor of the transcendentalist movement, he helped shape modern American Philosophy and religion, and his legacy continued through Thoreau, Melville, Whitman, and Dickinson. Shares: American essays, Essays, Philosophy

Modern essays Christopher Morley · 1921 · 351p · ≈ 11h · Challenging "A collection of representative contemporary essays" written by British and American authors. Shares: American essays, Essays

Hudibras Samuel Butler · 1662 · 412p · ≈ 13h · Demanding The celebrated mock-epic satirizing the English republicans, with Zachary Grey's notes, which kept Butler's world of outmoded learning accessible to later generations. Shares: Personal copy, Library

Stranger Than Fiction Chuck Palahniuk · 2004 · ★ 3.6 · 256p · ≈ 8h · Moderate From the bestselling author of Fight Club and Diary, a collection of essays and journalistic pieces that prove that real life has imagination beaten cold in the strangeness and wonder departmentsChuck Palahniuk's world has always been, well, different from yours and mine. The pieces that comprise Stranger Than Fiction, his first nonfiction collection, prove just how different, in ways both… Shares: American essays, Essays

slouching towards bethlehem Joan Didion · 1967 · ★ 4.2 · 238p · ≈ 7h · Moderate American novelist Joan Didion's first volume of nonfiction essays, first published in 1968, consisting of twenty works that reflect the atmosphere in America during the 1960s, especially in California. Shares: American essays, Essays

The idea of nature R. G. Collingwood · 1800 · 183p · ≈ 6h · Challenging The book propounds Collingwood's theory of philosophical method applied to the problem of the philosophy of nature. The book is divided into four major sections: Introduction, Greek Cosmology, The Renaissance View of Nature, and the Modern View of Nature. Shares: Nature, Philosophy

How to Be Alone Jonathan Franzen · 2002 · ★ 3.6 · 306p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Collection of some of Franzen's essays, including the one known as "the Harper's essay". Some are edited or tweaked from their original printings. A mixture of topics but well-written and enjoyable; Franzen is as thoughtful as ever. Shares: American essays, Essays

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