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This brisk (~3 hour) audiobook is part pep talk and part philosophy. The book is broken into three sections: defining resistance (i.e. how the author describes the various thoughts, feelings,…

Part travel-log, part memoir, John Hodgman's Medallion Status: True Stories from Secret Rooms is sure to be a hit with fans of his previous work, Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches.  This work…

Educated chronicles the author's journey from a childhood without a formal education to earning a PhD in history from Cambridge university. The first half of the book recounts her childhood,…

First, a blurb from the publisher: "From the author of the bestseller Eat and Run, a thrilling memoir about his grueling, exhilarating, and immensely inspiring 46-day run to break the…

Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman is an exploration of how the human mind works.  The author discusses lots of pairs: two minds (the fast and intuitive system 1…

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak is narrated by death, and follows the orphaned Liesel Meminger, the titular book thief.  The story is primarily focused on her youth spent in…