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Books you may have missed
Quieter than the bestsellers, and better than most of them.
Shop Class as Soulcraft
Matthew B. Crawford
A philosophy PhD who fixes motorcycles, on why working with your hands changes how you think.
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If you liked Sapiens, try this
Same appetite for the big picture, more willing to admit what nobody knows yet.
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson
Bryson explains how we worked any of this out, and how recently.
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Three Historical Novels Worth Reading
Long books that earn their length.
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
Revenge, patiently. Over a thousand pages and not a dull stretch.
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Books About Leadership
None of these are management books. All of them are about people deciding what to do when it matters.
Endurance
Alfred Lansing
Shackleton loses the ship and gets every man home. The whole book is decision-making under pressure.
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Richard Rhodes
What it takes to run a project nobody has ever run before, with the stakes that high.
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Meditations
A Roman emperor's private notebook, never written for publication. Mostly him telling himself to get on with it.
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
Short entries. You can read one page and put it down without losing the thread.