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97 reviews

Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari

adventurous challenging dark informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

This was even better than I expected it to be, exploring so many important and interesting topics from a slightly different angle than they are usually explored and really requiring you to think about concepts many of us take for granted. I'm excited to read the follow up book too.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

3.25

The Lean Startup: How Constant Innovation Creates Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Ries

hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.25

Sun Tzu: The Art of War by Sun Tzu

dark reflective fast-paced

3.0

I feel that this has become too commonplace to be a worthwhile read as most of the concepts described are easily deduced from other books, movies, and media.

Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World by Cal Newport

adventurous hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl—A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship by Sherry Argov

reflective medium-paced

3.75

I was hesitant to read this when it was recommended to me, but it was actually suprisingly well written and researched. This is the only dating type book I've read, so I can't compare it to that specific genre, but I can say as a book on human social behavior, it was a decent read. While some tactics recommended here are questionable, a lot of this book is telling women's to have their own lives and interests, which is obviously solid advice.

How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World by Rutger Bregman

challenging hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II by Liza Mundy

adventurous informative reflective slow-paced

4.0

The Psychopath Inside: A Neuroscientist's Personal Journey into the Dark Side of the Brain by James Fallon

adventurous challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

While some brief sections are either too dense with neurological rehtoric for the average person to totally follow, or feel like the random musings of a narcissist, those exerpts are not actually out of place and most of the book is interesting and enjoyable. I would recommend it to anyone interested in the human brain or psychopathy.