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Science Fiction book: The Electric State

Science Fiction book: The Electric State

Nietzsche - philosopher

Nietzsche - philosopher

Neil Gaiman - Author

Neil Gaiman - Author

Book review: Thinking Fast and Slow - by Daniel Kahneman

Book review: Thinking Fast and Slow - by Daniel Kahneman

Science Fiction - predict / prevent the future

Reading Science Fiction can help predict / prevent the future

Talking to Strangers - book by Malcolm Gladwell

Talking to Strangers - book by Malcolm Gladwell

Poets - poetry

a collection of articles about Poetry Writing

Book Review: Einstein’s Dreams by Alan Lightman

Book Review: Einstein’s Dreams by Alan Lightman

Amanda Gorman - Poetry Writing

Amanda Gorman - Poetry Writing

Audiobooks, Reading and Parenting

Audiobooks, Reading and Parenting

Fan Fiction Writing - creating fictional characters, fantasy worlds

Fan Fiction Writing - creating fictional characters, fantasy worlds

Stoicism - wisdom of Stoic philosophy

Stoicism - wisdom of Stoic philosophy

Book Recommendation and Discovery: Goodreads, BookBub, Google Books, and more

Book recommendation and discovery sites: Goodreads, BookBub, Google Books, and more

Books - Influencers and Social Media Marketing

Books - Influencers and Social Media Marketing

Lord of the Flies - Book, Review and Teaching Notes

Lord of the Flies - Book, Review and Teaching Notes

Best Fantasy Books to Read

Best Fantasy Books to Read

Bookstores - New and used book sellers - Competing with Amazon

Bookstores - New and used book sellers - Competing with Amazon

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Article

Barnes & Noble Undergoes a Back-to-Basics Redesign - The New York Times

As the bookstore chain mounts a comeback, it’s breaking a cardinal rule of corporate branding and store design: consistency. (2023)


Article

Publishing: How to write a bestseller.

No one knows. But a good guess is quickly. And don’t stint on the full stops | Culture. Best sellers are ignored by critics, but are immensely prof... (2023)


Article

Science fiction’s curious ability to predict the future | Niall Ferguson - The Spectator

The pandemic is not quite over, but we are getting used to its inconveniences. What disaster will be next? An antibiotic-resistant strain of the bu... (2021)


Article

The Most Influential Sci-Fi Books Of All Time

The most influential sci-fi books of all time examine humanity's longest-held hopes and deepest, most visceral fears. (2021)


Article

Einstein’s Dreams: Physicist Alan Lightman’s Poetic Exploration of Time – Brain Pickings

“A life in the past cannot be shared with the present. Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.” (2021)


Article

Goodreads plans to retire API access, disables existing API keys | Hacker News

To build Open Library, we need hundreds of millions of book records, a wiki interface, and lots of people who are willing to contribute their time ... (2021)


Article

Writing books is not really a good idea - The Novelleist

The New York Times caused a stir recently when, in an article about pandemic book sales, it disclosed that “98 percent of the books that publishers... (2021)


Article

Yes, Audiobooks Are Real Reading. Here Are the Best Ones for Kids. | EdSurge News

Tucked in, snuggled up, I still remember the hours I spent listening to my mother read aloud “The Hobbit.” I must have been about 8-years-old, and ... (2021)


Article

Why Instagram's biggest book accounts aren't your usual influencers | Life and style | The Guardian

They stage backdrops and match book covers to flowers. But they’re also avid readers. Could they actually be living the lives they promote online? ... (2019)


Article

14 Book Instagrams to Follow if You Love Reading as Much as We Do - Oprah

From Reese Witherspoon, to subway reviews, and mind-blowing artistic creations, we've found our favorite book Instagram accounts so you can start h... (2019)


Article

The Bookstagrammers and BookTubers changing the way we read - The Washington Post

We asked three book influencers about these online communities that are so warm, they feel like social media’s best. (2019)


Article

15 Bookstagrammers to follow in 2020 - She Reads

New accounts pop up every day, making it hard to keep up with who's who. With this in mind, we bring you 15 bookstagrammers you should be following... (2020)


Article

The real Lord of the Flies: what happened when six boys were shipwrecked for 15 months

When a group of schoolboys were marooned on an island in 1965, it turned out very differently to William Golding’s bestseller, writes Rutger Bregman (2020)


Article

The 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time

With a panel of leading fantasy authors, TIME presents the 100 most engaging, inventive and influential works of fantasy fiction. With a panel o... (2020)


Article

Your Local Bookstore Wants You to Know That It’s Struggling - The New York Times

Independent booksellers are desperate for customers to return, and not just for an online reading. (2020)


Article

How 'A Wrinkle in Time' Changed Sci-Fi | Mental Floss

Meg Murry—the time-hopping heroine at the center of Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle In Time'—transported sci-fi into a new dimension. (2015)


Article

Klutz Press: books built for learning stuff (charlieharrington.com)

What makes a Klutz Press book so good for learning stuff? If you've heard of Klutz, then you've likely seen their debut: Juggling For the Comple... (2020)


Article

Why Doctors Should Read Fiction

Could a simple literary exercise make physicians more caring? "...could studying literature also be good training for medicine? A new paper in L... (2018)


Article

J.K. Rowling is releasing a new book chapter-by-chapter online for free

Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has a new children’s book, The Ickabog, which will be released over the next seven weeks chapter-by-chapter. Rowli... (2020)


Article

Most book clubs are doing it wrong

The standard way to run a book club is to have everybody finish the book before meeting to talk about it. You have one meeting per book. The discus... (2020)


Article

The Best Travel Books: 13 Books That Will Give You Serious Wanderlust

Are looking some great travel books? These thirteen travel books will make you laugh, cry, learn history, and inspire you to see the world. (2018)


Article

12 Books to Take You Around the World

To help keep your wanderlust stoked as you stay inside during the pandemic, here are 12 amazing travel books that I promise won't disappoint you. (2020)


Article

The ‘Lord of the Flies’ Family Book Club

‘Lord of the Flies’ has a very odd power. It’s unnerving how books mutate. You look up from your life—from these weeks of homey terror—and find ... (2020)


Article

Haven't read War and Peace? Now's the time to join Yiyun Li's free virtual book club

If you're feeling alone and listless, or even if you simply have a few extra hours a week all of a sudden, I've got some good news for you. Startin... (2020)


Article

There's no better time to read War and Peace. Really.

Official site of The Week Magazine, offering commentary and analysis of the day's breaking news and current events as well as arts, entertainment, ... (2020)


Article

The 7 Best Books I’ve Ever Read About Writing

Writing has helped me to become better at thinking, speaking, and making decisions. And I've used books about writing to improve myself. 1. On W... (2016)


Article

Leo Tolstoy on Finding Meaning in a Meaningless World

“For man to be able to live he must either not see the infinite, or have such an explanation of the meaning of life as will connect the finite with... (2014)


Article

Thanks to Bookshop, Indies Stand a Chance Against Amazon

Bookshop is a new online bookstore helping independent retailers stay afloat during the coronavirus pandemic and fight back against Amazon. (2020)


Article

Viktor Frankl on the Human Search for Meaning – Brain Pickings

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to ... (2013)


Article

The Best Books on Critical Thinking

The best books on critical thinking, as recommended by Nigel Warburton – Five Books' philosophy editor and author of Thinking from A to Z. Do yo... (2019)


Video

Why should you read Edgar Allan Poe? - TEDed - Scott Peeples

Why should you read Edgar Allan Poe? - Scott Peeples (2021)


Video

Why should you read "The Handmaid's Tale"? - TEDeD

Download a free audiobook and support TED-Ed's nonprofit mission: Check out Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale… (2021)


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TEDed - Why should you read "One Hundred Years of Solitude"? - Francisco Díez-Buzo

Download a free audiobook version of "One Hundred Years of Solitude" and support TED-Ed's nonprofit mission: https://adbl.co/2LHl4XM Check out our ... (2018)


Podcast

#575: Neil Gaiman — The Tim Ferriss Show | Podcast on Spotify

Listen to this episode from The Tim Ferriss Show on Spotify. Neil Gaiman — The Interview I've Waited 20 Years to Do | Brought to you by Athletic Gr... (2022)


Book

Revenge of the Tipping Point, by Malcolm Gladwell

Twenty-five years after the publication of his groundbreaking first book, Malcolm Gladwell returns with a brand-new volume that reframes the lesson... (2025)


Book

The Electric State

NPR Best Books of 2018 A teen girl and her robot embark on a cross-country mission in this illustrated science fiction story, perfect for fans of R... (2023)


Book

Neverwhere - by Neil Gaiman

“Neil Gaiman is undoubtedly one of the modern masters of fantasy writing....For those who have not read Neverwhere, the new edition is the one to r... (2022)


Book

American Gods - by Neil Gaiman

Shadow is a man with a past. But now he wants nothing more than to live a quiet life with his wife and stay out of trouble. Until he learns that sh... (2022)


Book

Coraline - by Neil Gaiman

When a young girl ventures through a hidden door, she finds another life with shocking similarities to her own. Coraline has moved to a new house w... (2022)


Book

The Graveyard Book - by Neil Gaiman

It takes a graveyard to raise a child. Nobody Owens, known as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a graveyard,... (2022)


Book

Einstein's Dreams

A modern classic, Einstein’s Dreams is a fictional collage of stories dreamed by Albert Einstein in 1905, about time, relativity and physics. As th... (2021)


Book

The Manual: A Philosopher's Guide to Life (Stoic Philosophy Book 1)

The Manual book. Read 131 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Life's Missing Instruction Manual Epictetus (c. 50-135 CE) was br... (2021)


Book

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

Meditations book. Read 7,002 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Written in Greek by the only Roman emperor who was also a phil... (2021)


Book

The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman

The Complete Maus book. Read 7,135 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Combined for the first time here are Maus I: A Survivor'... (2020)


Book

The Complete Persepolis (Persepolis, #1-4) by Marjane Satrapi

The Complete Persepolis book. Read 7,446 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Here, in one volume: Marjane Satrapi's best-sellin... (2020)


Book

Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari

Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically-acclaimed New York Times bestseller and international phenomenon Sapiens, returns with an equally origi... (2019)


Book

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

100,000 years ago, at least six human species inhabited the earth. Today there is just one. Us. Homo sapiens. How did our species succeed in the... (2019)


Book

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't - by James C. Collins

To find the keys to greatness, Collins's 21-person research team read and coded 6,000 articles, generated more than 2,000 pages of interview transc... (2019)


Website

AbeBooks | Shop for Books, Art & Collectibles

Discover a wonderful selection of rare and collectible books, used copies, signed and first editions and more, from booksellers located around the ... (2021)


Website

Open Library (books) - Developer Center / APIs

Open Library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published. Read, borrow, and discover more than ... (2021)


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Literati | Book Clubs

Literati is a bestselling book subscription service that offers curated book clubs for all readers. Your next chapter starts here. (2021)


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The CEO Library

The books recommended by the CEOs, entrepreneurs, professionals and authors we look up to (2020)


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Good Books | Books recommended by successful people

Looking for the best books to read in 2021? Discover the best book recommendations from the world's most successful, influential and interesting pe... (2021)


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FavoBooks: Book recommendations of outstanding people

Book recommendations of famous people (2021)


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Most Recommended Books (website)

Find the best book recommendations by billionaires, icons, and world-class performers. (2021)


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Goodreads | Meet your next favorite book

Find and read more books you’ll love, and keep track of the books you want to read. Be part of the world’s largest community of book lovers on Good... (2021)


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BookBub: Get ebook deals, handpicked recommendations, and author updates

Get free and bargain bestsellers for Kindle, Nook, and more, as well as updates from your favorite authors. Sign up free today, and start reading ... (2021)


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Alibris - used books

Alibris is your source for new and used books, textbooks, music and movies. Alibris has been selling books, movies and music since 1997. The premi... (2020)


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