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Books like The game of life and how to play it
Loved The game of life and how to play it by Florence Scovel Shinn? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from psychology, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.
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Man's Search for Meaning
A psychiatrist's survival of the camps and the meaning he drew from it; brief, profound and enduring.
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Flow
The psychologist who coined the concept of 'flow' — the state of complete immersion in a challenging activity — presents his research on optimal experience and argues that happiness comes not from leisure but from deep engagement with work and activity that stretches our abilities.
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
How the mind's two systems lead us into predictable errors; the definitive popular book on cognitive bias.
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The Body Keeps the Score
How trauma lives in the body and how people heal; a landmark that reached far beyond therapists.
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The Professor's House
The professor's house was published in 1925, when she was fifty-two. At the time she was an author with a worldwide reputation, having won the Pulitzer Prize in 1923 for One of ours. Reaching the top
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My mortal enemy
Myra Henshawe's misadventures as her own worst enemy due to greed.
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Riceyman Steps
Riceyman Steps, first published in 1923, is set in “dingy and sordid” Clerkenwell, in central London, where “existence was a dangerous and difficult adventure in almost frantic quest of food, drink an
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Behind that curtain
This book is a murder mystery set in San Francisco. Charlie Chan the Chinese detective, on his way home to Honolulu, is persuaded to help with the investigation of the murder of a retired Scotland Yar
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Finnegans Wake
Follows a man's thoughts and dreams during a single night. It is also a book that participates in the re-reading of Irish history that was part of the revival of the early 20th century. The author als
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The Sound and the Fury
In many ways this was an experimental novel, using several differing narrative styles. Divided into four parts, the author relates the same episodes from four different viewpoints, using a different s