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Books like The American
Loved The American by Henry James? 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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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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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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Trois contes
.I Pendant un demi-siecle, les bourgeoises de Pont-l'Eveque envierent a Madame Aubain sa servante Felicite. Pour cent francs par an, elle faisait la cuisine et le menage, cousait, lavait, repassait, s
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Poor Miss Finch
You are here invited to read the story of an Event which occurred in an out-of-the-way corner of England, some years since.
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Psychopathia sexualis
Deviant sex behavior with special emphasis on the medico/legal aspects. A study for physicians and lawyers. 16th and 17th completely revised edition.
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The master of Ballantrae
The Master of Ballantrae: A Winter's Tale is one of Stevenson's darker, more political novels. Two brothers are brought into conflict by the Jacobite rising of 1745, which tears their family apart.
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Hedda Gabler
A masterpiece of modern theater, Hedda Gabler is a dark psychological drama whose powerful and reckless heroine has tested the mettle of leading actresses of every generation since its first productio
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Sult
First published in Norway in 1890, Hunger probes into the depths of consciousness with frightening and gripping power. Like the works of Dostoyevsky, it marks an extraordinary break with Western liter