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DotCom Secrets
The ClickFunnels co-founder lays out the sales-funnel strategy behind his own empire, guiding customers through a sequence rather than a single website.
1 recommender
Down and Out in Paris and London
Orwell's first book, a first-hand account of scraping by among dishwashers, tramps, and the poor of two great cities.
Dream State
Eric Puchner's novel traces decades of friendship, marriage, and betrayal centered on a lakeside house in Montana.
1 recommender
Dred Scott’s Revenge
Race in America told as a story of courtrooms and statutes, from Dred Scott through the long machinery of segregation.
Drive
Carrots and sticks are a worse way to motivate people than we assume. Pink's case for autonomy, mastery and purpose instead.
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
An eccentric older woman insists the animals are killing the hunters, and nobody takes her seriously.
1 recommender
Driven
The Shark Tank investor's memoir-and-manifesto on how an immigrant with nothing built a cybersecurity empire on preparation, relationships, and refusing to hear no.
Drowning Ruth
Christina Schwarz's novel circles the mysterious drowning of a young woman on a Wisconsin farm and the secrets her sister keeps.
1 recommender
Dvoretsky’s Endgame Manual
The modern classic of endgame study, rigorous training material trusted by generations of masters and serious students of chess.
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Dying to Win
A data-driven study arguing suicide terrorism is strategic, not religious.
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Earn What You’re Really Worth
Tracy's argument that income tracks the value you create, and a plan to raise your skills, positioning, and pay to match it.
Earth (The Book)
A deadpan owner's manual for planet Earth, written for the aliens who will find it after humanity is gone, from The Daily Show team.
Earth House Hold
Fire lookout, logger, Zen student in Japan: journals from before the ecological ethics they describe had acquired a name or a movement.
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Earth Shapers: How We Mapped and Mastered the World, From the Panama Canal to the Baltic Way
The canals, walls, borders and human chains that redrew the surface of the planet.
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East of Eden
Steinbeck's sweeping retelling of Cain and Abel follows two families in California's Salinas Valley across generations of love and choice.
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Eat That Frog!
If the first thing you do each morning is eat a live frog, nothing worse can happen all day. Tracy's rule for doing the hardest task first.
Edgedancer
A standalone Stormlight Archive novella starring Lift, a wisecracking street urchin with growing Radiant powers, chasing a killer between the main volumes.
Educated
Kept out of school and hospitals by a survivalist father in rural Idaho, Tara Westover set foot in a classroom at seventeen and ended up at Cambridge.
2 recommenders
Ego Is the Enemy
Ego tracked through aspiration, success and failure, doing different damage at each stage.
1 recommender
Einstein
The rebel patent clerk who rewrote physics, drawn from newly released letters that show the man behind the equations
Elantris
A city of god-like beings is now a cursed ruin where the afflicted are exiled, and a prince has just been struck by the curse.
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Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees
Bristlecones, ginkgos, yews and baobabs became objects of science, tourism and grief, and dating them changed what deep time felt like to the people doing the counting.
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Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
A fiercely routined loner says exactly what she thinks, until an act of kindness starts unpicking a life built to keep everyone out.
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Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain’s Visionary Music
British folk revival traced back past Fairport Convention to Vaughan Williams and older visions still.
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Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast
Marshall studied under Bishop, and braids her own memories into the biography, which gives her access to the reticence Bishop built her life and work around.
Ellen Foster
Kaye Gibbons's debut is narrated by a fierce, funny young girl who survives an abusive home and searches for a family of her own.
1 recommender
Elon Musk
Two years shadowing Musk across Tesla, SpaceX and Twitter, watching the drive and the recklessness feed off each other
Eloquent Rage
Cooper reclaims Black women's anger as clarity and fuel rather than the stereotype it gets flattened into.
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Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age
A toy boat, a comb, a runic insult scratched in wood, isotopes in teeth. Barraclough builds the Viking age from small objects rather than from sagas and kings.
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Emma Who Saved My Life
An aspiring actor lands in grimy 1970s New York and spends a decade orbiting his best friend.
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Emperor of the Seas: Kublai Khan and the Making of China
How Kublai Khan beat Song China and then lost to Japan, told through the sea rather than the steppe.
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Empire of Pain
Three generations of a family that built a fortune on OxyContin and their name on museum walls.
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Empowered
The follow-up to Inspired, arguing that great products come not from star hires but from how everyday teams are coached and led.
Enchantment
Kawasaki on the craft of genuine persuasion: how to win people over not by pressure but by likability, trustworthiness, and a cause worth believing in.
Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding
The landmark original: exercises by muscle group, routines for every level, and the training system that defined a sport.
End the Fed
Ron Paul's populist case for abolishing the Federal Reserve, the hidden engine of inflation, booms, busts, and endless government spending.
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