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Books You Wish You'd Read As A Kid
1.
School is Hell
by:
Matt Groening
4.24 avg rating β 1,467 ratings
2.
Emotional Intelligence 2.0
by:
Travis Bradberry
3.85 avg rating β 83,584 ratings
3.
Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort of Joy
by:
Sarah Ban Breathnach
3.98 avg rating β 39,147 ratings
4.
The Elements of Style
by:
William Strunk Jr.
4.18 avg rating β 86,241 ratings
5.
El Deafo
by:
Cece Bell
4.20 avg rating β 89,217 ratings
6.
Weirdos from Another Planet! (Calvin and Hobbes, #4)
by:
Bill Watterson
4.65 avg rating β 14,038 ratings
7.
The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation
by:
Thich Nhat Hanh
4.19 avg rating β 38,233 ratings
8.
Bird by Bird
by:
Anne Lamott
4.24 avg rating β 108,479 ratings
9.
America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction
by:
Jon Stewart
4.01 avg rating β 96,835 ratings
10.
Eat, Pray, Love
by:
Elizabeth Gilbert
3.64 avg rating β 1,819,800 ratings
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Bird Face
by:
Cynthia T. Toney
4.22 avg rating β 107 ratings
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Honey from Stone: A Naturalist's Search for God
by:
Chet Raymo
4.20 avg rating β 129 ratings
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The Friendly Shakespeare: A Thoroughly Painless Guide to the Best of the Bard
by:
Norrie Epstein
4.12 avg rating β 304 ratings
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The Only Dance There Is: Talks at the Menninger Foundation, 1970, and Spring Grove Hospital, 1972
by:
Ram Dass
4.30 avg rating β 959 ratings
15.
Common Sense
by:
Thomas Paine
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 38,566 ratings
16.
Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences
by:
John Allen Paulos
3.78 avg rating β 5,272 ratings
17.
Childhood Is Hell
by:
Matt Groening
4.14 avg rating β 2,642 ratings
18.
The Little Prince
by:
Antoine de Saint-ExupΓ©ry
4.33 avg rating β 2,375,378 ratings
19.
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
by:
Bill Bryson
4.07 avg rating β 436,117 ratings
19.
Selected Poems
by:
Langston Hughes
4.31 avg rating β 8,297 ratings
21.
Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
by:
Anne Lamott
4.14 avg rating β 48,282 ratings
22.
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
by:
James W. Loewen
3.97 avg rating β 72,722 ratings
23.
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
by:
David Sedaris
4.11 avg rating β 286,482 ratings
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Last Words
by:
George Carlin
3.97 avg rating β 14,619 ratings
25.
Brain Droppings
by:
George Carlin
4.07 avg rating β 18,197 ratings
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Angelaβs Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
by:
Frank McCourt
4.15 avg rating β 650,953 ratings
26.
The Big Book of Hell
by:
Matt Groening
4.12 avg rating β 4,475 ratings
28.
I Am America
by:
Stephen Colbert
3.90 avg rating β 83,807 ratings
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
by:
David Sedaris
4.01 avg rating β 714,086 ratings
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Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
by:
Anne Lamott
4.04 avg rating β 21,247 ratings
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What It Is
by:
Lynda Barry
4.17 avg rating β 23,329 ratings
32.
I Am Not Afraid
by:
Robert H. Bennett
4.40 avg rating β 86 ratings
32.
Surviving Moose Lake (Kids vs. Nature, #1)
by:
Karl Steam
4.15 avg rating β 65 ratings
32.
What Do You Say?
by:
Maiyang Saridjo
4.14 avg rating β 7 ratings
35.
Peoplewatching: The Desmond Morris Guide to Body Language
by:
Desmond Morris
4.06 avg rating β 1,433 ratings
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Dorothea Duck and Her Little Companion
by:
Jennifer K. Lafferty
4.43 avg rating β 7 ratings
35.
Surviving Desert View (Kids vs. Nature, #2)
by:
Karl Steam
4.31 avg rating β 54 ratings
38.
The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness
by:
Simon Wiesenthal
4.11 avg rating β 9,744 ratings
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The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness
by:
Epictetus
4.25 avg rating β 34,668 ratings
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A Christmas Story
by:
Jean Shepherd
4.06 avg rating β 6,058 ratings
38.
Surviving Horse Island (Kids vs. Nature, #3)
by:
Karl Steam
4.33 avg rating β 43 ratings
42.
Drumming at the Edge of Magic
by:
Mickey Hart
4.21 avg rating β 403 ratings
42.
Purple Pup
by:
Karl Steam
4.40 avg rating β 30 ratings
44.
Become What You Are
by:
Alan W. Watts
4.08 avg rating β 5,619 ratings
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The Latke Who Couldn't Stop Screaming: A Christmas Story
by:
Lemony Snicket
4.15 avg rating β 2,973 ratings
46.
365 Starry Nights: An Introduction to Astronomy for Every Night of the Year
by:
Chet Raymo
4.21 avg rating β 186 ratings
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The Soul of the Night: An Astronomical Pilgrimage
by:
Chet Raymo
4.35 avg rating β 203 ratings
48.
Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey
by:
Jane Goodall
4.21 avg rating β 5,498 ratings
49.
The World Is My Home: A Memoir
by:
James A. Michener
4.04 avg rating β 880 ratings
50.
Friendly Guide to the Universe: A Down-to-Earth Tour of Space, Time, and the Wonders of the Cosmos
by:
Nancy Hathaway
4.26 avg rating β 88 ratings
50.
Brave Enough: A Collection of Inspirational Quotes
by:
Cheryl Strayed
3.91 avg rating β 11,405 ratings
52.
Rising Strong: The Reckoning. The Rumble. The Revolution
by:
BrenΓ© Brown
4.25 avg rating β 87,277 ratings
53.
The Friendly Dickens
by:
Norrie Epstein
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 108 ratings
53.
Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination
by:
J.K. Rowling
4.09 avg rating β 28,658 ratings
55.
Planet Drum: A Celebration of Percussion and Rhythm
by:
Mickey Hart
3.96 avg rating β 142 ratings
55.
Do the Work
by:
Steven Pressfield
3.97 avg rating β 20,735 ratings
57.
Phoebe and Her Unicorn (Phoebe and Her Unicorn #1)
by:
Dana Simpson
4.08 avg rating β 14,484 ratings
58.
Inherit the Wind: The Powerful Courtroom Drama in which Two Men Wage the Legal War of the Century
by:
Jerome Lawrence
3.93 avg rating β 23,925 ratings
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Syllabus: Notes from an Accidental Professor
by:
Lynda Barry
4.39 avg rating β 3,357 ratings
60.
It Ain't Over . . . Till It's Over: Reinventing Your Life--and Realizing Your Dreams--Anytime, at Any Age
by:
Jennifer Otter Bickerdike
3.57 avg rating β 267 ratings
61.
One Hundred Demons
by:
Lynda Barry
4.18 avg rating β 9,769 ratings
61.
Small Victories: Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace
by:
Anne Lamott
3.88 avg rating β 12,051 ratings
63.
Cruddy
by:
Lynda Barry
4.16 avg rating β 6,539 ratings
63.
Gratitude and Trust: Six Affirmations That Will Change Your Life
by:
Paul Williams
3.88 avg rating β 331 ratings
65.
Bad Feminist
by:
Roxane Gay
3.92 avg rating β 117,715 ratings
66.
I See You Made an Effort: Compliments, Indignities, and Survival Stories from the Edge of 50
by:
Annabelle Gurwitch
3.25 avg rating β 1,750 ratings
67.
Gift from the Sea
by:
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
4.14 avg rating β 54,658 ratings
67.
We Should All Be Feminists
by:
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
4.40 avg rating β 320,734 ratings
69.
The Sea Around Us
by:
Rachel Carson
4.17 avg rating β 4,838 ratings
69.
The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery
by:
Sarah Lewis
3.66 avg rating β 1,051 ratings
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The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of Science and Spirituality
by:
Dalai Lama XIV
4.03 avg rating β 9,699 ratings
71.
Now Go Out There
by:
Mary Karr
3.65 avg rating β 692 ratings
73.
The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist
by:
Richard P. Feynman
3.97 avg rating β 10,874 ratings
73.
The Moth
by:
Catherine Burns
4.35 avg rating β 4,740 ratings
75.
In Memoriam
by:
Alfred Tennyson
4.06 avg rating β 4,464 ratings
75.
A Prayer Journal
by:
Flannery O'Connor
4.13 avg rating β 3,237 ratings
77.
Good Poems for Hard Times
by:
Garrison Keillor
4.13 avg rating β 3,273 ratings
77.
Stitches: A Handbook on Meaning, Hope, and Repair
by:
Anne Lamott
3.88 avg rating β 11,148 ratings
79.
The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova
by:
Anna Akhmatova
4.42 avg rating β 7,511 ratings
79.
The Language of Letting Go: Daily Meditations on Codependency (Hazelden Meditation Series)
by:
Melody Beattie
4.37 avg rating β 8,754 ratings
81.
Song of Myself
by:
Walt Whitman
4.16 avg rating β 15,679 ratings
81.
Wreck This Journal
by:
Keri Smith
4.11 avg rating β 15,038 ratings
83.
Spoon River Anthology
by:
Edgar Lee Masters
4.04 avg rating β 13,412 ratings
83.
How to Be an Explorer of the World: Portable Life Museum
by:
Keri Smith
4.16 avg rating β 13,459 ratings
85.
The Power of Myth
by:
Joseph Campbell
4.26 avg rating β 53,105 ratings
85.
33 Movies to Restore Your Faith in Humanity: Ebert's Essentials
by:
Roger Ebert
3.94 avg rating β 77 ratings
87.
Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America
by:
Margot Adler
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 9,140 ratings
87.
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
by:
Cheryl Strayed
4.15 avg rating β 137,875 ratings
89.
Imagination Illustrated: The Jim Henson Journal
by:
Karen Falk
4.43 avg rating β 488 ratings
90.
Little Nemo: 1905-1914
by:
Winsor McCay
4.33 avg rating β 3,079 ratings
90.
Rookie Yearbook One
by:
Tavi Gevinson
4.39 avg rating β 1,629 ratings
92.
The Straight Dope
by:
Cecil Adams
4.18 avg rating β 733 ratings
92.
Tim Gunn's Fashion Bible
by:
Tim Gunn
3.87 avg rating β 1,615 ratings
94.
Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise? and Other Imponderables: Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained
by:
David Feldman
3.62 avg rating β 925 ratings
94.
Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers
by:
Anne Lamott
4.01 avg rating β 21,962 ratings
96.
The Power of Art
by:
Simon Schama
3.93 avg rating β 17,680 ratings
96.
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
by:
Cheryl Strayed
4.07 avg rating β 850,477 ratings
98.
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
by:
Susan Cain
4.08 avg rating β 465,720 ratings
99.
Siddhartha
by:
Hermann Hesse
4.08 avg rating β 846,861 ratings
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First You Write: The Worst Way to Become an Almost Famous Author And The Best Advice I Got While Doing It
by:
Joni Rodgers
3.93 avg rating β 45 ratings
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