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Reader lists

     

    Five Travel Books That Made Me Want to Travel (and write about travel too), recommended by Brett_Hetherington

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    1

    Stalin's Nose : Across the Face of Europe
    by Rory MacLean

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    2

    Biografi: A Traveler's Tale
    by Lloyd Jones

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    3

    The Sailor Dog (A Little Golden Book)
    by Margaret Wise Brown & Garth Williams

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    4

    Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
    by Cal Flyn

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    5

    Ghost Riders : Travels With American Nomads
    by Richard Grant

Five Travel Books That Made Me Want to Travel (and write about travel too)

by Brett_Hetherington

     

    The Best Books for Overcoming the Effects of Trauma, recommended by Daisy Reynolds

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    1

    Leader Awakened: Why accepting adversity drives power and freedom
    by Samreen McGregor

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    2

    CET Yourself Free: Change your life with the gentle alchemy of Conscious Emotional Transformation
    by Dr Lisa Turner

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    3

    Respark: Igniting hope and joy after trauma and depression
    by Dr. Graham Music

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    4

    Overcoming Trauma: 8 Steps to Healing the Past and Finding Peace Within
    by Allison Smiley

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    5

    What It Takes To Thrive: Techniques For Severe Trauma And Stress Recovery
    by John Henden

The Best Books for Overcoming the Effects of Trauma

by Daisy Reynolds

     

    How Amazon is Destroying the Book Industry and Making Life Worse for Writers, recommended by David Rose

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    1

    How to Resist Amazon and Why: The Fight for Local Economics, Data Privacy, Fair Labor, Independent B
    by Danny Caine

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    2

    Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon
    by Colin Bryar & Bill Carr

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    3

    Winner Sells All: Amazon, Walmart, and the Battle for Our Wallets
    by Jason Del Rey

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    4

    The Everything War: Amazon’s Ruthless Quest to Own the World and Remake Corporate Power
    by Dana Mattioli

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    5

    Everything and Less: The Novel in the Age of Amazon
    by Mark McGurl

How Amazon is Destroying the Book Industry and Making Life Worse for Writers

by David Rose

     

    Five Books For Self Empowerment And Personal Transformation, recommended by Jayden Gould

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    1

    Our Conscious Tipping Point: The transcendent awakening of humanity
    by Dr Lisa Turner

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    2

    Practising The Power Of Now: Meditations, Exercises and Core Teachings from The Power of Now
    by Eckhart Tolle

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    3

    The Celestine Prophecy: An Adventure
    by James Redfield

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    4

    The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision
    by Fritjof Capra & Pier Luigi Luisi

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    5

    Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage in Human Con
    by Frederic Laloux & Ken Wilber

Five Books For Self Empowerment And Personal Transformation

by Jayden Gould

     

    Five Books For Living A Life You’ll Love, recommended by Jayden Gould

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    1

    The Flourishing Code!: Living The Life You Love
    by Mynoo Maryel

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    2

    Create a Life You Love: How to Quiet Outside Voices So You Can Finally Hear Your Own
    by Stephanie May Wilson

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    3

    Real-World Enlightenment: Discovering Ordinary Magic in Everyday Life
    by Susan Kaiser Greenland

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    4

    The Life Brief: A Playbook for No-Regrets Living
    by Bonnie Wan

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    5

    A Simpler Life: A guide to greater serenity, ease, and clarity
    by The School of Life & Alain de Botton

Five Books For Living A Life You’ll Love

by Jayden Gould

     

    The Up and Coming, recommended by Dina

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    1

    One Of Us Is Lying
    by Karen McManus

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    2

    Thirteen Reasons Why
    by Asher Jay

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    3

    My Life with the Walter Boys (Netflix Series Tie-In Edition)
    by Ali Novak

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    4

    The Hate U Give
    by Thomas Angie

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    5

    To All the Boys I've Loved Before
    by Jenny Han

The Up and Coming

by Dina

     

    5 Best Books To Develop Your Leadership, recommended by Jayden Gould

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    1

    Do Sweat the Small Stuff: Harness the power of micro-interactions to transform your leadership
    by Sarah Langslow

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    2

    Leaders Eat Last
    by SINEK SIMON

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    3

    Develop Your Leadership Superpowers: 50 Key Skills You Need to Succeed as a Leader
    by Dietmar Sternad & Eva Kobin

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    4

    The Concise Leadership Textbook: Essential Knowledge and Skills for Developing Yourself as a Leader
    by Daniel Pittino

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    5

    Compassionate Leadership: For Individual and Organisational Change (De Gruyter Transformative Thinki
    by Kirstie Drummond Papworth

5 Best Books To Develop Your Leadership

by Jayden Gould

     

    Five books on inheritance planning, recommended by Jayden Gould

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    1

    Who Will Get My Money When I Die?: The concise guide to making your Will and reducing the impact of
    by Stuart Ritchie

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    2

    Your Last Gift: Getting your Affairs in Order
    by Matthew Hutton

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    3

    Wills, Probate, and Inheritance Tax For Dummies
    by Julian Knight

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    4

    All you need to know about Inheritance Tax and Estate Planning
    by Mr Karl David Hartey & Mr Tristan Hartey

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    5

    Inheritance Tax Made Simple: The essential guide to understanding inheritance tax
    by Andrew Komarnyckyj

Five books on inheritance planning

by Jayden Gould

     

    Five books on regenerative ageing, recommended by Jayden Gould

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    1

    Regeneration by Design: The science of superhuman ageing
    by Professor Paul Lee

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    2

    Outlive
    by Peter Attia & Bill Gifford

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    3

    Age Proof: The New Science of Living a Longer and Healthier Life
    by Rose Anne Kenny & Professor Rose Anne Kenny

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    4

    Successful Aging: A Neuroscientist Explores the Power and Potential of Our Lives
    by Daniel J. Levitin

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    5

    Breaking the Age Code
    by Rebecca Levy

Five books on regenerative ageing

by Jayden Gould

     

    My list, recommended by James

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    1

    Every Second Counts
    by V. VAISANEN A. VATANEN

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    2

    The One That Got Away: Junior Edition
    by Chris Ryan

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    3

    Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
    by John le Carré

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    4

    Ice Station Zebra
    by Alistair MacLean

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    5

    Enigma
    by Robert Harris

My list

by James

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