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How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as autodidact)
avg rating 3.98 — 28,630 ratings — published 1940
Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as autodidact)
avg rating 4.15 — 23,348 ratings — published 2014
The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as autodidact)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,869 ratings — published 2003
Ultralearning: The Essential Guide To Mastering Hard Skills And Future-Proofing Your Career (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as autodidact)
avg rating 3.95 — 15,953 ratings — published 2019
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as autodidact)
avg rating 4.17 — 606,251 ratings — published 2011
Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as autodidact)
avg rating 4.08 — 13,564 ratings — published 2014
An Intelligent Person's Guide to Modern Culture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as autodidact)
avg rating 3.87 — 523 ratings — published 1998
Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as autodidact)
avg rating 4.18 — 8,949 ratings — published 1972
From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as autodidact)
avg rating 3.96 — 2,676 ratings — published 2012
Learn Like a Pro (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as autodidact)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,724 ratings — published 2021
How to Take Smart Notes (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as autodidact)
avg rating 4.07 — 14,065 ratings — published 2017
The Trivium: The Liberal Arts of Logic, Grammar, and Rhetoric (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as autodidact)
avg rating 4.13 — 849 ratings — published 1937
A Lover's Discourse: Fragments (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as autodidact)
avg rating 4.35 — 14,428 ratings — published 1977
How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When, Where, and Why It Happens (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as autodidact)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,537 ratings — published 2014
Afropean: Notes from Black Europe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as autodidact)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,604 ratings — published 2019
Discursos (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as autodidact)
avg rating 4.27 — 5,656 ratings — published 108
Metaphors We Live By (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as autodidact)
avg rating 4.09 — 7,102 ratings — published 1980
The Abolition of Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as autodidact)
avg rating 4.12 — 42,532 ratings — published 1943
Learn Better: Mastering the Skills for Success in Life, Business, and School, or, How to Become an Expert in Just About Anything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as autodidact)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,027 ratings — published 2017
Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as autodidact)
avg rating 3.78 — 12,051 ratings — published 2006
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as autodidact)
avg rating 4.04 — 467,255 ratings — published 1997
Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as autodidact)
avg rating 3.55 — 8,669 ratings — published 2013
Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as autodidact)
avg rating 3.97 — 32,032 ratings — published 2010
The Art of Learning: A Journey in the Pursuit of Excellence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as autodidact)
avg rating 4.04 — 21,235 ratings — published 2007
Fluent in 3 Months: How Anyone at Any Age Can Learn to Speak Any Language from Anywhere in the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as autodidact)
avg rating 3.66 — 5,863 ratings — published 2014
Don't Go Back to School: A Handbook for Learning Anything
by (shelved 2 times as autodidact)
avg rating 3.67 — 565 ratings — published 2013
Teach Yourself How to Learn: Strategies You Can Use to Ace Any Course at Any Level (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as autodidact)
avg rating 4.15 — 620 ratings — published 2018
Alexander Hamilton (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as autodidact)
avg rating 4.22 — 204,407 ratings — published 2004
Small Town Author (Voice in the American West)
by (shelved 1 time as autodidact)
avg rating 4.20 — 20 ratings — published 2025
The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 7 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as autodidact)
avg rating 4.71 — 35,940 ratings — published 2023
Prisoners of the American Dream: Politics and Economy in the History of the U.S. Working Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as autodidact)
avg rating 4.42 — 486 ratings — published 1986
Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as autodidact)
avg rating 4.18 — 435 ratings — published 1965
Liberal Education (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as autodidact)
avg rating 4.05 — 22 ratings — published 1959
The Paideia Proposal: An Educational Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as autodidact)
avg rating 3.82 — 412 ratings — published 1982
Logic: The Right Use of Reason in the Inquiry After Truth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as autodidact)
avg rating 4.34 — 111 ratings — published 1802
Education of a Wandering Man: A Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as autodidact)
avg rating 4.06 — 5,572 ratings — published 1989
The Didascalicon of Hugh of Saint Victor: A Medieval Guide to the Arts (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as autodidact)
avg rating 4.30 — 242 ratings — published 1127
Farnsworth's Classical English Rhetoric (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as autodidact)
avg rating 4.17 — 498 ratings — published
Norms and Nobility: A Treatise on Education (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as autodidact)
avg rating 4.56 — 582 ratings — published 1981
The Racial Contract (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as autodidact)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,889 ratings — published 1997
How to Listen to and Understand Great Music (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as autodidact)
avg rating 4.56 — 1,266 ratings — published
Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as autodidact)
avg rating 3.63 — 1,790 ratings — published 2020
An Illustrated Book of Loaded Language: Learn to Hear What’s Left Unsaid (Bad Arguments)
by (shelved 1 time as autodidact)
avg rating 3.81 — 250 ratings — published 2021
An Introduction to Genetic Engineering (Studies in Biology)
by (shelved 1 time as autodidact)
avg rating 4.19 — 47 ratings — published 2008
The Day I Became an Autodidact and the Advice, Adventures, and Acrimonies That Befell Me Thereafter (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as autodidact)
avg rating 4.01 — 270 ratings — published 1988
Plato and a Platypus / Aristotle and an Aardvark Boxed Set (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as autodidact)
avg rating 4.19 — 75 ratings — published 2008
Understanding How We Learn: A Visual Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as autodidact)
avg rating 4.32 — 468 ratings — published
Word Smart: How to Build an Educated Vocabulary (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as autodidact)
avg rating 4.11 — 196 ratings — published 1995
The ABCs of How We Learn: 26 Scientifically Proven Approaches, How They Work, and When to Use Them (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as autodidact)
avg rating 4.13 — 179 ratings — published 2016
Word Power Made Easy (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as autodidact)
avg rating 4.42 — 9,228 ratings — published 1949
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