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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 — 27,278 ratings — published 1940
The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as autodidact)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,790 ratings — published 2003
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as autodidact)
avg rating 4.17 — 570,779 ratings — published 2011
Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as autodidact)
avg rating 4.16 — 21,898 ratings — published 2014
An Intelligent Person's Guide to Modern Culture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as autodidact)
avg rating 3.88 — 506 ratings — published 1998
Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as autodidact)
avg rating 4.18 — 8,458 ratings — published 1972
Learn Like a Pro (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as autodidact)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,612 ratings — published 2021
Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as autodidact)
avg rating 3.95 — 15,212 ratings — published 2019
How to Take Smart Notes (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as autodidact)
avg rating 4.09 — 13,264 ratings — published 2017
The Trivium: The Liberal Arts of Logic, Grammar, and Rhetoric (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as autodidact)
avg rating 4.12 — 824 ratings — published 1937
About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as autodidact)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,523 ratings — published 1995
A Lover's Discourse: Fragments (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as autodidact)
avg rating 4.36 — 13,298 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 — 7,361 ratings — published 2014
Afropean: Notes from Black Europe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as autodidact)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,485 ratings — published 2019
Discursos (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as autodidact)
avg rating 4.27 — 5,558 ratings — published 108
Metaphors We Live By (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as autodidact)
avg rating 4.09 — 6,779 ratings — published 1980
The Abolition of Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as autodidact)
avg rating 4.12 — 39,234 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 3.83 — 1,018 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 3.77 — 11,687 ratings — published 2006
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as autodidact)
avg rating 4.04 — 448,145 ratings — published 1997
Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as autodidact)
avg rating 3.55 — 8,492 ratings — published 2013
Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as autodidact)
avg rating 3.97 — 31,425 ratings — published 2010
Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as autodidact)
avg rating 4.08 — 12,525 ratings — published 2014
The Art of Learning: A Journey in the Pursuit of Excellence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as autodidact)
avg rating 4.04 — 20,640 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 — 5,733 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
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy Volume 1 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as autodidact)
avg rating 4.29 — 14,202 ratings — published 1887
Artificial stupidity: handleiding voor digitale humanisten (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as autodidact)
avg rating 3.16 — 31 ratings — published
Ronald Laing: The rise and fall and rise of a radical psychiatrist (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as autodidact)
avg rating 3.96 — 25 ratings — published
The Selected Works of Bhagat Singh (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as autodidact)
avg rating 4.56 — 242 ratings — published 2009
The Animator's Sketchbook (Diary)
by (shelved 1 time as autodidact)
avg rating 4.00 — 14 ratings — published 2015
Portnoy’s Complaint (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as autodidact)
avg rating 3.71 — 72,690 ratings — published 1969
Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as autodidact)
avg rating 4.29 — 2,541 ratings — published 2007
The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as autodidact)
avg rating 3.67 — 28,358 ratings — published 1915
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as autodidact)
avg rating 4.16 — 183,053 ratings — published 2016
La carte et le territoire (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as autodidact)
avg rating 3.95 — 24,271 ratings — published 2010
Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as autodidact)
avg rating 4.14 — 11,837 ratings — published 2002
Educating Your Child in Modern Times: How to Raise an Intelligent, Sovereign & Ethical Human Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as autodidact)
avg rating 4.37 — 124 ratings — published
How to Study (Ron Fry's How to Study Program) 7th (seventh) Edition by Fry, Ron (2011)
by (shelved 1 time as autodidact)
avg rating 2.00 — 1 rating — published
Speculum of the Other Woman (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as autodidact)
avg rating 4.00 — 585 ratings — published 1974
Familiar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands (Stuart Hall: Selected Writings)
by (shelved 1 time as autodidact)
avg rating 4.25 — 370 ratings — published 2017
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as autodidact)
avg rating 4.29 — 12,336 ratings — published 1955
But Everyone Feels This Way: How an Autism Diagnosis Saved My Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as autodidact)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,638 ratings — published
One Way Street And Other Writings (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as autodidact)
avg rating 3.96 — 2,174 ratings — published 1928
Negative Dialectics (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as autodidact)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,913 ratings — published 1966
The ADHD Focus Friend: A Planning + Productivity Workbook (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as autodidact)
avg rating 4.52 — 61 ratings — published
Quench: Beat Fatigue, Drop Weight, and Heal Your Body Through the New Science of Optimum Hydration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as autodidact)
avg rating 3.71 — 961 ratings — published
Saving Manno: What a Baby Chimp Taught Me About Making the World a Better Place (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as autodidact)
avg rating 4.22 — 49 ratings — published
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as autodidact)
avg rating 4.10 — 171,330 ratings — published 2006
“Assuming that the tendency to pivot between disciplines was unique to me, I felt totally alone. My peers certainly didn't have everything figured out, but they all seemed to be on a linear trajectory toward something. My path, on the other hand, was just a mess of zigzags: music, art, web design, filmmaking, law...”
― How to Be Everything
― How to Be Everything
“This book is for the people who don't want to pick a single focus and abandon all their other interests. It's for the curious, or those who find delight in learning new things, creating and morphing between identities.”
― How to Be Everything
― How to Be Everything
