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Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 192,458 ratings — published 2016
Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.22 — 80,147 ratings — published 2022
Tune Your Mind: Finding Follow-Through and Fulfillment in the Dawn of Distraction and Disruption (Hardcover)
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avg rating 5.00 — 6 ratings — published
Dopamine Detox : A Short Guide to Remove Distractions and Train Your Brain to Do Hard Things (Productivity Series Book 1)
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avg rating 3.89 — 26,564 ratings — published 2021
Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.73 — 25,045 ratings — published 2019
Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.05 — 96,805 ratings — published 2019
Hyperfocus: How to Be More Productive in a World of Distraction (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.88 — 11,294 ratings — published 2018
Red Queen (Red Queen, #1)
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avg rating 3.98 — 1,186,844 ratings — published 2015
1984 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 5,560,664 ratings — published 1948
The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)
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avg rating 4.32 — 1,184,935 ratings — published 2018
Norse Mythology (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 344,988 ratings — published 2017
The Camel Club (The Camel Club, #1)
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avg rating 4.07 — 98,860 ratings — published 2005
If You Want to See a Whale (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.98 — 2,805 ratings — published 2013
Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1)
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avg rating 3.96 — 3,417,479 ratings — published 2000
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
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avg rating 3.94 — 2,543,251 ratings — published 2003
Thoreau's Axe: Distraction and Discipline in American Culture (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.27 — 15 ratings — published
Islands in the Stream (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.88 — 17,180 ratings — published 1970
Hit Makers: The Science of Popularity in an Age of Distraction (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.90 — 7,077 ratings — published 2017
Mindfulness i hjärnan (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.47 — 74 ratings — published 2009
Le vent de l'espoir - Tome 1 Vers la terre promise (French Edition)
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avg rating 4.86 — 7 ratings — published
MARY ROBERTS RINEHART Ultimate Collection: Murder Mysteries, Thriller Novels, Travel Books, Essays & Autobiography: Mysteries, Women Sleuths, Travel & Essays (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 5.00 — 4 ratings — published
The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1,774,058 ratings — published 2018
Walk on Earth a Stranger (The Gold Seer Trilogy, #1)
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avg rating 3.93 — 19,279 ratings — published 2015
Touch of Power (Healer, #1)
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avg rating 4.12 — 47,430 ratings — published 2011
The Rose Bargain (The Rose Bargain, #1)
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avg rating 3.94 — 54,619 ratings — published 2025
The Thirteenth Child (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.03 — 23,406 ratings — published 2024
From Blood and Ash (Blood and Ash, #1)
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avg rating 4.21 — 869,899 ratings — published 2020
Sorcery of Thorns (Sorcery of Thorns, #1)
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avg rating 4.04 — 161,246 ratings — published 2019
Dance of Thieves (Dance of Thieves, #1)
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avg rating 4.10 — 200,926 ratings — published 2018
The Girl of Fire and Thorns (Fire and Thorns, #1)
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avg rating 3.78 — 83,763 ratings — published 2011
Ruined (Ruined, #1)
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avg rating 3.82 — 19,492 ratings — published 2016
Reboot (Reboot, #1)
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avg rating 3.88 — 35,094 ratings — published 2013
The Glass Spare (The Glass Spare, #1)
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avg rating 3.75 — 9,741 ratings — published 2017
The Orphan Queen (The Orphan Queen, #1)
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avg rating 3.96 — 14,580 ratings — published 2015
The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.40 — 2,969 ratings — published 1921
Sour Puss (Mrs. Murphy, #14)
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avg rating 3.83 — 2,940 ratings — published 2006
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 39,497 ratings — published 1985
Living Forward: A Proven Plan to Stop Drifting and Get the Life You Want (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.89 — 5,941 ratings — published 2016
Monday or Tuesday (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.63 — 3,897 ratings — published 1921
Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.87 — 83,049 ratings — published 2001
The Left Hand of Darkness (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 226,018 ratings — published 1969
That Always Happens Sometimes (Library Binding)
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avg rating 4.02 — 317 ratings — published
Take Your Mama to Work Today (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.52 — 196 ratings — published 2012
When the Wife is Physically Stronger Than Her Husband: Beautiful Wives Who Can Physically Defeat and Outmuscle Their Husband (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.62 — 8 ratings — published
Get a Life, Chloe Brown (The Brown Sisters, #1)
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avg rating 3.78 — 209,708 ratings — published 2019
Little Brother (Little Brother, #1)
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avg rating 3.92 — 53,388 ratings — published 2008
Fifty Sheds of Grey (Fifty Sheds #1)
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avg rating 3.55 — 1,580 ratings — published 2012
Nancy's Mysterious Letter (Nancy Drew Mystery Stories, #8)
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avg rating 3.84 — 14,044 ratings — published 1932
The Book of Life (All Souls, #3)
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avg rating 4.21 — 221,199 ratings — published 2014
Murder at Little Minton (Miss Busby #1)
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avg rating 4.25 — 3,918 ratings — published 2023
“To invent fables about a world "other" than this one has no meaning at all, unless an instinct of slander, detraction, and suspicion against life has gained the upper hand in us: in that case, we avenge ourselves against life with a phantasmagoria of "another," a "better" life.”
― Twilight of the Idols
― Twilight of the Idols
“I can't blame modern technology for my predilection for distraction, not after all the hours I've spent watching lost balloons disappear into the clouds. I did it before the Internet, and I'll do it after the apocalypse, assuming we still have helium and weak-gripped children.”
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