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Failing Forward: Turning Mistakes Into Stepping Stones for Success (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 12,592 ratings — published 1982
Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as failure)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,261 ratings — published 2011
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as failure)
avg rating 3.94 — 75,628 ratings — published 2004
Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as failure)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,876 ratings — published 2023
The Most Magnificent Thing (Most Magnificent, 1)
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avg rating 4.28 — 9,102 ratings — published 2014
When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as failure)
avg rating 4.20 — 32,409 ratings — published 2000
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as failure)
avg rating 4.06 — 21,216 ratings — published 2013
How The Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In (Good to Great, 4)
by (shelved 5 times as failure)
avg rating 3.99 — 10,666 ratings — published 2009
The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 7,903 ratings — published 2014
Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 29,029 ratings — published 2015
Rosie Revere, Engineer (The Questioneers (Picture Books) #2)
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avg rating 4.46 — 13,088 ratings — published 2013
The Logic of Failure: Recognizing and Avoiding Error in Complex Situations (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as failure)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,036 ratings — published 1996
Why Most Things Fail: Evolution, Extinction and Economics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as failure)
avg rating 3.48 — 394 ratings — published 2005
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.40 — 288,854 ratings — published 2018
What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.89 — 5,614 ratings — published 1994
Black Box Thinking: Why Some People Never Learn from Their Mistakes - But Some Do (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as failure)
avg rating 4.27 — 15,016 ratings — published 2015
Billion-Dollar Lessons: What You Can Learn from the Most Inexcusable Business Failures of the Last 25 Years (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 802 ratings — published 2008
Fail Fast, Fail Often: How Losing Can Help You Win (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 864 ratings — published 2013
Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
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avg rating 4.48 — 1,076,837 ratings — published 2006
The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 104,652 ratings — published 2014
How to Fail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as failure)
avg rating 3.93 — 13,965 ratings — published 2019
The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)
by (shelved 3 times as failure)
avg rating 3.78 — 38,631 ratings — published 2007
Steve Jobs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as failure)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,390,961 ratings — published 2011
The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as failure)
avg rating 4.22 — 29,120 ratings — published 2003
How Children Fail (Classics in Child Development)
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avg rating 4.23 — 2,030 ratings — published 1964
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as failure)
avg rating 4.09 — 182,330 ratings — published 2006
The Up Side of Down: Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as failure)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,363 ratings — published 2014
To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as failure)
avg rating 3.68 — 2,573 ratings — published 1985
Failure is a Teacher: (Penguin Petit)
by (shelved 2 times as failure)
avg rating 3.75 — 8 ratings — published
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as failure)
avg rating 4.14 — 418,503 ratings — published 2014
I Did It! (I Like to Read Comics)
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avg rating 3.74 — 315 ratings — published 2022
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 1,463,136 ratings — published 2022
Knitting for Dogs (Library Binding)
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avg rating 4.14 — 299 ratings — published
Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.94 — 7,418 ratings — published 2010
A Kids Book About Failure (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.44 — 97 ratings — published
Why Startups Fail: A New Roadmap for Entrepreneurial Success (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 505 ratings — published
Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.98 — 5,463 ratings — published 2015
Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 13,692 ratings — published 2020
Leif and the Fall (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.72 — 436 ratings — published 2020
Banvard's Folly: Thirteen Tales of People Who Didn't Change the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as failure)
avg rating 3.97 — 847 ratings — published 2001
Emotional First Aid: Practical Strategies for Treating Failure, Rejection, Guilt, and Other Everyday Psychological Injuries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as failure)
avg rating 3.87 — 4,572 ratings — published 2013
The Magical Yet (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.37 — 2,098 ratings — published 2020
Drift into Failure (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 351 ratings — published 2011
Shadow and Bone (Shadow and Bone, #1)
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avg rating 3.91 — 1,151,205 ratings — published 2012
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as failure)
avg rating 4.36 — 70,924 ratings — published 2019
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as failure)
avg rating 4.08 — 67,074 ratings — published 2012
Failure: Why Science Is so Successful (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as failure)
avg rating 3.82 — 330 ratings — published 2015
Why We Make Mistakes: How We Look Without Seeing, Forget Things in Seconds, and Are All Pretty Sure We Are Way Above Average (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.91 — 9,089 ratings — published 2009
Hannibal and Me: What History's Greatest Military Strategist Can Teach Us About Success and Failu re (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as failure)
avg rating 4.27 — 819 ratings — published 2012
“Life is full of screwups. You're supposed to fail sometimes. It's a required part of the human existance.”
― Along for the Ride
― Along for the Ride
“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”
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