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Failure Books
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Failing Forward: Turning Mistakes Into Stepping Stones for Success (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 12,359 ratings — published 1982
Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as failure)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,241 ratings — published 2011
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as failure)
avg rating 3.94 — 74,688 ratings — published 2004
Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as failure)
avg rating 3.91 — 2,597 ratings — published 2023
The Most Magnificent Thing (Most Magnificent, 1)
by (shelved 6 times as failure)
avg rating 4.28 — 8,882 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 — 31,484 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 — 20,607 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 — 10,361 ratings — published 2009
Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as failure)
avg rating 4.08 — 28,829 ratings — published 2015
Rosie Revere, Engineer: A Picture Book (The Questioneers)
by (shelved 5 times as failure)
avg rating 4.46 — 12,899 ratings — published 2013
The Logic of Failure: Recognizing and Avoiding Error in Complex Situations (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as failure)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,016 ratings — published 1996
The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as failure)
avg rating 4.15 — 99,849 ratings — published 2014
Why Most Things Fail: Evolution, Extinction and Economics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as failure)
avg rating 3.49 — 388 ratings — published 2005
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as failure)
avg rating 4.40 — 281,938 ratings — published 2018
What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as failure)
avg rating 3.89 — 5,519 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 4.28 — 14,483 ratings — published 2015
Billion-Dollar Lessons: What You Can Learn from the Most Inexcusable Business Failures of the Last 25 Years (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as failure)
avg rating 3.86 — 783 ratings — published 2008
The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as failure)
avg rating 4.14 — 7,544 ratings — published 2014
Fail Fast, Fail Often: How Losing Can Help You Win (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as failure)
avg rating 3.97 — 852 ratings — published 2013
Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as failure)
avg rating 4.49 — 973,764 ratings — published 2006
How to Fail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as failure)
avg rating 3.93 — 13,629 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 — 37,954 ratings — published 2007
Steve Jobs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as failure)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,360,145 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 — 28,007 ratings — published 2003
Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts
by (shelved 3 times as failure)
avg rating 4.04 — 29,077 ratings — published 2007
How Children Fail (Classics in Child Development)
by (shelved 3 times as failure)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,002 ratings — published 1964
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as failure)
avg rating 4.09 — 175,884 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 — 1,350 ratings — published 2014
To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as failure)
avg rating 3.69 — 2,483 ratings — published 1985
Failure is a Teacher: (Penguin Petit)
by (shelved 2 times as failure)
avg rating 4.17 — 6 ratings — published
Sometimes We Fall (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as failure)
avg rating 3.90 — 269 ratings — published
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as failure)
avg rating 4.15 — 399,530 ratings — published 2014
I Did It! (I Like to Read Comics)
by (shelved 2 times as failure)
avg rating 3.74 — 301 ratings — published 2022
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as failure)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,354,835 ratings — published 2022
Knitting for Dogs (Library Binding)
by (shelved 2 times as failure)
avg rating 4.13 — 280 ratings — published
A Kids Book About Failure (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as failure)
avg rating 4.45 — 95 ratings — published
Why Startups Fail: A New Roadmap for Entrepreneurial Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as failure)
avg rating 4.14 — 492 ratings — published
Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as failure)
avg rating 3.98 — 5,325 ratings — published 2015
Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as failure)
avg rating 4.09 — 13,424 ratings — published 2020
Leif and the Fall (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as failure)
avg rating 3.71 — 428 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 — 833 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 — 4,471 ratings — published 2013
The Magical Yet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as failure)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,964 ratings — published 2020
Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as failure)
avg rating 4.00 — 37,518 ratings — published
Drift into Failure (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as failure)
avg rating 4.01 — 341 ratings — published 2011
Shadow and Bone (Shadow and Bone, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as failure)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,106,876 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 4.37 — 64,957 ratings — published 2019
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as failure)
avg rating 4.09 — 63,065 ratings — published 2012
Failure: Why Science Is so Successful (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as failure)
avg rating 3.81 — 326 ratings — published 2015
“A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.”
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“We are all failures- at least the best of us are.”
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