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Failure Books
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Failing Forward: Turning Mistakes Into Stepping Stones for Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as failure)
avg rating 4.18 — 12,225 ratings — published 1982
Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as failure)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,218 ratings — published 2011
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as failure)
avg rating 3.93 — 74,163 ratings — published 2004
The Most Magnificent Thing (Most Magnificent, 1)
by (shelved 6 times as failure)
avg rating 4.28 — 8,718 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 — 31,041 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 — 20,428 ratings — published 2013
Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as failure)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,401 ratings — published 2023
How The Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In (Good to Great, 4)
by (shelved 5 times as failure)
avg rating 3.98 — 10,187 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 4.09 — 28,734 ratings — published 2015
Rosie Revere, Engineer: A Picture Book (The Questioneers)
by (shelved 5 times as failure)
avg rating 4.46 — 12,797 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 — 1,007 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 — 97,174 ratings — published 2014
Why Most Things Fail: Evolution, Extinction and Economics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as failure)
avg rating 3.48 — 386 ratings — published 2005
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as failure)
avg rating 4.41 — 278,445 ratings — published 2018
What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as failure)
avg rating 3.89 — 5,463 ratings — published 1994
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 — 776 ratings — published 2008
Fail Fast, Fail Often: How Losing Can Help You Win (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as failure)
avg rating 3.98 — 846 ratings — published 2013
Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as failure)
avg rating 4.49 — 925,779 ratings — published 2006
How to Fail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as failure)
avg rating 3.93 — 13,477 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 3.79 — 37,518 ratings — published 2007
Steve Jobs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as failure)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,342,079 ratings — published 2011
Black Box Thinking: Why Some People Never Learn from Their Mistakes - But Some Do (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as failure)
avg rating 4.28 — 14,203 ratings — published 2015
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 — 27,410 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 — 28,854 ratings — published 2007
How Children Fail (Classics in Child Development)
by (shelved 3 times as failure)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,989 ratings — published 1964
The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as failure)
avg rating 4.14 — 7,391 ratings — published 2014
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as failure)
avg rating 4.09 — 172,020 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 3.64 — 1,345 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 — 2,422 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 — 252 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 — 388,600 ratings — published 2014
I Did It! (I Like to Read Comics)
by (shelved 2 times as failure)
avg rating 3.72 — 291 ratings — published 2022
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as failure)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,294,700 ratings — published 2022
Knitting for Dogs (Library Binding)
by (shelved 2 times as failure)
avg rating 4.13 — 275 ratings — published
A Kids Book About Failure (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as failure)
avg rating 4.46 — 92 ratings — published
Why Startups Fail: A New Roadmap for Entrepreneurial Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as failure)
avg rating 4.15 — 479 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 — 5,269 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 — 13,251 ratings — published 2020
Leif and the Fall (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as failure)
avg rating 3.72 — 414 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 — 816 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 — 4,438 ratings — published 2013
The Magical Yet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as failure)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,900 ratings — published 2020
Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as failure)
avg rating 4.00 — 37,100 ratings — published
Drift into Failure (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as failure)
avg rating 4.01 — 334 ratings — published 2011
Shadow and Bone (Shadow and Bone, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as failure)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,080,405 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 — 62,400 ratings — published 2019
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as failure)
avg rating 4.09 — 60,579 ratings — published 2012
Failure: Why Science Is so Successful (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as failure)
avg rating 3.81 — 326 ratings — published 2015
“My past is everything I failed to be.”
― The Book of Disquiet
― The Book of Disquiet
“Do not let arrogance go to your head and despair to your heart; do not let compliments go to your head and criticisms to your heart; do not let success go to your head and failure to your heart.”
― The Light in the Heart
― The Light in the Heart
