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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 — 12,552 ratings — published 1982
Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as failure)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,263 ratings — published 2011
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as failure)
avg rating 3.94 — 75,478 ratings — published 2004
Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as failure)
avg rating 3.91 — 2,826 ratings — published 2023
The Most Magnificent Thing (Most Magnificent, 1)
by (shelved 6 times as failure)
avg rating 4.28 — 9,062 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 — 32,210 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 — 21,147 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 — 10,597 ratings — published 2009
The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as failure)
avg rating 4.13 — 7,852 ratings — published 2014
Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as failure)
avg rating 4.08 — 28,999 ratings — published 2015
Rosie Revere, Engineer (The Questioneers (Picture Books) #2)
by (shelved 5 times as failure)
avg rating 4.46 — 13,065 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 — 1,028 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)
by (shelved 4 times as failure)
avg rating 4.40 — 287,336 ratings — published 2018
What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as failure)
avg rating 3.89 — 5,599 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 — 14,917 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 — 800 ratings — published 2008
Fail Fast, Fail Often: How Losing Can Help You Win (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as failure)
avg rating 3.97 — 862 ratings — published 2013
Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as failure)
avg rating 4.48 — 1,055,764 ratings — published 2006
The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as failure)
avg rating 4.15 — 103,697 ratings — published 2014
How to Fail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as failure)
avg rating 3.93 — 13,907 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 — 38,472 ratings — published 2007
Steve Jobs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as failure)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,384,123 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 — 28,857 ratings — published 2003
How Children Fail (Classics in Child Development)
by (shelved 3 times as failure)
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 — 181,096 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 — 1,359 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 — 2,554 ratings — published 1985
Failure is a Teacher: (Penguin Petit)
by (shelved 2 times as failure)
avg rating 3.71 — 7 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 — 414,331 ratings — published 2014
I Did It! (I Like to Read Comics)
by (shelved 2 times as failure)
avg rating 3.74 — 314 ratings — published 2022
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 1,441,743 ratings — published 2022
Knitting for Dogs (Library Binding)
by (shelved 2 times as failure)
avg rating 4.14 — 298 ratings — published
Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as failure)
avg rating 3.94 — 7,389 ratings — published 2010
A Kids Book About Failure (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as failure)
avg rating 4.44 — 97 ratings — published
Why Startups Fail: A New Roadmap for Entrepreneurial Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as failure)
avg rating 4.13 — 504 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 — 5,447 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 — 13,645 ratings — published 2020
Leif and the Fall (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as failure)
avg rating 3.72 — 431 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 — 841 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 — 4,560 ratings — published 2013
The Magical Yet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as failure)
avg rating 4.37 — 2,071 ratings — published 2020
Drift into Failure (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as failure)
avg rating 4.02 — 349 ratings — published 2011
Shadow and Bone (Shadow and Bone, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as failure)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,142,288 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 — 69,530 ratings — published 2019
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as failure)
avg rating 4.08 — 66,244 ratings — published 2012
Failure: Why Science Is so Successful (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as failure)
avg rating 3.81 — 328 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)
by (shelved 2 times as failure)
avg rating 3.91 — 9,083 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 — 816 ratings — published 2012
“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”
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“I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being--forgive me--rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger.”
― Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
― Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince










