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Areté: Activate Your Heroic Potential (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.57 — 1,574 ratings — published 2023
Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as grit)
avg rating 4.08 — 141,167 ratings — published 2016
How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as grit)
avg rating 3.89 — 24,625 ratings — published 2012
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as grit)
avg rating 4.09 — 174,643 ratings — published 2006
Winter's Bone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as grit)
avg rating 3.87 — 39,811 ratings — published 2006
The Lies of Locke Lamora (Gentleman Bastard, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as grit)
avg rating 4.30 — 338,808 ratings — published 2006
Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as grit)
avg rating 4.30 — 309,652 ratings — published 2018
The Bridge Home (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as grit)
avg rating 4.26 — 11,661 ratings — published 2019
The Devil All the Time (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.14 — 40,988 ratings — published 2011
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as grit)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,029,964 ratings — published 2006
No Country for Old Men (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 244,865 ratings — published 2005
Before They Are Hanged (The First Law, #2)
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avg rating 4.36 — 214,587 ratings — published 2007
The Blade Itself (The First Law, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as grit)
avg rating 4.22 — 308,313 ratings — published 2006
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as grit)
avg rating 4.39 — 359,932 ratings — published 2013
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as grit)
avg rating 4.46 — 163,462 ratings — published 1959
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as grit)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,830,815 ratings — published 2008
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as grit)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,841,802 ratings — published 2018
The Power of Interest for Motivation and Engagement (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as grit)
avg rating 4.33 — 6 ratings — published 2015
Age of Opportunity: Lessons from the New Science of Adolescence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as grit)
avg rating 4.03 — 791 ratings — published 2014
The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as grit)
avg rating 3.66 — 1,068 ratings — published 2014
Divine Fury: A History of Genius (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as grit)
avg rating 3.64 — 209 ratings — published 2013
Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as grit)
avg rating 4.20 — 18,912 ratings — published 2016
Wired to Create: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Creative Mind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as grit)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,647 ratings — published 2015
Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as grit)
avg rating 4.15 — 22,421 ratings — published 2014
The Path to Purpose: Helping Our Children Find Their Calling in Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as grit)
avg rating 3.60 — 307 ratings — published 2008
Thanks!: How the New Science of Gratitude Can Make You Happier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as grit)
avg rating 3.75 — 767 ratings — published 2007
Why We Do What We Do: Understanding Self-Motivation (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as grit)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,688 ratings — published 1995
Getting Grit: The Evidence-Based Approach to Cultivating Passion, Perseverance, and Purpose (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as grit)
avg rating 3.84 — 216 ratings — published
Gone Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as grit)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,424,710 ratings — published 2012
Half a King (Shattered Sea, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as grit)
avg rating 3.97 — 74,018 ratings — published 2014
Blood Song (Raven's Shadow, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as grit)
avg rating 4.41 — 91,872 ratings — published 2011
Red Seas Under Red Skies (Gentleman Bastard, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as grit)
avg rating 4.25 — 159,109 ratings — published 2007
Prince of Thorns (Broken Empire, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as grit)
avg rating 3.83 — 123,076 ratings — published 2011
Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as grit)
avg rating 3.89 — 362,505 ratings — published 1984
Angelfall (Penryn & the End of Days, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as grit)
avg rating 4.10 — 198,497 ratings — published 2011
Mabel and the Mountain: a story about believing in yourself (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as grit)
avg rating 4.33 — 200 ratings — published 2020
I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down: Collected Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as grit)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,163 ratings — published 2002
The Women (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.59 — 1,514,929 ratings — published 2024
Outer Dark (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 25,384 ratings — published 1968
Pedal, Balance, Steer: Annie Londonderry, the First Woman to Cycle Around the World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.51 — 146 ratings — published
And Quiet Flows the Don (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as grit)
avg rating 4.11 — 13,198 ratings — published 1928
Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as grit)
avg rating 4.10 — 266,762 ratings — published 2009
The Martian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as grit)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,277,737 ratings — published 2011
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as grit)
avg rating 4.39 — 994,124 ratings — published 2010
Jazz (Beloved Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as grit)
avg rating 3.90 — 37,543 ratings — published 1992
Listen: How Evelyn Glennie, a Deaf Girl, Changed Percussion (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as grit)
avg rating 4.50 — 1,015 ratings — published 2022
The Beatryce Prophecy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.29 — 10,805 ratings — published 2021
It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as grit)
avg rating 4.08 — 4,555,395 ratings — published 2016
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers―Straight Talk on the Challenges of Entrepreneurship (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as grit)
avg rating 4.20 — 108,864 ratings — published 2014
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 20,536 ratings — published 2013
“In plain words, you’ve got to make up your mind to study whatever you undertake, and concentrate your mind on it, and really work at it. This isn’t wisdom. Any damned fool in the world knows it’s true, whether it’s a question of raising horses or writing plays. You simply have to face the prospect of starting at the bottom and spending years learning how to do it.”
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“The Vietnamese soldier said, “Before I spoke to her, I had given her a cooked ration of rice. Instead of her being grateful for the meal, she abused me! What gives with these Kampuchean People?”
(A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two)”
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