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In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 5,835 ratings — published 1935
Autopilot: The Art & Science of Doing Nothing (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.50 — 1,250 ratings — published 2013
The Right to Be Lazy (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.63 — 6,986 ratings — published 1880
Oblomov (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 43,722 ratings — published 1859
An Apology for Idlers (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.62 — 658 ratings — published 1877
How to Be Idle (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.75 — 3,434 ratings — published 2004
The Plenitude of Distraction (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 37 ratings — published
Against Nature (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.79 — 15,644 ratings — published 1884
Reveries of the Solitary Walker (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.61 — 7,777 ratings — published 1782
Vida contemplativa: Elogio de la inactividad (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.70 — 3,210 ratings — published 2023
Importance of Being Idle: A Little Book of Lazy Inspiration (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.66 — 61 ratings — published 2000
Quit Everything: Interpreting Depression (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.82 — 133 ratings — published 2023
The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.97 — 3,559 ratings — published 2019
24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.72 — 3,220 ratings — published 2013
After Work: The Politics of Free Time (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.95 — 629 ratings — published 2023
The Burnout Society (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 33,142 ratings — published 2010
The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 465,431 ratings — published 1997
Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.59 — 4,903 ratings — published 2023
Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.03 — 13,044 ratings — published 2022
Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.80 — 79,491 ratings — published 2020
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.65 — 57,126 ratings — published 2019
Essays in Idleness: The Tsurezuregusa of Kenkō (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 1,962 ratings — published 1332
The Book of Idle Pleasures (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.77 — 479 ratings — published 2008
The Idler's Companion: An Anthology of Lazy Literature (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.39 — 57 ratings — published 1996
Laziness Does Not Exist (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.89 — 11,457 ratings — published 2021
Things: A Story of the Sixties / A Man Asleep (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 1,931 ratings — published 1965
Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 11,192 ratings — published 2020
Automation and Utopia: Human Flourishing in a World without Work (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.65 — 65 ratings — published 2019
The Concept of Conversation: From Cicero's Sermo to the Grand Siècle's Conversation (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — published
The Joy of Laziness: Why Life Is Better Slower and How to Get There (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.19 — 109 ratings — published 2001
The Countercultural Logic of Neoliberalism (Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought)
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avg rating 4.67 — 3 ratings — published
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.59 — 596,223 ratings — published 2018
A Short History of Decay (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 6,059 ratings — published 1949
Infinite Jest (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.25 — 103,970 ratings — published 1996
The Space of Literature (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 941 ratings — published 1955
The Decay of Lying (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 2,697 ratings — published 1889
Beyond the Pleasure Principle (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.80 — 5,819 ratings — published 1920
Rameau's Nephew / D'Alembert's Dream (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.67 — 1,665 ratings — published 1769
The Portable Thoreau (Portable Library)
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avg rating 4.17 — 850 ratings — published 1947
Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 155 ratings — published 1909
Give People Money: The Simple Idea to Solve Inequality and Revolutionise Our Lives (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 3,105 ratings — published 2018
Idleness: A Philosophical Essay (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.47 — 102 ratings — published 2018
In Praise of Slowness: Challenging the Cult of Speed (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.65 — 7,005 ratings — published 2004
Thinking is Overrated: empty brain — happy brain (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.89 — 112 ratings — published
Trying Not to Try: The Art and Science of Spontaneity (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.74 — 1,590 ratings — published 2014
The Pleasures of Leisure (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.31 — 181 ratings — published
The Importance of Living (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 1,460 ratings — published 1937
On Friendship (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.64 — 1,437 ratings — published 1580
Aylak Adam (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.24 — 18,610 ratings — published 1959
The Manual (How to Have a Number One the Easy Way)
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avg rating 4.34 — 455 ratings — published 1988
“It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch one another and find sympathy. We differ widely enough in our nobler qualities. It is in our follies that we are at one.”
― Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
― Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
“He knew now that it was his own will to happiness which must make the next move. But if he was to do so, he realized that he must come to terms with time, that to have time was at once the most magnificent and the most dangerous of experiments. Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.”
― A Happy Death
― A Happy Death
