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Meditations for Mortals — Oliver Burkeman

Contrary to popular self-help advice, Meditations for Mortals argues that living fully means accepting where you are, rather than struggling to achieve the fantasy of where we think we want to be.

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Assassins Anonymous – Rob Hart

Assassins Anonymous by Rob Hart follows Mark, an ex-assassin who is trying really hard not to kill people while he figures out who is trying to kill him.

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Yellowface — R. F. Huang

Yellowface takes a long, hard look at diversity, racism, and cultural appropriation in publishing, as well as the volatility of social media.

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A Gentleman in Moscow – Amor Towles

An aristocrat is spared by the Bolshevik party and sentenced to house arrest in a hotel for the rest of his life because of a poem he wrote that fanned the flames of the revolution.

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