Any recommendations for novels or memoirs? Feeling uninspired and looking for something to read that’s unrelated to strategy and advertising

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Ken Follett - Pillars of the Earth

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Breaking Night - Liz Murray
Unbroken-Laura Hilldenbrand
Wild-Cheryl Strayed
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Vuong
Dear Girls - Ali Wong

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Thank you!!

Becoming

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Rebbe-Telushkin

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Biography of the latest Lubavitcher Rebbe, leader of the chabad movement (they’re the ones asking people if they’re Jewish on the streets) he built networks of institutions, met and gave advice to heads of states and was accessible to everyone.

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When you don’t have much time I also recommend the New Yorker fiction podcast - one hour, writers and book critics read a short story then discuss. Good for a long walk and some new ideas.

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Secret History
Bossypants
Yes Please

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Gridlinkd by Neal Asher. It's like Michael Bay fucked Altered Carbon.

The Jack Reacher books are fun too.

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A tree grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith

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Can I interest you in any of these incredible works by Black authors?

Pet by Akwaeke Emezi
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennet
The Fifth Season by N.K Jemisin

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