Best non business book you have read? Looking for a some staycation reading.

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Barbarian Days : A surfing Life

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All the light we cannot see by A. Doer. It’s the best book I’ve read.

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Dang I really wanted to like this book and didn’t! Loved the Nightingale by Hannah though which is same genre

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Thinking Fast and Slow

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Predictably irrational

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Sixty Seconds After

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These sound great but can y'all add a couple of lines of what it's about or why you like it? The title doesn't communicate enough

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Something light: “Surely you’re joking, Mr. Feynman!”, by Richard Feynman.

Something impactful: “Man’s search for meaning”, by Viktor Frankl.

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Loved Feynman in Hs physics class. Still remember it 32 years later! Amazing genius of a man.

"Something Happened"

Getting naked.

American dirt

Anything by Chuck palahniuk

The Silent Patient

Born a crime by Trevor Noah (audible in his voice), Brain that changes itself, Silent Patient, Thinking fast and slow, Atlas Shrugged

Platform by Michel Houellebecq. But I say this in jest as the misogyny (or just plain sex) is off the charts in this one, and his misanthropy really excels in Possibility of an Island which I just finished reading.

Wolf Hall and it’s sequels if you are into period novels!

Start reading the Dune series to prepare for the upcoming movie

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One of my friend who is a doctor & is an international med graduate. He passed his United States Medical Licensing Exams with above average scores. He has applied fr the match last yr & was nt able to match. Match process costs around USD10k; this year he is applying again after borrowing funds frm different sources bt he is under tremendous pressure to get match. I feel his pain as he has studied for 10+ yrs and is struggling to match nw. I m nt sure hw I can help

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