9 Best Articles in 2021
Dan Shipper
Surgical Reading: How to Read 12 Books at Once
Dan Shipper
~12 min read · 809 saves · 2020-06-23 · How to efficiently get what you need out of reading, multiple books at a time
Guardian Books
Thirty books to help us understand the world in 2020
Guardian Books
20+ min read · 615 saves · 2020-10-18 · The climate crisis, gender, populism, big tech, pandemics, race… our experts recommend titles to illuminate the issues of the day
Guardian Books
The 100 best books of the 21st century
Guardian Books
555 saves · 2019-09-21 · Dazzling debut novels, searing polemics, the history of humanity and trailblazing memoirs ... Read our pick of the best books since 2000
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11 Books That Will Change Your Thinking on Thinking
endpoints.elysiumhealth.com
9 min read · 487 saves · 2019-08-06 · Elysium Health · Take a tour through the human brain with these essential reads on the consciousness, trauma, the roots of language, and more.
Fast Company
Bored at home? These 5 new books will spark your creativity
Fast Company
2 min read · 464 saves · 2020-04-01 · Lilly Smith · These books are the artistic salve you need when being at home can leave you less than creatively fulfilled.
Tiago Forte
The Ultimate Guide to Summarizing Books: How to Distill Ideas to Accelerate Your Learning
Tiago Forte
~12 min read · 455 saves · 2020-08-10 · In 2016, I read 57 books. I read like I was running out of time. It felt like an achievement, yet by the end of the year, I could scarcely recall even one useful idea from each book. That moment was a…
The New York Times
100 Notable Books of 2020
The New York Times
20+ min read · 438 saves · 2020-11-20 · The year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, selected by the editors of The New York Times Book Review
Ness Labs
Building an antilibrary: the power of unread books
Ness Labs
6 min read · 396 saves · 2020-10-29 · Unread books can be as powerful as the ones we have read, if we choose to consider them in the right light.
Inc.
16 Great Books for Anyone Who Wants to Get Ahead in Life
Inc.
8 min read · 396 saves · 2019-10-14 · When you read non-fiction penned by smart people who've learned important lessons you can accelerate your own path to wisdom and success.
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Feed your soul: the 31-day literary diet for January
Guardian Books
~11 min read · 191 saves · 2020-12-27 · Claire Armitstead · From a Shirley Jackson short story to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s 30-minute Ted talk, nourish your mind with our one-a-day selection of literary treats
POLITICO
Washington’s Secret to the Perfect Zoom Bookshelf? Buy It Wholesale.
POLITICO
1 min read · 174 saves · 2020-12-26 · Books by the Foot curates shelves full of books for Washington offices, hotels, TV sets—and, now, Zoom backdrops.
Guardian Books
2021 in books: what to look forward to this year
Guardian Books
104 saves · Jan 2nd · Kazuo Ishiguro returns with a novel about an artificial friend, Zadie Smith brings the Wife of Bath bang up to date, Bill Gates takes on the climate crisis ... a literary calendar for the year ahead
Guardian Books
George Orwell is out of copyright. What happens now?
Guardian Books
2 min read · 100 saves · Jan 1st · Much of the author’s work may have fallen into public ownership in the UK, but there are more restrictions on its use remaining than you might expect, explains his biographer
Literary Hub
Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2021
Literary Hub
81 saves · Jan 6th · Well, we waited and we waited and we waited and finally it happened: 2020 came to a close. Now that it’s officially 2021 . . . do you feel any better? Marking time the way we do may be arbitr…
New Scientist
The best science books to read in 2021
New Scientist
67 saves · 2020-12-31 · From Bill Gates's How to Avoid a Climate Disaster to Chiara Marletto's revolutionary recasting of physics, The Science of Can and Can't, 2021 is a blockbuster year for popular science books
Vulture
46 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2021
Vulture
65 saves · Jan 6th · With new novels by Kazuo Ishiguro, Rachel Cusk, and more.
Guardian Books
'If the aliens lay eggs, how does that affect architecture?': sci-fi writers on how they build their…
Guardian Books
8 min read · 57 saves · Jan 5th · Authors including Nnedi Okorafor, Kim Stanley Robinson and Alastair Reynolds reveal what does, and doesn’t, go into creating their aliens, technology and planets
The New York Times
The Unexpected Joys of Little Free Libraries
The New York Times
53 saves · Jan 8th · Brooke Barker · You can still borrow books for free even when public libraries are closed, though each personal collection has its own character.
Seth Godin
Why isn’t there a line at the library?
Seth Godin
46 saves · Jan 8th · If any other institution was giving away essential items, it would be a sensation. The grocery store, the car dealership, even the laundromat would have a line out the door. And now that we’v…
