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9 Best Articles in 2021
Dan Shipper
Surgical Reading: How to Read 12 Books at OnceDan Shipper
~13 min read · 2020-06-23 · How to efficiently get what you need out of reading, multiple books at a time
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It’s a process I’ve developed called surgical reading and it means that when I’m reading a non-fiction book, I focus on locating and removing the most valuable pieces of information from it quickly as possible. This allows me to read many different books across a single topic at once, so I can look at it from multiple perspectives
Reading shouldn’t be about checking titles off of a todo list, it should be an exploration of what fascinates you. 
Guardian Books
Thirty books to help us understand the world in 2020Guardian Books
20+ min read · 2020-10-18 · The climate crisis, gender, populism, big tech, pandemics, race… our experts recommend titles to illuminate the issues of the day
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Scott Young
Seven Easy Habits to Read More Books Next YearScott Young
~15 min read · 2020-01-03 · Reading books is one of the best habits you can create for yourself. Here are seven easy habits you can implement to finish more books next year.
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Habit #1: Never feel guilty about putting a book down and starting a new one. Habit #2: Build a library in your Amazon wishlist. Habit #3: Listen to more books. Habit #4: Progressively reduce your temptation to do something easier. Habit #5: Set aside thirty minutes before sleep for reading. Habit #6: Delete social media from your phone, add Kindle instead. Habit #7: Create a deeper learning project.
Reading is a habit of compounding growth. Learn more and you’ll generate ideas and enthusiasm for making other changes.
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The 100 best books of the 21st centuryGuardian Books
20+ min read · 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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Ness Labs
Building an antilibrary: the power of unread booksNess Labs
7 min read · 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.
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For Umberto Eco, a private library is a research tool. The goal of an antilibrary is not to collect books you have read so you can proudly display them on your shelf; instead, it is to curate a highly personal collection of resources around themes you are curious about. Instead of a celebration of everything you know, an antilibrary is an ode to everything you want to explore.
an antilibrary may even be an antidote to the Dunning–Kruger effect, where we tend to overestimate the extent of our knowledge. Whether in a private or a public library, being surrounded by books we haven’t read yet—in the case of Umberto Eco, too many books to read in a lifetime—is a humbling experience.
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11 Books That Will Change Your Thinking on Thinkingendpoints.elysiumhealth.com
9 min read · 2019-09-15 · Take a tour through the human brain with these essential reads on the consciousness, trauma, the roots of language, and more.
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Tiago Forte
The Ultimate Guide to Summarizing Books: How to Distill Ideas to Accelerate Your LearningTiago Forte
~13 min read · 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…
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The New York Times
100 Notable Books of 2020The New York Times
20+ min read · 2020-11-20 · The year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, selected by the editors of The New York Times Book Review
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Aeon+Psyche
How to gain more from your readingAeon+Psyche
~17 min read · Jul 7th · There’s more to words than meets the eye. Deepen your appreciation of literature through the art of slow, attentive reading
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From reading deeply, you gain experience as well as knowledge: you gain from reading literary works in all their unique particularity.
You probably already enjoy the ways that literary works entertain you, instruct you, move you. Recognising and understanding how they accomplish these things will enable you to deepen your appreciation still further and gain even more reward.
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Aeon+Psyche
How to gain more from your readingAeon+Psyche
~17 min read · Jul 7th · There’s more to words than meets the eye. Deepen your appreciation of literature through the art of slow, attentive reading
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career
productivity
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From reading deeply, you gain experience as well as knowledge: you gain from reading literary works in all their unique particularity.
You probably already enjoy the ways that literary works entertain you, instruct you, move you. Recognising and understanding how they accomplish these things will enable you to deepen your appreciation still further and gain even more reward.
Guardian Books
Why do so few men read books by women?Guardian Books
4 min read · Jul 9th · No matter if it is Austen or Atwood, the Brontës or Booker winners, data shows men are reluctant to read women – and this has real world implications
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Female authors through the centuries, from the Brontë sisters to George Eliot to JK Rowling, have felt obliged to disguise their gender to persuade boys and men to read their books.
For the top 10 bestselling female authors (who include Jane Austen and Margaret Atwood, as well as Danielle Steel and Jojo Moyes), only 19% of their readers are men and 81%, women. But for the top 10 bestselling male authors (who include Charles Dickens and JRR Tolkien, as well as Lee Child and Stephen King), the split is much more even: 55% men and 45% women.
Weekly Filet
📚 The best books you didn’t know you’ll likeWeekly Filet
5 min read · Jul 9th · A special edition made by you. Thanks!
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Summer 2021 recommended reading from MITMassachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
~14 min read · Jul 2nd · A summer reading list featuring books by MIT faculty and staff that were published from Spring 2020 to Summer 2021.
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TED Talks
Expand your horizons and widen your world with 35 new books from TED speakersTED Talks
~15 min read · Jun 25th · Pick up one of these new books from TED speakers, and explore handshakes, human connection, trees, sleep, endangered animals, remote work, racism, AI, shame and so much more.
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NBC News
TikTok is taking the book industry by storm, and retailers are taking noticeNBC News
5 min read · Jul 5th
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The New Yorker
On the Trail of a Mysterious, Pseudonymous AuthorThe New Yorker
6 min read · Jul 15th · Late last spring, a strange, beguiling novel began arriving, in installments, in the mail. Who had written it?
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POLITICO
What Politicos Are Reading This SummerPOLITICO
10 min read · Jul 2nd · We asked 16 heavy-hitters what book they’re reading at the beach this summer, and which one is on their Zoom bookshelf
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Forge
A Guide to Developing a Deep Reading HabitForge
Jul 10th · 7 principles to help you read more and read better
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New Statesman
Do gender norms enforce a divide between literature and philosophy?New Statesman
6 min read · Jul 10th · It’s 1978, and Iris Murdoch is appearing on a BBC television show called Men of Ideas. Nobody mentions the irony. She’s telling the host, Bryan Magee, she “feel[s] very strongly” that philosophy and…
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