How Big Things Get Done: The surprising factors behind every successful project, from home renovations to space exploration
Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner
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The Place of Tides
James Rebanks
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Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
Cal Newport
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Elmet
Fiona Mozley
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Piranesi
Susanna Clarke
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Going Infinite: The rise and fall of a new tycoon
Michael Lewis
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Babel: An Arcane History
R F Kuang
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The hunger games: Mockingjay
Suzanne Collins
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The Humming Bird Effect
Kate Mildenhall
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Catching Fire
Suzanne Collins
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Trespasses
Louise Kennedy
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The Voice to Parliament Handbook: All the detail you need
Thomas Mayo & Kerry O’Brian
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Hamnet
Maggie O’Farrell
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Frankenstein
Mary Shelly
Landlines
Raynor Winn
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Grimmish
Michael Winkler
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The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins
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Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver
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The Last White Man
Moshin Hamid
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The Hunter
Julia Leigh
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Essentialism: The disciplined pursuit of less
Greg McKeown
The Secret Life: Three True Stories
Andrew O’Hagan
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Silverview
John le Carré
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War of the Worlds
H G Wells
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Melbourne Circle: Walking, memory and loss
Nick Gadd
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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Susanna Clarke
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Exactly: How precision engineers created the modern world
Simon Winchester
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The Amber Spyglass
Phillip Pullman
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The Subtle Knife
Philip Pullman
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Walking Home
Simon Armatige
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The Golden Thread: How fabric changed history
Kassia St Clair
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Northern Lights
Philip Pullman
Will & Me: How Shakespeare Took Over My Life
Dominic Dromgoole
Sapiens: A brief history of human kind
Yuval Noah Harari
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The Fish Girl
Mirandi Riwoe
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This Taste for Silence
Amanda O’Callaghan
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
Jenny Odell
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Conversations With Friends
Sally Roony
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Exhalation
Ted Chiang
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Catch and Kill
Rhonan Farrow
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How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
Jenny Odell
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The Old Ways
Robert Macfarlane
Mindful Thoughts for Cyclists
Nick Moore
Boy Swallows Universe
Trent Dalton
The Bus on Thursday
Shirley Barrett
The Testament of Mary
Colm Tóibín
Perfume
Patrick Süskind
A Year in Provence
Peter Mayle
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Reservoir 13
Jon McGregor
Made by Humans: The AI Condition
Ellen Broad
Mothering Sunday
Graham Swift
Six Memos for the Next Millennium
Italo Calvino
West
Carys Davies
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Robert M. Pirsig
Trick of the Light
Laura Elvery
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need To Know About Global Politics
Tim Marshall
The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind, Survive Everyday Parenting Struggles, and Help Your Family
Daniel J. Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson
Commonwealth
Ann Patchett
A World Gone Mad
Astrid Lindgren
Sleep No More: Six Murderous Tales
P. D. James
A Pale View of Hills
Kazuo Ishiguro
Out of the Wreckage: A New Politics for an Age of Crisis
George Monbiot
Exit West
Mohsin Hamid
Brooklyn
Colm Tóibín
On Chesil Beach
Ian McEwan
Alice Springs
Eleanor Hogan
Small Acts of Disappearance
Fiona Wright
Hillbilly Elegy
J. D. Vance
Pond
Claire-Louise Bennett
The Sellout
Paul Beatty
Not Just Black and White
Lesley and Tammy Williams
One Child
Mei Fong
The Power of Habit
Charles Duhigg
The Tiger’s Wife
Téa Obreht
H is for Hawk
Helen Macdonald
Skin Deep
Gary Kemble
Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Neil Gaiman
A Place of My Own
Michael Pollan
Cannery Row
John Steinbeck
Perfume
Patrick Süskind
Six Memos for the Next Millennium
Italo Calvino
Paddle Your Own Canoe
Nick Offerman
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Truman Capote
Mr. Palomar
Italo Calvino
The Gathering
Anne Enright
The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
Let the Great World Spin
Colum McCann
The Sense of an Ending
Julian Barnes
The Marriage Plot
Jeffrey Eugenides
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A Journey to the Center of the Earth
Jules Verne
A Room of One's Own
Virginia Woolf
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy
Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck
Midnight's Children
Salman Rushdie
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath
The Caged Virgin
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Bel Canto
Ann Patchett
The Messenger
Markus Zusak
The Family Law
Benjamin Law
The Shipping News
Annie Proulx
The Bride Stripped Bare
Nikki Gemmell
Catch-22
Joseph Heller
The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ
Philip Pullman
An Imaginary Life
David Malouf
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Mayne Inheritance
Rosamond Siemon
Ulysses
James Joyce
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