Neil Pasricha Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Huuuuuuuge congrats to my friend @susancain as, no biggie, @oprah just made BITTERSWEET her next Oprah’s Book Club Pick! https://t.co/EWlhI0tiKG

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"Joy is sudden, unexpected, short-lasting, and high-intensity. It's characterized by a connection with others, or with God, nature, or the universe. Happiness is stable, longer-lasting, and normally the result of effort." - Brené Brown on joy vs happiness (ATLAS OF THE HEART)

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Johann Hari (@johannhari101) is on 3 Books!!! He is the author of 3 huge bestsellers, including Stolen Focus. We talk: regaining our attention, reading as resistance, negative bias, Johann’s 3 most formative books and much more! Please enjoy: https://t.co/zlp4IBVAEm https://t.co/tRgDRGzXO6

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What novel would you recommend to someone who likes “sprawling family dramas” like: - East of Eden by John Steinbeck - Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy - Dinner At The Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler

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Every year I share a “best of” reading list. My 2020 list included: - The Invisible Pyramid by Loren Eiseley - Bad Feminist: Essays by Roxane Gay - Black Beauty by Anna Sewell - Berlin by Jason Lutes - Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell See the rest here: https://www.neil.blog/articles/the-20-best-books-i-read-in-2020

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@ambernoelle BOTH FLESH AND NOT by David Foster Wallace, mostly because it contains the full text of THE NATURE OF THE FUN (which is not online and is my favorite creative-empowerment mental model)

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5 of the best books I read last year:  - Team Human by Douglas Rushkoff - How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell - Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer - Once Upon A Time in Hollywood by Quentin Tarantino - Letters from a Stoic by Seneca Top 20 here:  https://www.neil.blog/articles/the-very-best-books-i-read-in-2021

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5 underrated novels I absolutely loved... The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka Em and the Big Hoom by Jerry Pinto Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz ... what would you add?

Neil Pasricha

Every year I share a “best of” reading list. My 2020 list included: - The Invisible Pyramid by Loren Eiseley - Bad Feminist: Essays by Roxane Gay - Black Beauty by Anna Sewell - Berlin by Jason Lutes - Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell See the rest here: https://t.co/wagHjwpJVZ

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[NEW PODCAST ALERT] Mohsin Hamid is on 3 Books!!! Author of Exit West, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, and The Last White Man. We discuss nostalgia, mortality, the power of Charlotte's Web, technocracy, Toni Morrison, and much, much more. Enjoy! http://3books.co/chapters/108 https://t.co/rCzpSbdbNw