Wes Kao 🏛 Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Stein on Writing: A Master Editor of Some of the Most Successful Writers of Our Century Shares His Craft Techniques and Strategies
Sol SteinWes Kao 🏛@nathanbaugh27 This is a great book. If you love this, I highly recommend Stein on Writing by Sol Stein.
Paperback, 2000
$22.00$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong about the World--And Why Things Are Better Than You Think
Hans RoslingWes Kao 🏛Just finished Factfulness by @HansRosling. What an incredible book. I usually read about management, sales, writing, etc so this is outside my usual genres and I’m so glad I picked it up. Highly recommend. https://t.co/DHx96MVDlV
Paperback, 2020
$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
High Output Management
Andrew S. GroveWes Kao 🏛@SushrutKM High Output Management by Andrew Grove, former CEO of Intel. This book is life changing. It’s so dense with insight that with every sentence I think damn I could have been better sooner if I had realized this book existed. https://t.co/J8XcFCom5X
Paperback, 1995
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The (Other) You: Stories
Joyce Carol OatesWes Kao 🏛@yadavsomV I love short stories too. Many beloved authors have written amazing short stories which was a pleasant surprise when I first discovered. Ray Bradbury, Carol Joyce Oates, Alice Munro, F. Scott Fiztgerald, Murakami, etc. I like experiencing how they build stories w/less real estate
Hardcover, 2021
$26.99$13.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: How I Learned to Live a Better Story
Donald MillerWes Kao 🏛@nathanbaugh27 I need to reread Story one of these days. I’m reading A Million Miles in a Thousand Years by Donald Miller rn and he talks about going to a McKee seminar and what an intense dude McKee is. I love it. Did you recommend that book btw? It’s so good.
Paperback, 2011
$21.99$10.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
We'll Always Have Paris: Stories
Ray BradburyWes Kao 🏛@yadavsomV I love short stories too. Many beloved authors have written amazing short stories which was a pleasant surprise when I first discovered. Ray Bradbury, Carol Joyce Oates, Alice Munro, F. Scott Fiztgerald, Murakami, etc. I like experiencing how they build stories w/less real estate
Paperback, 2010
$14.99$7.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One
Stanley FishWes Kao 🏛@nathanbaugh27 Love the idea of shitty first drafts (SFDs). We share this concept with instructors in the Maven Course Accelerator. Also I’m obsessed with craft of writing books. Two of my favorites are Stein on Writing by Sol Stein & How to Write a Sentence by Stanley Fish.
Paperback, 2012
$16.99$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Open Secrets: Stories
Alice MunroWes Kao 🏛@yadavsomV I love short stories too. Many beloved authors have written amazing short stories which was a pleasant surprise when I first discovered. Ray Bradbury, Carol Joyce Oates, Alice Munro, F. Scott Fiztgerald, Murakami, etc. I like experiencing how they build stories w/less real estate
Paperback, 1995
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book