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How to Live (2010) is both a biography of the writer Montaigne and an overview of the monumental work for which he’s famous: the Essays – a genre of writing that he invented. Along the way, it suggests some lessons we can take from his life and apply to our own.

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Sarah Bakewell is a British non-fiction writer who focuses on the lives of philosophers, writers, and adventurers. Her other works include At the Existentialist Café and The English Dane. In 2018, she won the Windham–Campbell Literature Prize in non-fiction.

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How Proust Can Change Your Life (1997) melds literary biography with a self-help structure to argue that reading the work of twentieth-century French author Marcel Proust is not only culturally enriching, but potentially life-enhancing. Botton’s close reading of Proust’s masterpiece, In Search of Lost Time, offers up surprising and delightful insights into how to live better.

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Alain de Botton is a philosopher and author. His best-selling books span topics such as atheism, sex, love, work, and architecture. He is the founder of the alternative educational institute, The School of Life.

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Dale Carnegie was an author, corporate trainer, and developer of self-improvement courses. Despite being born into poverty on a Missouri farm, he’s one of the best-selling self-help authors of all time and is known for enduring classics like How to Win Friends and Influence People and How to Stop Worrying and Start Living. These titles are still wildly popular today, decades after their initial publication.

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Gaius Musonius Rufus was born around 30 CE in what is now the Lazio region of Italy, which was then at the heart of the growing Roman empire. A teacher in Rome during the reign of Nero, Musonius was one of the first century’s most influential Stoic philosophers. He died around 101 CE.

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Fault Lines (2020) examines a common problem that no one talks about: family estrangements. Over a quarter of Americans experience being cut off from friends and family during their lifetimes, which has devastating psychological impacts. Fault Lines explores the common causes of estrangement and gives surprising and insightful advice on how to work towards reconciliation.

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Karl Pillemer is a sociologist and gerontologist, and the Hazel E Reed Professor of Human Development at Cornell University. He’s also director of the Cornell Legacy Project. His previous publications include the widely acclaimed book 30 Lessons for Living.

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The School of Life (2019) provides a set of philosophical, yet practical, lessons on emotional intelligence, compiled from the real-life institution of the same name. Offering insights on relationships, work, and life itself, it gives us the wisdom we need to understand ourselves and others just a little bit better.

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Why Don't We Learn from History? (1944) is a meditation on the nature of history and on why so few heed its lessons. First published near the end of World War Two, this thoughtful treatise contains many insights still relevant today.

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