Key lines from 45 non-fiction books
A page of key lines for every book in the Read Stacks library. Each line is a takeaway distilled by Read Stacks from that book's chapter summary — our own words, not verbatim quotes from the book — linked to the chapter and the Amazon edition so you can read the surrounding argument when one sentence isn't enough.
- Antifragile
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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- Atomic Habits
by James Clear
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- Crucial Conversations
by Patterson, Grenny, McMillan & Switzler
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- Deep Work
by Cal Newport
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- Drive
by Daniel H. Pink
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- Ego Is the Enemy
by Ryan Holiday
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- Essentialism
by Greg McKeown
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- Grit
by Angela Duckworth
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- Homo Deus
by Yuval Noah Harari
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- How to Win Friends and Influence People
by Dale Carnegie
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- Influence
by Robert Cialdini
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- Made to Stick
by Chip Heath & Dan Heath
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- Man’s Search for Meaning
by Viktor E. Frankl
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- Meditations
by Marcus Aurelius
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- Mindset
by Carol S. Dweck
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- Never Split the Difference
by Chris Voss
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- Outliers
by Malcolm Gladwell
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- Peak
by Anders Ericsson & Robert Pool
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- Pre-Suasion
by Robert Cialdini
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- Predictably Irrational
by Dan Ariely
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- Principles
by Ray Dalio
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- Quiet
by Susan Cain
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- Range
by David Epstein
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- Sapiens
by Yuval Noah Harari
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- Skin in the Game
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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- So Good They Can't Ignore You
by Cal Newport
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- Start with Why
by Simon Sinek
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- Talking to Strangers
by Malcolm Gladwell
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- The 4-Hour Workweek
by Tim Ferriss
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- The 48 Laws of Power
by Robert Greene
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- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
by Stephen R. Covey
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- The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
by Eric Jorgenson
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- The Art of War
by Sun Tzu
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- The Courage to Be Disliked
by Ichiro Kishimi & Fumitake Koga
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- The Hard Thing About Hard Things
by Ben Horowitz
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- The Laws of Human Nature
by Robert Greene
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- The Lean Startup
by Eric Ries
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- The Mom Test
by Rob Fitzpatrick
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- The Obstacle Is the Way
by Ryan Holiday
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- The Power of Habit
by Charles Duhigg
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- The Psychology of Money
by Morgan Housel
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- The Tipping Point
by Malcolm Gladwell
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- Thinking, Fast and Slow
by Daniel Kahneman
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- Tribe
by Sebastian Junger
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- Zero to One
by Peter Thiel with Blake Masters
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