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Books like Status Anxiety
Status Anxiety by Alain de Botton is about status, identity, envy. If that's what drew you in, here are 6 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
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The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
Mark Manson · Self-help
Mark Manson's argument is that the relentless pursuit of positivity is itself a source of misery.
Read the summary → - Meditations
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Marcus Aurelius · Philosophy
Meditations is not a book Marcus Aurelius wrote for anyone to read.
Read the summary → - Stumbling on Happiness
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Daniel Gilbert · Psychology
Daniel Gilbert is a Harvard psychologist whose central finding, after decades of studying affective forecasting, is that humans are systematically wrong about what will make them happy.
Read the summary → - Man's Search for Meaning
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Viktor E. Frankl · Psychology
Man's Search for Meaning is Viktor Frankl's account of his years as a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps, including Auschwitz, and the psychological theory he developed from that experience.
Read the summary → - The Happiness Hypothesis
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Jonathan Haidt · Psychology
Jonathan Haidt is a social psychologist at NYU who spent the early part of his career studying morality and happiness, and this book — published in 2006, before his work on political psychology brought him wider attention — synthesizes ancient philosophical wisdom with modern psychological research.
Read the summary → - 1984
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George Orwell · Philosophy
Nineteen Eighty-Four is George Orwell's 1949 novel about a future England called Airstrip One, governed by the totalitarian Party under the figurehead Big Brother.
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