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Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts
New · Nonfiction, Self Help, Philosophy

Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts

by Oliver Burkeman
2024 · 208 pages · Nonfiction
34 New ★ 4.25 on Goodreads · 21K ratings
Reserve shelf
≈ 5 hours to read · about 10 days at 30 minutes a day

Is it worth reading?

Goodreads Choice (nonfiction) finalist (2024). 4.25★ from 21K Goodreads ratings.

By the numbers

34Must-Read Score
  • Readers72 out of 100 · counts 40%+32
  • Critics0 out of 100 · counts 14%+0
  • Bestseller5 out of 100 · counts 32% (its stronger lane)+2
  • Buzz0 out of 100 · counts 15%+0

Critics and Bestseller are two ways to earn a place: a book's stronger one counts more. Buzz rewards recent bestseller weeks and prizes, so older books start at zero.

On our reserve shelf: it's well reviewed, but isn't currently a prize winner, a lifetime bestseller or a book everyone's talking about, so we don't rank it. We check again every month, and it can still turn up in your 50 once you've read most of our ranked books.

Shortlisted

Reads as

Thought-provoking, Practical

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