12 2024 December
The Non-Obvious Book Awards: 2024 Shortlist and Winners Announcement!
What were the best 15 books of the year in 2024? Join us for this LIVE announcement of the best books of the year curated...
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10 2024 December
The Non-Obvious Books of the Week: The 2024 Non-Obvious Book Awards Longlist
After considering more than 1000 submissions and hours of reviewing titles, I’m thrilled to share that our latest round of winners for the Non-Obvious Book...
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06 2024 December
The Top 12 Trends from Non-Fiction Books Published in 2024
This week is the first announcement for our annual Non-Obvious Book Awards and we just published our list of the Top 100 books of the year...
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05 2024 December
The Non-Obvious 2024 Holiday Gift Guide + FREE Audio Book: Ideas 10 – 12
This week in my blog posts, I’m following an annual tradition of sharing some ideas for non-obvious gifts this holiday season. These are a combination...
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26 2024 November
The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: Pretending You Care by Norm Feuti
As we head into a holiday season, the Black Friday deals are already getting published out there and you might be thinking about heading out...
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12 2024 November
The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: Win Bigly – Persuasion In A World Where Facts Don’t Matter | 2nd Edition, by Scott Adams
Back in 2017, I selected this book as a winner in our Non-Obvious Book Awards program that year because of how perfectly it described a...
Read Now05 2024 November
The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: The Next 100 Years – A Forecast for the 21st Century by George Friedman
If the upcoming U.S. Presidential election and potential ensuing backlash and chaos has you up at night, this book might offer a helpful reminder that...
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The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: Four Lost Cities by Annalee Newitz
In Four Lost Cities, science journalist Annalee Newitz takes readers on a journey to explore the rise and fall of four ancient cities: the Neolithic...
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The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: A Kids Book About Diwali by Chhavi Arya Bhargava
Diwali is for everyone. That’s the biggest perspective you’ll get from A Kids Book About Diwali … which isn’t really just for kids. Going far...
Read Now15 2024 October
The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: VIDEO: Three Things That Make My New Book Non-Obvious Thinking Different …
Buy on Amazon Buy on Bookshop.org About the Non-Obvious Book Selection of the Week: Every week I will be featuring a new “non-obvious” book selection...
Read Now08 2024 October
The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: Stuff – Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things by Randy Frost and Gail Steketee
How much stuff is enough? Most of us would agree that compulsive hoarding crosses a line, but how common is it exactly and what can...
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The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: “Dead Wrong” by Dr. Geeta Nayyar
For every new video we see on social media about a miracle remedy, there’s a medical professional who is generally suffering in silence watching the...
Read Now24 2024 September
The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man by Emmanuel Acho
This is the best kind of book about important questions. One that doesn’t preach or try to convert with the answers, but rather focuses on...
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