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One Perfect Day: The Selling of the American Wedding
Rebecca Mead
★★★★· Published 2007· 264 pages· read 2019
Rebecca Mead takes apart the American wedding industry and everything it sells us. Smart and a little rage-inducing, in the best way.
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The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath
Leslie Jamison
Part memoir of her own drinking, part sweeping cultural history of addiction and the writers it claimed. Searching and ambitious.
The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win
Maria Konnikova
Konnikova learns high-stakes poker to understand luck and self-control, and turns it into the best kind of psychology book. Fascinating.
Red Roulette: An Insider's Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption, and Vengeance in Today's China
Desmond Shum
A wild insider account of how the ultra-rich really operate in China — and how fast it can all turn on you.