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Finding Wonder is for explorers of places and ideas around the world and across history. The team at Atlas Obscura curates a globe-trotting selection of books that offer hidden histories, surprising science, and a greater understanding of the world. You’ll find wonder across the planet and around the corner.

Ghostland

Why We Swim

Wonder all around us

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Stories that ignite a passion for hidden histories and exploration.

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An award-winning media and travel company dedicated to experiencing the world's wonders.

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The Joy Collective will help you to discover actionable strategies to bring more joy, compassion, and resilience into your life. Feel connected to something bigger than yourself with books that explore our capacity to find hope, courage, and belonging.

The Beauty in Breaking

Klara and the Sun

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Books that bring joy, compassion, and resilience into your life.

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Health psychologist and bestselling author of "The Willpower Instinct", "The Upside of Stress", and "The Joy of Movement"

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Austin Kleon

When you Read Like an Artist, you supercharge your ability to imagine, create, share, and reflect. You push beyond the boundaries of your art form and find inspiration in all kinds of places. Austin Kleon guides readers through the artistic wilderness with books that aren’t afraid of using humor and illustrations to make a point.

The Summer Book

How to Do Nothing

Refuel your creative tank

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Essential reads for leading a more creative life.

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A writer who draws and bestselling author of Steal Like an Artist, Show your Work!, and Keep Going.

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Jesmyn Ward

Here are worlds so real, they feel like home. Here are voices rich in joy and in stories. This Gathering of Voices celebrates cultural outsiders whose words blaze on the page and transport you to a time or place you’ve never experienced before. Not like this. Take a seat with us on this virtual porch, here in this imaginary pine-ringed clearing, and listen.

Last One Out Shut Off the Lights

Heavy

Gathering of Voices

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Beautiful prose paired with clear-eyed writing about subjects that matter.

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Two-time National Book Award winner and bestselling author of "Where the Line Bleeds", "Salvage the Bones", and "Sing, Unburied, Sing".

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Get ready for audacious writing—books that boldly disregard normal restraints; writers who risk it all on the page to tell compelling stories with brutal honesty, vulnerability, and wit. This is a book club that understands that diversity is not only skin deep. You’ll read work from writers of color, queer writers, women writers, and much more, but you will also read work from an eclectic range of perspectives.

The Five Wounds

Of Women and Salt

Audacious

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Prepare to be intrigued, challenged, and above all, entertained.

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Wild Reads highlights beautifully-written books that have moved and inspired Cheryl Strayed. Read heart-led personal journeys rendered into narratives of courage, vulnerability, and wit—and then discuss them together to find common ground and new perspectives.

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Memorial Drive

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Personal journeys rendered into narratives of courage, vulnerability, and wit.

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Bestselling author of "Wild", "Tiny Beautiful Things", "Torch", and "Brave Enough", as well as the popular “Dear Sugar” column

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Take the idea of a “beach book” to new heights. The Beach and Beyond is for anyone who loves smart, sparkling writing matched with a driving narrative. Elin will curate a list of books that will become ones you’ll recommend to any friend looking for that indisputable great read.

It Had to Be You

The Divines

Beach reads & beyond

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Escape into stories as intelligent as they are irresistible. 

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Dubbed the “Queen of Beach Reads” thanks to her wildly successful collection of sun-soaked page-turners

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Malala showcases stories that introduce you to characters who capture your heart and show you the world through new cultural lenses. Expect to meet new writers and courageous protagonists—women with bold ideas and unwavering courage.

Come Fly the World

Stolen Girls

Aftershocks

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Emotional stories full of hope, courage, and bold women.

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Explore powerful tales of adventure and advice. Through stories centered on leaders, non-conformists, and risk-takers, we’ll find lessons that inspire perseverance and conviction. These are the stories that helped shape Richard’s Branson’s life—they’re bound to encourage the leader in all of us.

Start with Why

Just Mercy

Originals

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Books to inspire the adventurous and ambitious.

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The human experience is as varied as it is universal. In Myth & Meaning, you will encounter ideas and tales that are equal parts familiar and wonderfully peculiar—think all things heroic, intriguing, and sublime. It’s a book club for thinkers, dreamers, and philosophers. What might you learn from legend?

Mythic Imagination

The One Hundred Nights of Hero

Circe

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Ideas and tales that are equal parts familiar and wonderfully peculiar.

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Each month, Stephen selects stories that highlight diverse protagonists and social justice issues to inspire his readers to push boundaries. He seeks to highlight underrepresented authors—women, people of color, and other overlooked voices—whose stories bring fresh perspectives and hope to every reader.

The Gilded Ones

Greyboy

Haben

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Powerful, underrepresented stories about defying the odds.

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Private Collection showcases an array of books from Orlean’s personal library. Explore heartfelt stories about identity, historical fiction, and creative nonfiction—together. You can expect to read exquisite writing and unforgettable narratives that you won’t want to put down.

Salvage the Bones

News of the World

In the Dream House

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Exquisite writing and unforgettable narratives you won’t want to put down.

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