Books for aspiring slackers (and why)

Discover the best books for aspiring slackers and why they’re essential. Explore witty, insightful reads that celebrate smart laziness and productivity hacks for the modern slacker.

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On the Road

by Jack Kerouac

The classic novel of freedom and the search for authenticity that defined a generation One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 …
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Steppenwolf

by Hermann Hesse

An autobiographical novel featuring Harry Haller in "an experimental mix of symbolism, realism, and fantasy."--Cover.
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The Time Machine

by H. G. Wells

H.G. Wells best-selling classic THE TIME MACHINE.
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Valley of the Dolls

by Jacqueline Susann

Three women seek escape as they learn about the bitterness, corruption, and falsehoods of the show-business world.
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War and Peace

by Leo Tolstoy

A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition of Tolstoy's great Russian epic. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Set against …
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The Gormenghast novels

 

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The Man Who Was Thursday

 

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Tortilla Flat

by John Steinbeck

"Steinbeck is an artists; and he tells the stories of these lovable thieves and adulterers with a gentle and poetic purity of heart and of …
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Fight Club: A Novel

by Chuck Palahniuk

"Fight Club's estranged narrator leaves his lackluster job when he comes under the thrall of Tyler Durden, an enigmatic young man who holds secret after-hours …
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Lost Horizon

by James Hilton

Following a plane crash in the Himalayan mountains, a lost group of Englishmen and Americans stumble upon the dream-like, utopian world of Shangri-La, where life …
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Dead Souls

by Nikolai Gogol

Since its publication in 1842, Dead Souls has been celebrated as a supremely realistic portrait of provincial Russian life and as a splendidly exaggerated tale; …
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

by Robert M. Pirsig

"The real cycle you're working on is a cycle called 'yourself.'" One of the most important and influential books of the past half-century, Robert M. …
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