What Works Recommendations

By What Works with Tara McMullin

As Featured On The What Works Podcast & What Works Weekly

Breaking Things at Work: The Luddites Are Right about Why You Hate Your Job

Gavin Mueller

$19.95 $18.55

The Burnout Society

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$14.00

The Anxious Achiever: Turn Your Biggest Fears Into Your Leadership Superpower

Morra Aarons-Mele

$30.00 $27.90

Everything, All the Time, Everywhere: How We Became Postmodern

Stuart Jeffries

$29.95

Needy: How to Advocate for Your Needs and Claim Your Sovereignty

Mara Glatzel

$27.99 $26.03

Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Revised)

Mark Fisher

$14.95 $13.90

Rentier Capitalism: Who Owns the Economy, and Who Pays for It?

Brett Christophers

$34.95

The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

David Wengrow and David Graeber

$35.00 $32.55

Debt: The First 5,000 Years, Updated and Expanded

David Graeber

$22.99 $21.38

Economics in Two Lessons: Why Markets Work So Well, and Why They Can Fail So Badly

John Quiggin

$21.95

Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires

Douglas Rushkoff

$26.95 $25.06

Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

David Graeber

$18.99 $17.66

Start Finishing: How to Go from Idea to Done

Charlie Gilkey

$18.99

Free Time: Lose the Busywork, Love Your Business

Jenny Blake

$32.00 $29.76

Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation

Anne Helen Petersen

$15.99 $14.87

She Builds: The Anti-Hustle Guide to Grow Your Business and Nourish Your Life

Jadah Sellner

$28.99 $26.96

Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto

Tricia Hersey

$27.00 $25.11

Let's Get Physical: How Women Discovered Exercise and Reshaped the World

Danielle Friedman

$27.00 $25.11

What We Don't Talk about When We Talk about Fat

Aubrey Gordon

$25.95 $24.13

Women & Power: A Manifesto

Mary Beard

$15.95 $14.83

You Belong: A Call for Connection

Sebene Selassie

$16.99 $15.80

Momfluenced: Inside the Maddening, Picture-Perfect World of Mommy Influencer Culture

Sara Petersen

$28.99 $26.96

Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us

Rachel Aviv

$28.00 $26.04

Easy Beauty: A Memoir

Chloé Cooper Jones

$28.00 $26.04

How to Be Authentic: Simone de Beauvoir and the Quest for Fulfillment

Skye C Cleary

$27.99 $26.03