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The Frank Chimero's Book Recommendations collection includes books from categories such as Creativity and Innovation, Inspiring Reads, Self-Improvement. This collection reflects a diverse range of topics and interests.

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Frank Chimero's Book Recommendations

Frank Chimero is a renowned designer, illustrator, and author best known for his influential book "The Shape of Design," which explores the philosophy and practice of design. His work emphasizes the intersection of creativity and human experience, earning him a respected place in both the design and literary communities. Chimero has contributed essays and lectures that have inspired a new generation of thinkers in the creative industries. He has also been recognized for his ability to distill complex ideas into accessible, thought-provoking content. Beyond his writing, Chimero's design projects and illustrations have been featured in numerous prestigious publications and exhibitions.

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Books in the Collection

Mindset

Carol S. Dweck

Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Constance Garnett

The Checklist Manifesto

Atul Gawande

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

The One Thing

Gary Keller, Jay Papasan

Just Kids

Patti Smith

The Odyssey

Homer

The Power Broker

Robert A. Caro

The Old Man and the Sea

Ernest Hemingway

Lolita

Vladimir Nabokov

Lost Connections

Johann Hari

The Hidden Life of Trees

Peter Wohlleben

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Milan Kundera

Norwegian Wood

Haruki Murakami

Managing Oneself

Peter Ferdinand Drucker

Why Buddhism is True

Robert Wright

The Trial

Franz Kafka

Middlemarch

George Eliot

The Swerve

Stephen Greenblatt

Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert

Do the Work

Steven Pressfield

Out of Your Mind

Alan Watts

Upstream

Dan Heath

Selected Stories of Andre Dubus

Andre Dubus

Boom Town

Sam Anderson

Gilead

Marilynne Robinson

A Room of One's Own

Virginia Woolf

Last Chance to See

Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine

Play It As It Lays

Joan Didion

The Snow Leopard

Peter Matthiessen

Lincoln in the Bardo

George Saunders

Starting Point: 1979-1996

Hayao Miyazaki

The Three Marriages

David Whyte

Augustus

John Williams

Art & Fear

David Bayles, Ted Orland

Tehanu

Ursula K. Le Guin

The Collected Writings of Joe Brainard

Joe Brainard

The Dispossessed

Ursula K. Le Guin

Ballad

Blexbolex (CRT)

On Balance

Adam Phillips

The Moth Snowstorm

Michael McCarthy

A Philosophy of Walking

Frederic Gros

Victory

Joseph Conrad

The Word for World is Forest

Ursula K. Le Guin

The Rings of Saturn

Winfried Georg Sebald

Run Studio Run

Eli Altman

Strangers on a Train

Patricia Highsmith

If Beale Street Could Talk

James Baldwin

A Liberated Mind

Steven Hayes

Notes on the Cinematograph

Robert Bresson

Get Out of Your Mind & Into Your Life

Steven C. Hayes, Spencer Xavier Smith

Who Cares?

Joan C. Tronto

The Door

Magda Szabo

Shanzhai

Byung-Chul Han

Working

Studs Terkel

How to Cook Your Life

Dogen, Kosho Uchiyama Roshi

On Kindness

Adam Phillips, Barbara Taylor

Essays of E. B. White

E. B. White

James Baldwin: The Last Interview

James Baldwin

An Everlasting Meal

Tamar Adler

Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees

Lawrence Weschler

My Life in France

Julia Child, Alex Prud'homme

Other Minds

Peter Godfrey-Smith

The Walk

Robert Walser

The Autobiography of Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne

The Baron in the Trees

Italo Calvino

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