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The Road to Character

If you loved The Road to Character

Books like The Road to Character

If you loved The Road to Character by David Brooks, these are the books its readers love most, closest first: chosen from the ratings and recommendations of the readers who loved it.

No. 1

The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement

David Brooks

No. 2

How Will You Measure Your Life?

Clayton M. Christensen, James Allworth, Karen Dillon

No. 3

Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel

Rolf Potts

No. 4

Grit: Passion, Perseverance, and the Science of Success

Angela Duckworth

No. 5

The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains

Nicholas Carr

No. 6

This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate

Naomi Klein

No. 7

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

J.D. Vance

No. 8

Zero to One

Peter Thiel

No. 9

The Empathy Exams: Essays

Leslie Jamison

No. 10

Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success

Adam M. Grant

No. 11

The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League

Jeff Hobbs

No. 12

Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters

Timothy J. Keller

No. 13

Rising Strong

Brené Brown

No. 14

The Innovator's Dilemma

Clayton M. Christensen

No. 15

Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

Daron Acemoğlu, James A. Robinson

No. 16

The Wright Brothers

David McCullough

No. 17

Between the World and Me

Ta-Nehisi Coates

No. 18

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman

No. 19

M Train

Patti Smith

No. 20

Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman

Jon Krakauer

No. 21

Essentialism

Greg McKeown

No. 22

Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay (The Neapolitan Novels #3)

Elena Ferrante, Ann Goldstein

No. 23

How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia

Mohsin Hamid

No. 24

Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America

Jill Leovy