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Lila Quintero Weaver, Almarie Guerra: My Year in the Middle (AudiobookFormat, 2018, Candlewick on Brilliance Audio)
Peter Godfrey-Smith: Metazoa (2020, Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Ken Liu, Chen Qiufan, Xia Jia, Ma Boyong, Hao Jingfang, Tang Fei, Cheng Jingbo, Liu Cixin: Invisible Planets (Hardcover, 2016, Tor Books)

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Marjorie Liu, Sana Takeda, Marjorie Liu: Monstress, Vol. 1 (Paperback, 2016, Image Comics)
Charlie Jane Anders, G. V. Anderson, Gregory Norman Bossert, Jeremy Packert Burke, Katharine Duckett: Some of the Best from Tor. com : 2020 Edition (2021, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom)
Jo Walton: Tooth and claw (2009, Orb)

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Gene Kim: The Phoenix Project (Paperback, 2018, IT Revolution Press)
Isaac Asimov: The Complete Robot [Paperback] [Jan 01, 2018] ISAAC ASIMOV (2018, Fiction)
Paulo Coelho: The Alchemist (Hardcover, 2010, HarperCollins)

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reviewed How to Be Better at Almost Everything by Pat Flynn

Pat Flynn: How to Be Better at Almost Everything (Hardcover, 2019, BenBella Books) 3 stars

Review of 'How to Be Better at Almost Everything' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

Fast read, but the author and narrator (audiobook version) and I seem to disagree on a number of basic points so I was not really persuaded by a number of the arguments made. 
<spoiler>I don't believe that unfettered capitalism is the best and most effective system for increasing happiness, or that Donald Trump is a good example of a successful generalist.</spoiler>
I will admit, though, that I agree with the basic premise of the book. A generalist outlook with a set of compatible skills are more often than not a better pursuit than trying to specialize entirely in something.