Books

Sahih al-Bukhari Imam al-Bukhari The most authoritative collection of hadith in Sunni Islam. 2 recommenders Sapiens Yuval Noah Harari How an unremarkable African ape became the dominant force on the planet, told through the cognitive, agricultural and scientific revolutions. 5 recommenders Small Things Like These Claire Keegan Claire Keegan's slim, luminous novel follows an Irish coal merchant who confronts the cruelty of a convent laundry at Christmas. 2 recommenders Song of Solomon Toni Morrison Toni Morrison's novel follows a man nicknamed Milkman Dead as he leaves Michigan to trace his family's roots and finds a buried history. 2 recommenders The 4-Hour Workweek Tim Ferriss The manifesto that popularised remote work, lifestyle design and mini-retirements long before any of it was mainstream. 2 recommenders The Anxious Generation Jonathan Haidt The rewiring of childhood around smartphones and social media, and the mental-health crisis that followed a play-based upbringing's collapse. 2 recommenders The Autobiography of Malcolm X Malcolm X, Alex Haley The life story of the American civil-rights leader, told to Alex Haley. 2 recommenders The Better Angels of Our Nature Steven Pinker Pinker marshals sweeping data to argue that violence has fallen dramatically across human history. 2 recommenders The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison Toni Morrison's first novel follows a young Black girl in 1940s Ohio who longs for blue eyes, believing they would make her loved. 3 recommenders The Book of Five Rings Miyamoto Musashi The legendary undefeated samurai’s treatise on strategy, combat, and mastery, read for centuries as a guide to excellence in any discipline. 2 recommenders The Courage to Be Disliked Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga A dialogue between a philosopher and a sceptical young man, distilling Alfred Adler's psychology into a provocative argument about freedom. 2 recommenders The Daily Stoic Ryan Holiday, Stephen Hanselman A year of daily Stoic wisdom, one short meditation a day drawn from Marcus Aurelius, Seneca and Epictetus. 2 recommenders The Divine Reality Hamza Andreas Tzortzis An Islamic case for God against atheist arguments. 2 recommenders The E-Myth Revisited Michael E. Gerber Most small businesses fail because they are started by technicians, people good at the craft who assume that is the same as running a business. 2 recommenders The Effective Executive Peter F. Drucker Drucker's timeless guide to the habits that make executives effective, starting with managing their own time and decisions. 2 recommenders The Four Agreements Don Miguel Ruiz Drawing on Toltec wisdom, Ruiz distills a code for living into four agreements, be impeccable with your word, don't take things personally, don't assume, and always do your best. 2 recommenders The Goal Eliyahu M. Goldratt Told as a novel: a plant manager races to save his failing factory and learns that a system is only as fast as its constraint. 2 recommenders The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood In the Republic of Gilead, fertile women are conscripted as breeders, and Offred remembers a world where she had a name. 3 recommenders The Innovator’s Dilemma Clayton M. Christensen Christensen's classic on why well-run companies get toppled by disruptive innovation, and how to avoid it. 2 recommenders The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway Hemingway's spare, Pulitzer-winning novella: an old Cuban fisherman battles a giant marlin far out at sea, a study in endurance, dignity, and grace under pressure. 2 recommenders The Power of Now Eckhart Tolle Most suffering comes from being trapped in thoughts about past and future, and presence is the way out. 2 recommenders The Psychology of Money Morgan Housel Doing well with money has less to do with intelligence than with behaviour: how you handle greed, fear, patience and luck. 2 recommenders The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro An aging English butler reflects on a life of dignified service and quiet regret in Ishiguro's Booker Prize-winning novel. 3 recommenders The Righteous Mind Jonathan Haidt Why decent people disagree so bitterly about politics and religion. Intuition comes first, and reasoning mostly arrives to justify it. 3 recommenders The Three-Body Problem Liu Cixin A physicist's suicide, a mysterious game, and first contact with a dying alien civilization open this landmark of Chinese science fiction. 2 recommenders The Traveler: One Man’s Quest for Humanity from the South Seas to Revolutionary Paris Andrea Wulf Georg Forster sailed with Cook at seventeen, changed European nature writing, and died in revolutionary Paris having lost everything he had to his own politics. 2 recommenders The Untethered Soul Michael A. Singer The constant mental chatter and emotional reaction we mistake for ourselves, and what happens when you stop believing it is you. 3 recommenders The Varieties of Religious Experience William James James studies religion by setting doctrine aside and examining what conversion, mysticism and despair actually feel like. 2 recommenders The War of Art Steven Pressfield A field guide to beating “Resistance,” the internal force that stops creative work, and showing up to do the work like a professional. 4 recommenders The Warren Buffett Portfolio Robert G. Hagstrom Robert Hagstrom lays out the focus-investing strategy behind Warren Buffett's success, making the case for concentrated, long-term portfolios. 2 recommenders This House of Grief Helen Garner A writer in a murder trial, recording her own shifting judgement rather than a verdict. 2 recommenders Where the Crawdads Sing Delia Owens A girl raised alone in the North Carolina marshes becomes a murder suspect in this coming-of-age mystery. 2 recommenders Widow Basquiat Jennifer Clement 1980s New York given to the woman rather than the painter, in fragments rather than chronology. 2 recommenders