Books

The Pilot’s Wife Anita Shreve Anita Shreve's novel follows a woman who, after her pilot husband dies in a crash, uncovers the double life he kept hidden. 1 recommender The Player of Games Iain M. Banks A bored master of games from a post-scarcity utopia is sent to an empire where the game decides who rules. 1 recommender The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver A Baptist missionary drags his wife and four daughters to the Belgian Congo in 1959, where the family and the country are changed forever. 1 recommender The Pole J.M. Coetzee A Polish pianist falls for a married Catalan woman, and neither of them handles it well. 1 recommender The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy: Engaging the Rhythm of Regulation Deb Dana Dana takes polyvagal theory out of the laboratory, mapping how the nervous system moves between safety, mobilisation and shutdown, and what returns a person to steadiness. 1 recommender The Post-American World Fareed Zakaria Not about the decline of America, Zakaria argues, but "the rise of the rest": a world where power and growth spread to many nations, and how the US can lead within it. The Postman Always Rings Twice James M. Cain A drifter, a roadside diner, a wife, and a plan that was never going to hold. 1 recommender The Power Naomi Alderman Teenage girls worldwide develop the power to deliver electric shocks, and the global order inverts. 1 recommender The Power Broker Robert A. Caro How one unelected man rebuilt New York around his own will, and who he drove out to do it. 1 recommender The Power of Broke Daymond John Having no money forces the creativity and hustle that funded rivals never develop. John's case that broke is an edge The Power of Charm Brian Tracy, Ron Arden Charm reframed as a skill of attention: the charming person is the one making you feel listened to, not the one talking well. The Power of Habit Charles Duhigg Duhigg reveals the loop of cue, routine, and reward behind our habits, and how understanding it lets us change them. 1 recommender 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 Power of Regret Daniel Pink No regrets is bad advice. Pink argues regret is a useful signal, and the things people regret most reveal what they value. The Power of Self-Confidence Brian Tracy Tracy treats self-confidence as a foundation you build on purpose, through clear values, real competence, and acting in spite of fear. The Practice Seth Godin Creative work reframed as a practice rather than a talent you're born with. The path to good work is committing to the process and shipping. 1 recommender The Premonition Michael Lewis Lewis follows the misfit scientists who saw the pandemic coming and could not get anyone to listen. 1 recommender The Prince and the Pauper Mark Twain A prince and a look-alike pauper swap places in Tudor England, letting Twain skewer the arbitrariness of rank and the cruelty of the law. The Progress Principle Teresa Amabile, Steven Kramer Drawing on thousands of workday diaries, Amabile and Kramer show that nothing motivates people more than making steady progress on meaningful work. 1 recommender The Proof in the Code: How a Truth Machine Is Transforming Math and AI Kevin Hartnett From the four-colour theorem to Lean, the story of machines checking proofs line by line, and what that does to a discipline built on human conviction. 1 recommender The Prophet Kahlil Gibran Twenty-six prose poems delivered by a departing prophet, dismissed by critics for a century and carried around for just as long by readers who needed them. 1 recommender The Prophet of Mercy Mohammad Elshinawy, Omar Suleiman On the Prophet Muhammad's merciful responses to hostility and insult. The Proposal Jasmine Guillory She turns down a jumbotron proposal in front of forty thousand people, and leaves with the stranger who rescued her. 1 recommender 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 Psychology of Selling Brian Tracy Tracy's best-known sales book, built on the idea that the inner game decides the outer one, and that top earners think differently before they speak. The Purchase of the Danish West Indies The Purchase of the Danish West Indies Charles Callan Tansill America bought the Virgin Islands in 1917, and the deal was mostly about keeping Germany out. 1 recommender