Books

The 4-Hour Body Tim Ferriss Ferriss's self-experimentation manual for hacking the body, fat loss, muscle, sleep, and performance, via minimum-effective-dose protocols he tested on himself. The 4-Hour Chef Tim Ferriss A cookbook that is really Ferriss's manifesto on accelerated learning, using kitchen skills to teach a method for acquiring any skill fast. 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 48 Laws of Power Robert Greene Three thousand years of scheming, boiled down to 48 rules for gaining power and never being blindsided by it The 5 AM Club Robin Sharma The first hour of the day decides the rest of it. Sharma's case for rising at five, wrapped in a story The 50th Law Robert Greene Greene and the rapper 50 Cent on fearlessness, built from a hustler's rise off the streets of Queens The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Stephen R. Covey Personal and professional effectiveness organised around seven habits, from be proactive to sharpen the saw. 1 recommender The Abrahamic Faiths Jerald F. Dirks A former Methodist deacon's comparative study of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. 1 recommender The Abundance: Narrative Essays Old and New Annie Dillard The essays that made a generation of nature writers, including Living Like Weasels and Total Eclipse, refusing every consolation the subject matter invites. 1 recommender The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain Twain's sunlit romance of Mississippi boyhood, pranks, treasure, and a witnessed murder, with a satirist's eye for respectable hypocrisy underneath. The Afterlife Penelope Fitzgerald The essays and reviews, for readers who have finished the nine novels and want more. 1 recommender The Age of AI Eric Schmidt, Henry Kissinger, Daniel Huttenlocher Kissinger, Schmidt, and Huttenlocher weigh how artificial intelligence will reshape knowledge, security, and human identity, and the questions societies must confront now. The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton Old New York enforces its rules so politely that nobody has to say what is being taken away. 1 recommender The Alchemist Paulo Coelho A shepherd boy leaves Andalusia for the pyramids chasing a recurring dream, and is taught to read the omens on the way. 1 recommender The Alice Network Kate Quinn Two wars, two women, and a real network of female spies whose work history almost entirely forgot. 1 recommender The Alliance Reid Hoffman Lifetime employment is dead, so stop pretending. A new pact between company and employee built on honest, finite tours of duty The Alloy of Law Brandon Sanderson Three centuries on, Mistborn's world has railroads and revolvers, and Allomancy is a lawman's tool. A frontier lawman is pressed back into the city. The Altar of My Soul Marta Moreno Vega A Puerto Rican scholar returns to the faith her grandmother practised and she was taught to hide. 1 recommender The American Cafe Sara Sue Hoklotubbe A Cherokee woman takes over a small-town diner and is promptly blamed for a murder. 1 recommender 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 Argonauts Maggie Nelson Nelson braids memoir and theory around queer family-making, pregnancy, and a love affair with a fluidly gendered partner. 1 recommender The Arguers Corinna Luyken Everyone in town argues until the arguing takes a shape of its own. Luyken draws conflict as something physical, which is the most useful thing for a child inside one. 1 recommender The Art and Business of Online Writing Nicolas Cole One of the most-read writers on Quora and Medium on finding your niche, writing headlines that land, and building an audience online. 1 recommender The Art of Closing the Sale Brian Tracy Tracy demystifies the close as a learnable skill, with techniques for objections, buying signals, and the hesitation that kills deals. The Art of Creative Thinking Rod Judkins Short lessons on how creative thinking actually works. 1 recommender The Art of Profitability Adrian Slywotzky Twenty-three distinct ways a business can make money, taught through conversation rather than framework. 1 recommender The Art of Seduction Robert Greene Seduction reframed as a form of power, dissected through the great charmers of history into nine types and their tactics The Art of the Start 2.0 Guy Kawasaki Kawasaki's comprehensive, updated startup manual, covering how to launch, pitch, build a team, and market anything, distilled from his years evangelizing and investing. The Art of War Sun Tzu Win before fighting, or do not fight. Twenty-five centuries on, still read for what it says about avoiding battle 1 recommender The Autobiography of Charles Darwin Charles Darwin Darwin wrote it for his children, an hour each afternoon, and never meant it published. He is candid about losing his faith and his taste for poetry. 1 recommender 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 Autobiography of Mark Twain Mark Twain Dictated to be published only long after his death, Twain's unruly, candid memoir wanders through grief, humor, and score-settling, the man without a mask. The Awakened Woman Tererai Trent From an arranged marriage at eleven in rural Zimbabwe to a doctorate, written as a method rather than a miracle. 1 recommender The Bands of Mourning Brandon Sanderson A treasure hunt for the Lord Ruler's mythical metalminds turns into something much larger when evidence surfaces that the Bands are real. The Beauty Myth Naomi Wolf Wolf argues that beauty standards tightened precisely as women gained power, functioning as a political weapon. 1 recommender The Bee Sting Paul Murray One Irish family, four private catastrophes, and years of everyone misreading everyone else. 1 recommender