Books

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 The Quantity Theory of Money: A Restatement Tim Congdon A restatement of monetarism by one of the few economists who never abandoned it. 1 recommender The Queen of the Tambourine Jane Gardam A woman writes letters to a neighbour who may not be receiving them, or existing. 1 recommender The Question of Palestine Edward Said The Palestinian case argued as historical record and political right, not as an appeal for sympathy. The Radium Girls Kate Moore The young factory women poisoned by the luminous paint they were told to lick, and their fight to be believed. 1 recommender The Rainbow Comes and Goes Anderson Cooper, Gloria Vanderbilt When his mother turned 91, Cooper started a year-long correspondence with her. The letters become a frank, tender reckoning between mother and son. The Rape of Nanking Iris Chang The 1937 massacre much of the world managed to forget, documented before the last witnesses died 1 recommender The Rapture of Canaan Sheri Reynolds Sheri Reynolds's novel follows a teenage girl in a strict backwoods religious sect as faith, first love, and pregnancy collide. 1 recommender The Rational Male Rollo Tomassi The manosphere's founding text, and the reference point for a body of writing built on it. The Rational Optimist Matt Ridley Prosperity comes from exchange and specialisation, Ridley argues, and the pessimists have been wrong for two centuries. 1 recommender The Reader Bernhard Schlink Bernhard Schlink's novel follows a German teenager's affair with an older woman, whose wartime secret surfaces years later at a trial. 1 recommender The Real Crash Peter Schiff Schiff's argument that 2008 was a symptom and the real reckoning, a debt-and-dollar crash, still looms unless America embraces radical fixes. The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Life of Frantz Fanon Adam Shatz The Martinican psychiatrist who treated torturers and their victims in Algeria, then wrote the century most influential account of colonial violence. 1 recommender The Reformation as Renewal: Retrieving the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church Matthew Barrett A long argument that the Reformers were retrieving the catholic tradition rather than breaking it. 1 recommender The Reformer Stephen F. Williams The story of Vasily Maklakov, the liberal lawyer who fought to steer late imperial Russia toward reform before revolution closed the door. 1 recommender The Relationship Handbook George Pransky Most arguments are a mood, not an issue. A short guide to telling which one you are in. 1 recommender 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 Revolution: A Manifesto Ron Paul Paul's 2008 bestseller distilling his creed, constitutional limits, sound money, non-intervention, and civil liberties, into an unlikely movement manifesto. The Ride of a Lifetime Robert Iger Fifteen years leading Disney, from steadying a troubled business to acquiring Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm and Fox. 1 recommender