Books
Browse the books our people wrote and recommend.
You’re Not Listening
Everyone is talking and no one is listening. On a skill that has become rare enough to be transformative.
1 recommender
Your Baby’s First Word Will Be Dada
Fallon's bestselling read-aloud picture book: animal parents coaxing babies to say Dada first, a goofy joke for exhausted new fathers everywhere.
Your Money or Your Life
A classic of financial independence that reframes money as life energy, the hours of your life you trade away for it.
1 recommender
Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
Two people from incompatible worlds start swapping bodies against their will: a sacred stacker of stones, and a man who paints away nightmares.
Zealot
A bestselling and much-argued reconstruction of the historical Jesus, the Jewish revolutionary preacher standing behind the figure of Christian faith.
Zero to One
Thiel's contrarian guide to building companies that create something new rather than copy what works, arguing that real progress comes from going from zero to one, not one to many.
1 recommender
Zhou Enlai: A Life
Mao's premier survived every purge, and the question is what that survival actually cost.
1 recommender
Zima Blue and Other Stories
Short science fiction from a writer known for enormous scale, with a title story about an artist, memory and one colour.
1 recommender
Zombie Spaceship Wasteland
Oswalt's genre-hopping debut of essays, parodies, and lists, built around his theory that every teenage misfit escapes into a zombie, spaceship, or wasteland.
Never miss a new book
One short email a week: the newest notable people and the books they recommend, each with the quote and the source. Free, no spam, unsubscribe anytime.