Book Reviews & Recommendations
A provocative memoir that invites empathy, raises red flags, and keeps you arguing with yourself long after the final page Patric Gagne’s Sociopath arrives with a bold premise: an inside account of life as a self-identified sociopath who is determined to live […]
An Honest but Imperfect Reckoning with Faith, Family, and Freedom “Counting the Cost” is a memoir that dares to pull back the curtain on one of America’s most famous fundamentalist families. Written by Jill Duggar, her husband Derick Dillard, and Craig Borlase, […]
Michael Finkel’s The Art Thief reads like a heist thriller that happens to be true. It follows Stéphane Breitwieser, a soft spoken Frenchman who relieved European museums, churches, and small galleries of hundreds of Renaissance and medieval treasures between 1995 and 2001. […]
Adam Grant’s Think Again is a lively invitation to practice intellectual humility and to treat beliefs as hypotheses to be tested. The book’s core promise is simple yet valuable for readers of business, education, and personal growth: learning how to rethink is […]
Jennette McCurdy’s I’m Glad My Mom Died is one of those rare memoirs that grabs you by the throat and refuses to let go. Honest, disturbing, and surprisingly funny, it is the story of a young woman who grew up in the […]
Jonathan Haidt’s The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness is one of the most important and unsettling nonfiction books of our time. Backed by extensive data and research, it offers a clear-eyed examination of […]
Glennon Doyle’s Untamed is part memoir, part manifesto, and very much a cultural lightning rod. It invites readers to question the habits and stories that keep them small, to set boundaries, and to live with a fiercer honesty. It also polarizes, sometimes […]
From Here to the Great Unknown is one of those rare memoirs that feels both intimate and monumental a story that doesn’t just chronicle a life but seeks to understand a legacy. Written through the intertwined voices of Lisa Marie Presley and […]
Few memoirs manage to balance heartbreak, humor, and healing with the clarity and depth that Alyson Stoner achieves in Semi-Well-Adjusted Despite Literally Everything. Known to many as the precocious child from Cheaper by the Dozen, Camp Rock, or those iconic Missy Elliott […]
Elizabeth Gilbert has built a career on turning personal transformation into art. From Eat Pray Love’s global pilgrimage of self-discovery to Big Magic’s creative philosophy, she has consistently explored what it means to live authentically. In All the Way to the River: […]