Book Reviews & Recommendations
Rating: ★★★★☆ (4.0/5) Jennie Allen’s Get Out of Your Head: Stopping the Spiral of Toxic Thoughts aims straight at a modern struggle that almost everyone recognizes: the runaway loop of anxious, cynical, and self-defeating thoughts. Writing from an openly Christian perspective, Allen […]
Rating: ★★★★★ (4.3/5) Brené Brown has long been one of the most influential voices in the study of vulnerability, courage, and empathy, and Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience might just be her most visually […]
Rating: ★★★★★ (4.5/5) Stephanie Foo’s What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma is one of those rare memoirs that both shatter and rebuild you at the same time. Honest, meticulously researched, and achingly human, this book stands as […]
Rating: ★★★★☆ (4.4/5) David Goggins returns with Never Finished: Unshackle Your Mind and Win the War Within, a raw, unfiltered continuation of his first bestseller Can’t Hurt Me. If his debut memoir was a challenge to test your limits, Never Finished is […]
Rating: ★★★★★ (4.5/5) In What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing, Oprah Winfrey and Dr. Bruce D. Perry invite readers into an illuminating dialogue that redefines the way we understand trauma and human behavior. Instead of asking “What’s wrong […]
Lisa Genova, the acclaimed neuroscientist and author of Still Alice, returns with another emotionally rich and scientifically grounded novel, More or Less Maddy. This time, she turns her compassionate lens toward bipolar disorder, crafting a story that is as illuminating as it […]
In The Next Conversation: Argue Less, Talk More, communication expert Jefferson Fisher brings his viral wisdom from social media to the page, offering a thoughtful and practical guide to transforming the way we talk, listen, and connect. Known for his short, relatable […]
In Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity, Dr. Peter Attia delivers a bold manifesto on how to not just live longer, but to live better. Co-written with Bill Gifford, this #1 New York Times bestseller reimagines how we think about aging, […]
Amanda Montell’s Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism promises a linguistic x-ray of how words recruit, bind, and radicalize. What you actually get is a brisk, darkly witty tour through classic high-control groups like Jonestown, Heaven’s Gate, and Scientology alongside modern phenomena that […]
Malcolm Gladwell has always been a master of finding hidden patterns in the chaos of human behavior, and in Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering, he revisits the concept that made him a household name […]