Book Reviews & Recommendations
Brianna Wiest’s The Mountain Is You has become a modern favorite in the self-development space, championed across TikTok and Instagram as a life-changing manual for overcoming self-sabotage. The book promises to help readers recognize destructive patterns, understand why they repeat them, and […]
Rick Rubin has spent decades behind some of the most transformative music in modern history, helping artists from Adele to Johnny Cash rediscover their voice. In The Creative Act: A Way of Being, he steps out from the studio and into the […]
Joseph Nguyen’s slim manifesto tackles a giant problem: the way unexamined thinking fuels anxiety, self doubt, and the endless habit of sabotaging our own progress. In a little over a hundred pages, he argues that thoughts are not facts, mental chatter is […]
Mel Robbins wants to give you two words to lighten your mental load: let them. In her latest self help juggernaut, she argues that much of our stress comes from trying to control people and outcomes we simply cannot. The prescription is […]
Morgan Housel’s The Psychology of Money is a rare personal finance book that cares less about spreadsheets and more about the messy human brain using them. Instead of prescribing a single perfect plan, Housel offers 19 crisp stories that show how habits, […]
Amy Griffin’s The Tell: A Memoir is a haunting and heartfelt exploration of trauma, memory, and self-discovery. It begins with a simple observation from her daughter: “You’re here, but you’re not here.” That single moment sparks Griffin’s journey into the deepest corners […]
In We Will Be Jaguars: A Memoir of My People, Nemonte Nenquimo, the fearless Indigenous leader and environmental activist from Ecuador’s Amazon, delivers a memoir as lush, fierce, and essential as the rainforest itself. Co-written with Mitch Anderson, the book captures both […]
Heather Cox Richardson’s Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America is a lucid, urgent walk through American history that explains how the United States arrived at a precarious democratic moment and what it might take to reclaim the promise of self-government. […]
In Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk, Kathleen Hanna, the iconic frontwoman of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre, finally tells her story with the same ferocity, wit, and vulnerability that made her music a rallying cry for generations of women. […]
In his latest work, When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows…: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life, cognitive scientist and bestselling author Steven Pinker invites readers into one of the most fascinating and complex ideas in human psychology: […]