Book Reviews & Recommendations
In Moral Ambition: Stop Wasting Your Talent and Start Making a Difference, Rutger Bregman, the bestselling author of Humankind and Utopia for Realists, challenges readers to redefine what it means to live a successful life. Rather than chasing personal gain or status, […]
A Smart, Engaging Look at What Makes Conversations Truly Work Charles Duhigg, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Power of Habit and Smarter Faster Better, returns with Supercommunicators, a thoughtful exploration of how people can build better connections through conversation. At its […]
Matt Haig’s The Comfort Book is a tender, soulful collection of reflections that feels like a hand gently resting on your shoulder when life feels unbearably heavy. Known for his deeply empathetic writing in The Midnight Library and Reasons to Stay Alive, […]
In Dopamine Detox: A Short Guide to Remove Distractions and Train Your Brain to Do Hard Things, Thibaut Meurisse promises readers a straightforward solution to one of today’s most common struggles: overstimulation. With more than 23,000 ratings on Goodreads, this short self-help […]
Jay Shetty’s Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Every Day is one of those books that sits at the intersection of philosophy and practicality. With over 83,000 ratings on Goodreads and millions of fans around the world, […]
K.C. Davis’s How to Keep House While Drowning: A Gentle Approach to Cleaning and Organizing is not your typical self-help book. Instead of another list of hacks or rigid systems, Davis offers a compassionate philosophy for anyone who has ever felt overwhelmed […]
Johann Hari’s Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention and How to Think Deeply Again sets out to answer a question most of us feel in our bones: why does staying present feel so hard now, even when we try to do […]
Bill Perkins’ Die with Zero: Getting All You Can from Your Money and Your Life is a thought-provoking and, at times, polarizing guide that challenges one of modern society’s most deeply ingrained beliefs: that the ultimate goal of financial success is to […]
Arnold Schwarzenegger has lived a life that sounds like a Hollywood script: a poor Austrian boy becomes the world’s greatest bodybuilder, then a blockbuster movie star, and later, the governor of California. In Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life, he distills the […]
What if everything you’ve been told about time management is wrong? That’s the provocative question at the heart of Oliver Burkeman’s Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals, a book that doesn’t teach you how to squeeze more into your schedule, but […]