Book Reviews & Recommendations
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 […]
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 […]
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: […]
In a world overwhelmed by uncertainty, climate anxiety, and social unrest, Jane Goodall’s The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times stands as a quiet yet profound beacon of light. Written in collaboration with Douglas Abrams and Gail Hudson, this […]
In The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-First Century’s Greatest Dilemma, Mustafa Suleyman, cofounder of DeepMind and current CEO of Inflection AI, presents a sweeping exploration of the technologies poised to redefine our civilization. Joined by writer Michael Bhaskar, Suleyman invites […]
Few writers capture the fragile interplay between memory, melancholy, and meaning as masterfully as Georgi Gospodinov. In Death and the Gardener, translated with remarkable sensitivity by Angela Rodel, the International Booker Prize–winning author of Time Shelter turns inward, tracing the final month […]
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, […]
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, […]