Book Reviews & Recommendations
Former Secret Service agent Evy Poumpouras turns a career of high stakes protection into a clear, practical handbook for everyday courage. Becoming Bulletproof blends memoir, behavioral psychology, and field-tested tactics to show how ordinary people can prepare for stress, read others more […]
When you think about how animals experience the world, it is easy to assume they see, hear, and feel just like we do. Ed Yong’s An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us completely dismantles that illusion, opening […]
In Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life, Christie Tate invites readers into the most intimate corners of her psyche, offering a memoir that is equal parts confessional, shocking, and deeply vulnerable. The book chronicles her experience […]
In No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model, Dr. Richard C. Schwartz invites readers to rethink what it means to be human. Instead of seeing ourselves as a single, unified identity, he argues that we […]
Miriam Toews has always blurred the line between fiction and truth, but in A Truce That Is Not Peace, she finally lays her own life bare in a memoir that feels both intimate and elusive. It is a meditation on why we […]
Katherine May’s Wintering is a quietly introspective book that invites readers to rethink how we approach the darker, quieter periods of our lives. It is part memoir, part meditation, and part lyrical essay about the value of slowing down, withdrawing, and finding […]
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 […]
Robert Kolker’s Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family is one of those rare nonfiction books that feels both monumental and intimate a sweeping account of scientific discovery intertwined with the harrowing, deeply personal story of one American family. […]
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, […]