Book Reviews & Recommendations
Chris Miller’s Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology is the rare business and geopolitics book that reads like a techno-thriller. It explains how tiny slices of silicon came to power everything from smartphones and dishwashers to guided missiles […]
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. […]
Chris van Tulleken’s Ultra-Processed People is the rare health book that reads like a thriller and stings like a manifesto. It asks a deceptively simple question that reshapes everything that follows: what if much of what we eat is not really food […]
Patrick Radden Keefe’s Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty is one of the most devastating and important works of investigative nonfiction in recent memory. Winner of the Goodreads Choice Award for Best History & Biography, this book exposes […]
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 […]
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 […]
Adapting a monumental work like Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind into a graphic novel is no small feat, yet Yuval Noah Harari, along with illustrator Daniel Casanave and adapter David Vandermeulen, manages to create an engaging and visually captivating journey through […]
John Green has always had a rare gift for blending intellect with emotion, and in The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet, he takes that talent to an entirely new level. This is his first nonfiction book, adapted from his critically […]
Adam Grant’s Think Again is a lively invitation to practice intellectual humility and to treat beliefs as hypotheses to be tested. The book’s core promise is simple yet valuable for readers of business, education, and personal growth: learning how to rethink is […]