All Books

American volunteer Robert Jordan fights with Spanish guerrillas during the Civil War, assigned to blow a bridge — and falls in love with Maria in the three days before the mission.

The first book in Asimov's groundbreaking Foundation series, in which mathematician Hari Seldon predicts the fall of a galactic empire and sets in motion a thousand-year plan to preserve civilisation.

An angel and a demon who have grown rather fond of the Earth team up to prevent the Apocalypse, while a small boy in Tadfield may or may not be the Antichrist.

A rich biography of history's greatest creative genius, based on Leonardo's notebooks and the latest scholarship, exploring the intersection of art and science that defined his work.

Emma Bovary, a romantic idealist trapped in a provincial marriage, pursues passion and luxury through two affairs — until her delusions destroy her.

Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck's research on achievement and success reveals that one simple belief about your own intelligence and abilities has a profound effect on outcomes. People with a growth mindset — who believe abilities can be developed — consistently outperform those with a fixed mindset, regardless of starting talent.

Gabriel García Márquez's Nobel Prize-winning epic follows the Buendía family through seven generations in the mythical town of Macondo, blending magical and real with luminous prose.

Andre Agassi's remarkably candid memoir about a sporting career built on hating the sport that made him famous — written with J.R. Moehringer.

Psychologist Anders Ericsson, the father of deliberate practice, reveals the science behind how world-class expertise is actually achieved.

Ottolenghi's groundbreaking vegetable cookbook that transformed how the culinary world thinks about vegetables — not as sides or afterthoughts but as the full expression of a meal.

Hermann Hesse's spiritual classic follows a young Brahmin's journey to enlightenment through renunciation, pleasure, commerce, and finally the unity of all things found at the river.

A comprehensive history of the gene from Mendel's peas to CRISPR — and a searching investigation of what our growing power over the genome means for humanity.

In the city of Camorr — a fantasy Venice — a gang of elite con artists and thieves called the Gentlemen Bastards pull off elaborate heists while a supernatural criminal element threatens everything.

The founder of the index fund and Vanguard makes the definitive case for buying and holding low-cost index funds as the optimal investment strategy for most people.

Kvothe — innkeeper, legend, the most infamous man alive — agrees to tell his life story to a Chronicler over three days. Day One: his childhood with a troupe of travelling performers, his time as a street orphan in Tarbean, and his legendary entry to the University where magic is studied.

Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman explains the two systems that drive the way we think — and reveals how our intuitive System 1 thinking leads us astray in predictable, correctable ways.

The Ramsay family's two visits to their summer house in the Hebrides, separated by ten years and the First World War — and Lily Briscoe's attempt to paint what cannot be painted.

Tress has never left her small island. When the boy she loves is kidnapped and taken across the deadly spore seas, she sets out to rescue him — becoming a sailor, a pirate, and eventually a hero on a world she's never seen.

A rare magician who can travel between parallel Londons teams up with a street thief to prevent a dark power from destroying all the worlds.

The classic argument for efficient markets and passive investing — now in its thirteenth edition — explaining why index funds outperform most actively managed portfolios.

Le Guin's first Earthsea novel follows Ged, a boy of extraordinary power who attends a school for wizards on the island of Roke and, in his pride, releases a shadow upon the world that only he can face.

Neil Gaiman's mythological fantasy follows ex-convict Shadow through a road trip across America with the god Odin, as old gods prepare for war against new gods born of technology and media.

Tamar Adler's extraordinary collection of essays on cooking with economy, intelligence, and pleasure — a book about cooking philosophy as much as cooking technique.

Toni Morrison's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece about a former slave haunted by the ghost of her murdered daughter — and the legacy of slavery on the body, memory, and soul.