All Books

In the World State of 632 AF (After Ford), human beings are hatched in hatcheries, conditioned from birth for their social function, and kept content by the pleasure drug Soma. There is no disease, no war, no poverty — and no freedom, no art, no genuine love. Bernard Marx begins to question whether happiness without meaning is worth having.

Joseph Heller's darkly comic masterpiece follows bombardier Yossarian through the absurdist bureaucracy of World War II, inventing the most important logical paradox of modern language.

A classic of investment literature that established growth investing as a discipline, introducing the 'scuttlebutt' research method and fifteen key questions for evaluating any company.

A philosophy of technology use in which you focus your online time on a small number of carefully selected activities that strongly support things you value.

The adventures of the deluded knight Alonso Quijano — who believes himself to be the knight-errant Don Quixote — and his earthy squire Sancho Panza across the plains of La Mancha.

The definitive guide to stress-free productivity, introducing the GTD method for capturing, clarifying, organising, and engaging with all your commitments.

Jim Collins and his research team studied 1,435 companies over 40 years to answer one question: what distinguishes companies that make the leap from good to great? The answer — built on years of rigorous data analysis — is surprising, counter-intuitive, and deeply applicable beyond business.

Why did Europeans conquer the Americas, Africa, and Australia rather than the other way around? Jared Diamond's Pulitzer Prize-winning answer overturns centuries of racial and cultural explanations: the answer lies in geography, agriculture, and the uneven distribution of domesticable plants and animals.

George Orwell's first-person account of fighting for the POUM militia in the Spanish Civil War — the trenches outside Huesca, the revolutionary Barcelona of 1936, the May Days street fighting, the Stalinist suppression of the independent left, and his narrow escape from arrest and execution.

Isaac Asimov's linked short story collection introducing the Three Laws of Robotics and exploring their logical implications in a series of increasingly complex scenarios.

The First Law trilogy's conclusion delivers one of fantasy literature's most ruthless and genuinely surprising endings — a masterwork of subverted expectations that recontextualises the entire trilogy.

Humbert Humbert's confession of his obsession with and abuse of twelve-year-old Dolores Haze — told in prose of devastating beauty by a narrator who is both brilliant and monstrous.

Nobel laureate Richard Thaler tells the inside story of how behavioral economics upended the rational-actor model and transformed our understanding of human decision-making.

A single day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, preparing a party in postwar London — intercut with the experiences of Septimus Warren Smith, a shell-shocked veteran she will never meet.

Peter Lynch, the manager of the legendary Magellan Fund, explains how ordinary investors can use their everyday experiences to find exceptional stock market opportunities.

Kurt Vonnegut's anti-war masterpiece follows Billy Pilgrim, who has become 'unstuck in time' and moves non-linearly through his experiences as a prisoner of war in Dresden and his later suburban American life.

A great god is reduced to living in the body of a small tortoise because no one truly believes in him anymore — only one novice monk does — and together they must reckon with what faith really means in a world dominated by the institution built in his name.

Joe Abercrombie's debut fantasy introduces the Union, a corrupt empire, and three deeply flawed protagonists: a disabled barbarian, a self-loathing torturer, and a vain nobleman who slowly discovers courage.

Stories of personal triumph from the frontiers of brain science, revealing how the brain's lifelong capacity to change its own structure — neuroplasticity — offers hope for previously untreatable conditions.

Building a business when there are no easy answers — a memoir and management guide from one of Silicon Valley's most respected venture capitalists.

James Gleick traces the history of information from African talking drums through Claude Shannon's information theory to the digital deluge of the modern age.

Ernest Hemingway's Nobel Prize-winning novella about an aging Cuban fisherman's epic struggle with a great marlin in the waters of the Gulf Stream.

Richard Dawkins's landmark restatement of Darwinian natural selection from the perspective of the gene, introducing the meme concept and transforming evolutionary biology.

Elizabeth Kolbert reports from the front lines of the ongoing mass extinction event — the sixth in Earth's history, and the first caused by a single species.