
The Innovator's Dilemma
by Clayton M. Christensen
Why great companies can do everything right and still lose market leadership — and how new entrants use disruptive innovation to topple industry leaders.
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by Clayton M. Christensen
Why great companies can do everything right and still lose market leadership — and how new entrants use disruptive innovation to topple industry leaders.
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by Colson Whitehead
Based on the real Dozier School for Boys in Florida, two Black teenagers — Elwood Curtis and Turner — navigate brutal abuse at the Nickel Academy in 1960s Jim Crow America. Winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
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by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Ganguli family navigates the immigrant experience across generations — from Calcutta to Boston — as son Gogol rebels against the name and culture he was born into.
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by Richard Powers
Nine Americans whose lives intertwine around trees and forests, forming a novel about activism, loss, and humanity's relationship with the natural world. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
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by David Mitchell
Six nested stories spanning centuries — from a 19th-century Pacific voyage to a post-apocalyptic Hawaii — each one influencing the next in a meditation on power, predacity, and civilization.
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by China Miéville
In the sprawling city of New Crobuzon, scientist Isaac Dan der Grimnebulin is hired to restore a garuda's flight — and inadvertently unleashes nightmare creatures on the city. A landmark of New Weird fiction.
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by Don DeLillo
Jack Gladney, a professor of Hitler Studies at a Midwestern college, faces a toxic chemical disaster and an existential terror of death. DeLillo's National Book Award winner and a defining postmodern American novel.
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by Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou's landmark collection of verse celebrating Black joy, female resilience, and the unbreakable human spirit in the face of oppression.
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by J.K. Rowling
A convicted murderer has escaped Azkaban prison and is believed to be hunting Harry Potter, forcing Harry to confront the true story of his parents' betrayal and death. The mystery that unravels is more complicated, more painful, and more morally instructive than any straightforward threat.
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by William Shakespeare
A brave Scottish general is corrupted by ambition and prophecy, murders his king, seizes the throne, and descends into a tyranny from which there is no return.
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by Stephen King
Part memoir, part writing guide, Stephen King reflects on his life, his near-fatal accident, and the craft principles that have made him one of the most productive writers in American literature.
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by J.R.R. Tolkien
Bilbo Baggins, a respectable, unadventurous hobbit, is swept away by the wizard Gandalf and thirteen dwarves on a quest to reclaim a mountain kingdom from the dragon Smaug. The predecessor to The Lord of the Rings — shorter, lighter in tone, and the perfect entry point to Middle-earth.
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by Robert Caro
Robert Caro's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Robert Moses, the unelected master planner who shaped New York City for four decades and accumulated more power than any other American in the 20th century.
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by George R.R. Martin
In the kingdom of Westeros, the death of King Robert Baratheon sets off a brutal power struggle among the great houses. Ned Stark, appointed the King's Hand, finds himself in a web of treachery that threatens not only his family but the entire realm — while beyond the Wall, an ancient threat stirs.
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by Amor Towles
In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is sentenced to house arrest for life in Moscow's Metropol Hotel — and over three decades, he discovers that one can build an extraordinary existence within any set of constraints.
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by George R.R. Martin
The War of the Five Kings reaches its shattering climax as the Red Wedding, Joffrey's poisoning, and Jon Snow's transformation at the Wall change everything in Westeros.
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by Khaled Hosseini
Two Afghan women from different generations are bound together by the brutal circumstances of their marriages and the friendship that becomes their only source of survival.
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by Ron Chernow
The definitive biography of Alexander Hamilton — orphan immigrant, Revolutionary War hero, first Secretary of the Treasury, and the Founding Father who built the American financial system.
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by Stephen E. Ambrose
Stephen Ambrose follows Easy Company of the 101st Airborne Division from training through D-Day, the Battle of the Bulge, and the fall of Hitler's Eagle's Nest.
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by David Goggins
The memoir of Navy SEAL and ultramarathon runner David Goggins — from a traumatic childhood and an overweight, unfulfilled existence to becoming one of the world's elite endurance athletes.
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by Carl Sagan
Carl Sagan's companion to his landmark PBS series explores the history of science, the nature of the universe, and humanity's place in the cosmos with breathtaking scope and lyrical prose.
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by Cal Newport
Deep work is the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task. Cal Newport argues it's both rare and valuable in our economy — and if you master it, you'll thrive.
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by John Steinbeck
Two families — the Trasks and the Hamiltons — live parallel lives in California's Salinas Valley over three generations, reenacting the story of Cain and Abel with tragic consequence.
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by J.K. Rowling
Harry, Ron, and Hermione abandon Hogwarts to hunt Voldemort's Horcruxes, confronting betrayal, sacrifice, and the revelation that Harry himself is the final Horcrux. The series concludes with the Battle of Hogwarts and a resurrection that draws on the oldest mythological traditions.
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