Best Bestsellers Books

Legendary music producer Rick Rubin offers a philosophical meditation on creativity — what it is, how it works, and how to live in a way that allows it to flourish.

Why most small businesses don't work and what to do about it — the classic guide to building a business rather than owning a job.

Three young men from the isolated village of Emond's Field are driven from their homes by dark forces — and drawn into a world-spanning conflict they barely understand, in the opening of one of fantasy's greatest and most ambitious epic series.

Marriage counselor Gary Chapman identifies five distinct ways people express and receive love — words of affirmation, quality time, receiving gifts, acts of service, and physical touch — and argues that mismatches cause most relationship conflict.

A Texas farm woman faces an impossible choice during the Great Depression's Dust Bowl: stay on the land that is killing them or take her children to California's labor camps.

Jeannette Walls recounts her extraordinary childhood, raised by brilliant but dysfunctional nomadic parents who flouted convention and neglected their children's basic needs.

In 1974, a Vietnam vet moves his family to remote Alaska wilderness, where the land's magnificent isolation amplifies his PTSD and the family's survival depends on his wife and daughter's strength.

Robert Greene analyzes eighteen fundamental aspects of human psychology — from narcissism and envy to grandiosity and conformism — and shows how understanding them enables better navigation of people and situations.

Criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller operates out of the back seat of his Lincoln Town Car, traveling between Los Angeles courthouses. When a wealthy Beverly Hills client hires him to fight a serious assault charge, Haller begins to suspect the man is guilty of something far worse — and that he has defended it before.

Stevens, an aging English butler, takes a motoring trip through the English countryside and reflects on a lifetime of dedicated service — and the opportunities for love and meaning he declined in its name.

A radical reorientation of world history centered on the Silk Roads — the trade routes connecting East and West — arguing that Asia, the Middle East, and Central Asia have been the world's true centers for most of recorded history.

Patroclus, the unassuming son of a minor Greek king, tells the story of his life alongside Achilles — the most beautiful and most doomed of Greek heroes — and the love between them.

The second Neapolitan novel follows Lila into her disastrous marriage and Elena through her university entrance exams and early years of higher education, as their friendship navigates the widening gap of their diverging lives.

A counterintuitive approach to living a good life — stop trying to be positive all the time and instead focus on what truly matters.

American expatriates and British socialites drink their way through Paris and Pamplona, orbiting around the love that Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley cannot consummate.

A secret military project during China's Cultural Revolution makes contact with an alien civilization, setting in motion events that will determine the fate of humanity.

Anthony Bridgerton, London's most notorious rake, decides to marry for convenience — but falls helplessly in love with his intended's sharp-tongued, fiercely protective sister, Kate Sharma.

Joan Didion's unflinching account of the year following her husband John Gregory Dunne's sudden death while their daughter lay critically ill in the hospital.

Gino Wickman presents the Entrepreneurial Operating System, a practical framework for helping small and mid-size businesses achieve clarity, accountability, and execution.

British infectious disease doctor Chris van Tulleken investigates the health effects of ultra-processed food and what the science says about why it's so difficult to stop eating it.

Adapted from her viral TEDx talk, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie makes a passionate and personal case for feminism rooted in the realities of both African and Western experience.

An abandoned girl raises herself in the marshes of North Carolina and becomes the prime suspect when a local man is found dead.

Two economists argue that the difference between rich and poor countries is not geography, culture, or ignorance, but the presence of inclusive versus extractive political and economic institutions.

A monolith of alien origin guides humanity from its ape origins to a journey beyond Jupiter in this landmark novel written alongside Kubrick's film.