Best Bestsellers Books

The definitive book on the psychology of persuasion. Cialdini identifies six universal principles — reciprocity, commitment, social proof, authority, liking, and scarcity — that drive human compliance, and shows how they are exploited in sales, marketing, and everyday life.

An orphaned governess's fierce quest for independence, dignity, and love in Victorian England — one of literature's most powerful assertions of female selfhood.

Former FBI lead hostage negotiator Chris Voss reveals the counter-intuitive techniques he developed for life-or-death negotiations — and shows how they apply to salary talks, business deals, and everyday persuasion. The key insight: humans are not rational actors, and the best negotiators use emotional intelligence, not logic.

Yotam Ottolenghi's most accessible cookbook — recipes designed to be simple without sacrificing the bold flavours and ingredient combinations that define his cooking.

Peter Attia's comprehensive guide to living longer and better, based on his medical practice and years of research into the science of longevity.

One of the most influential business books ever written, offering a principle-centred approach to personal and professional effectiveness.

A landmark work in trauma psychology by one of the world's foremost authorities on PTSD. Van der Kolk reveals how trauma reshapes both body and brain, undermining survivors' capacity for pleasure, engagement, self-control, and trust.

The Joad family, driven from their Oklahoma farm by the Dust Bowl, joins the great migration west to California — and finds exploitation, hunger, and community in equal measure.

Seconds before Earth is demolished to make way for a hyperspace bypass, Arthur Dent is rescued by Ford Prefect — who turns out to be a researcher for the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the standard repository for all knowledge and wisdom in the universe. Their adventures take them to the Restaurant at the End of the Universe, a planet populated by telephone sanitisers, and a search for the Ultimate Question to Life, the Universe, and Everything.

The comprehensive American cooking bible — first published in 1931, continuously revised ever since, and still the most trusted and comprehensive home cooking reference ever produced.

Astronaut Mark Watney is stranded alone on Mars after his crew evacuates, and must use science, engineering, and dark humour to survive until a rescue mission can reach him.

Doing well with money isn't necessarily about what you know. It's about how you behave. And behaviour is hard to teach, even to really smart people.

David McCullough tells the gripping story of two self-taught bicycle mechanics from Dayton who changed the world by inventing powered flight.

Janie Crawford's search for love and selfhood across three marriages in Black Southern communities — told in a voice of extraordinary lyrical power.

The series finale: Tarmon Gai'don, the Last Battle, as Rand al'Thor faces the Dark One at the Bore while the armies of Light and Shadow fight across five simultaneous battlefields. The culmination of a 23-year, 14-book epic.

Bill Bryson's quest to understand everything that has ever happened, from the Big Bang to the rise of civilisation — written with his characteristic wit and warmth.

Ramit Sethi's blunt, practical, six-week programme for getting your financial life in order — automating savings, paying off debt, investing in low-cost index funds, and negotiating better deals on everything from bank fees to salary. Written for people in their 20s and 30s who find most personal finance books boring.

Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch is thrown back in time to the days of his youth, forced to take the place of his old mentor and train his younger self during one of the city's defining revolutionary moments.

Percy leads the defense of Olympus against Kronos's army as the Great Prophecy — the one that has shadowed his life since birth — finally comes true in a battle for the fate of the gods.

An English navigator is shipwrecked in feudal Japan in 1600 and drawn into the deadly rivalry between samurai lords competing for supreme power. One of the great historical novels of the twentieth century.

A young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever but is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets — until she finds a man who remembers her.

The surprisingly simple truth behind extraordinary results — focus on the ONE thing that makes everything else easier or unnecessary.

A spiritual guide that teaches how to free yourself from the tyranny of the thinking mind and discover the peace available only in the present moment.

A collection of parables set in ancient Babylon that deliver timeless financial wisdom through the story of a man who rises from slavery to become the city's wealthiest citizen.