Best Bestsellers Books

FBI trainee Clarice Starling is sent to interview the imprisoned Dr. Hannibal Lecter — brilliant psychiatrist and cannibalistic serial killer — hoping to gain insight into a new killer called Buffalo Bill, who is making suits of human skin.

Stephen Hawking's landmark exploration of cosmology, from the Big Bang to black holes, written for readers with no background in physics.

In Ford County, Mississippi, a Black father kills the two men who brutally raped his ten-year-old daughter — and the young lawyer Jake Brigance must defend him before a white jury in the Deep South.

Three converging storylines — a desperate quest across a dying world, a brutal siege in the frozen North, and a city drowning in political corruption — deepen the First Law's devastating subversion of every fantasy trope it deploys.

A science journalist investigates the health implications of how we breathe — and finds that most people are doing it wrong, with significant consequences for their health.

A pioneering psychologist reveals the secret to outstanding achievement: not talent, but a special blend of passion and long-term perseverance.

The eighth Discworld novel and first in the City Watch sub-series: a secret brotherhood summons a dragon to seize power in Ankh-Morpork, and the only thing standing between the city and a new dragon king is the most incompetent police force in fantasy history.

Krakauer's firsthand account of the 1996 Mount Everest disaster, in which eight climbers died during a single storm. One of the greatest adventure narratives ever written.

A billionaire's dinosaur theme park — built using ancient DNA extracted from prehistoric mosquitoes — collapses into chaos when the animals escape containment, in a gripping techno-thriller that is also a serious argument about the limits of human control over nature.

Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein show how small changes to the way choices are presented can steer people toward better decisions without restricting freedom.

A compelling argument that our society dramatically undervalues introverts and the tremendous power of their deep thinking, focus, and quiet contributions.

Colin Bridgerton discovers that Penelope Featherington — the wallflower he has known for years, and the anonymous Lady Whistledown — has secretly loved him for a decade.

An investigation into why some leaders and organisations are more influential and innovative than others, based on the Golden Circle framework.

The authorised biography of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, based on more than forty interviews with Jobs and over one hundred with family members, friends, adversaries, and colleagues.

Huck Finn and the escaped slave Jim raft down the Mississippi River in a journey that becomes the great American meditation on freedom, race, and conscience.

F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece of the Jazz Age — a devastating critique of the American Dream, told through the summer romance between Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan.

A groundbreaking research study revealing how America's wealthy actually live — not in luxury, but with discipline, frugality, and long-term thinking.

An examination of the science of habit formation and how habits operate in individuals, organisations, and societies — and how to change them.

A dazzling novel about a reclusive Hollywood icon who finally tells her full, scandalous life story to an unknown young journalist.

Rand, Mat, Perrin, and Egwene each pursue separate paths as the world fractures: Rand journeys to the Aiel Waste to learn his destiny while Perrin races home to defend the Two Rivers from a Shadowspawn invasion. Widely regarded as the pinnacle of the series.

Meursault kills an Arab on an Algerian beach — and at his trial is condemned not for the murder but for his failure to grieve his mother.

A neuroscientist reveals the life-transforming power of sleep. Walker shows why sleep is the single most effective thing you can do to reset your brain and body — and the catastrophic consequences of neglecting it.

A Stanford psychiatrist explains how the flood of dopamine-triggering pleasures in modern society creates compulsive behaviour — and how to reset the pleasure-pain balance.

The groundbreaking book that introduced the concept of emotional intelligence to mainstream audiences and argued that EQ matters more than IQ for life success.