Romzanul Islam 
In a world of information overload and emotional turbulence, The Daily Stoic offers a simple, daily practice for centring the mind and cultivating resilience. Holiday and Hanselman argue that the timeless … Read more
Many of us feel our reasoning skills falter in heated debates, and Madsen Pirie’s How to Win Every Argument promises to demystify logic by exposing the fallacies that often defeat us. The book is a … Read more
I’ve read a lot of memoirs about coercive groups, but The Polygamist’s Daughter by Anna LeBaron (Tyndale Momentum, 2017) is the rare book that shows you—moment by moment—how a child … Read more
If your team looks busy but isn’t breaking through, Strong Ground shows why—and how—to stop playing not to lose and start playing to win. Build Strong Ground—a stance that blends … Read more
Grief leaves you feeling like the world has been unplugged mid-sentence; Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking shows how to plug language back in long enough to keep breathing. … Read more
In a world still shaped by invisible rules and inherited expectations, We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie arrives like a clear voice cutting through static—honest, warm, and … Read more
If you’ve ever wondered what your DNA “really says” about who you are, A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes explains what it actually … Read more
If you think beards are a vibe, Christopher Oldstone-Moore shows in Of Beards and Men they’re really a vote—about masculinity, authority, and who gets to set the rules. “The history … Read more
Communion: The Female Search for Love by bell hooks is a field guide for women who sense that “more” is possible in love—more honesty, more agency, more community, more joy. … Read more
Love is not a luxury for Black life—it’s infrastructure. This review of Salvation: Black People and Love by bell hooks unpacks the book’s thesis, key chapters, evidence base, and real-world … Read more
We’re living through an epidemic of disconnection, yet most of us were never taught how to love—and bell hooks’ All About Love: New Visions is the practical, ethical playbook we’ve … Read more
Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy by Mary Roach is the book I wish I had years ago, when every viral headline promised a lab-grown organ, a bionic limb, or … Read more
When we picture World War II spies, we imagine tuxedos and pistols, not catalog cards and microfilm cameras. Book and Dagger solves that problem by showing how badly we’ve underestimated … Read more
The problem The Silver Book solves: How do you live, make art, and love freely when fascism, homophobia and spectacle are all closing in on your body at once? When … Read more
The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession shows how one man’s passion for beauty can quietly strip museums bare, devastate cultural memory, and still … Read more
Most of us don’t need more thoughts—we need relief from the ones already screaming in our heads. Don’t Believe Everything You Think by Joseph Nguyen is a short, deceptively simple … Read more
In Buckeye by Patrick Ryan, the glossy postcard myth of small-town America is quietly ripped open to show how one impulsive kiss can echo through generations of war, secrecy, and … Read more
Every December, millions of people quietly dread Christmas because loss has emptied the chair at the table, and The Christmas Stranger is a novel that dares to sit in that … Read more
When memory fades, and the future offers a radical escape, how far would you go to never say goodbye? In The Merge by Grace Walker, a revolutionary procedure promises to … Read more
Most of us have no idea how to talk about dying with the people we love. Some Bright Nowhere by Ann Packer quietly forces that conversation into the living room … Read more
In an age of unread emails and ghosted messages, The Correspondent quietly tackles a problem many of us dare not name—how do you make sense of a whole life when … Read more
If you’ve ever felt like you were handed a polished, pastel life that somehow left you hollow inside, The Book Club for Troublesome Women is the novel that finally names … Read more
The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan is the book that finally looks suburban respectability in the eye and quietly asks, “Why are so many women still so unhappy?” The Feminine … Read more
Trauma, addiction, and regret can feel like life sentences, and We Did OK, Kid: A Memoir by Anthony Hopkins is a rare celebrity book that shows how a flawed human … Read more
Cursed Daughters is a dark, witty, Lagos-set family saga about Monife, Ebun, and Eniiyi—three women bound by a supposed love-curse and a reincarnation rumor—who must decide whether to repeat the … Read more
Families love to say “we did it all for you,” but what if that love demands you erase yourself? In Next Time Will Be Our Turn, Jesse Q. Sutanto stares … Read more
First published in 2020 and since re-edited for a 2024/2025 collector’s edition, Jeneva Rose’s breakout thriller The Perfect Marriage has reached multi-million readership, sparked massive BookTok/Goodreads discourse (1.1M+ ratings; 3.98 … Read more
When a patient dies on your watch and the country freezes to a halt, how do you keep a marriage, a conscience—and a village—alive? Miller’s novel The Land in Winter … Read more
Grief scrambles memory, and Flashlight by Susan Choi shows how a family spends decades trying to see in the dark. The novel tackles a problem most books only skirt: how … Read more
Motherland by Julia Ioffe is the feminist history of modern Russia I wish I’d had years ago—a book that solves a persistent problem: histories of Russia that treat women as … Read more