Ethics of Life: freedom & diversity is a sweeping, idea-dense work that asks a deceptively simple question with enormous consequences for policy, technology, biodiversity, and everyday conduct: how should we … Read more
If your economy, company, or career feels stuck, The Power of Creative Destruction shows why purposeful churn—not safety—drives lasting prosperity, and how to harness it rather than fear it. When … Read more
Modern prosperity didn’t arrive because factories suddenly sprouted; it emerged because a culture made the pursuit and sharing of useful knowledge both honorable and inevitable. In A Culture of Growth, … Read more
Spare by Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, is more than a royal memoir; it’s a meticulous reckoning with grief, identity, love, the press, and the cost of duty. If you’ve … Read more
Grief is the riddle most families never solve; Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell turns that riddle into a life-sized map of loss, art, and the strange bargains love makes with death. … Read more
We grow up believing creativity and love are quests with fixed endpoints, but Tomorrow and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow shows how making—and remaking—games, art, and selves is really an infinite respawn. … Read more
The Woman in Me shows how a world-famous woman could be legally silenced and commercially exploited while the public looked on, and how she reclaimed a voice that the system … Read more
I’m Glad My Mom Died isn’t just a celebrity memoir; it’s a manual for naming abuse, reclaiming a body, and rebuilding a self. Its problem-to-solve is brutal and universal: how … Read more
A novel about being “seen” in a world that scatters us, Kiran Desai’s The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny faces, names, and transforms the private hurt so many of us … Read more
A book for when your life feels stalled, Satantango shows how false saviors, foggy plans, and low horizons trap whole communities—and how lucidity still glints through the rain. At its … Read more
When institutions flicker and crowds look for a voice, The Melancholy of Resistance shows how fear, rumor, and spectacle can turn a town—and a society—inside out. A dead-eyed circus, a … Read more
When you pick up an Emily Henry novel, you expect certain delightful things: witty banter that crackles off the page, a swoon-worthy slow-burn romance, and a sun-drenched setting that feels … Read more
We drown in screens that promise reality, yet leave us spiritually thirsty; Christ and the Media names the thirst—and shows why the well is often poisoned. Malcolm Muggeridge argues that … Read more
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse is the rare novel that turns a life into a laboratory for wisdom—and shows why the lab is the world itself, not a classroom. It solves … Read more
A starving huntress kills a wolf and shatters a Treaty, crossing a wall into a realm where love, power, and survival collide. In a world hungry for meaning—and for “romantasy”—A … Read more
What if the cure for our housing crisis, climate anxiety, and political doomism is the same verb: build? The abundance agenda says prosperity, health, and sustainability scale together when we … Read more
If your readers feel unmoored in a noisy, fast‑moving world, The Sun Also Rises gives that feeling clean edges—and a way to name it. It turns a tangle of restlessness, … Read more
A desert world where water is life, prophecy is policy, and leadership can spark unintended crusades—Dune isn’t just a novel; it’s a system of ideas that still feels startlingly modern. … Read more
If a novel about memory and war keeps getting challenged, are we protecting kids—or protecting our myths? It’s Banned Books Week again (Oct. 5–11, 2025), and PEN America’s latest Banned in … Read more
When love feels like a lie and art dries up, Beach Read solves the problem of how to write (and live) through grief, betrayal, and writer’s block—without surrendering hope. It … Read more
Families uprooted by debt, drought, and a rigged labor market need language for their pain; John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath gives it to them. Through the Joad family’s flight … Read more
If you feel stuck between ambition and circumstance, Wings of Fire shows how a boy from Rameswaram turned scarcity into India’s space-and-missile renaissance—without losing humility or hope. It solves the … Read more
Maus I: A Survivor’s Tale: My Father Bleeds History is more than a graphic novel—it’s a memory machine that solves the problem of how to tell atrocity without numbing the … Read more
The world ends quietly in The Road, and that’s exactly why this book fixes a problem: it shows you how to stay human when everything else is ash. You’ll keep … Read more
The History of Rome, Vol. V solves a single, urgent problem: how a five-hundred-year republican system collapsed into a military monarchy and what social, military, and cultural forces made that … Read more
The History of Rome, Volume IV: The Revolution by Theodor Mommsen is a seminal work in historical scholarship, originally written in German and translated into English by William Purdie Dickson. … Read more
Rome didn’t just conquer; it standardized a continent. If you’ve ever wondered how one city turned agrarian inequality, foreign wars, and legal procedure into a machine that outlived its founders, … Read more
Richard Osman’s The Impossible Fortune (2024) is the fifth installment in his record-breaking Thursday Murder Club series. The book, published by Viking/Penguin, cements Osman’s reputation as one of the most … Read more
The New Age of Sexism: How AI and Emerging Technologies Are Reinventing Misogyny is written by Laura Bates, a well-known feminist writer, activist, and founder of the Everyday Sexism Project. … Read more
A lot of dark fantasy promises “trauma with meaning” but delivers shock without soul. Alchemised solves that by fusing visceral world-building with a moral, medical, and metaphysical inquiry into memory, … Read more