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The Women: A Powerful Journey Through Vietnam’s Forgotten Sisterhood

The Women

The Women is a historical fiction masterpiece by Kristin Hannah, published on February 6, 2024 in New York. With 480 pages, the novel has debuted at #1 on The New … Read more

Ultrasociety Exposes the Dark Secret That Built Modern Civilization (2016)

Ultrasociety: How 10,000 Years of War Made Humans the Greatest Cooperators on Earth

Ultrasociety: How 10,000 Years of War Made Humans the Greatest Cooperators on Earth is authored by Peter Turchin, an evolutionary anthropologist and professor specializing in cultural evolution, historical dynamics, and … Read more

Before Homosexuality in the Arab-Islamic World, 1500-1800 Exposes the Forgotten Truth of Arab-Islamic Sexuality

Before Homosexuality review

Khaled El-Rouayheb’s Before Homosexuality in the Arab-Islamic World, 1500–1800 (University of Chicago Press, 2005) is a groundbreaking historical and cultural investigation into how male same-sex desire and behavior were understood … Read more

Break Bad Habits Fast: Lessons from The Power of Habit (2012) You Can’t Ignore

he Power of Habit review 2025

The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg explores how habits shape our lives, organizations, and societies, and how understanding the habit loop—cue, routine, and reward—can transform them. Through compelling real-life … Read more

Boys & Sex Insights That Challenge Toxic Norms and Ignite Empathetic Dialogue (2020)

Boys & Sex Insights

Boys & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape is a deeply investigative and empathetically reported book by Peggy Orenstein, published January 2020. Orenstein, a New York Times bestselling author and … Read more

From Confusion to Clarity: How Girls And Sex Empowers Young Women (2016)

Girls And Sex book review

Girls And Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape is a revelatory nonfiction book by acclaimed journalist and author Peggy Orenstein, first published in 2016. Orenstein is also the author of … Read more

Stop Wasting Your Days—Discover the Ruthless Power of Deep Work (2016)

Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World was written by Cal Newport, a tenured professor of computer science at Georgetown University, and published in 2016. Newport is … Read more

Zero to One Turns Your Startup Fear into Unstoppable Strategy In 2025

zero to one book review

Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future is a 2014 entrepreneurial manifesto by Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal and Palantir, and early investor in Facebook, … Read more

The Mountain Is You (2025) Destroys Self-Doubt and Awakens Your Inner Power

The Mountain Is You Destroys Self-Doubt and Awakens Your Inner Power

The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery is a self-development book authored by Brianna Wiest, published in 2020. As a prolific writer known for blending emotional intelligence with philosophical … Read more

The Power of Now (1999): Unlock Inner Peace What You’ve Been Missing In Your Life

power of now (1999) review 2025

The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment is a bestselling spiritual classic by Eckhart Tolle, first published in 1997 by Namaste Publishing in Vancouver and later by New … Read more

How The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Can Radically Change Your Life For Better

7 Habits of Highly Effective People review 2025

7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey, first published in 1989 by Free Press, is one of the most influential self-help and business books of all time. … Read more

Good to Great by Jim Collins (2001) Can Transform Your Business Forever (If You Dare)

Good to Great by Jim Collins review 2025

The complete Good to Great summary with real lessons for entrepreneurs, CEOs, and students. Includes citations and examples.

Why Simon Sinek’s Start With Why (2009) Might Be the Only Leadership Book You Need

Start with Why by Simon Sinek Review 2025.

Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action by Simon Sinek is more than a leadership book—it’s a philosophy. First published in 2009, the book lays out … Read more

Why The Anthropocene Reviewed Will Break Your Heart: A Devastatingly Human Review of The Anthropocene

The Anthropocene Reviewed review 2025

The book under review, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet by John Green, was published on May 18, 2021, by Dutton Penguin. Known primarily for his bestselling young … Read more

Apple in China (2025) by Patrick McGee Exposes Apple’s Hidden Dependence on China

Apple In China 2025 book review

The book in focus is Apple in China: The Capture of the World’s Greatest Company by Patrick McGee, published in 2025. McGee, a seasoned journalist and the San Francisco correspondent … Read more

Night by Elie Wiesel (1960): The Most Haunting Holocaust Book You’ll Ever Read-10 Lessons

Night by Elie Wiesel (1960)

The book is Night, written by Elie Wiesel, a Romanian-born Jewish writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor. First published in 1956 in Yiddish under the title Un … Read more

What Makes Of Mice and Men (1937) a Timeless Tragedy and The Dream That Died

Of Mice and Men review 2025

Of Mice and Men, written by John Steinbeck, was published in 1937 by Covici Friede. Set during the Great Depression, it is a novella that powerfully captures the fragility of … Read more

How Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Predicted Adverse Affects Our Scientific Development In 1818

Frankenstein review 2025

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a groundbreaking novel written by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, first published anonymously in 1818. A revised edition followed in 1831, which included a new preface … Read more

The Devastating Genius of Normal People by Sally Rooney (2018) – A Millennial Masterpiece

Normal People by Sally Rooney

Published on 30 August 2018, Normal People is the critically acclaimed second novel by Irish author Sally Rooney. Following her debut Conversations with Friends, Rooney cemented her place in contemporary … Read more

How The Outsiders Captures the Pain of Growing Up Like No Other Book (2025)

The Outsiders book review 2025

Published in 1967, The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton is a novel that shook the foundations of young adult literature. Hinton was just 16 when she penned this revolutionary work—a … Read more

Circe 2018 Book Review: A Haunting, Beautiful Reimagining of Ancient Myths

Circe Book Review: A Haunting, Beautiful Reimagining of Ancient Myths

Circe is a 2018 novel by American author Madeline Miller, published by Little, Brown and Company. Following her acclaimed debut The Song of Achilles, Miller once again dives into the … Read more

The Song of Achilles (2011): You’ve Been Reading The Iliad All Wrong—Here’s Why You Should Know

The Song of Achilles

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller is a modern literary reimagining of Homeric legend, first published on September 20, 2011. The debut novel quickly carved a place in literary … Read more

Why The Help (2009) Still Hurts — and Heals — Today’s Divided Society

The Help (2009) book review

The Help by Kathryn Stockett is a landmark piece of historical fiction first published by Penguin Books on February 10, 2009. The novel vividly reimagines the lives of African American … Read more

WARNING: Reading The Da Vinci Code Might Unsettle Your Faith and What You Believe

The Da Vinci Code book review

Audrey Tautou and Tom Hanks as Robert Langdon and Sophie Neveu in The Da Vinci Code (2006) film

The Book Thief (2005) by Markus Zusak: An Unforgettable Tale of Words, War, and Humanity

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

The Book Thief, written by Australian author Markus Zusak, was originally published in 2005 by Picador in Australia and Knopf Books for Young Readers in the United States. Since then, … Read more

You’re Wasting Time If You Haven’t Read The Alchemist (1988) Yet—It’s a Life-Changing Journey

The Alchemist (1988) review 2025

The Alchemist is a philosophical novel by Paulo Coelho, first published in Portuguese in 1988 under the title O Alquimista. It was originally released by a small Brazilian publishing house, … Read more

Memoirs of a Geisha (1997) Explained: Love, Loss, and Lies in Arthur Golden’s Classic

Memoirs of a Geisha Explained: Love, Loss, and Lies in Arthur Golden’s Classic

Memoirs of a Geisha is a historical fiction novel by Arthur Golden, first published on September 27, 1997, by Alfred A. Knopf in the United States. The book spans 448 … Read more

Exposing the Toxic Feminism Trend: What Girl on Girl Teaches Us About Postfeminist Myths (2025)

Girl on Girl by Sophie Gilbert 2025 review

Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves is a critical and personal essay collection authored by Sophie Gilbert, a widely respected staff writer at … Read more

Challenging The Beauty Myth (1990): Naomi Wolf’s Fight Against Unfair Beauty Ideals

The Beauty Myth

In 1990, Naomi Wolf published a provocative, culture-shifting work that would become a cornerstone of contemporary feminist literature: The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women. Originally … Read more

The Best Explanation of A Brief History of Time (1988) You’ll Ever Read

A Brief History of Time (1988)

A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes is one of the most influential nonfiction books in the modern scientific canon, authored by Stephen William Hawking. … Read more

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