Telling Lies: Clues to Deceit in the Marketplace, Politics, and Marriage by Paul Ekman is the book you reach for when you realise how terrifying it is that you probably … Read more
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
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
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
If you’ve ever felt your faith—or your family chat—hijacked by cherry-picked verses and political talking points, Separation of Church and Hate gives you language, history, and scripture to get the … Read more
We crave a blueprint for getting home—after war, after loss, after bad decisions—and The Odyssey gives one, showing how cunning, hospitality, and memory rebuild a life. It is An ancient … Read more
Confronting Evil: Assessing the Worst of the Worst argues that evil isn’t abstract—it is embodied in specific people, decisions, and systems, and we must name it, study it, and act … Read more
The Girls of Atomic City fills a startling gap: it explains how ordinary young women—secretaries, operators, janitors—became the backbone of the Manhattan Project at Oak Ridge, turning anonymous labor into … Read more
When democracies backslide, they rarely fall with a bang—they soften, then sag, and then one day you wake up and your voice has been outsourced to fear. On Tyranny condenses … Read more
We’re busy, successful, and secretly starving for meaning, and Tuesdays with Morrie solves that by translating end-of-life clarity into everyday choices we can actually live by. Instead of self-help clichés, … Read more
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
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
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
When a single accusation can erase a lifetime of work, Dershowitz argues that cancel culture short-circuits both free speech and due process, replacing evidence with outrage. Cancel culture is “the … Read more
In plain English, AI 2041 argues that ten very plausible AI scenarios — spanning jobs, health, security, and privacy — are coming fast and that our choices, not the code … Read more
We’re pulled by emotions, confused by conflicting beliefs, and uncertain about freedom. Ethics by Baruch Spinoza asks: What would life look like if we understood our place in nature clearly, … Read more
We’re drowning in busyness, hacks, and “10X plans,” yet feel more brittle by the day. Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu answers a brutal modern question: how do you move … Read more
Are you reading ancient wisdom through a modern, Western lens without even realizing it? This book solves that problem by revealing how the very structure of our language shapes our … Read more
If you’ve ever felt like you were performing a version of yourself—at work, in love, even alone—Being and Nothingness explains why. Sartre’s book tackles the problem of self-deception (“bad faith”), … Read more
Are we saying anything at all when we argue about God, the soul, or “the Good”? A.J. Ayer’s Language Truth and Logic tries to solve that problem by drawing a … Read more
Being and Time by Martin Heidegger is one of the most argued-about books in twentieth-century philosophy. If you’ve ever wondered why life can feel thrown, busy, distracted, or strangely inauthentic, … Read more
Have you ever felt adrift, unsure of what constitutes a “good life”? Aristotle’s The Nicomachean Ethics isn’t just a dusty relic from antiquity; it’s a timeless navigation system for solving … Read more
We keep trying to live well in a world where old certainties have crumbled. Thus Spoke Zarathustra solves a modern problem: what to value “after God,” how to create a … Read more
We say we want happiness, but most of us spend our days rushing, scrolling, and stewing. Eddie Jaku—who survived Buchenwald, Auschwitz, and a death march—argues in his The Happiest Man … Read more
Feeling overwhelmed by history and polarized politics? Doctor Zhivago shows how an ordinary conscience survives extraordinary times—without surrendering to the slogans. When history turns people into instruments, Pasternak insists on … Read more
A Man for All Seasons 1966 is actually a film with historical facts about the life of Sir Thomas More and King Henry VIII of the Tudor dynasty of England.