If you’ve felt your favorite platforms turn from delightful to downright hostile, you’re not imagining it. Cory Doctorow’s Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It … Read more
We’re not drowning in stuff—we’re drowning in delayed decisions that our loved ones will have to make if we don’t. As per Nobody Wants Your Sh*t, decluttering isn’t about tidy … Read more
The separation of church and state is under real, measurable pressure in the United States—and Randall Balmer’s compact new book America’s Best Idea is the plain-spoken toolkit many of us … 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
If you’ve ever felt that “girls’ culture” is dismissed as trivial, Swifterature solves that problem by showing, with gusto and rigor, how Taylor Swift’s lyrics unlock the doors of English … Read more
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann is more than a survival epic; it’s a razor-edged inquiry into how power and people manufacture truth, from … Read more
The Uncool summary: chapters, themes, quotes, analysis Memoirs about fame usually polish the mirror; The Uncool: A Memoir shows you the fingerprints. Crowe solves a timeless problem for music lovers … Read more
Stories don’t only explain a life—they assemble one. Margaret Atwood’s Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts shows readers how to turn scattered memories into meaning without sanding off their … Read more
Most of us feel the pinch of office politics and invisible hierarchies but never learn the rules that actually govern them; The 48 Laws of Power claims to decode those … Read more
If grief, caregiving, and “loving someone who’s not okay” have ever bent your life out of shape, All the Way to the River: Love, Loss, and Liberation shows you how … Read more
Feeling stuck in a life that looks fine on Instagram but feels hollow in your chest? Eat Pray Love solves the “now what?” that follows heartbreak, burnout, and the quiet … Read more
If change has blindsided you—career pivots, layoffs, industry shocks—Who Moved My Cheese? shows a disarmingly simple way to stop freezing, start moving, and find your “new cheese.” When the world … Read more
Most of us don’t fail for lack of talent or opportunity—we stall because a fogged-up attitude window hides what’s possible. Jeff Keller writes in his Attitude Is Everything “clean your … Read more
If you’ve ever tried to untangle the Israel–Palestine conflict and felt lost in headlines, Son of Hamas solves a quieter, harder problem: it shows you the conflict from the inside, … Read more
If you’re trying to understand how a person raised inside Hamas becomes the Shin Bet or Israel Security Agency (ISA)’s most protected asset and then an American immigrant seeking inner … Read more
Are you bored by history books that only focus on battles and laws? This book solves that problem by showing that what happens in the royal bedroom is often more … Read more
Fight Oligarchy by Bernie Sanders is a blunt, urgent manual for confronting oligarchy, authoritarian drift, and widening inequality—told by a politician who has spent decades fighting each of them. When … Read more
We’re living through a moment of drift—fragmented politics at home and strategic uncertainty abroad—and that’s the exact civic problem To Rescue the American Spirit sets out to solve: how a … Read more
If you’re building a serious library, this curated roadmap of 100 books everyone should read blends the must-read classic novels, modern must-read books, and essential non-fiction books that shape how … Read more
We’ve become world-class at catching people when they fall—yet terrible at stopping the fall in the first place. Outlive solves for that timing gap by moving medicine upstream, before the … 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 book Last Rites solves the mystery of how a legend survived self-destruction and then had to face mortality head-on — giving readers an unvarnished insider’s lesson in resilience, regret, … Read more
The Girl Bandits of the Warsaw Ghetto by Elizabeth Hyman is a rigorously documented, emotionally lucid history of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, the kashariyot (Jewish women couriers), and Holocaust resistance … Read more
The book Brain on Fire solves a terrifying problem: when the brain catches fire and medicine mistakes it for madness, how do you find the truth fast enough to survive? … 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
The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk is the modern classic on healing trauma—how PTSD transforms the brain, mind, and body, and why interventions like EMDR, yoga, … Read more
Nobody’s Girl is the life-sized account of how a Florida teenager with a history of abuse was recruited by Ghislaine Maxwell outside the Mar-a-Lago spa and drawn into Jeffrey Epstein’s … 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
How Democracies Die — Steven Levitsky & Daniel Ziblatt (Crown, 2018) is a comparative-political diagnosis of democratic backsliding, rooting the danger in the erosion of norms and the failure of … Read more
Most of us weren’t taught the emotional “basics” at school; Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? solves that gap with a therapist’s toolkit you can actually use on bad … Read more