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  • $100M Money Models

    Alex Hormozi

  • Alexander Hamilton

    Ron Chernow

  • Abundance

    Steven Kotler

  • The New Father: A Dad's Guide to the First Year (New Father Series)

    Armin A. Brott
    New Father

  • The Inner Game of Tennis

    W. Timothy Gallwey

  • Memory's Legion

    James S. A. Corey
    The Expanse

  • Mother Night

    Kurt Vonnegut

  • Go the F--k to Sleep

    Adam Mansbach
    Go the F--k to Sleep, 1

  • Selling Your Professional Service Firm: A Primer

    David C. Baker

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  • Elon Musk

    Walter Isaacson

  • The State of the Art

    Iain M. Banks
    Culture, 4

  • Company of One

    Paul Jarvis

  • Million Dollar Weekend

    Noah Kagan

  • Agencynomics

    Spencer Gallagher

  • 48 Laws of Power

    Robert Greene

  • Atomic Habits

    James Clear

  • The Pragmatic Programmer: 20th Anniversary Edition, 2nd Edition

    David Thomas

  • Getting Everything You Can Out of All You've Got

    Jay Abraham

  • Lying

    Sam Harris

  • Mastery

    Robert Greene

  • The Cold Start Problem

    Andrew Chen

  • The Art of Flavor

    Daniel Patterson

  • The Neil Gaiman Reader

    Neil Gaiman

  • Designing Data-Intensive Applications

    Martin Kleppmann

  • Traffic Secrets

    Russell Brunson

  • Stealing Fire

    Steven Kotler

Science Fiction 54

  • Wool

    Hugh Howey · 2026
    The Silo Saga, 1

  • Rendezvous with Rama

    Arthur C. Clarke · 2026
    Rama, 1

  • The Faith of Beasts

    James S. A. Corey · 2026
    Captive's War, 2

  • The X-Files: Cold Cases

    Joe Harris · 2026

  • Ancillary Justice

    Ann Leckie · 2026
    Imperial Radch, 1

  • Beyond the Aquila Rift

    Alastair Reynolds · 2025

  • A Fire Upon The Deep

    Vernor Vinge · 2025
    Zones of Thought, 1

  • Mickey7

    Edward Ashton · 2025
    Mickey7, 1

  • Judas Unchained

    Peter F. Hamilton · 2025
    Commonwealth Saga, 2

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  • Pandora's Star

    Peter F. Hamilton · 2025
    Commonwealth Saga, 1

  • Blindsight

    Peter Watts · 2024

  • This Is How You Lose The Time War

    Amal El-Mohtar · 2024

  • Not Till We Are Lost

    Dennis E. Taylor · 2024
    Bobiverse, 5

  • Livesuit

    James S. A. Corey · 2024
    Captive's War, 1.5

  • The Mercy of Gods

    James S. A. Corey · 2024
    The Captive's War, 1

  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

    Douglas Adams · 2024
    Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, 1

  • All Systems Red

    Martha Wells · 2024
    Murderbot Diaries, 1

  • The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

    Douglas Adams · 2023
    Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, 2

  • We Have Always Been Here

    Lena Nguyen · 2023

  • The Freeze-Frame Revolution

    Peter Watts · 2023

  • Surface Detail

    Iain M. Banks · 2022
    Culture, 9

  • Ready Player One

    Ernest Cline · 2022
    Ready Player One, 1

  • Consider Phlebas

    Iain M. Banks · 2022
    Culture, 1

  • Matter

    Iain M. Banks · 2022
    Culture, 8

  • Neverwhere

    Neil Gaiman · 2022

  • Neuromancer

    William Gibson · 2022
    Sprawl Trilogy Series, 1

  • The Sins of Our Fathers

    James S. A. Corey · 2022
    The Expanse, 9.5

  • The Rise of Endymion

    Dan Simmons · 2022
    Hyperion, 4

  • Use of Weapons

    Iain M. Banks · 2021
    Culture, 3

  • The Sirens of Titan

    Kurt Vonnegut · 2021

  • Leviathan Falls

    James S. A. Corey · 2021
    The Expanse, 9

  • The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

    Becky Chambers · 2021
    Wayfarers, 1

  • The Hydrogen Sonata

    Iain M. Banks · 2021
    Culture, 10

  • Heaven's River

    Dennis E. Taylor · 2021
    Bobiverse, 4

  • Tiamat's Wrath

    James S. A. Corey · 2021
    The Expanse, 8

  • Abaddon's Gate

    James S. A. Corey · 2021
    The Expanse, 3

  • Leviathan Wakes

    James S. A. Corey · 2021
    The Expanse, 1

  • We Are Legion (We Are Bob)

    Dennis E. Taylor · 2021
    Bobiverse, 1

  • The Player of Games

    Iain M. Banks · 2021
    Culture, 2

  • The Three-Body Problem

    Cixin Liu · 2021
    The Remembrance of Earth's Past, 1

  • Cryptonomicon

    Neal Stephenson · 2021

  • Seveneves

    Neal Stephenson · 2021

  • The Singularity Trap

    Dennis E. Taylor · 2018

  • Dune

    Frank Herbert · 2018
    The Dune Sequence, 12

  • Lock In (Narrated by Wil Wheaton)

    John Scalzi · 2018
    Lock In Series, 1

  • Dark Matter

    Blake Crouch · 2018

  • Annihilation

    Jeff VanderMeer · 2018
    The Southern Reach Trilogy, 1

  • All These Worlds

    Dennis E. Taylor · 2017
    Bobiverse, 3

  • For We Are Many

    Dennis E. Taylor · 2017
    Bobiverse, 2

  • Artemis

    Andy Weir · 2017

  • The Graveyard Book

    Neil Gaiman · 2017

  • Echopraxia

    Echopraxia

    Peter Watts

  • Fahrenheit 451

    Fahrenheit 451

    Ray Bradbury

  • The Neil Gaiman at the End of the Universe

    Arvind Ethan David
    Earworms

Fiction 45

  • The Alchemist

    Paulo Coelho · 2026

  • The Fall of Hyperion

    Dan Simmons · 2025
    Hyperion, 2

  • Hyperion

    Dan Simmons · 2025
    Hyperion, 1

  • Misspent Youth

    Peter F. Hamilton · 2025
    Commonwealth Saga

  • Breakfast of Champions

    Kurt Vonnegut · 2025

  • Horns

    Joe Hill · 2025

  • The Overstory

    Richard Powers · 2024

  • Babel

    R. F. Kuang · 2024

  • Unstoppable Us, Volume 1: How Humans Took Over the World

    Yuval Noah Harari · 2023
    Unstoppable Us, 1

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  • The Godfather

    Mario Puzo · 2023
    The Godfather, 1

  • Upgrade

    Blake Crouch · 2023

  • Player Piano

    Kurt Vonnegut · 2023

  • The Great Alone

    Kristin Hannah · 2022

  • A Little History of the World

    E. H. Gombrich · 2022
    Little Histories Series

  • Good Omens

    Neil Gaiman · 2022

  • The Count of Monte Cristo

    Alexandre Dumas · 2022

  • The Ocean at the End of the Lane

    Neil Gaiman · 2022

  • The Return of the King

    J.R.R. Tolkien · 2022
    The Lord of the Rings, 3

  • The Two Towers

    J.R.R. Tolkien · 2021
    The Lord of the Rings, 2

  • The Fellowship of the Ring

    J.R.R. Tolkien · 2021
    The Lord of the Rings, 1

  • Aurora

    Kim Stanley Robinson · 2021

  • The Hobbit

    J.R.R. Tolkien · 2021
    The Lord of the Rings, 0.5

  • Project Hail Mary

    Andy Weir · 2021

  • The Martian

    Andy Weir · 2021

  • Limitless

    Alan Glynn · 2021
    Limitless, 1

  • Contact

    Carl Sagan · 2021

  • East of Eden

    John Steinbeck · 2021

  • Norse Mythology

    Neil Gaiman · 2020

  • The Silent Patient

    Alex Michaelides · 2020

  • Recursion

    Blake Crouch · 2019

  • The Stand

    Stephen King · 2019

  • Randomize

    Andy Weir · 2019
    Forward Collection

  • Slaughterhouse-Five

    Kurt Vonnegut · 2018

  • Uncommon Type

    Tom Hanks · 2018

  • Shōgun

    Shōgun

    James Clavell

  • Damned

    Damned

    Chuck Palahniuk

  • Fight Club

    Fight Club

    Chuck Palahniuk

  • Pride and Prejudice

    Pride and Prejudice

    Jane Austen

  • The Brothers Karamazov

    The Brothers Karamazov

    Fyodor Dostoevsky

  • Ulysses

    Ulysses

    James Joyce

  • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

    The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

    L. Frank Baum

  • Harry Potter y la piedra filosofal

    Harry Potter y la piedra filosofal

    J. K. Rowling

  • The Complete Sherlock Holmes

    The Complete Sherlock Holmes

    Arthur Conan Doyle

  • The Complete Works of H. P. Lovecraft

    The Complete Works of H. P. Lovecraft

    H. P. Lovecraft

  • The Book Thief

    The Book Thief

    Markus Zusak

History & Science 65

  • How to Get Rich

    Felix Dennis · 2026

  • Powerhouse

    James Andrew Miller · 2026

  • The Third Chimpanzee

    Jared Diamond · 2026

  • American Prometheus

    Kai Bird · 2025

  • Mythos

    Stephen Fry · 2025
    Mythos, 1

  • Odyssey

    Stephen Fry · 2025
    Mythos, 4

  • Proto

    Laura Spinney · 2025

  • Greenlights

    Matthew McConaughey · 2025

  • Eat a Peach

    David Chang · 2025

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  • Nuclear War

    Annie Jacobsen · 2025

  • Prisoner's Dilemma

    William Poundstone · 2024

  • It Was All a Dream

    Justin Tinsley · 2024

  • Be Useful

    Arnold Schwarzenegger · 2024

  • The Demon-Haunted World

    Carl Sagan · 2024

  • The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt

    Edmund Morris · 2024
    Theodore Roosevelt, 1

  • The Guns of August

    Barbara W. Tuchman · 2024

  • Band of Brothers

    Stephen E. Ambrose · 2024

  • Napoleon

    Andrew Roberts · 2023

  • Never Finished

    David Goggins · 2023

  • Benjamin Franklin: An American Life

    Walter Isaacson · 2023

  • A Man Without a Country

    Kurt Vonnegut · 2023

  • Steve Jobs

    Walter Isaacson · 2023

  • The 50th Law

    50 Cent · 2023

  • Heroes

    Stephen Fry · 2023
    Mythos, 2

  • The Swerve

    Stephen Greenblatt · 2022

  • The Code Breaker

    Walter Isaacson · 2022

  • Why We Drive

    Matthew B. Crawford · 2022

  • Walt Disney

    Neal Gabler · 2022

  • The Meaning of Life: Perspectives from the World's Great Intellectual Traditions

    Jay L. Garfield · 2022
    The Great Courses: Intellectual History

  • Debt - Updated and Expanded

    David Graeber · 2022

  • The Biggest Bluff

    Maria Konnikova · 2022

  • A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived

    Adam Rutherford · 2021

  • Educated

    Tara Westover · 2021

  • Titan

    Ron Chernow · 2021

  • Can't Hurt Me

    David Goggins · 2021

  • The Bomber Mafia

    Malcolm Gladwell · 2021

  • The Lessons of History

    Will · 2021

  • Einstein

    Walter Isaacson · 2021

  • Strategy

    Lawrence Freedman · 2021

  • Naked Statistics

    Charles Wheelan · 2021

  • Cosmos

    Carl Sagan · 2021
    Cosmos, 1

  • Washington

    Ron Chernow · 2021

  • Collapse

    Jared Diamond · 2021

  • Homo Deus

    Yuval Noah Harari · 2021
    Sapiens

  • Life 3.0

    Max Tegmark · 2021

  • Leonardo da Vinci

    Walter Isaacson · 2021

  • Guns, Germs and Steel

    Jared Diamond · 2021

  • Winners Take All

    Anand Giridharadas · 2020

  • The End Is Always Near

    Dan Carlin · 2019

  • Upheaval

    Jared Diamond · 2019

  • Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!

    Richard P. Feynman · 2019

  • 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

    Yuval Noah Harari · 2018

  • The Coming Storm

    Michael Lewis · 2018

  • 1776

    David McCullough · 2018

  • Taming the Sun

    Varun Sivaram · 2018

  • Know This

    John Brockman · 2018

  • The Inevitable

    Kevin Kelly · 2017

  • A Short History of Nearly Everything

    A Short History of Nearly Everything

    Bill Bryson

  • Sapiens

    Sapiens

    Yuval Noah Harari

  • A People's History of the United States

    A People's History of the United States

    Howard Zinn

  • Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track

    Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track

    Richard Feynman

  • Elon Musk

    Elon Musk

    Ashlee Vance

  • Thinking, Fast and Slow

    Thinking, Fast and Slow

    Daniel Kahneman

  • How to Create a Mind

    How to Create a Mind

    Ray Kurzweil

  • The Woman in Me

    Britney Spears

Data & Craft 16

  • Rise of the Machines

    Thomas Rid · 2025

  • Nexus

    Yuval Noah Harari · 2024

  • Dark Pools

    Scott Patterson · 2024

  • The Singularity Is Nearer

    Ray Kurzweil · 2024

  • The Coming Wave

    Mustafa Suleyman · 2024

  • Zero to One

    Peter Thiel · 2023

  • Superintelligence

    Nick Bostrom · 2022

  • Everybody Lies

    Seth Stephens-Davidowitz · 2021

  • The Phoenix Project

    Gene Kim · 2019

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  • Prediction Machines

    Ajay Agrawal · 2018

  • The Data Warehouse Toolkit

    The Data Warehouse Toolkit

    Ralph Kimball

  • The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

    The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

    Edward Tufte

  • Clean Code

    Clean Code

    Robert C. Martin

  • The Goal

    The Goal

    Eliyahu M. Goldratt

  • Draft No. 4

    Draft No. 4

    John McPhee

  • Quantitative Trading

    Quantitative Trading

    Ernest P. Chan

Business & Money 53

  • Bullshit Jobs

    David Graeber · 2026

  • Thinking in Bets

    Annie Duke · 2026

  • Good Strategy/Bad Strategy

    Richard Rumelt · 2026

  • The Terrifying Art of Finding Customers

    Collin Stewart · 2026

  • The Four Conversations

    Blair Enns · 2025

  • Abundance

    Ezra Klein · 2025

  • The Algebra of Wealth

    Scott Galloway · 2025

  • On the Edge

    Nate Silver · 2024

  • $100M Offers

    Alex Hormozi · 2024
    Acquisition.com $100M Series

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  • $100M Leads

    Alex Hormozi · 2024

  • Why Nations Fail

    Daron Acemoglu · 2024

  • Rich Dad Poor Dad: 20th Anniversary Edition

    Robert T. Kiyosaki · 2023
    Rich Dad Series

  • Exactly What to Say

    Phil M. Jones · 2023

  • The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business

    Josh Kaufman · 2023

  • The Datapreneurs

    Bob Muglia · 2023

  • Secrets of Sand Hill Road

    Scott Kupor · 2023

  • The Simple Path to Wealth

    JL Collins · 2023

  • Exit Rich

    Michelle Seiler Tucker · 2023

  • Fill Your Funnel

    Dan Portik · 2023

  • The Innovators

    Walter Isaacson · 2023

  • 12 Months to $1 Million

    Ryan Daniel Moran · 2022

  • Angel

    Jason Calacanis · 2022

  • Strong Towns

    Charles L. Marohn Jr. · 2022

  • Purple Cow

    Seth Godin · 2022

  • 80/20 Sales and Marketing

    Perry Marshall · 2022

  • The Minimalist Entrepreneur

    Sahil Lavingia · 2022

  • Authority

    Nathan Barry · 2022

  • Getting Past No

    William Ury · 2022

  • The Unicorn Project

    Gene Kim · 2021

  • The Art of Strategy

    Barry J. Nalebuff · 2021

  • The Ultimate Sales Machine

    Chet Holmes · 2021

  • The E-Myth Revisited

    Michael E. Gerber · 2021

  • Influence

    Robert B. Cialdini · 2021

  • Contagious

    Jonah Berger · 2020

  • Bad Blood

    John Carreyrou · 2020

  • On Grand Strategy

    John Lewis Gaddis · 2020

  • The Future Is Faster Than You Think

    Peter H. Diamandis · 2020
    Exponential Technology, 3

  • How to Lead When You're Not in Charge

    Clay Scroggins · 2018

  • Extreme Ownership

    Jocko Willink · 2018
    Extreme Ownership

  • Decide to Play Great Poker

    Annie Duke · 2018

  • Never Split the Difference

    Chris Voss · 2018

  • The 48 Laws of Power

    The 48 Laws of Power

    Robert Greene

  • Crossing the Chasm

    Crossing the Chasm

    Geoffrey A. Moore

  • The Effective Executive

    The Effective Executive

    Peter F. Drucker

  • Principles

    Principles

    Ray Dalio

  • The Everything Store

    The Everything Store

    Brad Stone

  • Bold

    Bold

    Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler

  • Venture Deals

    Venture Deals

    Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson

  • Do More Faster

    Do More Faster

    David Cohen and Brad Feld

  • Skin in the Game

    Skin in the Game

    Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  • The Gospel of Wealth

    The Gospel of Wealth

    Andrew Carnegie

  • Poor Charlie's Almanack

    Poor Charlie's Almanack

    Charles T. Munger

  • The Millionaire Real Estate Investor

    The Millionaire Real Estate Investor

    Gary Keller

Habits & Growth 21

  • So Good They Can't Ignore You

    Cal Newport · 2023

  • The Compound Effect

    Darren Hardy · 2023

  • The Power of Habit

    Charles Duhigg · 2023

  • Make Time

    Jake Knapp · 2022

  • Gorilla Mindset

    Mike Cernovich · 2022

  • Plays Well with Others

    Eric Barker · 2022

  • Range

    David Epstein · 2022

  • Deep Work

    Cal Newport · 2020

  • Ultralearning

    Scott H. Young · 2020

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  • The First 20 Hours

    Josh Kaufman · 2018

  • Influencer

    Kerry Patterson · 2018

  • The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth (10th Anniversary Edition)

    John C. Maxwell · 2018

  • Barking up the Wrong Tree

    Eric Barker · 2018

  • Smarter Faster Better

    Smarter Faster Better

    Charles Duhigg

  • The One Thing

    The One Thing

    Gary Keller

  • The 4-Hour Chef

    The 4-Hour Chef

    Tim Ferriss

  • The 4-Hour Workweek

    The 4-Hour Workweek

    Tim Ferriss

  • How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

    How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

    Dale Carnegie

  • The Magic of Thinking Big

    The Magic of Thinking Big

    David J. Schwartz

  • How to Be Idle

    How to Be Idle

    Tom Hodgkinson

  • The Book of Questions

    The Book of Questions

    Gregory Stock

Mind & Kitchen 21

  • Everything Is Tuberculosis

    John Green · 2025

  • The Expectant Father

    Armin A. Brott · 2025

  • How to Keep House While Drowning

    KC Davis LPC · 2025

  • The Daily Stoic

    Ryan Holiday · 2023

  • Strategies for Beating Small Stakes Poker Tournaments

    Jonathan Little · 2023

  • Together

    Vivek H. Murthy · 2022

  • Making Sense

    Sam Harris · 2022

  • The Happiness Hypothesis

    Jonathan Haidt · 2022

  • The Denial of Death

    Ernest Becker · 2021

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  • Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat

    Samin Nosrat · 2020

  • Waking Up

    Sam Harris · 2020

  • Talking to Strangers

    Malcolm Gladwell · 2019

  • Man's Search for Meaning

    Viktor E. Frankl · 2018

  • Meditations

    Meditations

    Marcus Aurelius

  • Letters from a Stoic

    Letters from a Stoic

    Seneca

  • A Mind for Numbers

    A Mind for Numbers

    Barbara Oakley

  • The Art of Learning

    The Art of Learning

    Josh Waitzkin

  • Tao Te Ching

    Tao Te Ching

    Lao Tzu

  • The Prince

    The Prince

    Niccolò Machiavelli

  • The Laws of Human Nature

    The Laws of Human Nature

    Robert Greene

  • Outliers

    Outliers

    Malcolm Gladwell

Updated daily (last 11 November 2026).