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All summaries (427)
A
- A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
- A Hymn to Life by Gisèle Pelicot
- A Little History of Economics by Niall Kishtainy
- A Minute to Think by Juliet Funt
- A Monk's Guide to Happiness by Gelong Thubten
- A World Without Email by Cal Newport
- A Year of Self-Care by Dr. Zoe Shaw
- Accessing the Healing Power of the Vagus Nerve by Stanley Rosenberg
- Agile L&D by Natal Dank
- Alchemy by Rory Sutherland
- All Joy and No Fun by Jennifer Senior
- Alone Together by Sherry Turkle
- Amazon by Natalie Berg & Miya Knights
- Amazon Unbound by Brad Stone
- Anarchism by Colin Ward
- Ancient Egypt by Ian Shaw
- And Finally by Henry Marsh
- AQ by Liz Tran
- At Home by Bill Bryson
- At War with Ourselves by H. R. McMaster
- Autocracy, Inc. by Anne Applebaum
B
- B2B Customer Experience by Paul Hague & Nicholas Hague
- Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua
- Beautiful Game Theory by Ignacio Palacios-Huerta
- Becoming a Changemaker by Alex Budak
- Bedtime Biography: An Autobiography by M.K. Gandhi
- Bedtime Biography: Black Spartacus by Sudhir Hazareesingh
- Better Brand Health by Jenni Romaniuk
- Better Small Talk by Patrick King
- Better than Alpha by Christopher Schelling
- Big Potential by Shawn Achor
- Black and British by David Olusoga
- Bounce by Matthew Syed
- Bourbon Empire by Reid Mitenbuler
- Briefly Perfectly Human by Alua Arthur
- Building Social Business by Muhammad Yunus
C
- Call Sign Chaos by Jim Mattis, Bing West
- Calm the F*ck Down by Sarah Knight
- Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
- Change Your World by John C. Maxwell and Rob Hoskins
- Chasing Hillary by Amy Chozick
- Cloudmoney by Brett Scott
- Cod by Mark Kurlansky
- Coffee Lunch Coffee by Alana Muller
- Collaborating with the Enemy by Adam Kahane
- Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits and Other Writings by Philip A. Fischer
- Confidence Man by Maggie Haberman
- Confident by Choice by Juan Bendaña
- Conspiracy by Ryan Holiday
- Content Rules by Ann Handley & C.C. Chapman
- Create Space by Derek Draper
- Crime in Progress by Glenn Simpson, Peter Fritsch
- Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
- Cubed by Nikil Saval
D
- Daring to Trust by David Richo
- Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs by Lisa Randall
- DBT Made Simple by Sheri Van Dijk
- Dear Founder by Maynard Webb and Carlye Adler
- Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Deep Future by Pablos Holman
- Deep Medicine by Eric Topol
- Designer Relationships by Mark A. Michaels & Patricia Johnson
- Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans
- Didn't See It Coming by Carey Nieuwhof
- Diet, Drugs, and Dopamine by David A. Kessler
- Digital Gold by Nathaniel Popper
- Do the Work by Steven Pressfield
- Do What Matters Most by Rob Shallenberger and Steve Shallenberger
E
- Either/Or by Soren Kierkegaard
- Emotional Blackmail by Susan Forward with Donna Frazier
- Endgame by Omid Scobie
- Ending Aging by Aubrey de Grey
- Escaping the Build Trap by Melissa Perri
- Every Living Thing by Jason Roberts
- Every Nation For Itself by Ian Bremmer
- Everything Connects by Faisal Hoque and Drake Baer
- Evil Robots, Killer Computers, and Other Myths by Steven Shwartz
- Executive Presence by Sylvia Ann Hewlett
- Extraordinary Popular Delusions and The Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay
F
- Feathers by Thor Hanson
- Feminist Fight Club by Jessica Bennett
- Fiber Fueled by Will Bulsiewicz
- Financial Intelligence for Entrepreneurs by Karen Berman & Joe Knight with John Case
- Fix This Next by Mike Michalowicz
- Flash Boys by Michael Lewis
- Framers by Kenneth Cukier, Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Francis de Véricourt
- Frenemies by Ken Auletta
G
- Galileo’s Middle Finger by Alice Dreger
- Game Changers by Dave Asprey
- Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford
- Gentle by Courtney Carver
- Get Clear Career Assessment by Ken Coleman
- Get It by Amy K. Hutchens
- Get Momentum by Jason W. Womack and Jodi Womack
- Get Out of Your Head by Jennie Allen
- Get to the Point! by Joel Schwartzberg
- Get Well Soon by Jennifer Wright
- Getting Along by Amy Gallo
- Gilded Rage by Jacob Silverman
- God Here and Now by Karl Barth
- Going on Offense by Behnam Tabrizi
- Going Solo by Eric Klinenberg
- Good Energy by Casey Means
- Good Money Revolution by Derrick Kinney
- Good Morning, I Love You by Shauna Shapiro
- Great by Choice by Jim Collins and Morten T. Hansen
H
- Happiness by Darrin M. McMahon
- Happiness by Richard Layard
- Hashimoto's Thyroiditis by Izabella Wentz
- Help Me! by Marianne Power
- High Growth Handbook by Elad Gil
- History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
- Hope Is Not a Strategy by Rick Page
- How Fascism Works by Jason Stanley
- How the World Sees You by Sally Hogshead
- How to be a Conservative by Roger Scruton
- How to Be a Great Boss by Gino Wickman, René Boer
- How to Be a Star at Work by Robert E. Kelley
- How To Be Like Walt by Pat Williams
- How to Future by Scott Smith with Madeline Ashby
- How To Have A Good Day by Caroline Webb
- How to Raise an Adult by Julie Lythcott-Haims
- How To Read Literature Like A Professor by Thomas C. Foster
- How to Say Anything to Anyone by Shari Harley
- How to Tell a Story by The Moth, Meg Bowles, Catherine Burns, Jenifer Hixson, Sarah Austin Jenness, Kate Tellers
- How to Think More About Sex by Alain de Botton
- How to Think More Effectively by The School of Life
- How We Heal by Alexandra Elle
- Hustle by Neil Patel, Patrick Vlaskovits and Jonas Koffler
- Hyper-Learning by Edward D. Hess
I
- I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
- I Need a Job! by Gary Burnison
- Ignore Everybody by Hugh MacLeod
- Imagine It Forward by Beth Comstock with Thal Raz
- In Praise of Walking by Shane O'Mara
- Indistractable by Nir Eyal
- Inner Engineering by Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
- Insanely Simple by Ken Segall
- Intelligent Disobedience by Ira Chaleff
- Iran's Grand Strategy by Vali Nasr
- Irresistible by Josh Bersin
- Isaac Newton by James Gleick
- It Was All a Lie by Stuart Stevens
J
K
L
- Lateral Thinking for Every Day by Paul Sloane
- Leadership Revolution by Lori Mazan
- Leading with Light by Jennifer Mulholland
- Life Is in the Transitions by Bruce Feiler
- Like by Megan C. Reynolds
- Live Life in Crescendo by Stephen R. Covey and Cynthia Covey Haller
- Living Beyond “What If?” by Shirley Davis
- Love People, Use Things by Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus
- Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends on It by Kamal Ravikant
- Loving What Is by Byron Katie
M
- Madness and Civilization by Michel Foucault
- Make Money Trading Options by Michael Sincere
- Managing the Unexpected by Karl E. Weick, Kathleen M. Sutcliffe
- Master Your Emotions by Thibaut Meurisse
- Meetings That Get Results by Terrence Metz
- Meltdown by Chris Clearfield & András Tilcsik
- Mindset Matters by Gemma Leigh Roberts
- Mine! by Michael A. Heller and James Salzman
- Mistakes I Made at Work by Jessica Bacal
- Modern Comfort Food by Ina Garten
- Modern Friendship by Anna Goldfarb
- Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari and Erik Klinenberg
- Moms Mean Business by Erin Baebler and Lara Galloway
- Moonshot by Mike Massimino
- Moral Ambition by Rutger Bregman
- Moral Tribes by Joshua Greene
- Mostly What God Does by Savannah Guthrie
- My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor
- My Grandmother's Hands by Resmaa Menakem
- Myanmar's Enemy Within by Francis Wade
- Myths of Strategy by Jérôme Barthélemy
N
- Nail It then Scale It by Nathan Furr and Paul Ahlstrom
- Napoleon Hill’s Golden Rules by Napoleon Hill
- Natural Causes by Barbara Ehrenreich
- Never Lead Alone by Keith Ferrazzi
- New Sales. Simplified. by Mike Weinberg
- No Nonsense Spirituality by Brittney L. Hartley
- Nothing Changes Until You Do by Mike Robbins
- Novacene by James Lovelock
O
- On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins and Sandra Blakeslee
- On the House by John Boehner
- On the Shortness of Life by Seneca
- Only the Paranoid Survive by Andrew S. Grove
- Our Iceberg Is Melting by John Kotter & Holger Rathgeber
- Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
- Own Your Past Change Your Future by John Delony
P
- Permission to Glow by Kristoffer Carter
- Pivot to the Future by Omar Abbosh, Paul Nunes, Larry Downes
- Political Order and Political Decay by Francis Fukuyama
- Power, Sex, Suicide by Nick Lane
- Powershift by Daymond John with Daniel Paisner
- Pragmatism by William James
- Prediction Machines by Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans & Avi Goldfarb
- Presence by Amy Cuddy
- Primal Leadership by Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis, Annie McKee
- Primed to Perform by Neel Doshi and Lindsay McGregor
- Private Government by Elizabeth Anderson
- Protein by Samantha King, Gavin Weedon
- Proust and the Squid by Maryanne Wolf
Q
R
- Radically Happy by Phakchok Rinpoche and Erric Solomon
- Rare by Keith Veronese
- Rational Ritual by Michael Suk-Young Chwe
- Raven by Tim Reiterman with John Jacobs
- Reach Out by Molly Beck
- Read Your Mind by Oz Pearlman
- Real Life Money by Clare Seal
- Rebel Ideas by Matthew Syed
- Reset by Ellen Pao
- Rethinking Positive Thinking by Gabriele Oettingen
- Rethinking Two Weeks' Notice by Robert Glazer
- Revealing by Leslie John
- ROI in Marketing by Jack Phillips
S
- Sacred Marriage by Gary L. Thomas
- Says Who? by Anne Curzan
- Scaling Smart by Rich Fettke, Kathy Fettke
- Scattered Minds by Gabor Maté
- Secondhand Time by Svetlana Alexievich
- She Said by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey
- Shoe Dog by Phil Knight
- Show Your Worth by Shelmina Babai Abji
- Simple Numbers, Straight Talk, Big Profits! by Greg Crabtree and Beverly Blair Harzog
- Slow Sex by Diana Richardson
- Small Animals by Kim Brooks
- Small Move, Big Change by Caroline L. Arnold
- Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper by Robert Bryce
- Smarter Tomorrow by Elizabeth R. Ricker
- Soccernomics by Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski
- Social by Matthew D. Lieberman
- Social Empathy by Elizabeth Segal
- Southern Theory by Raewyn Connell
- Sparked by Jonathan Fields
- Start Now. Get Perfect Later. by Rob Moore
- Startup Growth Engines by Sean Ellis, Morgan Brown
- Stay Sexy and Don't Get Murdered by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
- Steal the Show by Michael Port
- Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder
- Stress Resets by Jennifer L. Taitz
- Stronger by Michael Joseph Gross
- Subscribed by Tien Tzuo with Gabe Weisert
- Sula by Toni Morrison
- SuperBetter by Jane McGonigal
- Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom
- Surrender to Lead by Jessica Kriegel, Joe Terry
- Survival of the Prettiest by Nancy Etcoff
T
- Talent is Overrated by Geoff Colvin
- Technofeudalism by Yanis Varoufakis
- Teddy and Booker T. by Brian Kilmeade
- The 12 Traits of the Greats by Dave Martin
- The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding by Al Ries and Laura Ries
- The 5 Choices by Kory Kogon, Adam Merrill and Leena Rinne
- The Agile Leader by Simon Hayward
- The Anglo-Saxons by Marc Morris
- The Argument Hangover by Jocelyn Freeman and Aaron Freeman
- The Art of Impossible by Steven Kotler
- The Art of Persuasion by Bob Burg
- The Art of Reading Minds by Henrik Fexeus
- The Art of Statistics by David Spiegelhalter
- The Art of the Tale by Steven James, Tom Morrisey
- The Art of War (new version) by Sun Tzu
- The Atlas of Christmas by Alex Palmer
- The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama
- The Bestseller Code by Jodie Archer & Matthew L. Jockers
- The Brain by David Eagleman
- The Brain that Changes Itself by Norman Doidge
- The Business Of The 21st Century by Robert T. Kiyosaki, John Fleming & Kim Kiyosaki
- The Busy Brain Cure by Romie Mushtaq
- The Case Against Sugar by Gary Taubes
- The China Study by T. Colin Campbell and Thomas M. Campbell
- The Cold Start Problem by Andrew Chen
- The Complete Kama Sutra by Vātsyāyana
- The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy
- The Corporation in the Twenty-First Century by John Kay
- The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
- The Daily Dad by Ryan Holiday
- The Devil Emails at Midnight by Mita Mallick
- The Direct to Consumer Playbook by Mike Stevens
- The Disordered Mind by Eric R. Kandel
- The Dragonfly Effect by Jennifer Aaker, Andy Smith with Carlye Adler
- The Eight Master Lessons of Nature by Gary Ferguson
- The Energy of Belonging by Wendy Gates Corbett
- The Entrepreneur's Weekly Nietzsche by Dave Jilk and Brad Feld
- The Fifth Agreement by Don Miguel Ruiz and Don Jose Ruiz
- The First 90 Days by Michael D. Watkins
- The Five Core Conversations for Couples by David Bulitt and Julie Bulitt
- The Forgotten 500 by Gregory A. Freeman
- The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
- The Four by Scott Galloway
- The Goodwill Jar by Nick O. Rowe
- The Great Money Reset by Jill Schlesinger
- The Gut-Brain Paradox by Steven R. Gundry
- The Happiness Trap by Russ Harris
- The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
- The Hour Between Dog and Wolf by John Coates
- The How of Happiness by Sonja Lyubomirsky
- The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Illusion of Innovation by Elliott Parker
- The Imposter Cure by Dr. Jessamy Hibberd
- The Inner Life of Animals by Peter Wohlleben
- The Innovation Mindset by Lorraine Hudson Marchand, John Hanc
- The Introvert's Way by Sophia Dembling
- The Journey Beyond Fear by John Hagel III
- The Joy of Missing Out by Tanya Dalton
- The Joy of Work by Bruce Daisley
- The Law of Success by Napoleon Hill
- The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck by Sarah Knight
- The Life-Changing Power of Sophrology by Dominique Antiglio
- The Life-Changing Science of Detecting Bullshit by John V. Petrocelli
- The Little Book of Common Sense Investing by John C. Bogle
- The Longevity Formula by Avanti Kumar-Singh
- The Longevity Project by Howard S. Friedman and Leslie R. Martin
- The Lost Art of Scripture by Karen Armstrong
- The Mind of the Artist by William Todd Schultz
- The Mindful Way Through Depression by Mark Williams, John Teasdale, Zindel Segal & Jon Kabat-Zinn
- The Moral Animal by Robert Wright
- The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels by Alex Epstein
- The Motivation Manifesto by Brendon Burchard
- The Myths of Happiness by Sonja Lyubomirsky
- The New Geography of Innovation by Mehran Gul
- The Next Decade by George Friedman
- The No Asshole Rule by Robert I. Sutton
- The Office BFFs by Jenna Fischer & Angela Kinsey
- The Only Little Prayer You Need by Debra Landwehr Engle
- The Optimist's Telescope by Bina Venkataraman
- The Other Significant Others by Rhaina Cohen
- The Peter Principle by Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull
- The Power Of Meaning by Emily Esfahani Smith
- The Power of No by James Altucher & Claudia Azula Altucher
- The Power of Not Thinking by Simon Roberts
- The Practicing Happiness Workbook by Ruth Baer
- The Prepared Leader by Erika H. James and Lynn Perry Wooten
- The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs by Carmine Gallo
- The Project by David A. Graham
- The Proximity Principle by Ken Coleman
- The Psychology of Leadership by Sébastien Page
- The Revenue Growth Habit by Alex Goldfayn
- The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason
- The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt
- The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs by Steve Brusatte
- The Road Less Stupid by Keith J. Cunningham
- The Road to Unfreedom by Timothy Snyder
- The Robots Are Coming! by Andrés Oppenheimer
- The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry by John Mark Comer
- The School of Life by Alain de Botton and The School of Life
- The Science of Living by Stuart Farrimond
- The Score by Elle Kenned
- The Simple Path to Wealth by J L Collins
- The Snowball by Alice Schroeder
- The Song of Roland by Anonymous
- The Song of Significance by Seth Godin
- The Sovereign Child by Aaron Stupple
- The Startup Playbook by David S. Kidder
- The Strength Switch by Lea Waters
- The Stress Prescription by Elissa Epel
- The Suggestible Brain by Amir Raz
- The Ten Types of Human by Dexter Dias
- The True Believer by Eric Hoffer
- The Truths We Hold by Kamala Harris
- The Ultimate Guide to Great Mentorship by Scott Jeffrey Miller
- The View from Ninety by Charles Handy
- The Warren Buffett Way by Robert G. Hagstrom
- The Way of Excellence by Brad Stulberg
- The Way of Integrity by Martha Beck
- The Wealth Money Can't Buy by Robin Sharma
- The Wellness Syndrome by Carl Cederström and André Spicer
- The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
- The Zone of Interest by Martin Amis
- Think Like Zuck by Ekaterina Walter
- Thirteen Days by Robert F. Kennedy
- This Blessed Plot by Hugo Young
- This Is So Awkward by Cara Natterson & Vanessa Kroll Bennett
- This Is What America Looks Like by Ilhan Omar
- This Is Your Brain on Parasites by Kathleen McAuliffe
- Time of the Magicians by Wolfram Eilenberger
- Trading in the Zone by Mark Douglas
- Tribes by Seth Godin
- Trust by Dr. Henry Cloud
- Trying Not to Try by Edward Slingerland
- Tucker by Chadwick Moore
U
- Undaunted by John O. Brennan
- Under New Management by David Burkus
- Unleashed by Frances Frei & Anne Morriss
- Unlimited Memory by Kevin Horsley
- Unlock Your Leadership Story by Pat Wadors
- Unlocking Parental Intelligence by Laurie Hollman
- Unstoppable Brain by Kyra Bobinet
- Unworking by Jeremy Myerson & Philip Ross
- Us vs. Them by Ian Bremmer
- Utopia by Thomas More
V
W
- Wait by Frank Partnoy
- Warren Buffett's Ground Rules by Jeremy C. Miller
- Weaponized Lies by Daniel J. Levitin
- What If? by Randall Munroe
- What is Life? by Erwin Schrödinger
- What Would You Do If You Weren't Afraid? by Michal Oshman
- What's Next Is Now by Frederik Pferdt
- Where You Go Is Not Who You'll Be by Frank Bruni
- Wherever You Go, There You Are by Jon Kabat-Zinn
- Why “A” Students Work for “C” Students and “B” Students Work for the Government by Robert T. Kiyosaki
- Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? by Julie Smith
- Why Information Grows by César Hidalgo
- Wiser by Dilip Jeste with Scott LaFee
- Words on the Move by John McWhorter
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Y
- You Are a Badass at Making Money by Jen Sincero
- You Are a Badass by Jen Sincero
- You Are Not So Smart by David McRaney
- You Only Die Once# by Jodi Wellman
- You, Happier by Daniel G. Amen, MD
- You’re About to Make a Terrible Mistake! by Olivier Sibony
- Your Brain on Art by Susan Magsamen & Ivy Ross
- Your Journey to Financial Freedom by Jamila Souffrant
- Your Perfect Portfolio by Cullen Roche