Children's books · Middle grade
Charlotte's Web
E. B. White
A pig named Wilbur and a barn spider named Charlotte become friends.
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Children's books
Picture books, early readers and middle-grade stories for young readers.
Children's books · Middle grade
Matilda
Roald Dahl
A bright girl with unusual powers stands up to a terrible headmistress.
Children's books · Middle grade
Wonder
R. J. Palacio
A boy with a facial difference starts school for the first time.
Children's books · Middle grade
The Wild Robot
Peter Brown
A robot washed up on a remote island learns to live among the animals.
Children's books · Middle grade
The Lightning Thief
Rick Riordan
A boy discovers he is the son of a Greek god in a modern-day adventure.
Children's books · Middle grade
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
J.K. Rowling
An orphaned boy learns he is a wizard and starts at a school of magic.
Children's books · Middle grade
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney
A middle schooler's illustrated journal of surviving the school year.
Personal development
Books on creativity, purpose, confidence and designing a life that fits.
Personal development
Designing Your Life
Bill Burnett & Dave Evans
Two Stanford instructors apply design thinking to building a career and a life.
Personal development
Daring Greatly
Brené Brown
On vulnerability, courage and what it means to show up as yourself.
Personal development
The Gifts of Imperfection
Brené Brown
A guide to letting go of perfectionism and cultivating self-compassion.
Personal development
Big Magic
Elizabeth Gilbert
A book about living a creative life with less fear.
Personal development
The Four Agreements
Don Miguel Ruiz
A short code of personal conduct drawn from Toltec wisdom.
Personal development
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Dale Carnegie
A classic on getting along with people, first published in 1936.
Personal development
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Stephen R. Covey
A principle-based approach to personal and professional effectiveness.
Personal development
Quiet
Susan Cain
On the strengths of introverts in a world that rewards extroversion.
Personal development
The Untethered Soul
Michael A. Singer
A meditative look at the voice in your head and how to step back from it.
Personal development
The Defining Decade
Meg Jay
A clinical psychologist on why your twenties matter for work, love and identity.
Personal development
Make Your Bed
William H. McRaven
Ten life lessons from a retired Navy admiral's commencement speech.
Personal development
The Last Lecture
Randy Pausch
A professor's farewell lecture on living with purpose, turned into a book.
Business & money
Money basics, investing, entrepreneurship and leadership.
Business & money
Rich Dad Poor Dad
Robert T. Kiyosaki
A personal-finance classic built around two contrasting views of money.
Business & money
The Psychology of Money
Morgan Housel
Short stories on how behavior shapes the way we save, spend and invest.
Business & money
The Total Money Makeover
Dave Ramsey
A step-by-step plan for paying off debt and building savings.
Business & money
I Will Teach You to Be Rich
Ramit Sethi
A six-week program for banking, saving, budgeting and investing.
Business & money
The Intelligent Investor
Benjamin Graham
The classic text on value investing, first published in 1949.
Business & money
The Millionaire Next Door
Thomas J. Stanley & William D. Danko
A study of the habits of everyday Americans who built wealth.
Business & money
Your Money or Your Life
Vicki Robin & Joe Dominguez
A nine-step program for changing your relationship with money.
Business & money
The Simple Path to Wealth
JL Collins
A plain-language guide to index-fund investing and financial independence.
Business & money
The Lean Startup
Eric Ries
A method for building new businesses through rapid experiments.
Business & money
Zero to One
Peter Thiel with Blake Masters
Notes on startups and building companies that create something new.
Business & money
Good to Great
Jim Collins
A research-based look at why some companies make a lasting leap in results.
Business & money
The E-Myth Revisited
Michael E. Gerber
Why most small businesses fail and how owners can build systems.
Business & money
Never Split the Difference
Chris Voss with Tahl Raz
Negotiation tactics from a former FBI hostage negotiator.
Business & money
Start with Why
Simon Sinek
On how leaders and organizations inspire people by starting with purpose.
Mindset
Psychology and philosophy on resilience, meaning and attention.
Mindset
Mindset
Carol S. Dweck
A psychologist's book on fixed and growth mindsets.
Mindset
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl
Frankl's account of life in Nazi concentration camps and his ideas about finding meaning.
Mindset
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
The private notebooks of a Roman emperor, and a classic of Stoic philosophy.
Mindset
The Obstacle Is the Way
Ryan Holiday
Stoic ideas applied to turning obstacles into progress.
Mindset
The Daily Stoic
Ryan Holiday & Stephen Hanselman
366 short meditations on Stoic wisdom, one for each day.
Mindset
Letters from a Stoic
Seneca
Selected letters in which the Roman philosopher reflects on how to live.
Mindset
Grit
Angela Duckworth
A psychologist on passion, perseverance and long-term goals.
Mindset
The Power of Now
Eckhart Tolle
A guide to living in the present moment.
Mindset
Think Again
Adam Grant
On the value of rethinking opinions and staying open to being wrong.
Mindset
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
A Nobel laureate's tour of the two systems that drive how we think.
Mindset
The Courage to Be Disliked
Ichiro Kishimi & Fumitake Koga
A dialogue introducing the ideas of psychologist Alfred Adler.
Mindset
Flow
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The psychology of optimal experience and deep absorption in what you do.
Mindset
The Happiness Hypothesis
Jonathan Haidt
Ancient wisdom tested against modern psychology on what makes a good life.
Mindset
Feeling Good
David D. Burns
A cognitive-behavioral approach to changing negative thinking.
Mindset
Radical Acceptance
Tara Brach
A psychologist and meditation teacher on self-compassion and mindfulness.
Productivity & habits
Systems and small routines for focus, calm and follow-through.
Productivity & habits
Atomic Habits
James Clear
A practical guide to building good habits and breaking bad ones through small changes.
Productivity & habits
Deep Work
Cal Newport
On focused, distraction-free work and how to make room for it.
Productivity & habits
Essentialism
Greg McKeown
The case for doing fewer things, but doing them better.
Productivity & habits
The Power of Habit
Charles Duhigg
How habits form and how they can be changed, with examples from science and business.
Productivity & habits
Tiny Habits
BJ Fogg
A method for building habits from very small first steps.
Productivity & habits
Getting Things Done
David Allen
A task-management method for capturing, clarifying and organizing commitments.
Productivity & habits
Digital Minimalism
Cal Newport
A philosophy for being more intentional about the technology in your life.
Productivity & habits
The One Thing
Gary Keller with Jay Papasan
An argument for focusing on a single priority at a time.
Productivity & habits
Eat That Frog!
Brian Tracy
Twenty-one short techniques for tackling your hardest task first.
Productivity & habits
Make Time
Jake Knapp & John Zeratsky
A menu of tactics for finding time for what matters, from the creators of the design sprint.
Productivity & habits
Four Thousand Weeks
Oliver Burkeman
A reflection on time management for people who know they can't do everything.
Productivity & habits
Indistractable
Nir Eyal
How to control your attention and choose your life.
Productivity & habits
The 5 AM Club
Robin Sharma
A fable about an early-morning routine for productivity and well-being.
Productivity & habits
Smarter Faster Better
Charles Duhigg
Stories about motivation, focus, teams and decision-making.
Travel
Memoirs, trail stories and essays for the long way round.
Travel
Wild
Cheryl Strayed
A memoir of hiking the Pacific Crest Trail alone.
Travel
A Walk in the Woods
Bill Bryson
A humorous account of an attempt to hike the Appalachian Trail.
Travel
Eat, Pray, Love
Elizabeth Gilbert
A memoir of a year of travel through Italy, India and Indonesia.
Travel
Under the Tuscan Sun
Frances Mayes
A memoir of restoring an old villa in the Tuscan countryside.
Travel
A Year in Provence
Peter Mayle
A memoir of a year spent living in the south of France.
Travel
Into the Wild
Jon Krakauer
A journalist's account of a young man's journey into the Alaskan wilderness.
Travel
Notes from a Small Island
Bill Bryson
Bryson's affectionate farewell tour of Britain.
Travel
Travels with Charley
John Steinbeck
Steinbeck's road trip around America with his poodle.
Travel
The Geography of Bliss
Eric Weiner
A grump's search for the happiest places in the world.
Travel
A Moveable Feast
Ernest Hemingway
Memoir sketches of life as a young writer in 1920s Paris.
Fiction
Novels to read on the plane, the train or the sofa.
Fiction
The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho
A fable about an Andalusian shepherd boy who travels in search of treasure.
Fiction
The Midnight Library
Matt Haig
A novel about a library containing every life you could have lived.
Fiction
Where the Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens
A novel set in the marshes of North Carolina.
Fiction
Circe
Madeline Miller
A retelling of the myth of the sorceress Circe.
Fiction
The Shadow of the Wind
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
A novel set in post-war Barcelona, built around a mysterious book.
Fiction
The Night Circus
Erin Morgenstern
A novel about a travelling circus that appears without warning.
Fiction
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
Austen's classic novel of manners, family and romance.
Fiction
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
Gail Honeyman
A novel about a socially isolated office worker in Glasgow.
Fiction
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
A novel of wealth, longing and illusion in 1920s America.
Fiction
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
A novel of childhood and injustice in a small Alabama town.
Fiction
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Taylor Jenkins Reid
A reclusive Hollywood icon tells her life story to a young journalist.
Fiction
Normal People
Sally Rooney
A novel following the on-and-off relationship of two Irish students.
Fiction
The Secret History
Donna Tartt
A novel about a close-knit group of classics students at a New England college.
Fiction
Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir
A science-fiction story of a lone astronaut on a mission to save Earth.
Fiction
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
A classic novel about the four March sisters growing up.
Fiction
A Man Called Ove
Fredrik Backman
A novel about a grumpy widower and his unexpected new neighbors.
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