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Bestsellers · Economics
The Psychology of Money
Morgan HouselREAD NIVEGU GUIDE →Bestsellers · Essential
Sapiens
Yuval Noah HarariREAD NIVEGU GUIDE →Classics · Novels
1984
George OrwellOPEN EDITORIAL PAGE →Classics · Novels
Pride and Prejudice
Jane AustenREAD NIVEGU GUIDE →Classics · Novels
The Hobbit
J.R.R. TolkienREAD NIVEGU GUIDE →Bestsellers · Memoirs
Educated
Tara WestoverREAD NIVEGU GUIDE →Bestsellers · Novels
The Midnight Library
Matt HaigREAD NIVEGU GUIDE →Classics · Novels
Dune
Frank HerbertREAD NIVEGU GUIDE →Memoirs · Personal growth
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. FranklOPEN EDITORIAL PAGE →Economics · Personal growth
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel KahnemanREAD NIVEGU GUIDE →Bestsellers · Novels
The Alchemist
Paulo CoelhoREAD NIVEGU GUIDE →Business · Management
Good to Great
Jim CollinsOPEN EDITORIAL PAGE →Business · Management
The Lean Startup
Eric RiesOPEN EDITORIAL PAGE →Business · Management
Zero to One
Peter ThielOPEN EDITORIAL PAGE →Business · Management
The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Ben HorowitzOPEN EDITORIAL PAGE →Business · Management
Measure What Matters
John DoerrOPEN EDITORIAL PAGE →Business · Management
High Output Management
Andrew S. GroveOPEN EDITORIAL PAGE →Business · Management
The Innovator's Dilemma
Clayton M. ChristensenOPEN EDITORIAL PAGE →Business · Management
Built to Last
Jim Collins and Jerry I. PorrasOPEN EDITORIAL PAGE →Business · Management
Start with Why
Simon SinekOPEN EDITORIAL PAGE →Business · Management
Principles
Ray DalioOPEN EDITORIAL PAGE →Business · Memoirs
Shoe Dog
Phil KnightOPEN EDITORIAL PAGE →Business · Management
Creativity, Inc.
Ed CatmullOPEN EDITORIAL PAGE →Business · Memoirs
The Everything Store
Brad StoneOPEN EDITORIAL PAGE →Business · Memoirs
Steve Jobs
Walter IsaacsonOPEN EDITORIAL PAGE →Business · Economics
The Intelligent Investor
Benjamin GrahamOPEN EDITORIAL PAGE →Economics · Essential
A Random Walk Down Wall Street
Burton G. MalkielOPEN EDITORIAL PAGE →Economics · Bestsellers
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Thomas PikettyOPEN EDITORIAL PAGE →Economics · Bestsellers
Freakonomics
Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. DubnerOPEN EDITORIAL PAGE →Economics · Classics
The Wealth of Nations
Adam SmithOPEN EDITORIAL PAGE →Economics · Classics
The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
John Maynard KeynesOPEN EDITORIAL PAGE →Economics · Nobel shelf
Poor Economics
Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther DufloOPEN EDITORIAL PAGE →Economics · Nobel shelf
Nudge
Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. SunsteinOPEN EDITORIAL PAGE →Economics · Nobel shelf
The Road to Serfdom
Friedrich A. HayekOPEN EDITORIAL PAGE →Personal growth · Business
Deep Work
Cal NewportOPEN EDITORIAL PAGE →Personal growth · Management
Essentialism
Greg McKeownOPEN EDITORIAL PAGE →Personal growth · Bestsellers
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Stephen R. CoveyOPEN EDITORIAL PAGE →Personal growth · Classics
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Dale CarnegieOPEN EDITORIAL PAGE →Personal growth · Bestsellers
The Power of Habit
Charles DuhiggOPEN EDITORIAL PAGE →Personal growth · Essential
Mindset
Carol S. DweckOPEN EDITORIAL PAGE →Personal growth · Bestsellers
Grit
Angela DuckworthOPEN EDITORIAL PAGE →Personal growth · Classics
Meditations
Marcus AureliusOPEN EDITORIAL PAGE →Memoirs · Classics
The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne FrankOPEN EDITORIAL PAGE →Memoirs · Bestsellers
Becoming
Michelle ObamaOPEN EDITORIAL PAGE →Memoirs · Bestsellers
Long Walk to Freedom
Nelson MandelaOPEN EDITORIAL PAGE →Memoirs · Classics
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Malcolm X and Alex HaleyOPEN EDITORIAL PAGE →Memoirs · Bestsellers
When Breath Becomes Air
Paul KalanithiOPEN EDITORIAL PAGE →Memoirs
Just Kids
Patti SmithOPEN EDITORIAL PAGE →Memoirs · Nobel shelf
Night
Elie WieselOPEN EDITORIAL PAGE →Memoirs · Literature
The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan DidionOPEN EDITORIAL PAGE →Classics · Novels
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper LeeOPEN EDITORIAL PAGE →Classics · Novels
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott FitzgeraldOPEN EDITORIAL PAGE →Classics · Novels
Jane Eyre
Charlotte BrontëOPEN EDITORIAL PAGE →Classics · Novels
Wuthering Heights
Emily BrontëOPEN EDITORIAL PAGE →Classics · Novels
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor DostoevskyOPEN EDITORIAL PAGE →Classics · Novels
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor DostoevskyOPEN EDITORIAL PAGE →Classics · Novels
War and Peace
Leo TolstoyOPEN EDITORIAL PAGE →Classics · Novels
Anna Karenina
Leo TolstoyOPEN EDITORIAL PAGE →Classics · Novels
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre DumasOPEN EDITORIAL PAGE →Classics · Novels
Les Misérables
Victor HugoOPEN EDITORIAL PAGE →Classics · Novels
Don Quixote
Miguel de CervantesOPEN EDITORIAL PAGE →Literature · Novels
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García MárquezOPEN EDITORIAL PAGE →Literature · Novels
Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel García MárquezOPEN EDITORIAL PAGE →Literature · Novels
Beloved
Toni MorrisonOPEN EDITORIAL PAGE →Literature · Novels
The Remains of the Day
Kazuo IshiguroOPEN EDITORIAL PAGE →Literature · Novels
Never Let Me Go
Kazuo IshiguroOPEN EDITORIAL PAGE →Literature · Classics
The Stranger
Albert CamusOPEN EDITORIAL PAGE →Literature · Classics
The Plague
Albert CamusOPEN EDITORIAL PAGE →Literature · Classics
East of Eden
John SteinbeckOPEN EDITORIAL PAGE →Literature · Classics
The Grapes of Wrath
John SteinbeckOPEN EDITORIAL PAGE →Literature · Classics
The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest HemingwayOPEN EDITORIAL PAGE →Literature · Classics
A Farewell to Arms
Ernest HemingwayOPEN EDITORIAL PAGE →Literature · Classics
The Sound and the Fury
William FaulknerOPEN EDITORIAL PAGE →Literature · Novels
The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret AtwoodOPEN EDITORIAL PAGE →Literature · Novels
The Road
Cormac McCarthyOPEN EDITORIAL PAGE →Novels · Bestsellers
The Book Thief
Markus ZusakOPEN EDITORIAL PAGE →Novels · Bestsellers
The Kite Runner
Khaled HosseiniOPEN EDITORIAL PAGE →Novels · Bestsellers
Life of Pi
Yann MartelOPEN EDITORIAL PAGE →Literature · Novels
The Color Purple
Alice WalkerOPEN EDITORIAL PAGE →Literature · Novels
A Little Life
Hanya YanagiharaOPEN EDITORIAL PAGE →Children · Classics
The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-ExupéryOPEN EDITORIAL PAGE →Children · Classics
Charlotte's Web
E.B. WhiteOPEN EDITORIAL PAGE →Children · Classics
Matilda
Roald DahlOPEN EDITORIAL PAGE →Children · Classics
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Roald DahlOPEN EDITORIAL PAGE →Children · Classics
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
C.S. LewisOPEN EDITORIAL PAGE →Children · Classics
A Wrinkle in Time
Madeleine L'EngleOPEN EDITORIAL PAGE →Children · Classics
The Wind in the Willows
Kenneth GrahameOPEN EDITORIAL PAGE →Children · Classics
Anne of Green Gables
L.M. MontgomeryOPEN EDITORIAL PAGE →Children · Classics
The Secret Garden
Frances Hodgson BurnettOPEN EDITORIAL PAGE →Children · Bestsellers
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
J.K. RowlingOPEN EDITORIAL PAGE →Novels · Bestsellers
The Hunger Games
Suzanne CollinsOPEN EDITORIAL PAGE →Classics · Novels
The Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. TolkienOPEN EDITORIAL PAGE →Classics · Novels
Foundation
Isaac AsimovOPEN EDITORIAL PAGE →Classics · Novels
Brave New World
Aldous HuxleyOPEN EDITORIAL PAGE →Classics · Novels
Fahrenheit 451
Ray BradburyOPEN EDITORIAL PAGE →Classics · Novels
The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. SalingerOPEN EDITORIAL PAGE →Literature · Classics
The Master and Margarita
Mikhail BulgakovOPEN EDITORIAL PAGE →Literature · Classics
Things Fall Apart
Chinua AchebeOPEN EDITORIAL PAGE →Literature · Classics
The Trial
Franz KafkaOPEN EDITORIAL PAGE →DEEP READING GUIDES
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Self-development · 2018
Atomic Habits
James ClearA practical system for making small improvements easier to repeat.
Money · 2020
The Psychology of Money
Morgan HouselWhy financial outcomes depend on behavior as much as calculation.
History · 2011
Sapiens
Yuval Noah HarariA sweeping account of how shared stories helped humans organize at scale.
Classic · 1949
1984
George OrwellA stark novel about surveillance, language and the control of reality.
Classic · 1813
Pride and Prejudice
Jane AustenA sharp, funny study of judgment, family pressure and romantic choice.
Fantasy · 1937
The Hobbit
J.R.R. TolkienAn adventure about courage discovered far beyond the comforts of home.
Memoir · 2018
Educated
Tara WestoverA memoir about education, family loyalty and the cost of remaking a life.
Fiction · 2020
The Midnight Library
Matt HaigA speculative novel about regret and the lives hidden inside every choice.
Science fiction · 1965
Dune
Frank HerbertPower, ecology and prophecy collide on the most valuable planet in the universe.
Psychology · 1946
Man’s Search for Meaning
Viktor E. FranklA psychiatrist’s account of suffering, responsibility and the search for meaning.
Psychology · 2011
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel KahnemanA landmark tour of intuition, deliberation and predictable judgment errors.
Fable · 1988
The Alchemist
Paulo CoelhoA brief fable about purpose, travel and learning to recognize what matters.
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