The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming David Wallace-Wells 2019 “It is worse, much worse, than you think. The slowness of climate...

The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here Hope Jahren 2020 “All species will go extinct eventually,...

Celebrity Nation: How America Evolved into a Culture of Fans and Followers Landon Y. Jones 2023 "Fame is a by-product. Fame is...

A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster Rebecca Solnit 2009 “This is a paradise of rising to the...

I Swear: Politics Is Messier Than My Minivan Katie Porter 2023 “If you’re full of bullshit, I’m coming for ya, I just don’t have...

Platonic: How the Science of Attachment Can Help You Make—and Keep—Friends Marisa G. Franco 2022 "A friend is someone who...

Magic Words Jonah Berger 2023 “Saying you “recommend” rather than “like” something makes people 32 percent more likely to take your...

Soul Boom: Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution Rainn Wilson 2023 "I think God has a tremendous sense of humor" Rainn Wilson For nine...

The Things We Make: The Unknown History of Invention from Cathedrals to Soda Cans Bill Hammack 2023 Where did microwave...

American Rule: How a Nation Conquered the World but Failed Its People Jared Yates Sexton 2022 “America’s original Noble Lie is the...

The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness Meghan O'Rourke 2022 “There is a razor-thin line between trying to find something ...

For Profit: A History of Corporations William Magnuson 2022 "I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and ...

An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us Ed Yong 2022 “A moth will never know what a zebra finch hears...

The Last Resort: A Chronicle of Paradise, Profit, and Peril at the Beach Sarah Stodola 2022 "If there’s heaven for me, I’m sure it has...

Phasers on Stun!: How the Making (and Remaking) of Star Trek Changed the World Ryan Britt 2022 "The power of Star Trek is that it...

The Lighthouse Effect: How Ordinary People Can Have an Extraordinary Impact in the World Steve Pemberton 2021 “I feel that we’re...

“The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest (people) of the past centuries.” - Descartes A big focus of this blog...

Let's Talk About Hard Things Anna Sale 2021 "When we avoid difficult conversations, we trade short-term discomfort into long-term...

From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life Arthur C. Brooks 2022 “Devote the...

The Worth of Water: Our Story of Chasing Solutions to the World's Greatest Challenge Gary White, Matt Damon 2022 “We never know the...