Updates

  1. Person pages list letters, writing, profiles and links as sortable tables with filters, and show each person's companies as links; Fund letters show each letter's description in its own column.
  2. Experts show a checked job title and a short description of each person; 30 more people have photographs.
  3. Every company, fund, university and publication the experts work for has a page listing the people there.
  4. Fund letters show each letter's thesis and filter by it; 225 person pages list the essays, columns and newsletter issues the person wrote.
  5. Person pages list every essay and newsletter issue a person wrote, and their own books as a table in List view.
  6. Recommends shows the five largest kinds of book and the rest under More; browse pictures load sooner.
  7. Podcasts and talks link the original episode, filter by Audio and video or Press, and list each publisher once.
  8. Pages are wider, Recommends has List and Grid, and a filter clicked again turns off.
  9. Book cards sit in a ruled grid with Open Library and Goodreads links and each book's one-line note.
  10. Funds is now Investors; each investor's styles are buttons that filter the table.
  11. Podcasts and talks on a person's page filter by year and publisher and show as a list or a grid of pictures.
  12. Quotes show only people's own words: 472 summaries written by list sites are gone.
  13. Country pages open from Browse again, and every link on the shelf lands on a page.
  14. Subject and person pages show their sections as tabs, and each book appears once on a person's page.
  15. Book cards show the quote, who said it and the source; grids show five cards to a row.
  16. On a phone, a menu holds the sections, search, Updates, Feedback and dark mode.
  17. Feedback takes a screenshot of the page with no browser prompt, opens a screenshot full size when you click it, and clears itself once sent.
  18. Book cards are centred, search names the topic each book sits in, and any text cut short shows whole on hover.
  19. Search groups its results by kind: people, companies, geographies, subjects, topics, books, funds, fund letters and papers.
  20. The Books table lists who recommended each book by name, and the browser tab names the section you are in.
  21. Feedback can take a screenshot of the page, or one you paste or choose, and opens in the corner beside Updates.
  22. Each rail button reopens its section where you left it, and Browse, Table and People show on every book and subject page.
  23. Filters grey out choices that hold nothing instead of hiding them, and Books › People filters by authors or recommenders.
  24. Feedback takes a subject line and up to three screenshots.
  25. Biographies are grouped by the person they are about: 41 new pages, from Abraham Lincoln to Lee Kuan Yew.
  26. Sport splits into 23 sports, and Religion into one topic per faith.
  27. Book lists show as cards: the cover, one recommendation quote and every recommender by name.
  28. Seventeen subjects that had two or three pages under different names now have one page each.
  29. Every page lists its Experts as authors and recommenders, with a link to them on the Experts tab.
  30. Economics, Financial history, Financial panics and Accounting are subjects of their own, with one page per financial crisis.
  31. Book, person and subject pages open inside the app, so the tabs stay in view.
  32. 996 more book covers, and photographs or logos for 227 more people and companies.
  33. Books › Browse shows every subject as cards, and the rail holds Fund letters, Papers, Experts, Books and Funds.
  34. Every topic over 150 books splits into narrower topics, each with a page of its own.

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Audrey Gelman

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Founded The Wing, a women's co-working space and social club, in New York in 2016, and The Six Bells Inn in 2025; earlier a political staffer.

The Six Bells InnThe Wing

30 books they recommend · 6 appearances

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More 3
ArielAriel
T4 Ariel
Sylvia Plath · 1965
Open LibraryGoodreads
GoosebumpsGoosebumps
T4 Goosebumps
R.L. Stine · 1993
Open LibraryGoodreads
Little WomenLittle Women
T4 Little Women
Louisa May Alcott · 1848
Open LibraryGoodreads
OutOut
T4 Out
Natsuo Kirino · 2007
Open LibraryGoodreads

A night-shift worker in a Tokyo boxed-lunch factory commits a brutal murder.

Ramona
T4 Ramona
Beverly Cleary
Goodreads
Some New Beginnings
T4 Some New Beginnings
Selina Meyer
Goodreads
StartupStartup
T4 Startup
Doree Shafrir · 2017
Open LibraryGoodreads

A novel of a mindfulness-app founder, a tech-blog reporter and a stray text message.

Also recommended by: Bill Gurley

The All of a Kind Family
T4 The All of a Kind Family
Sydney Taylor
Goodreads
Black White & Jewish
T4 Black White & Jewish
Rebecca Walker
Goodreads
BossBoss
T4 Boss
Mike Royko · 1971
Open LibraryGoodreads
Not That Kind of GirlNot That Kind of Girl
T4 Not That Kind of Girl
Lena Dunham · 2014
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Personal essays on sex, menial jobs and missteps, offered so others learn from them.

The ArgonautsThe Argonauts
T4 The Argonauts
Maggie Nelson · 2015
Open LibraryGoodreads
The Power BrokerThe Power Broker
T1 The Power Broker
Robert A. Caro · 1974
Open LibraryGoodreads

How an unelected official amassed power and used it to rebuild New York.

Also recommended by: Balaji S. Srinivasan, Jim Collins and 7 others

Violence GirlViolence Girl
T4 Violence Girl
Alice Bag · 2011
Open LibraryGoodreads
Slouching Towards BethlehemSlouching Towards Bethlehem
T4 Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Joan Didion · 1967
Open LibraryGoodreads

Also recommended by: Kara Swisher

The Fran Lebowitz ReaderThe Fran Lebowitz Reader
T4 The Fran Lebowitz Reader
Fran Lebowitz · 1994
Open LibraryGoodreads
The Journalist And The MurdererThe Journalist And The Murderer
T4 The Journalist And The Murderer
Janet Malcolm · 1990
Open LibraryGoodreads

Also recommended by: Patrick Collison, Balaji S. Srinivasan

Too Much & Not In The Mood
T4 Too Much & Not In The Mood
Durga Chew-Bose
Goodreads
Wallflower at the OrgyWallflower at the Orgy
T4 Wallflower at the Orgy
Nora Ephron · 1970
Open LibraryGoodreads
A Prayer for the CityA Prayer for the City
T4 A Prayer for the City
Buzz Bissinger · 1998
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Political FictionsPolitical Fictions
T4 Political Fictions
Joan Didion · 2001
Open LibraryGoodreads

Essays on how a handful of insiders shapes the story of American political life.

The Fixer
T4 The Fixer
Bradley Tusk · 2018
Open LibraryGoodreads

Where politics meets startups taking on incumbents in regulated industries.

Also recommended by: Michael Bloomberg

To Be Mayor of New YorkTo Be Mayor of New York
T4 To Be Mayor of New York
Chris McNickle · 1993
Open LibraryGoodreads
Girls Like UsGirls Like Us
T4 Girls Like Us
Rachel Lloyd · 2011
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Sister OutsiderSister Outsider
T4 Sister Outsider
Audre Lorde · 1984
Open LibraryGoodreads
To Be RealTo Be Real
T4 To Be Real
Rebecca Walker · 1995
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D-C-T
T4 D-C-T
Joana Avillez, Molly Young · 2018
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Women in Clothes
T4 Women in Clothes
Sheila Heti et al.
Goodreads
#GIRLBOSS#GIRLBOSS
T4 #GIRLBOSS
Sophia Amoruso · 2014
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Living Beautifully
T4 Living Beautifully
Pema Chödrön
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