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Memoirs and biographies of civil-rights leaders, dissidents, abolitionists and campaigners.
38 books · Topics
Books by and about advertising people, on copywriting and direct response, on why messages spread, and critiques of advertising and propaganda.
38 books · Topics
This niche holds textbooks, histories and arguments about artificial intelligence and machine learning, from early symbolic AI and cybernetics to deep
35 books · Topics
Novels and stories by American writers published between the Second World War and 1999, including McCarthy, Morrison, Updike, Wallace and DeLillo.
9 books · Topics
Books on American football players, coaches, teams and the NFL.
128 books · Topics
Holds histories of the United States: the founders, presidents, the Civil War, politics, law, cities and society.
7 books · Topics
Lives of the men who built American steel, cars, tyres, utilities, aircraft and mail-order between 1860 and 1940.
144 books · Topics
Books on American elections, parties, presidents and their biographies, Congress, the Supreme Court, civil rights and US domestic affairs.
21 books · Topics
Lives and memoirs of American legislators, mayors, officials, campaign staff and political families.
12 books · Topics
Holds Plato, Aristotle, Heraclitus, Lucretius, Cicero and other classical authors outside the Stoic school, with modern books about them.
52 books · Topics
Holds histories and primary sources on Greece, Rome, Byzantium, medieval Europe, the Mongols and Renaissance Italy.
36 books · Topics
Holds anthropology and long-run accounts of human societies: hunter-gatherers, the evolution of cooperation and sex, myth, ritual, language and the ri
3 books · Topics
Books on archery technique and Japanese Zen archery.
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Holds books on buildings, architectural theory, urban planning, streets and the design of homes and libraries.
331 books · Topics
Fine art, architecture, photography, typography, graphic and product design, film and music, plus the practice and criticism of making things. Read by
64 books · Topics
Lives of painters, designers, writers, poets and musicians, from Vasari's artists and Boswell's Johnson to Chanel, Dylan and Springsteen.
114 books · Topics
Political economy and political history of China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Australia and New Zealand.
147 books · Topics
Holds national and regional histories of China, India, Southeast Asia, Japan, Korea, Australasia, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East, many writ
9 books · Topics
Tycoons outside the United States and India: Europe, China, Hong Kong, Russia, Mexico, Canada and Australia.
39 books · Topics
This niche holds books on aircraft, airlines and rockets: the Wright brothers, Boeing and Airbus, Lockheed's Skunk Works, Apollo, pilot handbooks and
33 books · Topics
Flight training handbooks, pilot exam guides, aircraft references and motorcycle repair and riding manuals.
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Books on baseball players, coaches, teams and the analysis of the game.
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Books on basketball players, coaches and teams.
34 books · Topics
Books on how investors and consumers behave with money, behavioural economics research, and the emotions behind spending, saving and trading.
946 books · Topics
The life of a particular person, told by a biographer or by the subject, in any field. Read for the shape of a career or a character rather than for a
62 books · Topics
Lives of scientists, mathematicians, inventors and engineers, and books about how particular discoveries were made. Read by people who want the scienc
33 books · Topics
Books on cells, genes, evolution, the immune system and the living world, from popular science to biology textbooks.
31 books · Topics
Books on cells and the machinery of life, and on animals, plants, ecosystems and the people who study them in the field.
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Books on boxers, martial artists and fighters.
74 books · Topics
Books on neuroscience, memory, emotion, language, intelligence and the problem of consciousness.
41 books · Topics
Books on neuroscience, neurology case studies, trauma, addiction, psychiatry and psychedelic drugs.
46 books · Topics
Books on building and naming brands, positioning a product against rivals, luxury and fashion houses, and histories of consumer brands such as Nike, C
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British prime ministers, statesmen and the diaries of those who served them.
34 books · Topics
Novels and stories by writers from Britain, Ireland, Canada and Australia, including Ishiguro, Rooney, Barnes, Mitchell and Munro.
46 books · Topics
Buddhist and Zen teaching, Taoist and Confucian classics, and guides to mindfulness and meditation practice.
15 books · Topics
Families that held a fortune or a company across generations, and the heirs who spent it.
46 books · Topics
Novels about Wall Street, companies and money, business novels that teach a management method, Ayn Rand's novels, and short fables written to carry a
62 books · Topics
Books on choosing and building a career, learning skills, doing creative work, and living with less.
54 books · Topics
Picture books, children's novels and young adult fiction, from Goodnight Moon and Roald Dahl to The Hunger Games and The Fault in Our Stars.
27 books · Topics
Christian classics, theology and devotional writing, from Augustine and Pascal to Chesterton, Rick Warren and Bob Buford.
29 books · Topics
Holds books on how cities grow, work and fail, from Jane Jacobs and Lewis Mumford to Edward Glaeser, Jan Gehl and studies of single cities such as Bom
116 books · Topics
Novels and short stories from before about 1970 that stay in print and on syllabuses, from Austen, Tolstoy and Dickens to Hemingway, Kafka, Camus and
39 books · Topics
Science fiction written before the mid-1980s, including Asimov's Foundation and robot books, Herbert's Dune series, Heinlein, Clarke, Bradbury, Wells
51 books · Topics
Books on climate science and policy, carbon markets, limits to growth and sustainable business.
2 books · Topics
Books on climbs and deaths on Everest and K2.
52 books · Topics
Books on how people judge, predict and decide, the biases that distort those judgements, and mental models for better decisions.
21 books · Topics
Holds comics, graphic novels, cartoon collections, illustrated books and books on how comics work.
31 books · Topics
Books on chaos, networks, emergence, scaling, causality and the Santa Fe Institute view of economies as complex systems.
28 books · Topics
Manuals and textbooks on programming languages, algorithms, operating systems, networks and computer security.
111 books · Topics
Holds essays and criticism on American and Western culture, from Orwell, Didion and Tom Wolfe to Lasch, plus reporting on brands, fast food, luxury, s
76 books · Topics
Novels and stories by American writers published since 2000, from Saunders and Franzen to book-club favourites and comic novels.
24 books · Topics
Holds books on creative habits, the creative process and running a career or studio as an artist or designer.
1 books · Topics
Books on cricketers and the game.
27 books · Topics
This niche holds books on bitcoin, Ethereum and blockchains, crypto booms and frauds, electronic and high-frequency trading, and payment systems such
54 books · Topics
Novels about networks, artificial intelligence, uploaded minds, biotechnology and the societies of the coming decades, from Gibson and Stephenson to A
3 books · Topics
Books on professional cyclists and the science of the bicycle.
16 books · Topics
Holds books on charts, maps, diagrams and visual explanation, led by Edward Tufte.
28 books · Topics
Holds books on population growth and decline, ageing, immigration and generational cycles, from The Population Bomb to Empty Planet and The Fourth Tur
7 books · Topics
Diplomats, ambassadors and the heads of the UN, UNICEF and the World Bank.
62 books · Topics
Books on clinical practice and patients' experience, the drug and biotech industry, the opioid epidemic, and the cost and organisation of health care.
78 books · Topics
Holds Taoist, Buddhist, Hindu, Zen and Confucian texts and the modern teachers who write in those traditions, such as Krishnamurti, Alan Watts, Osho a
112 books · Topics
Holds histories of economic growth, trade, commodities, industrialisation, corporations and the tycoons who built them.
120 books · Topics
Schools and universities as institutions, plus the science and practice of learning, teaching, deliberate practice and language acquisition. Read by t
41 books · Topics
Books on energy systems and transitions, the electric grid, nuclear power, renewables, batteries and the minerals they need.
58 books · Topics
Books on energy systems, materials, food production, climate change, geology and the environmental history of the planet, many by Vaclav Smil.
318 books · Topics
Founding, financing and scaling new ventures, including venture capital, product-market fit and the founder's own experience of building something. Re
31 books · Topics
These books examine entrepreneurship at the level of a city, country or economy: startup ecosystems, national innovation records, development and the
194 books · Topics
Climate, ecology, resources, energy systems, sustainability and humanity's physical footprint on the planet. Read by anyone weighing energy transition
35 books · Topics
Books on plagues, pandemics, vaccines, tropical disease, global health programmes and the tobacco fight.
118 books · Topics
Politics and political economy of Britain, the euro area, the Nordic countries, Russia, Ukraine, Central Asia and the post-communist states.
21 books · Topics
Fiction from continental Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America, most of it in translation, including Calvino, Kundera, Murakami, Eco, Ferrante and Se
39 books · Topics
Books on natural selection, genes, heredity, ancient DNA and the evolution of human behaviour, sex and cooperation.
57 books · Topics
Chief executives, managers, advertising men and employees describe running or working inside established companies such as GE, IBM, Disney, Microsoft
18 books · Topics
Holds narratives of expeditions, voyages, shipwrecks and survival, from Marco Polo and the Portuguese navigators to Shackleton.
53 books · Topics
Novels and comics set in invented worlds or built on magic and the supernatural, from Tolkien and Martin to Gaiman, Sanderson and Stephen King.
857 books · Topics
Novels, short stories, plays, poetry, graphic novels and children's literature of every genre. Read for the story and the language rather than for inf
32 books · Topics
Holds books on screenwriting, directing and editing, Hollywood history, and memoirs by actors and comedians.
44 books · Topics
Lives and memoirs of actors, comedians, producers, editors and journalists, from Robert Evans and Lorne Michaels to Tina Fey and Graydon Carter.
10 books · Topics
Memoirs and biographies of treasury secretaries, finance ministers and central bankers, many written about financial crises.
74 books · Topics
Textbooks, handbooks and guides on bonds, derivatives, accounting, corporate finance, investing and economics.
4 books · Topics
Founders who built fortunes in brokerage, property development, insurance and oil.
53 books · Topics
Holds histories of money, banking, bubbles, crashes, hyperinflations and Wall Street.
47 books · Topics
Holds art history, artists' lives and writings, colour and drawing, the art market, and photography books and photo collections.
14 books · Topics
Cooking, recipes, ingredients, restaurants and the culture and politics of what we eat. Read by cooks and by readers who take food seriously as a subj
8 books · Topics
Founders of restaurant chains, coffee houses, drinks brands and restaurants.
4 books · Topics
Books on football players, managers, clubs and the economics of the game.
53 books · Topics
Founders tell the story of the companies they built in their own words, from Nike and Walmart to Virgin, Netflix and Chick-fil-A.
31 books · Topics
These books give advice on the habits, attitudes and career choices that lead people to start businesses and build personal wealth.
59 books · Topics
Journalists and biographers report the rise, and sometimes the collapse, of particular founders and companies, from Amazon and PayPal to Theranos and
11 books · Topics
Collections of founder profiles, advice books, and memoirs of founders who worked across several industries.
137 books · Topics
Lives of people who started companies, told by the founders themselves or by biographers, from Ray Kroc and Sam Walton to Steve Jobs and Elon Musk.
4 books · Topics
Books on blackjack teams and high-stakes poker players.
69 books · Topics
Bridge, chess, poker, blackjack, betting and game design, both instructional play and the culture around the table. Read by players trying to get bett
32 books · Topics
Books on game theory, betting systems, risk and fat tails, and the mathematics of markets, portfolios and derivatives.
869 books · Topics
The human past outside the specifically financial: nations, empires, civilisations, eras and world-historical narrative. Read by anyone after context
78 books · Topics
Dictionaries, atlases, style and design guides, quotation books, cookbooks, travel guides and other everyday references.
73 books · Topics
Books on great-power rivalry, war and security, intelligence, sanctions, nuclear risk, cyber conflict and the technology race between states.
91 books · Topics
Holds portraits of single countries and regions, from India, China, Japan and the Gulf to Italy and Scandinavia, and books that follow a commodity suc
76 books · Topics
Books on trade and globalisation, the debate over capitalism, development economics, foreign aid, resource wealth, tax havens and cross-border kleptoc
50 books · Topics
Holds books on type, lettering, grids, graphic design history, brand identity and advertising.
60 books · Topics
Books on startup and technology marketing, digital and content marketing, pricing, subscriptions, retail and distribution channels.
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These books teach how a new business finds customers: positioning, sales teams, growth experiments, direct response marketing and product-led growth.
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Books on how habits form and change, willpower, procrastination and daily routines.
56 books · Topics
Books on building habits, willpower, motivation, productivity and personal success, from research summaries to classic self-help.
79 books · Topics
Books on happiness research, the search for meaning, meditation, Buddhist psychology, stress and contentment.
131 books · Topics
Diet, exercise, sleep, longevity, stress and the practical management of one's own body and wellbeing. Read by people trying to change how they eat, t
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Books on and by managers of hedge funds, long-short books, activist funds and short sellers.
1 books · Topics
Guides to hiking and backpacking routes.
51 books · Topics
The Upanishads, the Bhagavad Gita and yoga texts, and the writings of Indian teachers such as Krishnamurti, Aurobindo, Osho and Swami Rama.
47 books · Topics
Novels set in a past period, from ancient Rome and feudal Japan to the two world wars and Vietnam, including war novels by soldiers who served.
94 books · Topics
Histories of discovery, lives of scientists, essays and anthologies by scientists, and books on scientific method and its limits.
20 books · Topics
Histories of religion, studies of myth and ritual, and scientific and sociological accounts of belief.
52 books · Topics
This niche holds histories of the computer, the transistor and the chip industry, from Bell Labs, ARPA and Xerox PARC to IBM, Intel, Nvidia and the ma
23 books · Topics
Holds surveys of philosophy and intellectual history, from Russell's History of Western Philosophy to Sapiens and The Metaphysical Club.
1 books · Topics
Books on racehorses and the people around them.
34 books · Topics
Books on evolutionary psychology, genes and behaviour, intelligence, sex differences, and personality types and strengths.
1 books · Topics
Books on ice hockey coaching and play.
5 books · Topics
The Tata, Ambani and other family groups that dominate Indian business.
8 books · Topics
Founders of firms that make cars, cameras, electronics, copiers, tools and buildings.
79 books · Topics
This niche holds histories of invention and industry, electricity and the grid, batteries and renewable power, materials, cars and railways, and engin
46 books · Topics
Books on how inventions and research labs come about, on materials, flight, rockets and spaceflight, and on future technologies.
10 books · Topics
Collections that profile or interview many investors of different styles.
88 books · Topics
Lives, memoirs and interview collections of investors, fund managers, speculators and professional gamblers, including Buffett, Munger, Graham, Soros,
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The Qur'an, in M. A. S. Abdel Haleem's English translation.
3 books · Topics
Jewish thought and practice: the Lubavitcher Rebbe's teachings, Harold Kushner and Sarah Hurwitz.
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Presidents, monarchs and reformers of Africa, Latin America, Turkey and Saudi Arabia.
11 books · Topics
Rulers and prime ministers of China, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines and Australia.
60 books · Topics
Books on how people learn, practise, master a skill, perform under pressure and produce creative ideas.
169 books · Topics
Pure and applied mathematics, probability, statistics, data analysis and the culture of mathematical thinking. Read by students, quants and anyone who
53 books · Topics
Textbooks and reference works in algebra, analysis, geometry and topology, mathematical physics, algorithms and programming.
133 books · Topics
Holds practical books on how to live: purpose, happiness, mortality and grief, advice and letters to the young, and collections of maxims and aphorism
7 books · Topics
Founders of film studios, talent agencies, cable, news, music and games companies.
4 books · Topics
Owners of newspapers, television networks, cable systems and film studios.
72 books · Topics
Holds McLuhan, Postman and later writers on what television, the internet, social platforms and new technology do to attention, politics and daily lif
171 books · Topics
Clinical medicine, public health, epidemics, neuroscience and the life sciences, including doctors' accounts of their own work. Read by clinicians, pa
28 books · Topics
Books on disease, vaccines, drugs and clinical evidence, and on sleep, breathing, diet, exercise and the human body.
53 books · Topics
Books on depression, anxiety, ADHD, addiction, trauma, grief and psychotherapy, including Jungian analytical psychology.
49 books · Topics
Politics, oil wealth and ruling families in the Gulf states, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Turkey, Egypt and North Africa.
44 books · Topics
Holds histories of wars, battles, generals and soldiers, centred on the two world wars, the Holocaust and the Cold War.
87 books · Topics
Holds the political, social and economic history of Britain, continental Europe, Russia and the former Soviet bloc from the 1600s to the present.
171 books · Topics
Literary novels and story collections published since about 1970, mostly American, British and European, on families, relationships, work and identity
54 books · Topics
Books by modern teachers of awakening and inner life, from Tolle and Singer to Gurdjieff, Rumi and Jed McKenna.
41 books · Topics
Holds philosophers from Montaigne and Descartes to Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Wittgenstein, Camus and Sartre, plus Emerson, Thoreau and Girard.
56 books · Topics
Holds works on justice, ethics, liberty and the state, from Adam Smith, Mill and Rawls to Hayek, Soros, Havel and Ayn Rand.
59 books · Topics
Books on motivation, goal setting, success principles and personal philosophy, from Napoleon Hill and Tony Robbins to Ryan Holiday.
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Books on racing drivers and the technique of racing.
1 books · Topics
Books on riding motorcycles.
29 books · Topics
Holds musicians' memoirs, music theory and practice, the science of music, and histories of the record and concert business.
3 books · Topics
Books on the founders and managers of mutual fund and bond firms such as Vanguard, T. Rowe Price and PIMCO.
32 books · Topics
Nature writing, ecology, conservation, pollution, and the history of the Earth and its ice ages.
8 books · Topics
Fortunes made in oil, mining, cotton, bananas and commodity trading.
37 books · Topics
Histories, industry accounts and political studies of oil, natural gas, shale and coal, and of the states that depend on them.
72 books · Topics
Raising children, family relationships, caregiving and the domestic side of a life. Read by parents and by anyone negotiating obligations to the peopl
107 books · Topics
Memoirs of private lives: childhood and family, illness and death, identity, survival, faith and spiritual practice, and personal essays.
41 books · Topics
Books on budgeting, saving, debt and building personal wealth.
4 books · Topics
Founders of charities and social ventures, and a businessman who gave his fortune away.
515 books · Topics
Ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, political philosophy and the practical wisdom traditions including Stoicism, aphorism and the examined life. Read b
91 books · Topics
Holds books on how science knows what it knows, on consciousness and free will, and on logic, probability and the nature of physical reality.
56 books · Topics
Lecture series, university textbooks, reference works and primary texts in physics and chemistry, from Newton and Feynman to quantum field theory.
66 books · Topics
Poems and collected poets, plays from the Greek tragedians and Shakespeare to Beckett, ancient epics and satires, and retellings of Greek and Norse my
150 books · Topics
Lives and memoirs of rulers, presidents, prime ministers, activists, diplomats, finance ministers and central bankers, from Plutarch's Romans to Lee K
93 books · Topics
Classic and modern works on justice, democracy, power, the state, mass movements and the ideologies of left and right.
856 books · Topics
Statecraft, elections, law, policy, geopolitics and the workings and failings of political institutions. Read by citizens, policymakers and anyone fol
47 books · Topics
Books that explain mathematics to general readers, tell its history and the lives of mathematicians, and set puzzles and problems.
43 books · Topics
Books for general readers on quantum theory, relativity, particles, time and the origin and shape of the universe.
36 books · Topics
Holds books on industrial and product design, designers such as Dieter Rams and the Eameses, fashion houses such as Chanel, and car makers.
217 books · Topics
Attention, focus, routines, habit change, time management and the broader self-improvement shelf. Read by people trying to get more of the right work
1 books · Topics
Books on the history of professional wrestling.
101 books · Topics
This niche holds programming guides, language manuals (Lisp, Smalltalk, Perl, JavaScript), software engineering practice, open source, security tools
519 books · Topics
The mind and behaviour — cognition, bias, emotion, motivation, personality and social psychology — including the popular behavioural-science canon. Re
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Books on investors who trade with mathematical models.
75 books · Topics
Holds books on race and racism, feminism and women at work, sexuality and relationships, and memoirs written from those identities.
1 books · Topics
Books on playing racquetball.
3 books · Topics
Fortunes made in steamboats, railroads and oil tankers, from Vanderbilt and Gould to Onassis.
251 books · Topics
Manuals, handbooks, encyclopedias, style guides, field guides, directories and data compilations meant to be consulted rather than read through. Read
111 books · Topics
Books on how governments regulate banks, markets and industries: the Federal Reserve, financial crises and bailouts, antitrust, health care, tax, ener
25 books · Topics
Books on dating, attraction, marriage, attachment, sex, parenting and family life.
202 books · Topics
Scripture, theology, comparative religion, meditation, Buddhism, Vedanta and the contemplative and non-dual traditions. Read by practitioners and by r
36 books · Topics
Holds Christian and Jewish writing on faith, Jung and Joseph Campbell on myth and archetype, and books that argue for or against belief in God.
14 books · Topics
Founders of shops, consumer brands, clothing labels, cosmetics and direct-selling firms.
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European monarchs, emperors and dictators, and the statesmen of Greece and Rome.
10 books · Topics
Books on runners, coaches and training for running races.
3 books · Topics
Books on rowing crews, ocean sailors and the America's Cup.
189 books · Topics
Selling, advertising, branding, positioning, pricing and customer service, from classic copywriting to modern growth practice. Read by marketers, sale
20 books · Topics
These books cover the work of running a young company as it grows: hiring, culture, boards, management systems and the founder's role as chief executi
500 books · Topics
Physics, chemistry, cosmology, earth science, complexity and the broad popular-science shelf, including textbooks and lecture courses. Read by the sci
171 books · Topics
Novels, stories and comics about space travel, future societies, artificial intelligence and alternative worlds, from Asimov and Clarke to Banks, Liu,
23 books · Topics
Short story collections, novellas and graphic novels, including Ted Chiang, Ken Liu, Bradbury's stories, Watchmen and Transmetropolitan.
38 books · Topics
Textbooks, encyclopedias and field guides in physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, mathematics and the Earth sciences.
130 books · Topics
Holds histories of scientific discovery, mathematics, invention, computing, aviation, space flight, epidemics and medicine.
62 books · Topics
Lives and memoirs of scientists, inventors, engineers, physicians, economists and philosophers, including Feynman, Einstein, Darwin, Keynes and Edison
46 books · Topics
Books on how to prospect, pitch and close sales, build a sales team, and keep customers through service and loyalty.
30 books · Topics
These books cover owner-run and self-funded businesses, including small-business systems, cash and profit management, freelancing, franchising and buy
60 books · Topics
Holds books on how groups think and act: crowds, networks, tipping points, collective action, polarisation and the social science of everyday behaviou
83 books · Topics
Books on how people influence one another: persuasion, power, crowds, conformity, communication, culture and group behaviour.
623 books · Topics
Societies and the way people live in them: class, race, gender, cities, media, inequality, anthropology and social criticism. Read by anyone trying to
53 books · Topics
Novels and stories set in or written from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan and their diasporas, by writers such as Rushdie, Seth, D
55 books · Topics
Novels set among the stars or on other planets, including Banks's Culture series, Reynolds, Hamilton, Asher, Scalzi, Liu's Three-Body books and Weir's
95 books · Topics
Athletes, teams, coaching, training and the culture of competition, from the inside and from the stands. Read by fans, competitors and anyone drawn to
18 books · Topics
Books on coaching, sports psychology, sports science, sports business and analytics across several sports.
25 books · Topics
Lives of athletes and coaches, from Muhammad Ali and John Wooden to Andre Agassi, Abby Wambach and the men of Oregon.
19 books · Topics
These books set out how to start a company: finding the idea, testing it with customers, building the first product and reaching product-market fit.
37 books · Topics
Books on statistics, probability, causal inference, econometrics, forecasting, machine learning and the display of data.
18 books · Topics
Holds the Stoic texts of Marcus Aurelius, Seneca and Epictetus and the modern books that teach Stoic practice, from Ryan Holiday to James Stockdale.
4 books · Topics
Books on barbell training, powerlifting, CrossFit and Nautilus machines.
2 books · Topics
Books on surfers and surf culture.
1 books · Topics
Books on table tennis players and the game.
72 books · Topics
This niche holds reported histories and memoirs of individual technology companies and their founders, including Apple, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, T
93 books · Topics
This niche holds books on how technology businesses compete and make money: disruption, platforms and network effects, e-commerce, telecom, the dot-co
623 books · Topics
Software, hardware, networks, the internet and the wider history and practice of technology and engineering. Read by engineers, product people and rea
88 books · Topics
This niche holds books on what computers, media and the internet do to people, politics and war, from McLuhan and Postman to social media critics, fut
17 books · Topics
Biographies and memoirs of the people who started computer, software, internet, chip and AI companies.
29 books · Topics
Holds arguments about what technology, artificial intelligence and environmental change do to people, and about obligations to future generations.
7 books · Topics
Books on tennis players and on playing the game.
80 books · Topics
Spy novels, detective stories, legal thrillers and adventure thrillers by writers such as le Carre, Forsyth, Grisham, Christie, Ludlum and Cussler.
38 books · Topics
Systems for managing tasks, time, attention and meetings, from Getting Things Done to Deep Work.
7 books · Topics
Books on and by people who trade stocks, futures, currencies and crypto for short-term gains.
117 books · Topics
Journeys, expeditions, place writing and accounts of unfamiliar countries and landscapes. Read for the experience of somewhere else, whether an ocean
5 books · Topics
Founders of airlines, hotels, casinos and private clubs.
91 books · Topics
Lives of industrialists, moguls and business families who held great fortunes, from Rockefeller, Carnegie and Vanderbilt to Murdoch, Onassis and the T
9 books · Topics
Biographies and memoirs of presidents of the United States, from Washington to Obama.
35 books · Topics
This niche holds books on interaction design, usability testing, web typography, CSS and accessibility, written for people who design software and web
49 books · Topics
Holds books on usability, interaction design, web and product interfaces, design research and game design.
8 books · Topics
Books on and by investors who buy businesses below their worth, in the line of Graham and Buffett.
3 books · Topics
Books on venture capital and buyout firms and the people who built them.
135 books · Topics
Warfare, military campaigns, grand strategy and the classic texts on conflict, plus first-hand accounts of combat. Read by officers, strategists and r
73 books · Topics
Soldiers, commanders, spies, pilots, explorers and travellers describe combat, intelligence work, expeditions and journeys.
33 books · Topics
Books on water supply and rights, farming and the food system, and the ownership and use of land.
69 books · Topics
Holds books on the rich and the poor: inequality data, plutocrats and offshore wealth, poverty and development aid, philanthropy, and the economics of
52 books · Topics
Holds books on jobs and workplaces, the gig economy, employee ownership and co-operatives, factory and warehouse labour, and Peter Drucker's essays on
98 books · Topics
Holds surveys of human history across continents and millennia, histories of ideas, religion and culture, and books that look for patterns in history
140 books · Topics
The craft of writing, speaking, editing and storytelling, along with essay collections and letters read for their prose. Read by writers, speakers and