Free books

I cleared out my office this year and about 190 books need new homes. Any of them are yours for free. You just cover media mail shipping (usually a few dollars), and if you feel like it, you can buy me a coffee. Austin friends can pick up.

Tick the books you want and claim them below, or email hello@alexpriest.com with the titles.

First come, first served. I'll update the list as books go.

185 books

The 10,000 Year Explosion

Gregory Cochran, Henry Harpending

Argues that human evolution sped up over the last 10,000 years, with traits like lactose tolerance and malaria resistance emerging recently.

Health & Science · Hardcover

The 5 AM Club

Robin Sharma

Robin Sharma's case for rising at 5 a.m., with the morning routines he credits for better productivity, health, and focus.

Self-Help & Psychology · Paperback

The 5 Mistakes Every Investor Makes and How to Avoid Them

Peter Mallouk

A guide to disciplined investing and the common mistakes that both professionals and everyday investors make.

Business & Tech

60-Minute Brand Strategist

Idris Mootee

Business & Tech · Hardcover

Absinthe & Flamethrowers

William Gurstelle

Science, history, and DIY projects on reasonable risk-taking, from throwing knives and cracking a bullwhip to building a flamethrower.

Humor & Pop Culture · Paperback

All Stories Are Love Stories

Elizabeth Percer

A novel about a group of survivors thrown together after two major earthquakes strike San Francisco on Valentine's Day.

Literary Fiction · Hardcover

All the Birds in the Sky

Charlie Jane Anders

A novel about Patricia, a young witch who talks to animals, and Laurence, a computer genius, whose bond matters as the world nears its end.

Sci-Fi & Fantasy · Hardcover

The Almanack of Naval Ravikant

Eric Jorgenson

Naval Ravikant's thinking on wealth and happiness, collected from a decade of his tweets, podcasts, and essays.

Business & Tech · Hardcover

America (The Book): Teacher's Edition

Jon Stewart and The Daily Show

A 2004 humor book by Jon Stewart and The Daily Show writers, written as a parody civics textbook about American politics.

Humor & Pop Culture · Hardcover

An American Sickness

Elisabeth Rosenthal

An investigation into the American healthcare system, how it became so costly, and practical ways patients and policy can respond.

Health & Science · Hardcover

The Art of Thinking Clearly

Rolf Dobelli

Short chapters on the cognitive biases and everyday thinking errors that lead to bad decisions, and how to spot them.

Self-Help & Psychology · Paperback

Atomic Habits

James Clear

A practical framework for building good habits and breaking bad ones through small, consistent changes to your systems.

Self-Help & Psychology · Hardcover

The Ballad of Black Tom

Victor LaValle

A horror novella set in Jazz Age New York: a Harlem hustler delivers an occult book and is drawn into dangerous magic. A reworking of Lovecraft.

Horror & Thrillers · Paperback

The Better Angels of Our Nature

Steven Pinker

Steven Pinker's history of violence, arguing that it has declined over millennia and that we may live in the most peaceful era yet.

History & Politics · Paperback

The Bicycling Guide to Complete Bicycle Maintenance & Repair

Todd Downs

Hobbies, Home & Travel · Paperback

Blink

Malcolm Gladwell

Malcolm Gladwell on snap judgments: how people decide in an instant, and when those quick decisions are better or worse than careful ones.

Self-Help & Psychology · Paperback

Blockchain Revolution

Don Tapscott, Alex Tapscott

An explainer on blockchain technology and how peer-to-peer transactions without banks could change commerce, privacy, and business.

Business & Tech · Hardcover

Blockchain: Blueprint for a New Economy

Melanie Swan

Business & Tech · Paperback

The Book of Strange New Things

Michel Faber

A novel about Peter, a minister sent to a distant planet to preach to its native population, while his wife Bea stays behind on Earth.

Sci-Fi & Fantasy · Hardcover

Bored and Brilliant

Manoush Zomorodi

Self-Help & Psychology · Hardcover

Brainiac

Ken Jennings

Ken Jennings tells the story of his 75-game Jeopardy! run and explores the history and culture of trivia.

Biography & Memoir · Paperback

Brains on Fire

Robbin Phillips, Greg Cordell, Geno Church, Spike Jones

A marketing book on building word-of-mouth movements around companies and products instead of running traditional campaigns.

Business & Tech · Hardcover

#BreakIntoVC

Bradley Miles

Business & Tech · Paperback

Building a StoryBrand

Donald Miller

A guide to getting a business's message heard by customers, using the elements of storytelling.

Business & Tech · Hardcover

By Invitation Only

Alexis Maybank, Alexandra Wilkis Wilson

The founders of Gilt Groupe tell the story of the flash-sale company's start, rise, and evolution.

Business & Tech · Hardcover

Catching Fire

Suzanne Collins

The second Hunger Games novel. After winning the Games, Katniss and Peeta become the faces of a growing rebellion against the Capitol.

Young Adult · Hardcover

A Century of Wealth in America

Edward N. Wolff

Economist Edward Wolff's study of household wealth in America since 1910: who owns it, how that has shifted, and how to measure it.

History & Politics · Hardcover

Cesar's Way

Cesar Millan

Dog Whisperer Cesar Millan's guide to what dogs need to be happy and balanced, and how owners can fix common behavior problems.

Hobbies, Home & Travel · Paperback

The Circle

Dave Eggers

A dystopian novel about Mae Holland, a new hire at the world's most powerful internet company, and its push to end privacy.

Literary Fiction · Paperback

The Comeback

Gary Shapiro

Gary Shapiro's blueprint for putting innovation back at the center of US economic policy, covering immigration, trade, and education.

Business & Tech · Hardcover

The Comfort Book

Matt Haig

Self-Help & Psychology

The Commanding Heights

Daniel Yergin, Joseph Stanislaw

A history of the battle for the world economy.

History & Politics

Connectography

Parag Khanna

Parag Khanna argues that infrastructure and connectivity, not borders, now shape geopolitics, economics, and identity.

History & Politics · Hardcover

The Creative Destruction of Medicine

Eric Topol

A cardiologist on how wireless devices, personal data, and genomics could transform medicine and save lives.

Health & Science · Hardcover

A Crowd of One

John Henry Clippinger

On how evolutionary biology and social physics are changing ideas of identity, and what that means for governments, conflict, and society.

Business & Tech · Hardcover

A Crown for Cold Silver

Alex Marshall

A fantasy novel about Cobalt Zosia, a retired general who returns to war to avenge the slaughter of her village.

Sci-Fi & Fantasy · Paperback

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Mark Haddon

A novel narrated by Christopher, a boy who knows every prime up to 7,507 and sets out to solve the killing of a neighbor's dog.

Literary Fiction · Paperback

Daemon

Daniel Suarez

A techno-thriller: after a game designer dies, a dormant computer program he left behind begins dismantling the modern world.

Sci-Fi & Fantasy · Paperback

Dark Matter

Blake Crouch

A thriller about a college professor who is kidnapped and wakes up in a version of his life that is not his own.

Sci-Fi & Fantasy · Hardcover

Dark Places

Gillian Flynn

Gillian Flynn's thriller about Libby Day, whose testimony convicted her brother of murdering their family, revisiting the case 25 years later.

Horror & Thrillers · Paperback

The Decoded Company

Leerom Segal, Aaron Goldstein, Jay Goldman, Rahaf Harfoush

How the agency Klick Health uses data about its own employees to run the company, and the principles behind it.

Business & Tech · Hardcover

Delivering Happiness

Tony Hsieh

Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh on building a company culture around service and happiness for employees, customers, and partners.

Business & Tech · Hardcover

Democracy: Stories from the Long Road to Freedom

Condoleezza Rice

Condoleezza Rice on the global struggle for democracy, drawing on her own experience from Birmingham to the State Department.

History & Politics · Hardcover

Digital Body Language

Erica Dhawan

Business & Tech · Hardcover

The Digital Doctor

Robert Wachter

Robert Wachter examines healthcare's shift to computers and how technology is changing care at the bedside, for better and worse.

Health & Science · Hardcover

Dignity

Donna Hicks

Describes the elements of dignity, how to recognize when it is violated, and ways to respond and repair relationships.

Self-Help & Psychology · Paperback

A Dirty Job

Christopher Moore

A comic novel about Charlie Asher, a mild-mannered San Francisco shop owner who finds he has been recruited to work for Death.

Sci-Fi & Fantasy · Hardcover

Enabling Knowledge Creation

Georg von Krogh, Kazuo Ichijo, Ikujiro Nonaka

A management book on how organizations can create and use knowledge, with examples from Siemens, Unilever, Sony, and others.

Business & Tech · Hardcover

The End of War

John Horgan

John Horgan disputes the idea that war is part of human nature and argues people are as capable of peace as of violence.

Health & Science · Hardcover

Engage!

Brian Solis

A guide to using social media for branding and business, from planning a program to measuring its results.

Business & Tech · Hardcover

Essentialism

Greg McKeown

Greg McKeown's argument for doing less but better: a discipline for deciding what is essential and cutting the rest.

Self-Help & Psychology

Everybody Writes

Ann Handley

Business & Tech · Hardcover

Everybody's Fool

Richard Russo

A return to North Bath, New York and the characters of Nobody's Fool, as Sully hides a grim medical diagnosis from those close to him.

Literary Fiction · Hardcover

The Everything Store

Brad Stone

The story of Amazon and Jeff Bezos, from an online bookseller to a store that sells nearly everything.

Business & Tech · Hardcover

Fair Play

Eve Rodsky

Self-Help & Psychology · Hardcover

Fall and Rise

Mitchell Zuckoff

A minute-by-minute account of September 11, 2001, in New York, at the Pentagon, and in Shanksville, from a former Boston Globe reporter.

History & Politics

Faster, Higher, Farther

Jack Ewing

A New York Times reporter's account of the Volkswagen emissions scandal, in which software in 11 million cars cheated emissions tests.

Business & Tech · Hardcover

The Feast of Love

Charles Baxter

A novel in which a sleepless writer named Charles meets a neighbor on a late-night walk, and a set of stories about love unfolds.

Literary Fiction · Paperback

Fermenting Revolution

Christopher Mark O'Brien

Hobbies, Home & Travel · Paperback

Find Your Unicorn Space

Eve Rodsky

Self-Help & Psychology · Hardcover

Finding the Next Steve Jobs

Nolan Bushnell, Gene Stone

Atari founder Nolan Bushnell on how to find, hire, keep, and nurture creative people.

Business & Tech · Hardcover

Fire and Fury

Michael Wolff

Michael Wolff's behind-the-scenes account of the first nine months of the Trump White House.

History & Politics · Hardcover

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

Patrick Lencioni

A business fable by Patrick Lencioni about the common reasons teams fail and how to fix them.

Business & Tech · Hardcover

Flying Blind

Peter Robison

A Bloomberg reporter's account of the dysfunction at Boeing behind the 2018 and 2019 crashes of the 737 MAX.

Business & Tech · Hardcover

Fourth of July Creek

Smith Henderson

A novel about a Montana social worker who tries to help a nearly feral boy and runs up against the boy's paranoid survivalist father.

Literary Fiction · Hardcover

Freedom

Daniel Suarez

The sequel to Daemon. With the program now in control, former detective Pete Sebeck leads a small band trying to shape what comes next.

Sci-Fi & Fantasy · Paperback

The Future Normal

Rohit Bhargava, Henry Coutinho-Mason

Business & Tech

The Girl on the Train

Paula Hawkins

A psychological thriller about a commuter who watches a couple from her train every day, until she sees something shocking.

Horror & Thrillers · Hardcover

Give and Take

Adam Grant

Adam Grant's research on givers, takers, and matchers, and why how we interact with others shapes success.

Self-Help & Psychology · Paperback

The God Delusion

Richard Dawkins

Richard Dawkins makes the case against belief in God and examines the harm he attributes to religion.

Health & Science · Hardcover

Gone Girl

Gillian Flynn

A 2012 crime thriller about Nick Dunne, who comes under suspicion after his wife Amy disappears.

Horror & Thrillers · Paperback

Good Dog, Happy Baby

Michael Wombacher

A dog trainer's twelve-step process for preparing a family dog for the arrival of a new baby.

Hobbies, Home & Travel · Paperback

Great by Choice

Jim Collins, Morten T. Hansen

Jim Collins and Morten Hansen's research on why some companies thrive in uncertain, chaotic times while others do not.

Business & Tech · Hardcover

Grit

Angela Duckworth

Psychologist Angela Duckworth argues that a blend of passion and persistence, not talent, drives outstanding achievement.

Self-Help & Psychology · Hardcover

Hamilton's Blessing

John Steele Gordon

A short history of the US national debt, from Alexander Hamilton's use of Revolutionary War debt to build the economy onward.

History & Politics · Paperback

Healthcare Disrupted

Jeff Elton, Anne O'Riordan

An Accenture-backed guide to new business models in healthcare, covering value-based care, digital consumers, and data.

Health & Science · Hardcover

Hidden Value

Charles O'Reilly, Jeffrey Pfeffer

Argues that companies gain lasting advantage from how they develop and use the people they already have, not by chasing top talent.

Business & Tech · Hardcover

A Hologram for the King

Dave Eggers

A novel about a struggling American businessman in a rising Saudi city, betting on one last deal to save his finances and family.

Literary Fiction · Paperback

Holy Cow

David Duchovny

A comic novel about Elsie, a cow who learns about industrial meat farms and escapes with a pig and a turkey in search of a safer world.

Humor & Pop Culture · Paperback

How F*cked Up Is Your Management?

Johnathan Nightingale, Melissa Nightingale

Business & Tech · Paperback

How to Be Alone

Sara Maitland

A short book on solitude: why society distrusts it, how attitudes have changed, and ways to practice being alone without anxiety.

Self-Help & Psychology · Paperback

How to Be Your Dog's Best Friend

The Monks of New Skete

Hobbies, Home & Travel

The Hunger Games

Suzanne Collins

The first novel in the series. In the nation of Panem, sixteen-year-old Katniss takes her sister's place in a televised fight to the death.

Young Adult · Hardcover

I Am America (And So Can You!)

Stephen Colbert

Stephen Colbert's satirical book, written in the voice of his Colbert Report character, on family, religion, sex, and more.

Humor & Pop Culture · Hardcover

In Defense of Globalization

Jagdish Bhagwati

Economist Jagdish Bhagwati responds to globalization's critics and argues that, managed well, it benefits poorer nations.

History & Politics

Infomocracy

Malka Older

A political thriller set in a future of global micro-democracy run on a search monopoly, as a close election approaches.

Sci-Fi & Fantasy · Paperback

Interpersonal Divide

Michael Bugeja

Argues that media and technology have eroded the sense of community among people in the Western world.

Business & Tech · Paperback

It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work

Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson

The founders of Basecamp reject long hours and hustle culture, making the case for calm, focused companies.

Business & Tech · Hardcover

John Dies at the End

David Wong

A horror comedy about two friends in a Midwestern town, a drug called soy sauce, and otherworldly beings invading the planet.

Horror & Thrillers · Paperback

The Journey Beyond Fear

John Hagel

Business & Tech · Hardcover

The Journey of Leadership

Dana Maor, Hans-Werner Kaas, Kurt Strovink, Ramesh Srinivasan

Business & Tech · Hardcover

Keto Answers

Anthony Gustin, Chris Irvin

A plain guide to the ketogenic diet, covering common questions about carbs, protein, safety, and what to do after a slip.

Health & Science · Hardcover

Kiss, Bow, or Shake Hands

Terri Morrison, Wayne A. Conaway

A country-by-country guide to international business etiquette, with profiles of more than sixty countries.

Business & Tech · Paperback

Leading with Dignity

Donna Hicks

Business & Tech · Hardcover

Lean In

Sheryl Sandberg

Sheryl Sandberg examines why women's progress into leadership roles has stalled and what women and workplaces can do about it.

Business & Tech · Hardcover

The Lean Startup

Eric Ries

Eric Ries's method for building startups: test ideas quickly, learn from customers, and adjust before running out of money.

Business & Tech · Hardcover

Lexicon

Max Barry

A thriller about a secret school that teaches students to use words to control minds, and a runaway the organization recruits.

Sci-Fi & Fantasy · Paperback

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up

Marie Kondo

Marie Kondo's method for decluttering a home once, category by category, keeping only what you want to keep.

Hobbies, Home & Travel · Hardcover

The Long Walk

Stephen King (as Richard Bachman)

Stephen King's dystopian novel, written as Richard Bachman, about 100 boys in a walking contest where only one survives.

Horror & Thrillers · Paperback

Loonshots

Safi Bahcall

Physicist Safi Bahcall on why good teams kill great ideas, and how organizations can nurture radical projects.

Business & Tech · Hardcover

Mad Men Unbuttoned

Natasha Vargas-Cooper

A companion book to the TV series Mad Men.

Humor & Pop Culture · Paperback

The Making of Zombie Wars

Aleksandar Hemon

A comic novel about Josh Levin, an aspiring screenwriter teaching ESL in Chicago, whose life spins into absurd disaster.

Literary Fiction · Paperback

Mastering the VC Game

Jeffrey Bussgang

A venture capitalist's guide for entrepreneurs on finding, pitching, and working with the right VC investors.

Business & Tech · Hardcover

The Mathematics of Love

Hannah Fry

Mathematician Hannah Fry applies patterns and probability to dating, relationships, and love.

Health & Science · Hardcover

Maximum Overload for Cyclists

Jacques DeVore, Roy M. Wallack

Hobbies, Home & Travel · Paperback

Mindset

Carol S. Dweck

Psychologist Carol Dweck on fixed versus growth mindsets and how beliefs about ability shape learning and success.

Self-Help & Psychology · Paperback

Mockingjay

Suzanne Collins

The final Hunger Games novel. Katniss has survived the Games twice, but the Capitol wants revenge on her and everyone close to her.

Young Adult · Hardcover

More Human

Steve Hilton

Steve Hilton argues that government, business, and institutions should be redesigned around human scale and human needs.

History & Politics · Hardcover

Mountain Bike Tahoe

Jeremy Benson

Hobbies, Home & Travel · Paperback

Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

Robin Sloan

A novel about a laid-off web designer who takes the night shift at a strange San Francisco bookstore and sets out to learn what it hides.

Literary Fiction · Paperback

The Next 100 Years

George Friedman

Geopolitical forecaster George Friedman predicts how power, wars, and economies around the world will shift through the 21st century.

History & Politics · Paperback

No Hard Feelings

Liz Fosslien, Mollie West Duffy

Business & Tech · Hardcover

Nobody's Fool

Richard Russo

Richard Russo's novel about Sully, a man who has been doing the wrong thing for fifty years, in a down-and-out town in upstate New York.

Literary Fiction · Paperback

NOS4A2

Joe Hill

A horror novel about Vic McQueen, who can find lost things, and Charlie Manx, a man who takes children away in his Rolls-Royce.

Horror & Thrillers · Paperback

Option B

Sheryl Sandberg, Adam Grant

Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant on building resilience and finding joy again after loss, drawing on Sandberg's grief after her husband's death.

Self-Help & Psychology · Hardcover

The Patient Will See You Now

Eric Topol

Cardiologist Eric Topol on how smartphones and data could give patients control of their own medical care.

Health & Science · Hardcover

Pattern Breakers

Mike Maples Jr., Peter Ziebelman

Business & Tech · Hardcover

Pivot

Jenny Blake

A career guide to figuring out what is next and making a deliberate move, from a former Google career development specialist.

Business & Tech · Paperback

Power Ambition Glory

Steve Forbes, John Prevas

Steve Forbes and a classics professor compare six leaders of the ancient world with modern business leaders.

History & Politics · Hardcover

The Power of Full Engagement

Jim Loehr, Tony Schwartz

Self-Help & Psychology · Paperback

The Power of Moments

Chip Heath, Dan Heath

Self-Help & Psychology · Hardcover

The Power to Compete

Hiroshi Mikitani, Ryoichi Mikitani

Rakuten founder Hiroshi Mikitani and his economist father discuss Japan's economic stagnation and how to revive it.

Business & Tech · Hardcover

Profit & Purpose

Kyle Westaway

Business & Tech · Hardcover

The Purpose Factor

Brian Bosché, Gabrielle Bosché

Self-Help & Psychology · Hardcover

Quitter

Jon Acuff

Jon Acuff's advice on closing the gap between your day job and your dream job, and quitting the right way.

Business & Tech · Paperback

Radio Free Vermont

Bill McKibben

A comic novel about a 72-year-old radio host broadcasting from hiding to champion Vermont seceding from the US.

Literary Fiction · Hardcover

Ready Player One

Ernest Cline

A novel set in 2045, where a teenager hunts for a prize hidden inside a vast virtual world, packed with 1980s pop culture.

Sci-Fi & Fantasy · Paperback

Reagan: The Life

Bob Spitz

A full biography of Ronald Reagan, from a poor Midwestern childhood to Hollywood and the presidency.

Biography & Memoir · Hardcover

Redshirts

John Scalzi

A comic science fiction novel about starship ensigns who notice that low-ranking crew always die on away missions.

Sci-Fi & Fantasy · Hardcover

Reinvent Yourself

James Altucher

Self-Help & Psychology · Paperback

Remote

Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson

Business & Tech · Hardcover

The Republican Brain

Chris Mooney

Science writer Chris Mooney uses psychology and brain research to explore why conservatives reject scientific consensus.

History & Politics · Hardcover

Rework

Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson

The founders of Basecamp offer short, contrarian advice on running a business with fewer plans, meetings, and investors.

Business & Tech · Hardcover

The Rules

The Velominati

Hobbies, Home & Travel · Hardcover

Running with Scissors

Augusten Burroughs

Augusten Burroughs's memoir of being sent by his mother to live with her psychiatrist's chaotic family at age twelve.

Biography & Memoir · Paperback

Sacred Contracts

Caroline Myss

A program for self-discovery that aims to help readers find their purpose in life through spiritual reflection.

Self-Help & Psychology · Paperback

Secrecy World

Jake Bernstein

A Pulitzer-winning journalist's look inside the offshore finance network exposed by the Panama Papers.

History & Politics · Paperback

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Select Registry

Hobbies, Home & Travel · Paperback

The Selfishness of Others

Kristin Dombek

An essay on narcissism: what the popular idea of the narcissist gets right and wrong, and why it has spread.

Self-Help & Psychology · Paperback

The Shapeshifters

Stefan Spjut

Sci-Fi & Fantasy · Paperback

The Sharing Economy

Arun Sundararajan

An economist explains the shift to crowd-based capitalism, like ride-sharing and home rentals, and what it means for work.

Business & Tech · Hardcover

Sharp Objects

Gillian Flynn

Gillian Flynn's debut thriller about a reporter sent back to her small hometown to cover the murders of two girls.

Horror & Thrillers · Paperback

Six Four

Hideo Yokoyama

A Japanese crime novel about a police press officer drawn back into an unsolved kidnapping from 1989.

Horror & Thrillers · Hardcover

The Sleep Revolution

Arianna Huffington

Arianna Huffington on the costs of sleep deprivation and the case for making sleep a priority.

Health & Science · Hardcover

Sly Mongoose

Tobias S. Buckell

Tobias Buckell's third science fiction novel, a standalone set in the same universe as Crystal Rain and Ragamuffin.

Sci-Fi & Fantasy · Hardcover

The Snark Handbook: Insult Edition

Lawrence Dorfman

Humor & Pop Culture · Hardcover

Snow Crash

Neal Stephenson

A science fiction novel about Hiro, a pizza deliverer and hacker, in a future Los Angeles and the virtual world called the Metaverse.

Sci-Fi & Fantasy · Paperback

So Much for That Winter

Dorthe Nors

Literary Fiction · Paperback

Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy

Barrington Moore Jr.

A 1966 study of the role of lords and peasants in the making of the modern world.

History & Politics · Paperback

Socialnomics

Erik Qualman

A look at how social media is changing the way people live and how businesses reach consumers.

Business & Tech · Hardcover

The Stars Are Legion

Kameron Hurley

A space opera set among decaying world-ships, where a woman with no memory is drawn into a generations-long war for control.

Sci-Fi & Fantasy · Hardcover

The State of Africa

Martin Meredith

A history of Africa in the fifty years since independence, tracing the leaders, wars, and events behind the continent's struggles.

History & Politics · Paperback

The Story of the Tour de France, Volume 1

Bill McGann, Carol McGann

Hobbies, Home & Travel · Paperback

The Stranger Beside Me

Ann Rule

Ann Rule's true-crime account of a serial killer she knew as a friend and coworker at a crisis clinic.

Biography & Memoir · Paperback

The Stranger: Barack Obama in the White House

Chuck Todd

NBC's Chuck Todd on Barack Obama's first term and his campaign for a second, drawing on inside sources.

History & Politics · Hardcover

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck

Mark Manson

Mark Manson argues for caring about fewer things and choosing your values carefully as a route to a better life.

Self-Help & Psychology

Sudden Death

Álvaro Enrigue

Literary Fiction · Hardcover

The Third Wave

Samuel P. Huntington

Samuel Huntington analyzes why more than thirty countries moved from authoritarian rule to democracy between 1974 and 1990.

History & Politics

This Side of Jordan

Monte Schulz

Literary Fiction · Hardcover

The Three

Sarah Lotz

A thriller that begins when four passenger planes crash at nearly the same moment around the world, and three children walk away unhurt.

Horror & Thrillers · Paperback

The Tipping Point

Malcolm Gladwell

Malcolm Gladwell on how ideas, trends, and behaviors cross a threshold and spread like epidemics.

Self-Help & Psychology · Paperback

Trajectory

Richard Russo

Two novellas and two stories by Richard Russo, featuring a professor, a realtor, and others at turning points.

Literary Fiction · Hardcover

The Travelers

Chris Pavone

A thriller about a travel writer who discovers his magazine job is cover for something else, and is pulled into international espionage.

Horror & Thrillers · Hardcover

Twitterville

Shel Israel

An early look at how businesses and people use Twitter to talk with customers and build relationships.

Business & Tech · Hardcover

Underground Airlines

Ben H. Winters

A novel set in a present-day America where the Civil War never happened, following a Black bounty hunter working for the US Marshals.

Sci-Fi & Fantasy · Hardcover

Understanding Value-Based Healthcare

Christopher Moriates, Vineet Arora, Neel Shah

Health & Science · Paperback

UnMarketing

Scott Stratten

A guide to replacing interruption marketing with listening and engagement to draw customers in.

Business & Tech · Hardcover

An Unpardonable Crime

Andrew Taylor

A historical mystery in early 1800s England, where a young Edgar Allan Poe and his schoolmaster are caught up in violent events.

Horror & Thrillers · Paperback

The Upstarts

Brad Stone

Brad Stone tells the story of Uber and Airbnb and the new wave of Silicon Valley companies rewriting the rules of business.

Business & Tech · Hardcover

Warm Bodies

Isaac Marion

A novel about R, a zombie with no memories who falls for a living girl named Julie and begins to change.

Horror & Thrillers · Paperback

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Shirley Jackson

Shirley Jackson's gothic novel about Merricat Blackwood, her isolated family, and the cousin whose arrival disrupts them.

Horror & Thrillers · Paperback

The Wheel of Darkness

Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

An FBI Agent Pendergast thriller. A theft from a Tibetan monastery sends Pendergast and Constance after a dangerous artifact.

Horror & Thrillers · Paperback

Who Moved My Cheese?

Spencer Johnson

A short parable about change, following two mice and two little people who search a maze for cheese.

Business & Tech · Hardcover

Why America Failed

Morris Berman

History & Politics · Paperback

Why Globalization Works

Martin Wolf

Economist Martin Wolf explains how globalization works and answers the main arguments against it.

History & Politics

Why We Get Fat

Gary Taubes

Science writer Gary Taubes argues that certain carbohydrates, not simply excess calories, cause weight gain.

Health & Science · Paperback

The Windup Girl

Paolo Bacigalupi

A science fiction novel set in a future Bangkok, following a calorie company agent and Emiko, an engineered being abandoned there.

Sci-Fi & Fantasy · Paperback

The Wisdom of Crowds

James Surowiecki

James Surowiecki on why large groups are often smarter than a few experts, at solving problems and predicting outcomes.

Business & Tech · Paperback

Without Their Permission

Alexis Ohanian

Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian on using the internet to start businesses, communities, and causes.

Business & Tech · Hardcover

World History: From the Ancient World to the Information Age

Philip Parker

A DK Eyewitness reference covering world history from prehistoric times to the present day.

History & Politics · Hardcover

The World's Greatest Geological Wonders

Michael E. Wysession

Health & Science

A Wrinkle in Time

Madeleine L'Engle

Madeleine L'Engle's classic about Meg Murry, who travels through space and time to rescue her missing father.

Young Adult · Paperback

Yellow Dog

Martin Amis

A Martin Amis novel following several men, including Xan Meo, whose personality changes after a brutal assault.

Literary Fiction · Paperback

Yerba Buena

Nina LaCour

Literary Fiction · Hardcover

Z.E.O.

Scott Kenemore

Humor & Pop Culture · Paperback

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Gregory Cochran, Henry Harpending Health & Science Hardcover
Robin Sharma Self-Help & Psychology Paperback
Peter Mallouk Business & Tech
Idris Mootee Business & Tech Hardcover
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