All Books

A curated collection of Charlie Munger's speeches, talks, and aphorisms covering his mental models framework, investment philosophy, and worldview — edited by Peter Kaufman and long considered one of the most important books in serious investor and intellectual circles.

Hermann Hesse's spiritual classic follows a young Brahmin's journey to enlightenment through renunciation, pleasure, commerce, and finally the unity of all things found at the river.

A successful judge who has lived a conventional, comfortable life falls ill and, in the process of dying, confronts the question of whether his life has been good — and discovers that it has not.

A comprehensive history of the gene from Mendel's peas to CRISPR — and a searching investigation of what our growing power over the genome means for humanity.

In the city of Camorr — a fantasy Venice — a gang of elite con artists and thieves called the Gentlemen Bastards pull off elaborate heists while a supernatural criminal element threatens everything.

The founder of the index fund and Vanguard makes the definitive case for buying and holding low-cost index funds as the optimal investment strategy for most people.

Kvothe — innkeeper, legend, the most infamous man alive — agrees to tell his life story to a Chronicler over three days. Day One: his childhood with a troupe of travelling performers, his time as a street orphan in Tarbean, and his legendary entry to the University where magic is studied.

A prose-poetry masterpiece in which the prophet Almustafa offers wisdom on love, marriage, children, work, freedom, death, and the nature of good and evil before departing on a ship — one of the bestselling books of the twentieth century.

In the remote mountain village of Kaigen, Misaki — a wife and mother who has suppressed her own formidable past — must confront both a devastating invasion and the lies her family and society have built their identity upon.

Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman explains the two systems that drive the way we think — and reveals how our intuitive System 1 thinking leads us astray in predictable, correctable ways.

The Ramsay family's two visits to their summer house in the Hebrides, separated by ten years and the First World War — and Lily Briscoe's attempt to paint what cannot be painted.

Tress has never left her small island. When the boy she loves is kidnapped and taken across the deadly spore seas, she sets out to rescue him — becoming a sailor, a pirate, and eventually a hero on a world she's never seen.

Beryl Markham's memoir of growing up in Kenya in the early twentieth century, training horses, becoming the first person to fly solo non-stop from England to North America west to east, and living a life that defied every category available to women of her era.

A rare magician who can travel between parallel Londons teams up with a street thief to prevent a dark power from destroying all the worlds.

In a galaxy divided into zones of thought where intelligence itself is limited by proximity to the galactic core, a human ship accidentally releases an ancient evil and two children are stranded on a world of pack-minded aliens while the fate of civilization is debated across an early proto-internet.

The classic argument for efficient markets and passive investing — now in its thirteenth edition — explaining why index funds outperform most actively managed portfolios.

Le Guin's first Earthsea novel follows Ged, a boy of extraordinary power who attends a school for wizards on the island of Roke and, in his pride, releases a shadow upon the world that only he can face.

Based on the true story of Grace Marks, an Irish immigrant in Canada convicted of murdering her employer and his housekeeper in 1843. A young psychiatrist interviews Grace in prison — the novel is his attempt to determine whether she is guilty, innocent, or something more complicated.

Neil Gaiman's mythological fantasy follows ex-convict Shadow through a road trip across America with the god Odin, as old gods prepare for war against new gods born of technology and media.

Tamar Adler's extraordinary collection of essays on cooking with economy, intelligence, and pleasure — a book about cooking philosophy as much as cooking technique.

The last surviving fragment of a troop-carrier AI seeks revenge against the ruler of a vast interstellar empire, told through a narrator who was once thousands of bodies simultaneously and who perceives no gender distinctions.

The final volume of the Fitz and the Fool trilogy — and the conclusion of the entire Realm of the Elderlings sequence — takes Fitz on a journey to the city of Clerres to save the Fool and confront the Servants of the Pale Woman. A conclusion twenty years in the making, delivering one of fantasy's most emotionally complete endings.

Toni Morrison's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece about a former slave haunted by the ghost of her murdered daughter — and the legacy of slavery on the body, memory, and soul.

Walter Isaacson's comprehensive biography traces Benjamin Franklin's extraordinary life from his Boston childhood through his years as a printer, scientist, diplomat, and Founding Father, revealing the man behind the legend as a pragmatic idealist who helped forge American identity. It is a portrait of perhaps the most versatile genius the colonies produced.