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Cayce Pollard, a coolhunter with a pathological sensitivity to corporate branding, is hired to trace the source of mysterious film footage appearing anonymously online — footage that obsesses millions of people worldwide.

How do artists and entrepreneurs create work that sells not for a season but for decades? Ryan Holiday examines the principles behind books, albums, films, and businesses that become classics — and the specific disciplines that separate creators of lasting work from those chasing momentary attention.

A documentary filmmaker's account of discovering the FIRE movement and transforming his family's finances to pursue early retirement and a more intentional life.

A roman à clef of London intellectual and artistic life in the 1920s, following dozens of characters through parties and arguments and affairs, structured like a fugue in prose with multiple themes developed simultaneously.

In the four days before Vesuvius erupts in 79 AD, a young Roman engineer named Attilius discovers that the great aqueduct serving the Bay of Naples has been poisoned — and that the corruption he uncovers runs as deep as the mountain's roots.

The Pevensie children return to Narnia to find it transformed: a thousand years have passed, the Narnian world has been suppressed by the Telmarines, and Caspian, the rightful king, is fighting to restore the old ways.

Lestat's rock concert awakens Akasha, the six-thousand-year-old progenitor of all vampires. She emerges with a plan to create a paradise on Earth — by killing most of the men in it. The ancient vampire world must unite or be annihilated.

Locke Lamora and Jean Tannen have fled Camorr for Tal Verrar, where they plan the most ambitious con of their careers — robbing the impregnable Sinspire casino — until a naval commander forces them to become pirates instead.

Alina is trapped underground, her power diminished and her allies scattered. To defeat the Darkling and end the Fold, she must find the firebird — the third amplifier — before he does. The fate of Ravka and all of its Grisha rests on a choice that will cost Alina everything.

Mickey Sabbath is 64, a former puppeteer, recently fired, grieving his mistress of thirteen years who has died of cancer. He is considering suicide. The novel is his furious, obscene, grief-saturated attempt to make sense of a life spent in obsessive pursuit of women and pleasure — and the losses that have accumulated.

A time-travel investigator in the twenty-fifth century investigates an anomaly that appears across centuries: 1912 British Columbia, 2020 New York, 2203 on the moon. Mandel's most formally ambitious novel braids pandemic themes with time-travel structure into a meditation on art, simulation, and what human beings owe each other across time.

Grant Cardone argues that everything in life is a sale and that mastering the art of selling — yourself, your ideas, your products — is the most important skill you can develop.

A fictionalized account of Pakistani politics during the Zia ul-Haq era, told through the story of Omar Khayyam Shakil and two families — one a corrupt political dynasty, the other a military one — whose daughters embody the shame the novel's title names. Rushdie's satirical fable is more direct and controlled than either Midnight's Children or The Satanic Verses, and its portrait of how shame operates as political control is as precise as anything he has written.

A linen weaver falsely accused of theft retreats into misanthropy and the hoarding of gold — until his gold is stolen and a golden-haired foundling child appears at his hearth, drawing him slowly back into human life.

Shep Knacker has saved his whole life for an early retirement in a developing country — until his wife Glynis is diagnosed with a rare and ruinously expensive cancer. A devastating examination of the American healthcare system through the lives of ordinary people it destroys.

The third volume in Ryan Holiday's Stoic trilogy argues that stillness — inner calm and focus — is the competitive advantage that all great achievers across history have cultivated.

The second volume of Memory, Sorrow and Thorn expands the world of Osten Ard while multiple groups pursue their separate quests toward the gathering storm. Simon is growing up; the Storm King's power is growing; and the three swords of the title prophecy become clearer in their significance.

Two strangers meet on a train: Guy Haines, an architect trying to escape his unhappy marriage, and Charles Bruno, a wealthy charming sociopath. Bruno proposes a perfect crime — they will swap murders, each killing the other's problem person. Guy refuses, but Bruno kills his wife anyway, then demands Guy complete the bargain. Highsmith's debut novel and the template for her entire career: the complicity between the guilty and the innocent, the creeping contamination of violence.

The second volume of Clavell's Asian Saga follows Dirk Struan — the Tai-Pan, supreme leader of a powerful trading company — as he fights to establish the British colony of Hong Kong in 1841, battling rivals, Chinese tongs, and the forces that seek to destroy everything he has built.

Eleven interconnected stories set in Firozsha Baag, a Parsi apartment complex in Bombay — a community portrait that introduces many of the themes and the compassionate vision that would define Mistry's later novels.

A curated anthology of Fortune magazine articles spanning five decades, edited by Carol Loomis, that traces Warren Buffett's rise from obscure Omaha investor to the world's most celebrated businessman. The collection captures Buffett's evolving philosophy, sharp wit, and uncommon candor across a remarkable career.

When a colonisation vessel suffers critical damage to its deceleration system, its crew of fifty find themselves unable to slow down — accelerating ever closer to the speed of light, watching millennia pass outside while they age normally within. A masterpiece of hard science fiction that takes Einstein's equations to their most terrifying logical conclusion.

Tex McCormick is fourteen, easy-going, and content with his life in rural Oklahoma — unlike his older brother Mason, who resents everything about it. When their absent father stays away too long, the differences between the brothers deepen toward breaking point.

A philosophical meditation on why we travel, what we hope to find, and why the reality so rarely matches the anticipation — structured around de Botton's own journeys and the writers, artists, and thinkers who have illuminated the meaning of travel.