Best Bestsellers Books

The deeply personal memoir of the former First Lady of the United States — from her childhood on the South Side of Chicago to the White House and beyond.

The memoir of The Daily Show host Trevor Noah, born in apartheid South Africa to a Black mother and white father — an act that was literally a crime under apartheid law.

The definitive account of the Sackler family, the pharmaceutical dynasty behind OxyContin, and their role in creating and perpetuating the opioid crisis.

The book that taught America to cook French — Julia Child's comprehensive, demystifying guide to classical French technique for the home cook, with 524 recipes.

Elie Wiesel's memoir of his experiences as a fifteen-year-old Jewish boy deported from Sighet, Transylvania to Auschwitz and then Buchenwald. One of the foundational documents of Holocaust testimony — a first-person account of the camps, the death marches, and the systematic destruction of faith, family, and identity.

Ryland Grace wakes up alone on a spacecraft millions of miles from Earth, with no memory of how he got there. As he pieces together the mission, he realises he may be humanity's last hope against a microscopic threat that is slowly extinguishing the Sun — and that he is not entirely alone.

James Beard Award-winning chef Samin Nosrat teaches the four fundamental elements that make food delicious — salt, fat, acid, and heat — and how to use them to cook confidently without recipes.

Nike founder Phil Knight's memoir of building one of the world's most iconic brands — from $50 borrowed from his father and a handshake deal for Japanese running shoes to a multi-billion dollar empire. Brutally honest and compulsively readable.

The diary kept by a Jewish teenager hiding in a secret annex in Amsterdam during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands — the most widely read personal account of the Holocaust.

J. Kenji López-Alt's landmark culinary science book explains the science behind everyday cooking and provides hundreds of recipes built on tested, proven techniques.

Odysseus's ten-year voyage home from Troy to Ithaca — through the Cyclops's cave, Circe's island, the underworld, and the sirens — is Western literature's founding journey narrative.

Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork about racial injustice and moral growth in Depression-era Alabama, seen through the eyes of young Scout Finch.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Harry S. Truman, one of America's most consequential and underestimated presidents.

A neurosurgeon diagnosed with terminal lung cancer at 36 confronts the questions he spent his career preparing to face — and writes a book about mortality, meaning, and what makes a life worth living.

In the totalitarian super-state of Oceania, Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth, rewriting history to serve The Party. His secret rebellion — and its consequences — is one of the most important political novels ever written.

Thomas Sowell delivers a comprehensive, jargon-free introduction to economic thinking that trains readers to see beyond immediate effects to the full consequences of policies and actions.

A searing analysis of America's unspoken caste system, comparing it to India's caste system and Nazi Germany's racial hierarchy to illuminate the structural foundations of inequality.

On the desert planet Arrakis, young Paul Atreides must navigate political intrigue, ecological disaster, and prophetic destiny to avenge his family and fulfil a legend centuries in the making. The best-selling science fiction novel of all time.

Tara Westover's memoir of growing up in the mountains of Idaho without formal education, in a survivalist family, and her journey to Cambridge and Harvard.

Andrew 'Ender' Wiggin is humanity's most gifted military mind, trained from childhood in the zero-gravity Battle Room of a space station to fight the alien Formics. But the game and the war may not be as separate as Ender believes.

The definitive book on the psychology of persuasion. Cialdini identifies six universal principles — reciprocity, commitment, social proof, authority, liking, and scarcity — that drive human compliance, and shows how they are exploited in sales, marketing, and everyday life.