Best Bestsellers Books

In 2024, a teenage girl in a walled California community watches civilization collapse and begins developing a new religion as she leads survivors north toward safety.

Twelve-year-old Percy Jackson discovers he is the son of a Greek god and must prevent a war among the Olympians by recovering Zeus's stolen master lightning bolt.

A man lives alone in a vast, labyrinthine House of endless halls filled with statues, tides, and clouds, keeping meticulous journals of a world he believes to be complete — until anomalies in his journals suggest a truth he has been prevented from remembering.

In a future dystopia, teenager Wade Watts escapes reality in the OASIS virtual reality world and joins a global competition to find a hidden treasure that will determine control of the internet.

The #1 personal finance book of all time. Kiyosaki contrasts the money lessons he learned from his own 'poor dad' — his biological father — with those of his best friend's 'rich dad', arguing that what you're taught in school about money is dangerously incomplete.

A collection of 23 short essays on the timeless behaviors and patterns that drive human decision-making — the things that never change even as the world changes around them.

Set in 1980s Glasgow during Thatcherite deindustrialisation, Shuggie Bain follows a devoted young boy's desperate love for his alcoholic mother.

Milkman Dead journeys from his prosperous Michigan family into the American South in search of gold and discovers instead his family's history, his people's mythology, and the meaning of flight.

A comprehensive, revisionist history of ancient Rome from its murky origins to the extension of citizenship across the empire, written with the authority of Britain's greatest living classicist.

Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec investigates the suspicious death of a beloved woman in the idyllic village of Three Pines.

Tim Ferriss dismantles the assumption that the standard life script — work 40+ hours a week for 40 years, then retire — is either necessary or desirable. He outlines a practical system for outsourcing, automating, and liberating your work life to create what he calls 'lifestyle design'.

Two women separated by thirty years — a WWI spy and a postwar American girl — are connected by the real-life Alice Network, a ring of female spies embedded in German-occupied France.

A twelve-week program for recovering and developing creativity through two core practices: Morning Pages (three pages of stream-of-consciousness writing each morning) and the Artist's Date (a weekly solo creative excursion).

Esther Greenwood, a brilliant college student in 1950s New York, descends into mental illness and attempted suicide in Sylvia Plath's semi-autobiographical masterpiece.

A dialogue between a philosopher and a young man across five nights explores Alfred Adler's psychology of freedom — the idea that unhappiness is a choice, trauma is a story, and happiness requires the courage to be disliked.

Legendary music producer Rick Rubin offers a philosophical meditation on creativity — what it is, how it works, and how to live in a way that allows it to flourish.

Why most small businesses don't work and what to do about it — the classic guide to building a business rather than owning a job.

Three young men from the isolated village of Emond's Field are driven from their homes by dark forces — and drawn into a world-spanning conflict they barely understand, in the opening of one of fantasy's greatest and most ambitious epic series.

Marriage counselor Gary Chapman identifies five distinct ways people express and receive love — words of affirmation, quality time, receiving gifts, acts of service, and physical touch — and argues that mismatches cause most relationship conflict.

Drawing on ancient Toltec wisdom, Don Miguel Ruiz identifies four agreements — be impeccable with your word, don't take anything personally, don't make assumptions, always do your best — that can transform life by dismantling the limiting beliefs we absorbed in childhood.

A Texas farm woman faces an impossible choice during the Great Depression's Dust Bowl: stay on the land that is killing them or take her children to California's labor camps.

Jeannette Walls recounts her extraordinary childhood, raised by brilliant but dysfunctional nomadic parents who flouted convention and neglected their children's basic needs.

In 1974, a Vietnam vet moves his family to remote Alaska wilderness, where the land's magnificent isolation amplifies his PTSD and the family's survival depends on his wife and daughter's strength.

Robert Greene analyzes eighteen fundamental aspects of human psychology — from narcissism and envy to grandiosity and conformism — and shows how understanding them enables better navigation of people and situations.