Best Bestsellers Books

Cal Stephanides narrates the history of a genetic mutation across three generations of a Greek-American family — from Smyrna in 1922 to Detroit in the 1960s and 1970s — that eventually produces Cal: a hermaphrodite raised as a girl who discovers his true biology in adolescence.

Margaret Hale, a clergyman's daughter raised in the rural south of England, is forced to relocate to the grimy industrial north town of Milton where she meets the mill owner John Thornton and finds both her prejudices and her understanding of class radically transformed.

Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein show how small changes to the way choices are presented can steer people toward better decisions without restricting freedom.

A Vietnamese-American son writes a letter to his illiterate mother — she will never read it. Ocean Vuong's debut novel traces childhood, war's inheritance, queer first love, and the search for language adequate to lives that official history leaves out.

Narrated by Chief Bromden, a half-Native American patient who pretends to be deaf and dumb, the novel follows the arrival of Randle P. McMurphy to a psychiatric ward and his systematic challenge to the authoritarian Nurse Ratched and the institution she represents.

Snowman may be the last human alive after an engineered plague has wiped out humanity. Surviving among a tribe of genetically modified humanoids, he looks back on his friendship with the brilliant, catastrophic Crake — and the world they destroyed together.

A compelling argument that our society dramatically undervalues introverts and the tremendous power of their deep thinking, focus, and quiet contributions.

A young woman marries the brooding Maxim de Winter and moves to his grand estate Manderley, where the memory of his glamorous first wife Rebecca poisons every room and every relationship.

In 2131, a massive cylindrical alien spacecraft enters the solar system, and Commander Norton leads a crew to explore it before it departs — discovering a perfect, silent, alien world inside with no clear purpose and no clear occupants.

Colin Bridgerton discovers that Penelope Featherington — the wallflower he has known for years, and the anonymous Lady Whistledown — has secretly loved him for a decade.

An investigation into why some leaders and organisations are more influential and innovative than others, based on the Golden Circle framework.

A flu pandemic obliterates civilization, and twenty years later a traveling Shakespeare company moves through the Great Lakes region, their story woven together with the pre-collapse lives of an actor whose death on opening night becomes the novel's pivot point.

The authorised biography of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, based on more than forty interviews with Jobs and over one hundred with family members, friends, adversaries, and colleagues.

Huck Finn and the escaped slave Jim raft down the Mississippi River in a journey that becomes the great American meditation on freedom, race, and conscience.

Two Jewish cousins — a Czech refugee with Houdini-level escape artistry and a Brooklyn teenager with a gift for business — create one of the golden age of comics' most enduring superheroes, The Escapist, while navigating World War II, love, loss, and the American immigrant experience. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize.

Using data from archaeology, history, psychology, and criminology, Steven Pinker argues that violence in virtually every form — war, murder, torture, child abuse, animal cruelty — has declined dramatically over human history, and identifies the institutional, cognitive, and cultural forces responsible.

The investment guide inspired by Jack Bogle's philosophy — written by three of the most active members of the Bogleheads online forum. Covers the full arc from starting to invest through retirement, emphasising low-cost index funds, broad diversification, tax efficiency, and ignoring market noise.

Lawrence Cunningham's compilation of Warren Buffett's annual letters to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders, organised by theme rather than chronology. Covers corporate governance, finance, investments, mergers and acquisitions, accounting, and the valuation framework that made Buffett the world's greatest investor.

Twelve-year-old Jonas lives in a Community where pain, conflict, and choice have been eradicated through Sameness — until the Ceremony of Twelve assigns him the singular role of Receiver of Memory, forcing him to carry the full weight of human history and exposing the quiet violence that keeps his world frictionless.

Lyra Belacqua lives in Jordan College, Oxford, in a parallel world where human souls exist outside the body as animal companions called daemons. After her friend Roger is kidnapped by the mysterious Gobblers, she embarks on a journey north that leads her to the Magisterium's most terrible secret.

Four children stumble through a wardrobe into Narnia, a land frozen in eternal winter under the White Witch's tyranny, where the return of Aslan the lion sets in motion a conflict between sacrifice and redemption.

Twenty-four case histories from Sacks's neurological practice — patients who have lost the ability to recognise faces, who have Tourette's, who have lost all sense of their own body, who see the world as if it were a painting. Each case is also a meditation on what it means to be a self.

A groundbreaking research study revealing how America's wealthy actually live — not in luxury, but with discipline, frugality, and long-term thinking.

Milo, a bored boy who finds no meaning in anything, drives his toy car through a mysterious tollbooth and enters the Lands Beyond — a kingdom where words and numbers are at war and only he can restore balance by rescuing the banished Princesses Rhyme and Reason.