Best Bestsellers Books

An examination of the science of habit formation and how habits operate in individuals, organisations, and societies — and how to change them.

Joe Coutts, thirteen years old, watches his mother return from a violent assault on an Ojibwe reservation in North Dakota. The attacker cannot be prosecuted because of a jurisdictional tangle: the crime may have occurred on tribal land, federal land, or state land, and each has different rules about who can prosecute. Joe sets out to find justice himself.

A dazzling novel about a reclusive Hollywood icon who finally tells her full, scandalous life story to an unknown young journalist.

Rand, Mat, Perrin, and Egwene each pursue separate paths as the world fractures: Rand journeys to the Aiel Waste to learn his destiny while Perrin races home to defend the Two Rivers from a Shadowspawn invasion. Widely regarded as the pinnacle of the series.

The authorised biography of Warren Buffett — written by analyst Alice Schroeder with Buffett's full cooperation. Covers his childhood in Omaha, the development of his investment philosophy under Benjamin Graham, the building of Berkshire Hathaway, and the personal life that shaped and constrained the world's greatest investor.

Alec Leamas, a British spy run ragged in Berlin, is brought back to London and offered one last mission: pose as a defector to bring down an East German intelligence chief. The mission is not what it appears to be. Le Carré's third novel made him famous and established the moral framework of serious spy fiction.

Meursault kills an Arab on an Algerian beach — and at his trial is condemned not for the murder but for his failure to grieve his mother.

A linked collection of stories about a platoon of American soldiers in Vietnam, narrated by a character named Tim O'Brien, that blurs the line between fact and fiction to argue that emotional truth matters more than factual accuracy.

Over a million Soviet women served in World War II—as snipers, pilots, surgeons, tank drivers. Alexievich interviewed hundreds of them in the late 1970s and 1980s, recording what official history excluded: not the heroic war but the sensory war—the smell, the weight, the dreams, the return home, the silence that followed.

A neuroscientist reveals the life-transforming power of sleep. Walker shows why sleep is the single most effective thing you can do to reset your brain and body — and the catastrophic consequences of neglecting it.

Bill Bryson returns to America after twenty years in England and decides to hike the Appalachian Trail — 2,200 miles from Georgia to Maine — with his out-of-shape friend Stephen Katz. They complete a memorable portion of it.

Twelve short stories that open the minimalist compression of Carver's earlier work into something wider and more generous. A blind man visits a narrator who resents his presence; a woman whose husband has died asks to be taken to the ocean; a couple moves into a new house and finds their marriage reconfigured by distance. Carver at his most humane and his most hopeful.

A Stanford psychiatrist explains how the flood of dopamine-triggering pleasures in modern society creates compulsive behaviour — and how to reset the pleasure-pain balance.

The groundbreaking book that introduced the concept of emotional intelligence to mainstream audiences and argued that EQ matters more than IQ for life success.

The landmark collection of Singer's short fiction, anchored by 'Gimpel the Fool'—translated by Saul Bellow—in which a village baker who everyone believes is a fool turns out to be the wisest man in Frampol. The other stories range across the shtetl world of pre-war Poland: demons, desire, rabbis, heretics.

William Dodd, the first US Ambassador to Hitler's Germany, arrives in Berlin in 1933 with his family. Through his diary and his daughter Martha's letters and memoirs, Larson reconstructs what it was like to watch the Nazi regime consolidate power from inside the American Embassy.

Pi Patel, the son of an Indian zookeeper, survives a shipwreck in the Pacific Ocean and spends 227 days in a lifeboat with a 450-pound Bengal tiger named Richard Parker, in a story about survival, faith, and the nature of truth itself.

Schwager interviews seventeen of the most successful traders of the 1970s and 1980s — Michael Marcus, Bruce Kovner, Richard Dennis, Paul Tudor Jones, Ed Seykota, and others. Each interview reveals a different trading philosophy and approach, while a consistent set of principles emerges across all of them.

One day—from reveille to lights out—in the life of Ivan Denisovich Shukhov, a peasant soldier serving eight years in a Stalinist labor camp. Solzhenitsyn's 1962 novella was the first published account of the Gulag to appear in the Soviet Union, approved by Khrushchev as a tool against Stalin's legacy.

Al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad rules his Cairo household with absolute authority while leading a secret life of pleasure and debauchery outside it — the first volume of Mahfouz's Cairo Trilogy follows his family through World War I and the Egyptian nationalist movement of 1919.

Written as fiction but widely understood as the autobiography of Jesse Livermore — the greatest stock speculator of the early twentieth century — this 1923 classic follows the narrator's career from bucket shops to Wall Street, through multiple fortunes made and lost, and distils lessons about markets, timing, and human nature that remain current.

In a small Irish town in the weeks before Christmas 1985, a coal merchant named Bill Furlong begins to see what the respected convent at the edge of town is hiding — and must decide whether to look away or act.

What happens to human bodies donated to science — surgical training, crash testing, forensic decomposition research, ballistics testing, and the specific history of what cadavers have contributed to human knowledge. Rendered with Roach's characteristic meticulous research and deadpan wit.

Rose grows up poor in a small Ontario town, in the back half of a house where her stepmother Flo runs a store. Through ten linked stories, she escapes via scholarship to university, marries above her class, divorces, becomes an actress, and discovers that escape from where you came from is never as complete as you planned.