Book summaries from the world’s best non-fiction books
In The 5 Types of Wealth, Sahil Bloom offers a transformative guide, full of practical steps and actionable insights, for redesigning your life around five types of wealth: Time, Social, Mental, Physical, and Financial. The result is a deep satisfaction…
Bill Gates is one of the most transformative figures of our age. In Source Code he takes us back to his beginnings.He describes with candour his childhood in Seattle, the centrality of family – his close relationship with his card-playing…
Sleep is a magical phenomenon. When you are a good sleeper, you close your eyes and, before you know it, you go on a journey into a wonderful world beyond full consciousness. Sleep has hardly changed since Paleolithic humans snoozed…
Superagency offers a roadmap for using AI inclusively and adaptively to improve our lives and create positive change. While acknowledging challenges like disinformation and potential job changes, the book focuses on AI’s immense potential to increase individual agency and create…
The procrastination cure by Keith Hammond Get the book: Let’s face it, you’re probably reading this book as an excuse not to do something else. Whether that’s an excuse not to do the pile of laundry, or to go…
The ultimate hidden truth of the world by David Graeber Get the book: “The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently,” wrote David Graeber. A…
The shock doctrine by Naomi Klein Get the book: Around the world in Britain, the United States, Asia and the Middle East, there are people with power who are cashing in on chaos; exploiting bloodshed and catastrophe to brutally…
The tipping point by Malcolm Gladwell Geet the book: In this brilliant and original book, Malcolm Gladwell explains and analyses the ‘tipping point’, that magic moment when ideas, trends and social behaviour cross a threshold, tip and spread like…
Factfulness by Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Rönnlund Get the book: Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think is an insightful book by Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling,…
A short history of nearly everything by Bill Bryson Get the book: Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller, but even when he stays safely at home he can’t contain his curiosity about the world around him. A…
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