Library

619 books, distilled. Every one narrated.

16 shelves, picked one book at a time. Each summary runs about 11 minutes to read or to listen to — and every title carries a note on why it earns its place.

619Book summaries
16Categories
619Narrated in full
~11 minAverage read

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Every book comes with a reason

A book only gets shelved here once we can say, in one line, what it does for you. That line sits under every title in the library. Three of them:

The Art of War

Sun Tzu · 2003

A 2,500-year-old Chinese treatise whose core lesson, win before you fight, by out-thinking rather than out-muscling your rival, still governs every boardroom, negotiation, and rivalry today.

11 min read · 9 chapters Read the 11-minute summary → More in Business →
Ultra-Processed People

Chris van Tulleken · 2023

A doctor eats 80% ultra-processed food for a month, watches his own brain and body change, and proves the problem isn't your willpower, it's a category of food engineered to be overeaten.

12 min read · 8 chapters Read the 12-minute summary → More in Health →
How Minds Change

David McRaney · 2022

The rare persuasion book grounded in real deconversion science: it proves minds change through respect and self-reflection, not better facts hurled harder.

11 min read · 8 chapters Read the 11-minute summary → More in Communication →