Library

620 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.

  • 620Book summaries
  • 16Categories
  • 620Narrated 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 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 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 More in Communication →

Browse the shelves

16 categories, 620 summaries, 5,342 chapters. Open a shelf to read every title on it, with the note that put it there.

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