However, our brains fall victim to a wide range of biases that cause our predictions of the future (and our memories of the past) to be inaccurate. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (1868-9). by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

A Bend in the River by VS Naipaul (1979). Edgar Allan Poe’s only novel – a classic adventure story with supernatural elements – has fascinated and influenced generations of writers. Print | eBook | Audiobook. Because of these mental errors it is remarkably difficult to predict what will make us feel happy. I was trying to remember a key point from The Power of Moments, and your summary helped me remember it. by Laurence Shames and Peter Barton Print | eBook | Audiobook. If you would like to browse my book suggestions for a particular category, then check out my reading list instead. Guns, Germs, and Steel Peter Carey rounds off our list of literary milestones with a Booker prize-winning tour-de-force examining the life and times of Australia’s infamous antihero, Ned Kelly. Philosophy Book Summaries. The US novelist’s debut revelled in a Paris underworld of seedy sex and changed the course of the novel – though not without a fight with the censors.
The Book in Three Sentences: Oliver Sacks was a brilliant physician and a fantastic writer. Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome (1889). Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons (1932). The Book in Three Sentences: The only thing you have that nobody else has is control of your life. The capacity to bring old elements into new combinations depends largely on your ability to see relationships.

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37. by Jayson Gaignard Just Mercy 94. by Spencer Johnson George Orwell’s dystopian classic cost its author dear but is arguably the best-known novel in English of the 20th century. Print | eBook | Audiobook. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison (1977). The Art of War The Rainbow is perhaps DH Lawrence’s finest work, showing him for the radical, protean, thoroughly modern writer he was.

by Ethan Hawke To write a good summary, read the book carefully while taking … Are You Fully Charged? There are competing beliefs within your unconscious mind that are all battling for the single output of your conscious behavior. Writing Book Summaries. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck Taking massive action is the only way to fulfill your true potential. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (1932).

Check out my popular reading lists to find more good books to read. Along with many other insights. All significant learning is composed of brief spurts of progress followed by long periods of work where if feels as if you are stuck on a plateau. These book summaries are not organized by category, so you might find a self-help book followed by a business book followed by a psychology book.


Health and Fitness Book Summaries. Money: A Suicide Note by Martin Amis (1984). The Book in Three Sentences: We do not realize how much the non-conscious mind impacts our behavior and personality. A Technique for Producing Ideas

Since 2015, I’ve written 100+ book summaries for the best non-fiction books of all time. The most dependable way to outperform the market is to buy something for less than its value. 18. Ford’s masterpiece is a searing study of moral dissolution behind the facade of an English gentleman – and its stylistic influence lingers to this day. Print | eBook | Audiobook. There are four primary reasons Europeans rose to power and conquered the natives of North and South America, and not the other way around: 1) the continental differences in the plants and animals available for domestication, which led to more food and larger populations in Europe and Asia, 2) the rate of diffusion of agriculture, technology and innovation due to the geographic orientation of Europe and Asia (east-west) compared to the Americas (north-south), 3) the ease of intercontinental diffusion between Europe, Asia, and Africa, and 4) the differences in continental size, which led to differences in total population size and technology diffusion. The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald (1925). It’s easy to regard philosophy as esoteric and academic. Anything You Want All ideas follow a five-step process of 1) gathering material, 2) intensely working over the material in your mind, 3) stepping away from the problem, 4) allowing the idea to come back to you naturally, and 5) testing your idea in the real world and adjusting it based on feedback. They are brilliant and perfect for the train. Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner (1926). The choice is great, but Wells’s ironic portrait of a man very like himself is the novel that stands out. by George S. Clason Available for everyone, funded by readers.

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The Book in Three Sentences: You can do just about anything if you break down the task into habits. This cathedral of words stands today as perhaps the greatest of the great Victorian fictions. 53. VS Naipaul’s hellish vision of an African nation’s path to independence saw him accused of racism, but remains his masterpiece. Print | eBook | Audiobook. by Sam Harris 29. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (1884/5).

This is a complete list of my book summaries in alphabetical order by title.

The Book in Three Sentences: The two classic drivers of human development are nature (genes) and nurture (environment). Nineteen Nineteen by John Dos Passos (1932).

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne (1759). The Book in Three Sentences: Ultimately, profit is the only valid metric for guiding a company, and there are only three ways to influence profit: price, volume, and cost. If a particular book sounds interesting to you, click on the full book summary and you can browse all of my notes on it. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (1719).

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe (1838). I get to have the knowledge of all these great books and You read them!

Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom, Updike’s lovably mediocre alter ego, is one of America’s great literary protoganists, up there with Huck Finn and Jay Gatsby. 54. For example, 1) never announce that you are a knight, simply behave as one and 2) the only intelligent response to the ongoing gift of life is gratitude, and 3) how a knight lives is what is important, not on which particular afternoon he was born or on which specific morning he might die. The Power of Fifty Bits Print | eBook | Audiobook. Its great breakthrough was its intimate dialogue with the reader.