Project Hail Mary
A propulsive science-fiction adventure combining credible problem-solving, high stakes, humor, and an unexpectedly moving account of friendship.
The Song of Achilles
A lyrical and intimate retelling of Greek myth that gives Patroclus and Achilles a tender human story within the machinery of war and fate.
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
A compelling Old Hollywood novel about ambition, image-making, hidden love, and the personal costs of controlling one’s public story.
The Midnight Library
An accessible speculative novel that uses alternate lives to explore regret, depression, possibility, and the value of ordinary connection.
Educated
A precise and emotionally demanding memoir about education, family loyalty, memory, and the painful work of authoring one’s own life.
Atomic Habits
A clear, practical guide to behavior change that turns ambitious goals into manageable systems, environments, and repeatable actions.
The Alchemist
A graceful philosophical fable about purpose, fear, and the courage required to pursue a life that feels authentically one’s own.
To Kill a Mockingbird
A humane coming-of-age novel that examines prejudice, conscience, and the distance between moral instruction and public action.
Nineteen Eighty-Four
A disciplined and unsettling dystopian novel about surveillance, manipulated truth, and the political destruction of private thought.
The Great Gatsby
A sharply observed American classic in which longing, wealth, and self-invention collide beneath the glitter of the Jazz Age.