Sapiens looks at human history through a wide lens, tracing how stories, beliefs, and shared myths shaped who we became. Harari challenges the idea that progress is purely linear, asking harder questions about power, meaning, and what we’ve traded away in the process. It’s less a history book and more an invitation to step back and examine the assumptions we rarely question about success, happiness, and civilization itself.

Aflame reflects on how Pico Iyer uses long stretches of silence, including retreats at a Benedictine hermitage, as a way to meet life more clearly, not escape it. Set alongside personal loss and disruption, the book shows how stillness builds steadiness when everything else feels unstable.

It examines how something as basic as breathing has been misunderstood, and how modern habits have made us worse at it. Nestor blends science, history, and personal experimentation to show how breath affects sleep, stress, performance, and long-term health. The book challenges the idea that breathing is automatic and inconsequential, arguing instead that learning how to breathe well is a practical lever for resilience, focus, and physical wellbeing.

It lays out a practical framework for leading with responsibility, awareness, and integrity. Rather than focusing on tactics or charisma, it asks leaders to take ownership of their mindset, reactions, and impact on others.

The book touches on accountability, emotional intelligence, psychological safety, and systems thinking, positioning leadership as an internal discipline that shapes sustainable performance and healthier organizations.

Dissolution is a sci-fi thriller about a woman who realizes her husband’s dementia is not what it seems. She uncovers a secret experiment stripping away his memories, she’s pulled into a conspiracy that bends time and destabilizes reality.

The book explores memory, identity, time, grief, and the ethics of technological control, asking what makes a person whole and what remains when memory, agency, and truth are altered.

The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny folows two young people coming of age between India and the US, shaped by family expectation, migration, and professional ambition. Desai is especially astute in her observation of culture, capturing class, displacement, and family dynamics through precise, understated detail.

The Secret History pulls you into a closed world of brilliant, insulated students who believe they live by different rules. What begins as an obsession with intellect, beauty, and belonging slowly reveals the ways people rationalize harm. The novel isn’t really about the crime, it’s about identity, power, and how the desire to belong can erode judgment long before anyone admits it.