Mere Christianity
C. S. Lewis builds a plain case for Christian belief from morals, faith, and habit.
2,923-word summary · 13 min read
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Diamond argues geography and crops explain why some societies expanded faster than others.
3,432-word summary · 15 min read
A Child Called It
Dave survives his mother games of hunger and cold in Daly City until teachers and foster care step in.
2,326-word summary · 10 min read
A Brief History of Time
Hawking walks from ancient spheres to big bang, black holes, and time arrows without equations.
2,210-word summary · 10 min read
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Kahneman's tour of two minds: fast gut System 1 and slow careful System 2, and how biases, overconfidence, and framing shape every choice.
2,306-word summary · 10 min read
The Power of Habit
Why we do what we do: the cue routine reward loop, keystone habits, and how companies and movements use the same science, from toothpaste to the bus boycott.
2,207-word summary · 10 min read
The Art of War
Sun Tzu's thirteen chapters on winning without fighting: laying plans, knowing ground, using spies, and why the best victory costs least, in the classic Giles…
2,029-word summary · 9 min read
Into Thin Air
Krakauer's account of the 1996 Everest disaster: a guided summit push, a sudden storm, and the choices that left eight dead above 26,000 feet.
2,447-word summary · 11 min read
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
Malala grows up in Swat, blogged for school under ban, and survives a bus shooting.
2,015-word summary · 9 min read
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Fast judgments can beat analysis, and fail hard, in Gladwell's 2005 book on snap thinking.
2,008-word summary · 9 min read
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
At 26 Cheryl Strayed hikes the Pacific Crest Trail alone to grieve and reset.
2,075-word summary · 9 min read
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
How tiny shifts push ideas and products past a tipping point into epidemics.
2,014-word summary · 9 min read