Best Bestseller Books — Reviews & Ratings

98.6 Degrees

by Cody Lundin

5/5

Cody Lundin runs the Aboriginal Living Skills School and built his own off-grid earth home in the high Arizona desert. His thesis is simple and unforgiving: every short-term survival emergency comes down to keeping your body's core temperature at 98.6°F. Everything else is decoration.

Survival & Preparedness

A Civil Action

by Jonathan Harr

5/5

The true story of the toxic waste case that pitted Massachusetts attorney Jan Schlichtmann against two of the country's largest corporations, W. R. Grace and Beatrice Foods. A National Book Critics Circle Award winner and the basis for the 1998 film starring John Travolta.

Law & Legal History

A Random Walk Down Wall Street

by Burton G. Malkiel

5/5

Burton Malkiel's gimlet-eyed and ever-relevant guidebook is the personal finance classic that makes the case for low-cost index investing. In its thirteenth edition, A Random Walk Down Wall Street has remained an indispensable book through the dot-com mania, financial crisis, and the COVID-19 pandemic — and explains the new frontier of meme stocks, NFTs, and crypto.

Personal Finance & Investing Business & Leadership

A Theory of Justice

by John Rawls

5/5

John Rawls's 1971 masterwork reframed political philosophy for the twentieth century. The "veil of ignorance" thought experiment — design the rules of society without knowing where you'll land in it — has become a standard tool in legal, political, and moral reasoning.

Law & Legal Philosophy

The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing

by Taylor Larimore, Mel Lindauer, Michael LeBoeuf

5/5

Three retired Bogleheads — disciples of Vanguard founder Jack Bogle — distill the community's collective wisdom into a single accessible volume. Index-fund-first, low-cost, tax-aware investing for the long haul. Covers asset allocation, rebalancing, tax-advantaged accounts, behavioral pitfalls, and estate planning, all from the same coherent philosophy.

Personal Finance & Investing

Bushcraft 101

by Dave Canterbury

5/5

A New York Times bestseller built around the "5 Cs of Survivability" — cutting tools, covering, combustion devices, containers, and cordage. Canterbury draws on more than two decades of bushcraft experience to teach the fundamental skills for thriving in the woods, not just surviving them.

Survival & Preparedness

Deep Survival

by Laurence Gonzales

5/5

Part journalism, part neuroscience, part personal story, Gonzales investigates why some people walk out of impossible situations while others — often more experienced — perish. Drawing on accident reports, survivor interviews, and cognitive science, Deep Survival is the definitive book on the psychology of staying alive.

Survival & Preparedness Psychology & Behavioral Science

Digital Gold

by Nathaniel Popper

5/5

New York Times reporter Nathaniel Popper tells the definitive story of the brilliant misfits, surprising successes, and notorious failures who have transformed bitcoin in just a few short years from an idea passed around an obscure internet mailing list into a multibillion-dollar industry that is reshaping the global economy.

Crypto & Blockchain History Memoir & Biography

The Encyclopedia of Country Living

by Carla Emery

5/5

The original homesteading bible, started by Carla Emery in the 1970s and continually expanded for half a century. Covers gardening, food preservation, livestock, dairying, butchering, beekeeping, and every other skill that used to be common knowledge before supermarkets. 928 pages of self-sufficient living, written like a letter from your most knowledgeable aunt.

Survival & Preparedness

Gideon's Trumpet

by Anthony Lewis

5/5

The classic backstory of one of the most significant Supreme Court decisions in American history. In 1962, a penniless Florida prisoner named Clarence Earl Gideon sent a handwritten petition to the Supreme Court. The result, Gideon v. Wainwright, established the right to appointed counsel for criminal defendants who could not afford a lawyer.

Law & Legal History

How to Cook Everything

by Mark Bittman

5/5

Mark Bittman's modern answer to The Joy of Cooking — 2,000+ unfussy recipes covering every technique a home cook actually uses, written in his trademark practical, no-nonsense voice. Bittman doesn't romanticize cooking; he makes it accessible, and that's why this book has sold millions of copies and earned a permanent spot on countless American kitchen counters.

Cookbooks & Food

I Will Teach You to Be Rich

by Ramit Sethi

5/5

Ramit Sethi's six-week, automation-first system for personal finance: optimize credit cards, set up high-yield checking and savings, automate Roth IRA and 401(k) contributions, build conscious spending around what you actually love. The second edition (2019) is a top-to-bottom rewrite for the modern financial landscape.

Personal Finance & Investing

Joy of Cooking

by Irma S. Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker, Ethan Becker, John Becker, Megan Scott

5/5

The all-purpose American cookbook reference, originally written by Irma Rombauer in 1931 and continually expanded by four generations of her family. The 2019 edition adds 600 new recipes and updates classic recipes with modern technique while keeping the character of the original. 1,200 pages of conversational, competent, comprehensive home cooking.

Cookbooks & Food

Just Mercy

by Bryan Stevenson

5/5

Bryan Stevenson was a young lawyer when he founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a legal practice dedicated to defending those most desperate and in need: the poor, the wrongly condemned, and women and children trapped in the farthest reaches of our criminal justice system. One of his first cases was Walter McMillian, a young man condemned to die for a notorious murder he didn't commit.

Law & Legal Memoir & Biography History

Making Your Case

by Antonin Scalia, Bryan A. Garner

5/5

Justice Antonin Scalia and legal-writing master Bryan Garner combined forces to write the practitioner's bible for appellate advocacy. Covers brief-writing, oral argument, dealing with the bench, and the rhetorical habits that distinguish the lawyers judges actually want to read.

Law & Legal Business & Leadership

Mastering the Art of French Cooking

by Julia Child, Louisette Bertholle, Simone Beck

5/5

The 1961 cookbook that introduced French technique to American home kitchens and made Julia Child a household name. Every recipe is laid out with an exacting, patient hand: ingredients, method, variations, and the underlying technique you'll carry forward. The 40th-anniversary edition reproduces the original text in full.

Cookbooks & Food

Number Go Up

by Zeke Faux

5/5

In 2021, cryptocurrency went mainstream. Giant investment funds poured billions, A-list celebrities promoted alt-coins to followers, and one hundred million ordinary people downloaded apps. Then it all came crashing down. Zeke Faux, an investigative reporter at Bloomberg, was there for all of it.

Crypto & Blockchain Business & Leadership

One L

by Scott Turow

5/5

An autobiographical account of Scott Turow's first year at Harvard Law School, where the brilliant and ambitious are systematically broken down and remade into lawyers. One L is the book every law student reads before — or during — their first year, and the one their spouses read to understand what happened to the person they married.

Law & Legal Memoir & Biography

One Up On Wall Street

by Peter Lynch

5/5

More than one million copies have been sold of this seminal book on investing in which legendary mutual-fund manager Peter Lynch explains the advantages that average investors have over professionals and how they can use them to achieve financial success.

Personal Finance & Investing Business & Leadership

Ottolenghi Simple

by Yotam Ottolenghi

5/5

Yotam Ottolenghi's answer to readers who loved his earlier cookbooks but found them ambitious for weeknights. Every recipe in Simple meets at least one of six criteria — short on time, ingredients, technique, pantry-only, prepare in advance, or lazy weekend — without sacrificing the bold, vegetable-forward Middle Eastern flavors that made his name.

Cookbooks & Food

Plain English for Lawyers

by Richard C. Wydick, Amy E. Sloan

5/5

Richard Wydick's slim 1979 classic taught a generation of lawyers to stop writing like lawyers. Now updated by Amy Sloan, the sixth edition remains the most concise, practical guide to legal writing in print.

Law & Legal Business & Leadership

The Prepper's Blueprint

by Tess Pennington

5/5

Pennington built ReadyNutrition.com and turned years of writing into a structured 52-week prep program. The book is organized as a layered checklist — short-term, mid-term, long-term — so you can start where you are and build outward without getting overwhelmed by the firehose of "what about this?" questions that derail most beginners.

Survival & Preparedness

Reading Law

by Antonin Scalia, Bryan A. Garner

5/5

Justice Scalia and Bryan Garner present and explain 57 canons of legal interpretation — the rules judges use (or should use) to read statutes, contracts, and constitutions. The definitive textualist manifesto and reference.

Law & Legal

Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat

by Samin Nosrat

5/5

Chef and writer Samin Nosrat distills cooking down to four mastering elements — salt for flavor, fat for richness, acid for balance, and heat for transformation. Illustrated by Wendy MacNaughton, this James Beard Award-winning instructional cookbook teaches you to cook well anywhere, from any ingredient, without recipes.

Cookbooks & Food

SAS Survival Handbook

by John 'Lofty' Wiseman

5/5

Written by an ex-SAS soldier with decades of front-line experience, this is the most authoritative guide to surviving any situation, anywhere on Earth. Covering everything from basic camp craft and navigation to recognizing and avoiding poisonous plants and animals, securing food and water, and signaling for rescue.

Survival & Preparedness

Six Seasons

by Joshua McFadden

5/5

Joshua McFadden, chef of Portland's Ava Gene's, organizes vegetable cookery not by ingredient but by the six micro-seasons of produce — early spring, late spring, early summer, midsummer, fall, and winter. The James Beard Award-winning result is a cookbook that teaches you to cook what's actually good right now, with technique that scales from snap pea to winter squash.

Cookbooks & Food

The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook

by Deb Perelman

5/5

Deb Perelman cooks out of a 42-square-foot New York City kitchen and writes the beloved Smitten Kitchen blog, where she's developed a following of millions for her flexible, forgiving, deeply tested recipes. Her debut cookbook collects 100 new recipes (none from the blog) along with photographs of every dish.

Cookbooks & Food

The Bitcoin Standard

by Saifedean Ammous

5/5

When a pseudonymous programmer introduced "a new electronic cash system that's fully peer-to-peer, with no trusted third party" to a small online mailing list in 2008, very few paid attention. Ten years later — and to the surprise of many — Bitcoin has grown to become a financial asset with a market value of hundreds of billions of dollars. Ammous makes the economic case for it.

Crypto & Blockchain Personal Finance & Investing

The Brethren

by Bob Woodward, Scott Armstrong

5/5

Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong's 1979 inside account of the Burger Court was the first time anyone had successfully reported the Supreme Court from inside, using clerks, justices, and internal memoranda. The book is part of the canon of American legal journalism.

Law & Legal History Memoir & Biography

The Food Lab

by J. Kenji López-Alt

5/5

A 958-page brick of a book in which former MIT engineer J. Kenji López-Alt systematically tests, photographs, and explains the science behind everyday cooking. Why does meat brown? What does brining actually do? Why do some scrambled eggs turn out rubbery? Each chapter is a research paper disguised as a delicious weeknight meal.

Cookbooks & Food

The Infinite Machine

by Camila Russo

5/5

Russo, a former Bloomberg journalist and founder of The Defiant, charts Ethereum's rocky path from Vitalik Buterin's teenage white paper to a $200B+ network that hosts DeFi, NFTs, and most of crypto's most interesting experiments. The definitive narrative history of Ethereum.

Crypto & Blockchain History Memoir & Biography

The Intelligent Investor

by Benjamin Graham

5/5

The classic text annotated to update Graham's timeless wisdom for today's market conditions. The greatest investment advisor of the twentieth century, Benjamin Graham taught and inspired people worldwide. Graham's philosophy of "value investing" has made this book the stock market bible since its original publication in 1949.

Personal Finance & Investing Business & Leadership

The Little Book of Common Sense Investing

by John C. Bogle

5/5

John C. Bogle, founder of Vanguard and inventor of the index fund, shares his investing wisdom in this updated 10th-anniversary edition. The classic guide to getting smart about the market — and to a more secure financial future.

Personal Finance & Investing Business & Leadership

The Millionaire Next Door

by Thomas J. Stanley, William D. Danko

5/5

After two decades of survey research, Stanley and Danko mapped the actual habits of America's millionaires and found something startling: most of them don't look rich. They drive used cars, live in unassuming neighborhoods, shop at warehouse clubs, and have spent decades quietly outsaving and outinvesting their high-income, high-spending neighbors. The original research-backed PAW (Prodigious Accumulator of Wealth) framework still reshapes how readers think about what wealth actually looks like.

Personal Finance & Investing Psychology & Behavioral Science

The New Jim Crow

by Michelle Alexander

5/5

Once in a great while a book comes along that changes the way we see the world and helps to fuel a nationwide social movement. The New Jim Crow is such a book. Michelle Alexander argues that "we have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it."

Law & Legal History

The Price of Tomorrow

by Jeff Booth

5/5

Technology is deflationary. We are heading for an economy where prices fall forever. But our entire economic system — central banks, debt-driven growth, the dollar reserve standard — depends on inflation. Booth argues this contradiction is heading for a violent reset, and that Bitcoin is the soft landing.

Crypto & Blockchain Business & Leadership Personal Finance & Investing

The Simple Path to Wealth

by JL Collins

5/5

JL Collins distilled his "Stock Series" of letters to his daughter into the clearest investing book in print. Buy low-cost total stock market index funds (he likes Vanguard's VTSAX), keep your spending below your income, invest the difference, ignore the noise, and let compounding do the rest. No proprietary system, no products to sell, no complexity that doesn't pay for itself.

Personal Finance & Investing

When All Hell Breaks Loose

by Cody Lundin

5/5

Lundin's follow-up to 98.6 Degrees focuses on home-based emergencies: power outages, hurricanes, earthquakes, pandemics, and longer-duration disruptions that strand you in your own house instead of in the woods. Practical, dryly funny, and packed with checklists.

Survival & Preparedness

Where There Is No Doctor

by David Werner

5/5

Originally written by David Werner for villages in rural Mexico without access to medical care, this is the most widely used health care manual in the world, translated into more than 80 languages. Plain-language guidance for recognizing, treating, and preventing common illnesses and injuries when a doctor isn't available.

Survival & Preparedness Health & Wellness

Your Money or Your Life

by Vicki Robin, Joe Dominguez

5/5

Vicki Robin and Joe Dominguez's foundational personal finance text — the book that named the concept of financial independence and gave the FIRE movement its philosophical backbone. Nine steps for tracking life energy spent, calculating real hourly wage, eliminating wasted spending, and building a portfolio that frees you from required work.

Personal Finance & Investing Philosophy

Bitcoin Billionaires

by Ben Mezrich

4/5

In November of 2008, a mysterious paper appeared online detailing a new form of currency that promised to revolutionize the way we think about money. After their epic legal battle with Facebook, the Winklevoss twins bet on Bitcoin — and won big. Mezrich brings his trademark cinematic storytelling to the rise of bitcoin.

Crypto & Blockchain Memoir & Biography History

Going Infinite

by Michael Lewis

4/5

Michael Lewis followed Sam Bankman-Fried for over a year, beginning when he was running FTX, the world's largest crypto exchange, and finishing with him in jail awaiting trial. Lewis is the only journalist who had this level of access to the most famous fraudster of the 2020s.

Crypto & Blockchain Business & Leadership Memoir & Biography

Quit Like a Millionaire

by Kristy Shen, Bryce Leung

4/5

From two not-quite-yet-retired authors comes a no-gimmicks plan for reaching financial independence by your forties. After becoming the youngest retiree on the cover of MarketWatch, Kristy Shen now teaches millions how to retire early without sacrificing their lives.

Personal Finance & Investing Memoir & Biography

The Index Card

by Helaine Olen, Harold Pollack

4/5

Helaine Olen and Harold Pollack expand on the ten rules of personal finance that — they argue — can fit on a single index card and constitute everything most people need to know. Max your 401(k), pay off the credit card, buy inexpensive funds, and avoid the financial-services industry's expensive nonsense.

Personal Finance & Investing

The Internet of Money

by Andreas M. Antonopoulos

4/5

Bitcoin, the first decentralized digital currency, has gained enormous attention as a major potential disruptor in the financial industry. While many books explain the "how" of bitcoin, this book delves into the "why" through a series of compelling talks by master communicator Andreas Antonopoulos.

Crypto & Blockchain Philosophy

The Kite Runner

by Khaled Hosseini

4/5

Amir, a well-off boy in Kabul, betrays his loyal friend Hassan during a kite-fighting tournament, setting off decades of guilt. Years later, now living in America, he returns to a Taliban-controlled Afghanistan to make amends. A devastating story of friendship, betrayal, and the possibility of redemption.

Fiction & Literature

The Little Book That Still Beats the Market

by Joel Greenblatt

4/5

In 2005, Joel Greenblatt published a book that is already considered one of the classics of finance literature. In The Little Book that Beats the Market, Greenblatt outlines a "magic formula" he developed to help even amateur investors evaluate stocks. The updated edition revisits the formula's performance.

Personal Finance & Investing Business & Leadership

The Richest Man in Babylon

by George S. Clason

4/5

Beloved by millions, this timeless classic holds the key to all you desire and everything you wish to accomplish. This is the book that reveals the secret to personal wealth. Now widely recognized as the greatest of all inspirational works on the subject of thrift and financial planning, these fascinating and informative stories set in ancient Babylon have become a modern classic.

Personal Finance & Investing

The Total Money Makeover

by Dave Ramsey

4/5

Dave Ramsey's signature seven-step plan for getting out of debt and building wealth — the "Baby Steps." Save a $1,000 starter emergency fund, snowball your debts smallest to largest, fully fund your emergency reserve, then invest 15% of income for retirement. Sold over five million copies on the strength of one idea: the math works only when you change the behavior first.

Personal Finance & Investing

Think and Grow Rich

by Napoleon Hill

3/5

Think and Grow Rich, originally published in 1937, is the result of more than twenty years of research by Napoleon Hill, who studied the lives of more than 500 successful people, including Andrew Carnegie, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, and others. The book has helped millions of readers around the world identify and achieve their goals and reach financial success.

Personal Finance & Investing Business & Leadership Self-Help & Personal Growth

#Bestseller

98.6 Degrees

A Civil Action

A Random Walk Down Wall Street

A Theory of Justice

The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing

Bushcraft 101

Deep Survival

Digital Gold

The Encyclopedia of Country Living

Gideon's Trumpet

How to Cook Everything

I Will Teach You to Be Rich

Joy of Cooking

Just Mercy

Making Your Case

Mastering the Art of French Cooking

Number Go Up

One L

One Up On Wall Street

Ottolenghi Simple

Plain English for Lawyers

The Prepper's Blueprint

Reading Law

Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat

SAS Survival Handbook

Six Seasons

The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook

The Bitcoin Standard

The Brethren

The Food Lab

The Infinite Machine

The Intelligent Investor

The Little Book of Common Sense Investing

The Millionaire Next Door

The New Jim Crow

The Price of Tomorrow

The Simple Path to Wealth

When All Hell Breaks Loose

Where There Is No Doctor

Your Money or Your Life

Bitcoin Billionaires

Going Infinite

Quit Like a Millionaire

The Index Card

The Internet of Money

The Kite Runner

The Little Book That Still Beats the Market

The Richest Man in Babylon

The Total Money Makeover

Think and Grow Rich

98.6 Degrees

A Civil Action

A Random Walk Down Wall Street

A Theory of Justice

The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing

Bushcraft 101

Deep Survival

Digital Gold

The Encyclopedia of Country Living

Gideon's Trumpet

How to Cook Everything

I Will Teach You to Be Rich

Joy of Cooking

Just Mercy

Making Your Case

Mastering the Art of French Cooking

Number Go Up

One L

One Up On Wall Street

Ottolenghi Simple

Plain English for Lawyers

The Prepper's Blueprint

Reading Law

Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat

SAS Survival Handbook

Six Seasons

The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook

The Bitcoin Standard

The Brethren