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items What makes a book endure? Is it its prose, its characters, its groundbreaking ideas, or its ability to reflect and shape the era in which it was written? This list represents not a definitive decree, but a testament to the enduring power of literatur...
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The simple and astonishing truth about India and Indian people is that when you go there, and deal with them, your heart always guides you more wisely than your head. There’s nowhere else in the world where that’s quite so true.
This book is perfect ...
Shantaram: A Novel by Gregory David Roberts, Paperback
Never Flinch: named a Most Anticipated Book of 2025 by The New York Times Book Review, AV Club, Variety, The Boston Globe, The Minneapolis Star Tribune, Vulture, Men’s Health, Book Riot, The New York Post, Goodreads, AARP, Paste, and more! Taut, immersive and chilling, this is Stephen King at his best - Never Flinch is one of King’s richest and most propulsive novels.
Never Flinch: A Novel by Stephen King, Hardcover
This book is the definitive story of Ukraine and its people, as told by one of its most celebrated voices. Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine has ignited the largest war in Europe since the Second World War, indiscriminately spilling the blood of th... When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, the world witnessed the “creative, freewheeling, darkly humorous, and deeply resilient society” that is contemporary Ukraine. Keith Kellogg, the US’s special envoy for Ukraine, condemned the attacks of Ruzzia on 25 May 2025 “The indiscriminate killing of women and children at night in their homes is a clear violation of the 1977 Geneva peace protocols designed to protect in... wrote on X.
Ukraine: The Forging of a Nation by Yaroslav Hrytsak, Hardcover
The first biography in over thirty years of Condé Nast, the pioneering publisher of Vogue and Vanity Fair and main rival to media magnate William Randolph Hearst.
Condé Nast’s life and career was as high profile and glamorous as his magazines. Moving to New York in the early twentieth century with just the shirt on his back, he soon became the highest paid executive in the United States, acquiring Vogue in 1909 and Vanity Fair in 1913. Alongside his editors, Edna Woolman Chase at Vogue and Frank Crowninshield at Vanity Fair, he built the first-ever international magazine empire, introducing European modern art, style, and fashions to an American audience.
Condé Nast’s life and career was as high profile and glamorous as his magazines. Moving to New York in the early twentieth century with just the shirt on his back, he soon became the highest paid executive in the United States, acquiring Vogue in 1909 and Vanity Fair in 1913. Alongside his editors, Edna Woolman Chase at Vogue and Frank Crowninshield at Vanity Fair, he built the first-ever international magazine empire, introducing European modern art, style, and fashions to an American audience.
Condé Nast: The Man and His Empire -- A Biography by Susan Ronald, Paperback
Gregory David Roberts is an extraordinarily gifted writer and both his books were extremely rewarding rich experience. Like Shantaram, The Mountain Shadow is engaging and emotional adventure with a brilliant message in its heart, a story will challen... This book in top 20 in my list.
The Mountain Shadow by Gregory David Roberts, Paperback
Blood Ties is beautifully constructed, a perfect example of pace and tension from a master storyteller. The brothers’ relationship turns out to be more complex than it first appears, dark family secrets heading back decades bind the two together, but also constantly threaten to tear them apart. Those secrets are slowly and cleverly unpeeled by Nesbø i...
Blood Ties: A Novel by Jo Nesbo, Hardcover
Nesbø has always excelled in portraying emotional trauma on the page and The Kingdom is a masterclass in the study of the darker recesses of the human brain. There are enough shocking scenes to keep ‘gore’ fans happy but the true power in The Kingdom...
The Kingdom: A novel by Jo Nesbo, Paperback
Anthony Horowitz brought along a few old friends. Three deaths, two detectives and one puzzling manuscript — this mystery is a joy to solve. Murder links past and present once again in this mind-boggling metafictional mystery from Anthony Horowitz featuring detective Atticus Pünd and editor Susan Ryeland, stars of the New York Times bestsellers Magpie Murders and Moonflower Murders.
Marble Hall Murders: A Novel by Anthony Horowitz, Hardcover
"If you’re one of the few who haven’t experienced the genius of Agatha Christie, this novel is a stellar starting point." — DAVID BALDACCI, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author An exclusive authorized edition of the most famous and beloved stories from the Queen of Mystery. Ten people, each with something to hide and something to fear, are invited to an isolated mansion on Indian Island by a host who, s...
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie, Paperback
Arturo Pérez-Reverte telling of a mystery hidden in an art masterpiece spanning from the 15th century to the present day. The 1994 British film Uncovered, starring Kate Beckinsale and John Wood, is a cinematic adaptation of the novel. For all who love the art and chess.
The Flanders Panel by Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Paperback
Yuval Noah Harari’s study of human communication may be anything but brief, but if you can make it to the second half, you’ll be both entertained and scared. This book is about the apocalyptic scenario of how the “computer network” – everything from digital surveillance capitalism to social feed algorithms and AI – might destroy civilisation and usher in “the end of human history”.
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
Joe Biden launched his successful 2020 bid for the White House with the stated goal of saving the nation from a second Trump presidential term. He, his family, and his senior aides were so convinced that only he could beat Trump again, they lied to t...
Now the full, unsettling truth is being told for the first time. Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson take us behind closed doors and into private conversations between the heaviest of hitters, revealing how big the problem was and how many people knew abou...
Now the full, unsettling truth is being told for the first time. Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson take us behind closed doors and into private conversations between the heaviest of hitters, revealing how big the problem was and how many people knew abou...
Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous ...
A collection of the most famous cases faced by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's peerless creation, now in a beautiful hardcover edition designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith
This collection of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes includes many of the famous cases - and great strokes of brilliance - that made the legendary detective one of fiction's most popular creations. With his devoted amanuensis Dr Watson, Holmes emerges from his smoke-filled room in Baker Street to grapp...
This collection of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes includes many of the famous cases - and great strokes of brilliance - that made the legendary detective one of fiction's most popular creations. With his devoted amanuensis Dr Watson, Holmes emerges from his smoke-filled room in Baker Street to grapp...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle, Hardcover
Greatest of All Time: A Tribute to Muhammad Ali is not just a book; it is a testament to the extraordinary life of one of the world’s most famous athletes. The boxer’s embrace of Islam became a cornerstone of his moral standards, guiding his principles against racism, inequality, and undue violence, with the latter informing his staunch opposition to the Vietnam War.
Interspersed between these accounts are thousands of historical documents and images of Ali, including the boxer’s documentarian-turned-confidant Howard Bingham’s intimate snapshots, Neil Leifer and Flip Schulke’s iconic pictures, and Hank Kaplan’s a...
Interspersed between these accounts are thousands of historical documents and images of Ali, including the boxer’s documentarian-turned-confidant Howard Bingham’s intimate snapshots, Neil Leifer and Flip Schulke’s iconic pictures, and Hank Kaplan’s a...
Greatest of All Time. A Tribute to Muhammad Ali by Taschen, Hardcover
An orphaned boy enrolls in a school of wizardry, where he learns the truth about himself, his family and the terrible evil that haunts the magical world.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Stenciled Edges) (Harry Potter, Book 1)
The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells. It was written between 1895 and 1897,[2] and serialised in Pearson's Magazine in the UK and Cosmopolitan magazine in the US in 1897. The full novel was first published in...
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells, Paperback
The book projects American society immediately after World War II into a technologically advanced future where the amplification of humanity's potentials to create and destroy have miraculous and devastating consequences. Events in the chronicle include the apocalyptic destruction of Martian and human civilizations... militarism, science, technology and war-time prosperity that could result in a global nuclear war
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury, Paperback
This epic high-fantasy novel centers around a modest hobbit who is entrusted with the task of destroying a powerful ring that could enable the dark lord to conquer the world. Accompanied by a diverse group of companions, the hobbit embarks on a peril...
Lord of the Rings - Collector's & Omnibus Editions, J. R. R. Tolkien
A famed opera singer performs for a Japanese executive’s birthday at a luxe private home in South America; it’s that kind of party. But when a group of young guerrillas swoops in and takes everyone in the house hostage, Patchett’s exquisitely calibrated novel — inspired by a real incident — becomes a piano wire of tension, vibrating on high.
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett, Paperback | Barnes & Noble®
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When most people think of him, they think of his beautiful shots with the game on the line, his body totally in sync with the ball, hitting nothing but net. Book explores his personality to reveal the fullest, most compelling story of the man who is Michael Jordan. Lazenby draws on his personal relationships with Jordan's coaches; countless interviews with Jordan's friends, teammates, and family members;...
Michael Jordan: The Life by Roland Lazenby, Paperback
James Clear's book has been featured in the New York Times, Time, Entrepreneur, and on CBS This Morning, and is taught at universities around the world. His website, jamesclear.com, has millions of views each month and hundreds of thousands of people...
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones