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The Guide to Getting It On

By Paul Joannides

The Guide to Getting It On by Paul Joannides is a comprehensive, humorous, and non-judgmental sex education book covering everything adults need to know about sexuality. It explains male and female anatomy in plain language, discusses what actually makes sex...
1426 pages

Coming Alive

By Barry Michels and Phil Stutz

Coming Alive by Barry Michels and Phil Stutz argues that an inner enemy called Part X blocks your access to a powerful inner energy called the Life Force, keeping you stuck, exhausted, hopeless, and hurt. The book provides four practical...
319 pages

The Certainty Illusion

By Timothy Caulfield

In The Certainty Illusion, Timothy Caulfield reveals how our search for certainty is exploited. Science is twisted by “scienceploitation” (fake quantum cures, predatory journals). “Goodness” is manipulated via meaningless health halos (“natural,” “non-GMO”). Online reviews are largely fake or biased....
356 pages

The secret

By Rhonda Byrne

In The Secret, Rhonda Byrne reveals the law of attraction: like attracts like. Your thoughts broadcast a frequency, magnetically bringing matching experiences into your life. Feelings are your guide—good feelings attract good things. Use three steps to create: Ask, Believe...
206 pages
In The Psychology of Selling, Brian Tracy reveals that sales success is 80% psychological. Your self-concept (“income thermostat”) determines your earnings. Overcome fear of rejection—it’s not personal. People buy emotionally (desire for gain or fear of loss), then justify logically....
218 pages
In 60 Seconds & You’re Hired!, Robin Ryan reveals that interview success hinges on concise, powerful communication. Her core tools are the 5 Point Agenda (five tailored strengths) and the 60 Second Sell (a memorized, 60-second pitch). She provides 132...
263 pages

Heart Lamp

By Banu Mushtaq (translated by Deepa Bhasthi)

Banu Mushtaq's Heart Lamp (trans. Deepa Bhasthi) is a collection of eleven short stories exposing patriarchy, religious hypocrisy, and class exploitation among Muslim women in small-town Karnataka. Through unflinching narratives, a forgotten burial shroud, a fatal kick, a mother silenced...
240 pages
Mo Gawdat’s That Little Voice in Your Head uses engineering logic to explain the brain as predictable software. He identifies four faulty inputs, three exaggerated defences, and harmful incessant thinking as causes of suffering. By practising deliberate attention, questioning negative...
325 pages
This book by Laura Falces and Uli Moreno Montana offers 29 principles for building a meaningful life. It emphasizes self-awareness, intentional decision-making, habit formation, critical thinking, healthy relationships, financial literacy, and embracing discomfort. The core message: stop waiting for life...
157 pages

The Real Estate Game

By William J. Poorvu

William Poorvu's The Real Estate Game (1999) frames real estate as strategic play with four elements: properties, capital, players, and external forces. Covering apartments, offices, hotels, industrial, and retail, it explains back-of-envelope analysis, development, operations, and harvesting. Emphasizing value investing,...
344 pages

THE METAMORPHOSIS

By Franz Kafka

Kafka's The Metamorphosis follows Gregor Samsa, a traveling salesman who wakes as a "monstrous insect." His family initially cares for him but gradually rejects him, leading to his lonely death. This Norton edition includes Bernofsky's translation, letters, contextual writings by...
318 pages

Illimitable Men

By Illimitable Man

This 531-page compilation exposes Red Pill philosophy on masculinity, female psychology, hypergamy, and anti-feminism. Exploring Dark Triad traits (Machiavellianism, narcissism, psychopathy), monk mode, dread game, and shit tests, it draws from Machiavelli, Nietzsche, and evolutionary biology. Includes critiques of marriage,...
533 pages

Sexual politics

By Kate Millett

Kate Millett’s Sexual Politics argues that patriarchy is a political system of male dominance, not a natural fact. She exposes misogyny in the literary canon (Lawrence, Mailer, Miller) and in Freudian psychology. The book famously declares “the personal is political,”...
211 pages

A Room of One’s Own

By Virginia Woolf

A woman needs money and a room of her own to write fiction. Woolf explores why history lacked great female writers, imagines "Shakespeare's sister" to prove her point, and argues that poverty and lack of private space have silenced women....
92 pages

The Second Sex

By Simone de Beauvoir

One is not born but becomes a woman. Society, not biology, casts her as the inferior "Other" to man's superior "Self." Trapped in immanence through housework, marriage, and motherhood, she seeks escape through narcissism or love. Liberation requires economic independence...
947 pages

The madwoman in the attic

By Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar

The Madwoman in the Attic is the landmark work of feminist literary criticism that transformed how we read nineteenth-century women writers. Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar argue that behind the decorous surfaces of Jane Austen, the Brontës, George Eliot, and...
669 pages

The Marshmellow test

By Walter Mischel

The Marshmallow Test reveals that willpower is not an inborn trait but a learnable cognitive skill. Drawing from five decades of research, psychologist Walter Mischel shows how mastering the "cool system" of the brain over the impulsive "hot system" predicts...
249 pages
The Art of Persuasion is fundamentally a Business, Communication, and Personal Development book. It teaches readers how to win people over to their way of thinking through positive, non-manipulative methods, what Burg calls "winning without intimidation." The techniques apply equally...
154 pages

Twisted love

By Ana Huang

Twisted Love talks about Alex Volkov, a ruthless billionaire haunted by his family's murder, and Ava Chen, a free spirit who sees light in everyone. When he's forced to protect her, their intense, forbidden connection ignites. But his secret quest...
312 pages

Flipped by Wendelin Van Draanen

By Wendelin Van Draanen

Bryce Loski has spent six years trying to avoid Juli Baker, who barged into his life in second grade. But Juli saw his dazzling blue eyes and instantly "flipped." As they enter eighth grade, Bryce still wants her to leave...
156 pages