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Island by Aldous Huxley (Perennial classic)

The final novel from Aldous Huxley, Island is a provocative counterpoint to his worldwide classic Brave New World, in which …

Hero on a Mission by Donald Miller

Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman

This Is Your Mind on Plants by Michael Pollan

Three essays, each oriented around a psychotropic drug: poppy growing, coffee drinking and mescaline healing.

The Every by Dave Eggers

A conscientious objector to surveillance capitalism plans to battle the world’s largest social network/e-commerce/monitoring company, The Every, by joining it …

The Scout Mindset by Julia Galef

The Circle by Dave Eggers (Lijsters)

When Mae is hired to work for the Circle, the world's most powerful internet company, she feels she's been given …

Antidote by Oliver Burkeman

What If We Stopped Pretending? by Jonathan Franzen

The climate change is coming. To prepare for it, we need to admit that we can’t prevent it.

‘If you …

An Ugly Truth by Sheera Frenkel, Cecilia Kang

Light Chaser by Peter F. Hamilton, Gareth L. Powell

Amahle is a Light Chaser - one of a number of explorers, who travel the universe alone (except for their …

Factotum by Charles Bukowski

One of Charles Bukowski's best, this beer-soaked, deliciously degenerate novel follows the wanderings of aspiring writer Henry Chinaski across World …

When Bad Thinking Happens to Good People by Steven Nadler, Lawrence Shapiro

Mythos by Stephen Fry

In Stephen Fry's vivid retelling we gaze in wonder as wise Athena is born from the cracking open of the …

Post Office by Charles Bukowski