The Library
345 books and counting.
Every book on my Kindle, across technology, leadership, economics, history, science, biography and fiction. Search by title or author, or filter by topic.
Tiny Habits
BJ Fogg
How small, easy behaviours anchored to existing routines and reinforced by positive emotion add up to lasting change, based on the author's Stanford behaviour research.
Designing Your Life
Bill Burnett, Dave Evans
Applies design thinking from the authors' Stanford course to life and career planning, using prototyping, reframing and experimentation to build a fulfilling life.
Think Like a Rocket Scientist
Ozan Varol
A former rocket scientist distils principles such as first-principles reasoning, thought experiments and learning from failure into strategies for tackling problems in work and life.
Awaken Your Genius
Ozan Varol
Argues that education and social pressure push people towards conformity, and offers ways to unlearn it, think independently and pursue original work.
Winning from Within
Erica Ariel Fox
Presents a model of the inner voices that shape how people act, including the Dreamer, Thinker, Lover and Warrior, to help readers lead and negotiate more effectively.
Everything Is F*cked
Mark Manson
Explores why people struggle with hope amid material progress, drawing on philosophy and psychology to examine values, emotion and meaning.
Messy
Tim Harford
Argues that disorder, improvisation and distraction often foster creativity and resilience, drawing on examples from music, business, warfare and office design.
Tools of Titans
Timothy Ferriss
A compendium of habits, tactics and advice gathered from guests on the author's podcast, organised into sections on health, wealth and wisdom.
The Rules of Life
Richard Templar
A collection of short, practical principles for personal conduct, covering oneself, relationships, family, friends and the wider world.
Psychometric Tests
How2become
A practice workbook of questions and answers for the verbal, numerical and reasoning tests commonly used in recruitment.
The 4-Hour Work Week
Timothy Ferriss
Makes the case for escaping the conventional career path by eliminating low-value work, automating and outsourcing tasks, and taking regular 'mini-retirements'.
The Marshmallow Test
Walter Mischel
The psychologist behind the delay-of-gratification experiments explains what they reveal about self-control and how it can be learned and strengthened.
Mindset
Carol Dweck
Contrasts a 'fixed' mindset, which sees ability as innate, with a 'growth' mindset, which sees it as developable, and explores the effects on learning, work and relationships.
Small Habits + Keystone Habits = Big Results! 10 Power Habits That Take 5 Minutes Per Day & Guarantee Rapid Results
Akash Karia
The Decision Book
Roman Tschäppeler, Mikael Krogerus
Fifty models and diagrams for thinking through problems and decisions, from the Eisenhower matrix to tools for self-reflection and understanding others.
The Chimp Paradox
Professor Steve Peters
A model of the mind as an emotional 'Chimp', a rational 'Human' and a habitual 'Computer', with techniques for managing impulses and emotions.
Transforming Stress
Doc Childre, Deborah Rozman
Techniques from the Institute of HeartMath for reducing stress, worry and fatigue through heart-focused attention, breathing and emotional regulation.
The HeartMath Solution
Doc Childre, Howard Martin, Donna Beech
The Institute of HeartMath's approach to wellbeing, presenting techniques that use attention to the heart and its rhythms to reduce stress and improve emotional balance.
Manage Your Day-to-Day
99U
A collection of short essays from creative professionals on building routines, protecting focus and managing distractions in daily work.
Black Box Thinking
Matthew Syed, Matthew Syed Consulting Ltd
Contrasts aviation's systematic learning from accidents with fields such as healthcare, arguing that organisations and individuals improve by openly examining failure rather than hiding it.
Thinkertoys
Michael Michalko
A collection of structured techniques for generating ideas and solving problems creatively, from linear methods such as questioning assumptions to intuitive approaches.
Cracking Creativity
Michael Michalko
Draws on the thinking habits of figures such as Leonardo da Vinci and Einstein to present strategies for seeing problems differently and generating original ideas.
How to Have Creative Ideas
Edward de Bono
A set of short exercises designed to develop creative and lateral thinking, encouraging readers to practise generating new ideas and alternative perspectives.
Deep Work
Cal Newport
Argues that the ability to concentrate without distraction on cognitively demanding work is increasingly rare and valuable, and offers rules for cultivating it.
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
Mark Manson
Argues that a better life comes from choosing carefully what to care about, accepting limitations and discomfort rather than chasing constant positivity.
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
Describes two modes of thought, fast and intuitive versus slow and deliberate, and explains the cognitive biases and errors of judgement that arise from how they interact.
The Magic of Thinking Big
David Joseph Schwartz
A classic self-help guide arguing that ambitious thinking, self-belief and positive habits are key to achieving personal and professional success.
Drive
Daniel H. Pink
Argues that for creative and complex work, intrinsic motivation driven by autonomy, mastery and purpose is more effective than traditional rewards and punishments.
Superforecasting
Philip Tetlock, Dan Gardner
Draws on a long-running forecasting tournament to show that some ordinary people predict events unusually well, and explains the habits of thought behind their accuracy.
The Headspace Guide to... Mindfulness & Meditation
Andy Puddicombe
A former Buddhist monk introduces meditation and mindfulness in accessible terms, explaining the techniques and how to apply them in everyday life.
The Motivation Myth
Jeff Haden
Argues that motivation follows from achieving small successes rather than preceding them, and sets out how to build routines and processes that lead to results.
When
Daniel H. Pink
Draws on research into circadian rhythms and timing to explore how the time of day, beginnings, midpoints and endings affect performance and decision-making.
Thinkpak
Michael Michalko
A deck of cards for brainstorming that prompts users to modify an existing idea or product through structured questions, based on the SCAMPER technique.
Magic Waves - How Top Entrepreneurs Use Morning Rituals For Productivity Improvements And Achieve Their Goals.
Neil "Snowy Phillips
The Secret
Rhonda Byrne
Presents the 'law of attraction', the claim that positive thoughts and visualisation can bring about desired outcomes in health, wealth and relationships.
Algorithms to Live By
Brian Christian, Griffiths
Applies ideas from computer science, such as optimal stopping, explore/exploit trade-offs, caching and scheduling, to everyday human decisions.
Reinvent Yourself
James Altucher
Short essays and lessons on reinventing a career and life, drawing on the author's own setbacks and conversations with others.
I Heart Me
David R. Hamilton
Draws on science and personal experience to explore self-worth and self-love, with practical techniques for building them.
From Good to Amazing
Michael Serwa
Blunt, practical personal-development tips from a life coach on improving everyday habits and outlook.
The Power of Habit
Charles Duhigg
Explains the science of habits through the cue-routine-reward loop and how habits can be changed in individuals, organisations and societies.
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Stephen R. Covey
A principle-centred approach to personal and professional effectiveness, moving from dependence to independence and interdependence through seven habits.
How to be a Productivity Ninja
Graham Allcott
Techniques for managing attention, email and to-do lists to work more productively with less stress.
Care, Dare, Share
Allegra Patrizi
The Promises of Giants
John Amaechi
The former NBA player turned psychologist argues that anyone can lead, and that leadership rests on making and keeping clear promises to the people around you.
The Geek Way
Andrew McAfee
Argues that leading tech companies succeed through a set of cultural norms, including science, ownership, speed and openness, which any organisation can adopt.
A Seat at the Table
Mark Schwartz
Argues that in an agile, digital world IT leaders should stop acting as order-takers for the business and instead share responsibility for business outcomes.
The Ride of a Lifetime
Robert Iger
Bob Iger's memoir of his career and fifteen years as Disney's chief executive, including the Pixar, Marvel and Lucasfilm acquisitions, with principles of leadership.
Measure What Matters
John Doerr
Explains the Objectives and Key Results (OKR) goal-setting system, with case studies from organisations such as Intel and Google.
Turn The Ship Around!
L. David Marquet
A former US Navy captain's account of commanding the nuclear submarine USS Santa Fe, replacing top-down orders with a model that pushes authority and decision-making to the crew.
Start With Why
Simon Sinek
Argues that inspiring leaders and organisations communicate their purpose first, setting out the 'Golden Circle' of why, how and what.
The Coaching Habit
Michael Bungay Stanier
Seven questions managers can use to coach more in everyday conversations, encouraging them to give less advice and stay curious longer.
Creativity, Inc.
Edwin E. Catmull, Amy Wallace
Pixar's co-founder recounts the studio's history and the management practices, such as candid peer feedback, used to sustain a creative culture.
Radical Candor
Kim Scott
A management framework built on caring personally while challenging directly, with guidance on giving feedback and building effective teams.
HBR Guide to Project Management
Jeff Stibel
Practical guidance on the stages of managing a project, from planning and building a team to execution, monitoring and closing.
Lean In
Sheryl Sandberg
Examines why women remain under-represented in leadership and encourages them to pursue their ambitions at work, alongside changes by employers and partners.
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
Patrick M. Lencioni
A fable about a new chief executive rebuilding a struggling leadership team, used to illustrate five dysfunctions from absence of trust to inattention to results.
Project Management Step by Step
Richard Newton
A practical guide to running projects, covering planning, scheduling, managing risks and stakeholders, and delivering results, aimed at people without formal project management training.
The Culture Code
Daniel Coyle
Examines what makes groups work well together, identifying three skills: building psychological safety, sharing vulnerability and establishing a clear sense of purpose.
The Art of Action
Stephen Bungay
Draws on Prussian military thinking and mission command to show how leaders can close the gaps between plans, actions and outcomes through clear intent and delegated judgement.
Team of Teams
General Stanley McChrystal, David Silverman, Tantum Collins, Chris Fussell
How the US-led special operations task force in Iraq replaced rigid command hierarchies with networked, adaptable teams built on shared awareness and empowered execution.
Transform Your Business with Dr.Deming's 14 Points
Andrew Stotz
An explanation of W. Edwards Deming's 14 points for management and how business owners and managers can apply them.
Hit Refresh
Satya Nadella
Microsoft's chief executive reflects on his upbringing in India, his career, the effort to renew Microsoft's culture and the implications of AI, mixed reality and quantum computing.
Leadership on the Line, With a New Preface
Ronald Heifetz, Marty Linsky
Explores the personal risks leaders face when driving adaptive change, and how to survive and lead effectively through resistance.
HBR Guide to Managing Up and Across
Harvard Business Review
Practical advice on building effective relationships with bosses and peers, influencing without authority and handling workplace conflict.
HBR's 10 Must Reads Boxed Set
Harvard Business Review, Peter F. Drucker, Clayton M. Christensen, Daniel Goleman, Michael E. Porter
Six volumes collecting influential Harvard Business Review articles on topics including leadership, strategy, change, managing people and managing oneself.
The Wisdom of Teams
Jon R. Katzenbach, Douglas K. Smith
Distinguishes genuine teams from working groups and explains the disciplines that allow teams to deliver high performance in organisations.
The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Ben Horowitz
A venture capitalist draws on his experience running Loudcloud and Opsware to address the hardest problems of building and leading a company.
Show and Tell
Dan Roam
Shows how to plan and deliver presentations by choosing the right storyline, using simple visuals and telling the truth.
Back of The Napkin
Dan Roam
Shows how simple hand-drawn pictures can help people think through problems and communicate ideas clearly.
Talk Like TED
Carmine Gallo
Nine public speaking techniques drawn from analysis of popular TED talks, focused on making presentations emotional, novel and memorable.
Strategic Storytelling
Dave McKinsey
How to structure persuasive business presentations using consulting-style storylines, illustrated with analysis of real slide decks.
Storytelling with Data
Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic
Principles for communicating with data: understanding context, choosing the right chart, removing clutter, directing attention and building a narrative.
The Presentation Book
Emma Ledden
A practical guide to planning, structuring and delivering presentations, with the emphasis on understanding and engaging the audience.
Killer Presentations with Your iPad
Ray Anthony, Bob LeVitus
How to use an iPad to create and deliver business presentations and sales pitches, including apps, techniques and audience engagement.
Resonate
Nancy Duarte
Applies storytelling structures from literature and film to presentations, showing how to contrast the current state with a better future to move an audience.
The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs
Carmine Gallo
Analyses Steve Jobs's keynote presentations to distil techniques for crafting a clear narrative, designing simple slides and delivering with confidence.
How to Design TED Worthy Presentation Slides
Akash Karia
Win Bigly
Scott Adams
The Dilbert creator analyses Donald Trump's 2016 campaign as an exercise in persuasion, arguing that emotion and framing matter more than facts in influencing people.
slide:ology
Nancy Duarte
Principles of visual design for presentations, covering ideas, diagrams, data display, layout and how to create slides that serve the audience.
Communicate to Inspire
Oh
A guide to leadership communication, drawing on interviews with senior leaders about how to engage and inspire people.
The Unaccountability Machine
Dan Davies
Drawing on Stafford Beer's management cybernetics, argues that large organisations create 'accountability sinks' in which decisions emerge from systems that no individual can be held responsible for.
24 Assets
Daniel Priestley
Argues that modern businesses should be built around a portfolio of scalable, valuable assets such as intellectual property, systems, brand and customer data, rather than the founder's time.
The Big Con
Mariana Mazzucato, Rosie Collington
Argues that governments' and businesses' heavy reliance on management consultancies erodes their own capabilities, weakens accountability and distorts economies.
Go Tech, or Go Extinct
Paul Cuatrecasas
Argues that established companies facing digital disruption should grow and survive by acquiring technology start-ups, and sets out how to do so successfully.
Pivot to the Future
Paul Nunes, Larry Downes, Omar Abbosh
Drawing on Accenture research, sets out how companies can manage disruption by rotating investment from their core business towards new growth areas.
Great by Choice
Jim Collins
Research comparing companies that thrived in turbulent conditions with less successful peers, identifying traits such as disciplined consistency, empirical creativity and productive paranoia.
Non-Obvious
Rohit Bhargava
A method for curating ideas and spotting emerging trends by noticing patterns others overlook, accompanied by the author's own set of trend predictions.
Amazon Selling Blueprint - How to Find and Launch Your First Private-Label Product on Amazon in 90 Days or Less
Scott Voelker
A step-by-step approach to researching, sourcing and launching a private-label product for sale on Amazon.
Alibaba
Duncan Clark
An account of how Jack Ma founded Alibaba and built it into a dominant force in Chinese e-commerce, set against the rise of China's internet economy.
From Impossible To Inevitable
Aaron Ross, Jason Lemkin
A playbook for scaling company revenue, covering choosing a niche, generating predictable leads, specialising sales roles and building the right team.
Building the Agile Business through Digital Transformation
Neil Perkin, Peter Abraham
How organisations can become more agile in a digital age, covering strategy, culture, structure, processes and ways of working.
Competing on Analytics
Jeanne G. Harris
How organisations can use data and analytics as the basis of competitive strategy, with examples of firms that have built their business around it.
Brick by Brick
Bill Breen, David Robertson
How LEGO came close to collapse in the early 2000s through undisciplined innovation and recovered by refocusing on its core product and customers.
Certain to Win
Chet Richards
Applies military strategist John Boyd's ideas on manoeuvre warfare and the OODA loop to business competition and organisational strategy.
From Vision to Exit
Guy Rigby
A guide to the life cycle of a business, from start-up through growth, funding and management to preparing for and completing a sale.
Wake Up and Sell the Coffee!
Dawes Martyn
The founder of Coffee Nation recounts building the self-service coffee business and selling it, with lessons on starting and growing a company.
The Innovator's Dilemma
Clayton M. Christensen
Explains why well-managed, successful companies often fail when disruptive technologies emerge, because the practices that serve existing customers lead them to ignore new markets.
The Innovator's Solution
Clayton, Clayton M. Christensen, Michael, Michael E. Raynor
Follows on from the theory of disruption to explain how companies can deliberately create and sustain new growth businesses.
Start-up Nation
Dan Senor, Saul Singer
Explores why Israel produces so many start-ups, pointing to factors such as military service, immigration and a culture that tolerates risk and challenge.
Platform Revolution
Geoffrey G. Parker, Marshall W. Van Alstyne, Sangeet Paul Choudary
How platform businesses create value by connecting producers and consumers through network effects, and how to design, govern and monetise them.
The Launch Pad
Randall Stross
An inside account of a single batch of start-ups going through the Y Combinator accelerator programme in Silicon Valley.
The Third Wave
Steve Case
The AOL co-founder argues that the next phase of the internet will transform regulated sectors such as health, education and finance, requiring partnership with government and established institutions.
The Digital Economy ANNIVERSARY EDITION
Don Tapscott
A reissue of the 1990s study of how networked computing would transform business and society, with fresh commentary reassessing its predictions about the digital economy's promise and risks.
Consumption Economics
J. B. Wood, Todd Hewlin, Thomas Lah
Argues that technology companies must shift from selling products to delivering customer outcomes as cloud and subscription models change how enterprises buy and consume IT.
Mastering the VC Game
Jeffrey Bussgang
A venture capitalist and entrepreneur explains how venture funding works, from pitching and term sheets to board dynamics and exits, from the perspective of a founder.
Zero to One
Blake Masters, Peter Thiel
Argues that real progress comes from creating new things rather than copying existing ones, and sets out how startups can build monopolies through unique technology and vision.
Lean Analytics
Alistair Croll, Benjamin Yoskovitz
Explains how startups can identify the single metric that matters at each stage of growth, with frameworks and case studies for using data to test and refine a business.
The Sales Acceleration Formula
Mark Roberge
Describes how HubSpot's sales team was built using data-driven approaches to hiring, training, management and demand generation.
Sprint
Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky, Braden Kowitz
Sets out a five-day process developed at Google Ventures for teams to tackle a critical business question by mapping, sketching, deciding, prototyping and testing with users.
Bad Blood
John Carreyrou
An investigative account of the rise and collapse of the blood-testing startup Theranos and the deception surrounding its founder's claims.
Breaking Bad Habits
Freek Vermeulen
Examines why firms cling to industry practices that no longer make sense, and how questioning and breaking these habits can drive strategic renewal.
ReWork
Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson
The founders of 37signals offer contrarian advice on running a business: stay small, plan less, avoid meetings, launch early and question conventional workplace habits.
The Million Dollar Blog
Natasha Courtenay-Smith
A guide to building a successful blog and using online content to raise a personal or business profile and generate income.
Fast/Forward
Julian Birkinshaw, Jonas Ridderstråle
Argues that organisations should move beyond bureaucracy and meritocracy towards 'adhocracy', prioritising action, experimentation and emotion to stay competitive.
Wild Ride
Adam Lashinsky
An account of Uber's rapid growth under Travis Kalanick, its aggressive tactics and the controversies surrounding its culture and leadership.
The Upstarts
Brad Stone
Tells how Uber and Airbnb were founded and grew, and their clashes with regulators and incumbent industries as they reshaped Silicon Valley.
The Four Steps to the Epiphany
Steve Blank
Introduces the customer development process for startups: customer discovery, validation, creation and company building, as a complement to product development.
The Lean Startup
Eric Ries
Sets out a method for building startups through rapid experimentation, minimum viable products, validated learning and deciding when to pivot or persevere.
Eating the Big Fish
Adam Morgan
How challenger brands, lacking the resources of market leaders, can compete through clear identity, bold positioning and breaking category conventions.
Good Strategy/Bad Strategy
Richard Rumelt
Distinguishes real strategy, built on diagnosis, guiding policy and coherent action, from the goals, slogans and fluff that often pass for it.
Software Testing with Generative AI
Mark Winteringham
A practical guide to using large language models to support software testing, from generating test data and automation code to exploratory testing, with emphasis on keeping human judgement central.
LLM Engineer's Handbook
Paul Iusztin, Maxime Labonne
A hands-on guide to building production LLM systems end to end, covering data pipelines, fine-tuning, retrieval-augmented generation, evaluation, deployment and LLMOps through a worked project.
Supremacy
Parmy Olson
Tells the story of Sam Altman and Demis Hassabis, the rivalry between OpenAI and DeepMind, and how the race to build advanced AI became entangled with Big Tech.
Hands-On Large Language Models
Jay Alammar, Maarten Grootendorst
A visually led introduction to how large language models work, from tokens and embeddings to transformers, with practical applications such as classification, semantic search, RAG and fine-tuning.
AI Engineering
Chip Huyen
Covers the engineering of applications built on foundation models, including evaluation, prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, agents, fine-tuning, dataset design and inference optimisation.
Agentic Artificial Intelligence
Pascal Bornet, Jochen Wirtz, Thomas H. Davenport, David De Cremer, Brian Evergreen, Phil Fersht, Rakesh Gohel, Shail Khiyara, Nandan Mullakara, Pooja Sund
Explains how AI agents differ from earlier automation, proposes levels of agentic capability, and offers practical guidance for applying agents in business and work.
Human Compatible
Stuart Russell
Argues that building AI systems to pursue fixed objectives is dangerous, and proposes machines that remain uncertain about human preferences and so defer to people.
How To Think About AI
Richard Susskind
A framework for thinking clearly about artificial intelligence, its likely trajectory, its benefits and risks, and its implications for work, society and humanity.
The Rise of the Robots
Martin Ford
Argues that advances in AI and automation increasingly threaten white-collar as well as manual jobs, with potential for mass unemployment and rising inequality.
The Rise of the Robots
Martin Ford
Argues that advances in AI and automation increasingly threaten white-collar as well as manual jobs, with potential for mass unemployment and rising inequality.
The Machine Learning Solutions Architect Handbook
David Ping
A practical guide to designing machine learning platforms and solutions, covering the ML lifecycle, algorithms, system architecture, MLOps, security and generative AI.
Effective Machine Learning Teams
David Tan, Ada Leung, David Colls
Applies software engineering, product thinking and team practices, such as automated testing, refactoring and continuous delivery, to help machine learning teams deliver reliably.
Taming Silicon Valley
Gary F. Marcus
Warns of the risks posed by generative AI and the power of big tech firms, and sets out policy measures citizens and governments should demand.
LangChain in your Pocket
Mehul Gupta
Hands-On Machine Learning for Algorithmic Trading
Stefan Jansen
A practical guide to applying machine learning to algorithmic trading in Python, covering data sources, alpha factors, model building, backtesting and strategy evaluation.
Human + Machine
Paul R. Daugherty, H. James Wilson
Drawing on Accenture research, explores how AI is changing work and argues the greatest value lies in humans and machines collaborating rather than replacing each other.
The Future of Leadership
Brigette Tasha Hyacinth
Deep Learning with PyTorch Quick Start Guide
David Julian
An introduction to building, training and deploying neural network models in Python using the PyTorch library.
Javascript Artificial Intelligence
Code Well Academy
AI Superpowers
Kai-Fu Lee
Compares the development of artificial intelligence in China and the United States, arguing that China holds key advantages, and considers AI's effects on jobs and society.
The Master Algorithm
Pedro Domingos
Surveys the five main schools of machine learning and argues for the pursuit of a single universal learning algorithm that combines them.
The Future of the Professions
Richard Susskind, Daniel Susskind
Argues that technology will fundamentally change how professional expertise in law, medicine, education and other fields is delivered, and considers what this means for traditional professions.
Machine Learning
Herbert Jones
The Future Computed
Microsoft Corporation
Microsoft's perspective on artificial intelligence and society, discussing ethical principles, the need for regulation and the implications of AI for jobs and work.
Hello World
Hannah Fry
Examines how algorithms are used in areas such as justice, medicine, policing and transport, weighing their benefits and flaws and the role of human judgement.
Deep Learning
François Duval
Machine Learning With Boosting
Scott Hartshorn
A beginner's guide to boosting algorithms in machine learning, explaining through worked examples how weak learners are combined into stronger predictive models.
Machine Learning
Ethem Alpaydin
A concise introduction to machine learning, explaining how computers learn from data, the main approaches including neural networks, and their applications and implications.
Make Your Own Neural Network
Tariq Rashid
A gentle introduction to the mathematics behind neural networks, guiding readers to build their own in Python that recognises handwritten digits.
Machine Learning for Absolute Beginners
Oliver Theobald
A plain-language introduction to machine learning concepts and common algorithms, such as regression, clustering, decision trees and neural networks, with minimal mathematics.
Life 3.0
Max Tegmark
A physicist explores how artificial intelligence could reshape work, law, warfare and society, the possible futures of superintelligence and why AI safety matters.
The Driver in the Driverless Car
Vivek Wadhwa, Alex Salkever
Considers exponential technologies such as AI, robotics, genomics and autonomous vehicles, offering questions for judging whether they will benefit society fairly.
The Mathematical Corporation
Josh Sullivan, Angela Zutavern
Argues that organisations can solve difficult problems by combining machine intelligence and data science with human leadership, illustrated with case studies.
PYTHON
Andrew Johansen
Chip War
Chris Miller
A history of the semiconductor industry, from its Cold War origins to today's concentrated supply chains, and why control of chipmaking has become central to US–China rivalry.
Technology and the Rise of Great Powers
Jeffrey Ding
Argues that great powers rise not by being first to invent new technologies but by diffusing general-purpose technologies widely across their economies, with lessons for US–China competition.
Chaos Monkeys
Antonio Garcia Martinez
A memoir of moving from Wall Street quant to start-up founder and Facebook advertising product manager, offering an irreverent insider's view of Silicon Valley culture.
Keeping Up with the Quants
Thomas H. Davenport, Jinho Kim
A guide for non-specialist managers on how to frame problems, work with analysts and use quantitative data effectively in decision-making.
Software Engineering at Google
Titus Winters, Tom Manshreck, Hyrum Wright
Describes the culture, processes and tools Google uses to sustain a huge codebase over time, covering code review, testing, documentation, dependency management and scaling teams.
Mastering DevOps on Microsoft Power Platform
Uroš Kastelic, József Zoltán Vadkerti
A technical guide to application lifecycle management for Microsoft Power Platform, covering source control, CI/CD pipelines with Azure DevOps and GitHub, testing and security.
The Unicorn Project
Gene Kim
A novel following developer Maxine at the fictional Parts Unlimited, illustrating how engineering culture, developer productivity and flow transform a struggling organisation.
Tools and Weapons
Brad Smith, Carol Ann Browne
Microsoft's president examines the challenges digital technology poses for privacy, cybersecurity, democracy and AI, and the responsibilities of tech companies and governments.
Python for Everybody
Charles R. Severance
An introductory textbook on programming in Python 3, oriented towards data handling, covering core language features, files, web data and databases.
The DevOps Handbook
Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, John Willis
A practical guide to DevOps principles and practices, covering flow, feedback and continual learning to deliver software faster and more reliably.
Programming Microsoft Office 365
Paolo Pialorsi
A developer reference for building solutions on Office 365, covering the Microsoft Graph API, SharePoint Add-ins, Office Add-ins and Office 365 Groups.
Python Programming
Kevin Lyn.
Code Bots in NodeJS and prosper
Boštjan Jerko
Code
Petzold Charles
Explains how computers work from first principles, building from Morse code and Braille through relays and logic gates to processors and software.
Microsoft Excel Data Analysis and Business Modeling
Wayne Winston
A guide to using Excel for business analysis, covering formulas, PivotTables, forecasting, optimisation with Solver and simulation.
JIRA Essentials - Third Edition
Patrick Li
A practical guide to setting up and administering Atlassian JIRA, covering projects, issues, workflows, fields, screens and permissions.
Data Analytics. Fast Overview.
George Letton
Numsense! Data Science for the Layman
Annalyn Ng, Kenneth Soo
A plain-language introduction to common data science techniques, such as clustering, regression, decision trees and neural networks, with minimal mathematics.
Introductory R
Robert Knell
A beginner's introduction to R for handling data, producing graphs and carrying out statistical analysis, aimed at those with no programming background.
Data Analytics
James Fahl
Building Data Science Teams
DJ Patil
A short report on what makes a good data scientist and how to recruit, organise and support data science teams within organisations.
R
Felix Alvaro
Python
LCF Publishing, Jamie Chan
A beginner's introduction to Python, covering variables, data types, control flow, functions, modules and file handling, ending with a hands-on project.
Designing the Internet of Things
Adrian McEwen, Hakim Cassimally
A guide to designing and prototyping connected devices, covering hardware such as Arduino and Raspberry Pi, embedded programming, design and manufacturing.
Microsoft Dynamics CRM Customization Essentials
Nicolae Tarla
A guide to customising Microsoft Dynamics CRM, covering entities, fields, forms, views, business rules and processes.
How to Program a Block Chain Explorer with Python and Bitcoin
Alex Gorale
The Seventh Sense
Joshua Cooper Ramo
Argues that constant connection is reshaping global power, and that leaders need a new instinct, a 'seventh sense', for how networks concentrate influence and create new risks.
The Inevitable
Kevin Kelly
Identifies twelve long-running technological trends, such as sharing, tracking, remixing and accessing rather than owning, and explores how they are likely to shape the coming decades.
The Fourth Industrial Revolution
Klaus Schwab
The World Economic Forum founder describes a new industrial era fusing digital, physical and biological technologies, and considers its impact on economies, governments, business and society.
The Phoenix Project
Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford
A novel following an IT manager tasked with rescuing a failing critical project, used to illustrate DevOps principles, flow of work and collaboration between development and operations.
Cloud Data Centers and Cost Modeling
Caesar Wu, Rajkumar Buyya
A technical guide to planning, designing and building cloud data centres, with emphasis on cost modelling and the financial analysis of infrastructure decisions.
Platform Ecosystems
Amrit Tiwana
Examines how software platforms and their ecosystems of third-party developers evolve, linking technical architecture and governance choices to platform strategy.
Learn R in a Day
Steven Murray
C#
LCF Publishing, Jamie Chan
A beginner's introduction to programming in C#, covering core language concepts before bringing them together in a hands-on project.
HBR Guide to Data Analytics Basics for Managers
Harvard Business Review
A guide for managers on working with data, covering how to frame questions, understand basic analysis and statistics, and communicate and act on findings.
Big Data Demystified
David Stephenson
A non-technical guide for business leaders on big data, data science and AI, explaining the key concepts and how to apply them to improve decision-making.
Megatech
Daniel Franklin
A collection of essays from The Economist forecasting how technology, from AI and biotechnology to energy and computing, might develop by 2050.
Bayes' Theorem Examples
Dan Morris, Mark Koning
An introduction to Bayes' theorem for beginners, using visual explanations and worked examples to show how to update probabilities in the light of new evidence.
Pro Power BI Desktop
Adam Aspin
A detailed guide to Microsoft Power BI Desktop, covering data import and transformation, data modelling, DAX calculations and building interactive reports and dashboards.
M Is for
Ken Puls, Miguel Escobar
A practical guide to Excel Power Query and its M language, showing how to import, clean and reshape data from multiple sources through repeatable transformations.
Learn Python in 10 minutes
Victor Ebai
Microsoft Power BI Cookbook
Brett Powell
Practical recipes for building business intelligence solutions in Microsoft Power BI, covering data modelling, DAX, reports, dashboards and deployment.
JIRA 7 Essentials - Fourth Edition
Patrick Li
A guide to setting up and using Jira 7 for project and issue tracking, covering projects, workflows, fields, permissions and agile boards.
Who Can You Trust?
Rachel Botsman
How trust is shifting from institutions to 'distributed trust' between strangers, enabled by platforms, the sharing economy and blockchain, and the risks this creates.
Production-Ready Microservices
Susan J. Fowler
Sets out standards for making microservices production-ready, covering stability, reliability, scalability, fault tolerance, performance, monitoring and documentation.
Site Reliability Engineering
Niall Richard Murphy, Betsy Beyer, Chris Jones, Jennifer Petoff
Google engineers describe the principles and practices of site reliability engineering, including service level objectives, error budgets, monitoring, incident response and reducing toil.
The Fourth Industrial Revolution
Professor Dr.-Ing. Klaus Schwab
Argues that the fusion of digital, physical and biological technologies is transforming economies, governments and societies, and considers how to shape that change.
World Without Mind
Franklin Foer
Argues that the dominant technology companies threaten independent thought, privacy and the economics of journalism and publishing, and calls for stronger checks on their power.
Thank You for Being Late
Thomas L. Friedman
Examines accelerating change in technology, globalisation and climate, and how individuals, workplaces and communities can adapt to it.
Move Fast and Break Things
Jonathan Taplin
Argues that Google, Facebook and Amazon have come to dominate culture and undermined the livelihoods of musicians, writers and other creators.
The One Device
Brian Merchant
Traces the development of the iPhone and the technologies, people, supply chains, mines and factories behind it.
Machine, Platform, Crowd
Andrew McAfee, Erik Brynjolfsson
Examines three shifts driven by digital technology: between mind and machine, product and platform, and core and crowd, and what they mean for business.
The Mythical Man-Month
Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
Classic essays on software project management, including why adding people to a late project makes it later, conceptual integrity and 'No Silver Bullet'.
The Big Switch
Nicholas Carr
Compares the move to cloud computing with the earlier shift from private generators to the electricity grid, and considers its economic and social consequences.
Big Data
Viktor Mayer-Schonberger, Kenneth Cukier
Explains how vast datasets are changing business, science and society, favouring correlation over causation, and examines the privacy and ethical risks involved.
Learning Node.js
Marc Wandschneider
A hands-on introduction to building web applications with Node.js, covering asynchronous programming, modules, Express and databases.
Instant AngularJS Starter
Dan Menard
A short introduction to AngularJS fundamentals, including data binding, controllers, directives and building a simple application.
Money
Rupal Patel, Jack Leslie, The Bank of England
Economists from the Bank of England explain what money is, how it is created, and the role central banks play in keeping it stable and trusted.
Janesville
Amy Goldstein
Follows workers and families in Janesville, Wisconsin, after the 2008 closure of its General Motors plant, examining the human cost of deindustrialisation and the limits of retraining.
Trillions
Robin Wigglesworth
Traces the history of the index fund, from academic theory and early pioneers such as John Bogle to its rise as a force reshaping investment management and corporate ownership.
Beat the Dealer
Edward O. Thorp
The mathematician's account of how he used computer analysis to devise a card-counting system that gives blackjack players an edge over the casino.
Cryptocurrency Unchained
Robin Davies
The Intelligent Fund Investor
Joe Wiggins
Examines the behavioural biases and common mistakes that undermine fund investors, with practical guidance for choosing and holding active and passive funds.
The Bank That Lived a Little
Philip Augar
A history of Barclays from the 1980s to the post-crisis years, tracing its push into investment banking, the culture that followed and the scandals that resulted.
Blockchain
Jacob William
Black Horse Ride
Ivan Fallon
The story of Lloyds TSB's 2008 takeover of HBOS during the financial crisis, the subsequent government bailout and the bank's struggle to recover.
A Man for All Markets
Edward O. Thorp
The mathematician's memoir of devising card counting for blackjack and then applying quantitative methods to investing and running a hedge fund.
Ebook
BBVA Innovation Center
Bitcoin & Blockchain Global Financial Crisis Risk Management January 2016
M. Lawrence
Bye Bye Banks?
James Haycock, Shane Richmond
How technology start-ups are challenging retail banks across payments, lending and other services, and what incumbents can do to respond.
The FINTECH Book
Susanne Chishti, Janos Barberis
A collection of short essays from fintech practitioners and investors on areas such as payments, lending, banking infrastructure and investment.
Ethereum
George Duckett
Blockchain
Melanie Swan
An early survey of blockchain beyond currency, outlining uses for contracts, digital assets, identity, governance and science, framed as Blockchain 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0.
Ebook
BBVA Innovation Center
Great Chain of Numbers
Tim Swanson
An examination of how cryptocurrency ledgers can underpin smart contracts, smart property and trustless asset management, with a critical look at the practical and legal hurdles involved.
Blockchain Revolution
Don Tapscott, Alex Tapscott
A father-and-son account of how blockchain could reshape finance, business, government and the internet by enabling trusted peer-to-peer exchange of value without intermediaries.
Cryptocurrency
Paul Vigna, Michael J. Casey
Two Wall Street Journal reporters trace the origins of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency, explaining how it works and assessing its potential to disrupt money, banking and payments.
The Business Blockchain
William Mougayar
A practical guide to blockchain for business, explaining its core concepts and exploring how organisations might apply it across services, trust, governance and industry sectors.
Bank 4.0
Brett King
Argues that banking is becoming embedded in everyday technology rather than branches, examining how fintech, platforms and new entrants are reshaping financial services.
The Globotics Upheaval
Richard Baldwin
Argues that telemigration of service work and advances in AI will combine to disrupt white-collar jobs, and considers the likely backlash and policy responses.
Black Edge
Sheelah Kolhatkar
An investigation into insider trading at Steven Cohen's hedge fund SAC Capital and the long campaign by US prosecutors and regulators to hold the firm to account.
Economics for the Common Good
Jean Tirole
A Nobel laureate explains how economics can serve society, applying it to markets and the state, climate change, unemployment, finance, Europe and the digital economy.
Adaptive Markets
Andrew W. Lo
Proposes the adaptive markets hypothesis, using evolutionary biology and neuroscience to reconcile efficient-market theory with behavioural finance.
Doughnut Economics
Kate Raworth
Proposes a model of economics bounded by a social foundation and an ecological ceiling, setting out seven ways to rethink economic thinking for the 21st century.
The Great Leveler
Walter Scheidel
Argues that throughout history inequality has only been substantially reduced by violent shocks: mass-mobilisation war, transformative revolution, state collapse and pandemics.
The Spider Network
David Enrich
The story of trader Tom Hayes and the network of bankers and brokers involved in rigging the Libor interest rate benchmark.
The Wisdom of Finance
Mihir Desai
Uses literature, history and philosophy to explain core financial ideas such as risk, insurance, options, leverage and mergers, and to make the case for finance's human side.
Blockchain Basics
Daniel Drescher
A non-technical introduction explaining in 25 steps how blockchain works, covering distributed ledgers, hashing, cryptography and consensus.
A Beginner’s Guide To Ethereum
Vladik Vasiliev
Blockchain For Dummies
Tiana Laurence
An introduction to blockchain technology, how it works, major platforms such as Bitcoin, Ethereum and Hyperledger, and potential business applications.
The Modern Ethereum
Ryan Venter
Introducing Ethereum and Solidity
Chris Dannen
An introduction to Ethereum and to writing smart contracts and decentralised applications in the Solidity programming language.
The Sterling Bonds and Fixed Income Handbook
Mark Glowrey
A practical guide to the UK bond and fixed income market, covering gilts, corporate and retail bonds and other instruments for private investors and advisers.
The Flat White Economy
Douglas McWilliams
Argues that a digital and creative economy clustered in east London, fuelled by coffee culture and migration, is transforming London and the UK economy.
Flash Boys
Michael Lewis
How high-frequency traders exploited speed advantages in US stock markets, and the group of financiers who set out to expose it and build a fairer exchange.
Vulcan 607
Rowland White
Recounts the 1982 Black Buck raid, in which an ageing RAF Vulcan bomber flew a record-breaking long-range mission, supported by relays of tankers, to attack Port Stanley airfield during the Falklands War.
The Perfect Weapon
David E. Sanger
Examines how cyber weapons have become a primary tool of state conflict, covering attacks and espionage by the US, Russia, China, North Korea and Iran.
Confront and Conceal
David E. Sanger
An account of Obama's first-term foreign policy, including covert cyber operations against Iran's nuclear programme, the expanded drone campaign, and policy towards Afghanistan, Pakistan and China.
The Napoleon of Crime
Ben Macintyre
The story of Adam Worth, the Victorian master thief who stole Gainsborough's portrait of the Duchess of Devonshire and is thought to have inspired Sherlock Holmes's Professor Moriarty.
Colditz
Ben Macintyre
A history of Colditz Castle, the Second World War prison for Allied officers, exploring escape attempts, class, camaraderie and life in captivity.
The Traitor of Colditz
Robert Verkaik
Investigates Walter Purdy, a British prisoner of war who collaborated with the Nazis and was accused of betraying fellow prisoners at Colditz.
Betrayal in Berlin
Steve Vogel
Tells the story of the Anglo-American Berlin Tunnel operation to tap Soviet communications, and how it was betrayed from the start by MI6 officer George Blake.
The Room Where It Happened
John Bolton
John Bolton's account of his time as National Security Adviser in the Trump administration, critically depicting the president's foreign policy decision-making.
One Giant Leap
Charles Fishman
Tells the story of the Apollo programme and the engineering, political and organisational challenges overcome to land people on the Moon.
A Very Expensive Poison
Luke Harding
Investigates the 2006 poisoning of former FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko with polonium in London, and what it reveals about Putin's Russia.
Terror Cops
Harry Keeble, Kris Hollington
A former police officer's account of counter-terrorism policing in Britain, describing the investigations and operations against terrorist threats.
Sand and Steel
Peter Caddick-Adams
A history of the D-Day landings in June 1944, covering the planning, preparation and fighting on the Normandy beaches from multiple perspectives.
We have been harmonised
Kai Strittmatter
A journalist's account of how the Chinese state under Xi Jinping uses digital surveillance, propaganda and social control to monitor and shape its citizens.
Belt and Road
Bruno Maçães
An examination of China's Belt and Road Initiative as a project to reshape the economic and political order of Eurasia and beyond around Chinese interests.
The Tragedy of the European Union
George Soros
A series of interviews in which the financier discusses the euro crisis, the flaws in the eurozone's design and the future of the European Union.
The Forgotten Soldier
Guy Sajer
A memoir of a young Alsatian conscript's experience in the German army on the Eastern Front during the Second World War, depicting the brutality and exhaustion of the retreat.
SAS
Ben Macintyre
A history of the Special Air Service's founding and wartime operations in North Africa and Europe, drawing on the regiment's archives to portray its unconventional early members.
The Square and the Tower
Niall Ferguson
Reinterprets history as a contest between hierarchical institutions and informal networks, from the Illuminati and the Reformation to the age of social media.
At Home
Bill Bryson
Uses the rooms of an English Victorian rectory as a starting point for exploring the history of domestic life and the everyday objects and customs within it.
The Spy and the Traitor
Ben Macintyre
The story of KGB officer Oleg Gordievsky, who spied for MI6 during the Cold War, and the operation to smuggle him out of the Soviet Union.
Agent Jack
Robert Hutton
The story of Eric Roberts, an MI5 officer who posed as a Gestapo agent during the Second World War to identify and monitor Nazi sympathisers in Britain.
The Secret War
Max Hastings
A history of intelligence, codebreaking and resistance movements in the Second World War, assessing how much secret operations actually influenced the war's outcome.
GUTS 'N GUNSHIPS
Mark Garrison
A first-hand account of flying combat helicopters during the Vietnam War.
Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal
Robin Ince
The comedian explores neurodiversity through his own experience and conversations with others, questioning assumptions about what counts as a 'normal' mind.
It's Trevor Noah
Trevor Noah
An adaptation for younger readers of the comedian's memoir of growing up as a mixed-race child in apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa.
Hillbilly Elegy
J. D. Vance
A memoir of growing up in a struggling white working-class family with Appalachian roots in Ohio, used to reflect on poverty, family and social decline.
Jog On
Bella Mackie
A memoir of how taking up running helped the author cope with anxiety and depression after a personal crisis, interwoven with reflections on mental health.
This is Going to Hurt
Adam Kay
Diary entries from the author's years as a junior doctor in the NHS, recounting long hours, absurd and harrowing moments, and the pressures of the job.
Elon Musk
Ashlee Vance
A biography of Elon Musk, tracing his early life and the founding and struggles of Zip2, PayPal, Tesla and SpaceX.
Greetings from Bury Park
Sarfraz Manzoor
A memoir of growing up in a Pakistani family in Luton and how the music of Bruce Springsteen shaped the author's identity.
Molly’s Game
Molly Bloom
A memoir of running high-stakes underground poker games for celebrities and financiers in Los Angeles and New York, until federal investigators intervened.
Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson
The authorised biography of Apple's co-founder, based on extensive interviews with Jobs, his family, colleagues and rivals.
Catching the Wolf of Wall Street
Jordan Belfort
A sequel memoir covering the former stockbroker's arrest, cooperation with the FBI, time in prison and aftermath.
Educated
Tara Westover
A memoir of growing up in a survivalist family in rural Idaho without formal schooling, and the author's path to university and a doctorate.
Reset
Ellen Pao
A memoir of a career in technology and venture capital, including a high-profile gender discrimination lawsuit against Kleiner Perkins and a turbulent period leading Reddit.
Tuesdays With Morrie
Mitch Albom
A journalist recounts weekly visits to his dying former professor, Morrie Schwartz, and their conversations about life, love, work and death.
The Hero
Lee Child
A short non-fiction essay exploring the origins of the hero figure in storytelling and why heroic narratives matter to humans.
Humble Pi
Matt Parker
Explores real-world mistakes involving mathematics, from engineering failures to financial errors, and what they reveal about how maths underpins daily life.
Human Universe
Professor Brian Cox, Andrew Cohen
Explores humanity's place in the cosmos, from our origins and evolution to the physics that governs the universe and the question of whether we are alone.
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval Noah Harari
Explores pressing present-day issues, including technology, work, nationalism, religion, truth and meaning, and how individuals and societies might navigate them.
A Brief History Of Time
Stephen Hawking
Explains cosmology for a general reader, covering the origins and structure of the universe, black holes, the nature of time and the search for a unified theory.
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
A history of Homo sapiens through the cognitive, agricultural and scientific revolutions, arguing that shared myths enabled large-scale human cooperation.
Skyfaring
Mark Vanhoenacker
A long-haul airline pilot reflects on the experience of flight, blending the science of aviation with observations on place, weather, light and how flying reshapes our sense of the world.
Dark Star Safari
Paul Theroux
A travel writer's overland journey from Cairo to Cape Town by bus, train, boat and truck, reflecting on Africa's people, politics and the effects of foreign aid.
Ghost Train to the Eastern Star
Paul Theroux
The author retraces the route of his 1970s Asian rail journey some thirty years later, observing how Eastern Europe, Central Asia, India and South-East Asia have changed.
Investment Biker
Jim Rogers
An investor's account of a motorcycle journey across six continents, assessing the economies, politics and investment prospects of the countries he passes through.
Neither Here, Nor There
Bill Bryson
A humorous account of the author's travels across Europe, from Hammerfest to Istanbul, partly retracing a backpacking trip he made in his youth.
The Road to Little Dribbling
Bill Bryson
A humorous journey through Britain from Bognor Regis to Cape Wrath, revisiting themes from the author's earlier book and reflecting on how the country has changed.
1000 Years of Annoying the French
Stephen Clarke
A humorous history of Anglo-French rivalry since 1066, challenging British and French versions of shared historical events.
Tune In Tokyo
Tim Anderson
A comic memoir of an American's time living in Tokyo and teaching English.
Are We Nearly There Yet?
Ben Hatch
A travel memoir of a family with two young children touring Britain by car to research a guidebook.
Road to Rouen
Ben Hatch
A travel memoir following the author, his wife and young children as they travel around France to research a guidebook.
The Secret of Secrets
Dan Brown
Robert Langdon travels to Prague with Katherine Solomon, whose forthcoming book on the nature of human consciousness makes them both the target of powerful and dangerous interests.
Inferno
Dan Brown
Robert Langdon wakes in a Florence hospital with no memory of recent days and must follow a trail of clues linked to Dante's Inferno to stop a global threat.
Quantum Paradigm
Stephen Lewis
Precipice
Robert Harris
A novel based on Prime Minister H. H. Asquith's letters to the young Venetia Stanley in the run-up to and early months of the First World War.
Destined Mate
Jen L. Grey
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Follows several generations of the Buendía family in the fictional town of Macondo, blending magical realism with the history of Colombia.
The Breakdown
B A Paris
After passing a woman in a parked car on a stormy night and failing to stop, Cass learns she was murdered, and then begins to doubt her own memory.
Three Things About Elsie
Joanna Cannon
In her sheltered housing, eighty-four-year-old Florence lies waiting for help after a fall and reflects on her past, including the unsettling arrival of a new resident.
Nineteen Minutes
Jodi Picoult
A school shooting in a small New Hampshire town is examined through the perspectives of those affected, exploring bullying, family and the aftermath of violence.
The Circle
Dave Eggers
A novel in which a young woman joins a powerful internet company and is drawn into its culture of total transparency, sharing and surveillance.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams
The five comic science fiction novels following Arthur Dent, rescued moments before Earth is demolished for a hyperspace bypass, on his travels across the galaxy.
Noughts & Crosses
Malorie Blackman
In an alternative Britain where black Crosses hold power and white noughts face discrimination, a friendship between a Cross girl and a nought boy becomes a forbidden romance.
The Long Lost Future
Ian Cattell
Lustrum
Robert Harris
The second novel in a trilogy narrated by Cicero's secretary Tiro, following Cicero's year as consul in Rome and the political struggles that surround it.
Imperium
Robert Harris
The first novel in a trilogy narrated by Cicero's secretary Tiro, charting Cicero's rise from ambitious lawyer to candidate for the consulship of Rome.
My Brilliant Friend
Elena Ferrante
A novel tracing the intense, competitive friendship of two girls, Elena and Lila, growing up in a poor neighbourhood of Naples in the 1950s.
Exit Wound
Andy McNab
Tiger's Claw
Dale Brown
A military techno-thriller in which tensions between the United States and China escalate towards armed conflict in the Pacific.
The Wolf at the Door
Jack Higgins
Brainrush
Richard Bard
A thriller in which a terminally ill man undergoes an experimental treatment that gives him extraordinary mental abilities, making him a target.
The Hitman Diaries
Danny King
A darkly comic novel written as the diary of a professional hitman.
The Mystery on the Miniature Railway
June Winton
Future Visions
David Brin, Nancy Kress, Ann Leckie
An anthology of science fiction short stories by writers who visited Microsoft Research and drew on its work to imagine future technologies.
Fat Chance
Nick Spalding
A comic novel following an overweight married couple who publicly chronicle their attempts to lose weight, told through their alternating accounts.
Secrets of the Last Nazi
Iain King
Conclave
Robert Harris
A thriller set inside the Vatican as cardinals gather in seclusion to elect a new pope, seen through the eyes of the cardinal responsible for running the conclave.
The Ghost
Robert Harris
A thriller in which a ghostwriter hired to complete the memoirs of a former British prime minister uncovers dangerous secrets linked to his predecessor's death.
Vatican Protocol
Brian Gallagher
Dictator
Robert Harris
The final novel in a trilogy about the Roman statesman Cicero, narrated by his secretary Tiro, covering his later career amid the fall of the Roman Republic.
An Officer and a Spy
Robert Harris
A historical novel about the Dreyfus affair, told by the French intelligence officer who comes to suspect that the Jewish army captain convicted of treason is innocent.
Arrowood
Mick Finlay
A mystery set in Victorian London, following a down-at-heel private detective who resents Sherlock Holmes's fame as he takes on a case with his assistant Barnett.
Conspiracy
S. J. Parris
In 1585 Paris, the philosopher and spy Giordano Bruno is drawn into a series of murders amid the religious factions threatening the court of Henri III.
Digital Fortress
Dan Brown
An NSA cryptographer is called in when the agency's code-breaking supercomputer meets an apparently unbreakable code with implications for national security.
Munich
Robert Harris
During the 1938 Munich conference, a British civil servant and a German diplomat, former Oxford friends, become entangled in efforts surrounding Chamberlain's negotiations with Hitler.
Origin
Dan Brown
Robert Langdon attends a presentation at the Guggenheim Bilbao where a futurist promises to answer where humanity came from and where it is going, before events go wrong.
Sourdough
Robin Sloan
A burnt-out San Francisco software engineer is given a sourdough starter by two departing restaurateurs, and her baking draws her into an unusual underground food market.
The Hobbit
J. R. R. Tolkien
Hobbit Bilbo Baggins is recruited by the wizard Gandalf and a company of dwarves to help reclaim their treasure from the dragon Smaug.
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
Follows the four March sisters as they grow up in New England during and after the American Civil War.
Great Expectations
Charles Dickens
The orphan Pip, raised by his sister and her blacksmith husband, receives a fortune from a mysterious benefactor and sets out to become a gentleman.
Annabel Scheme
Robin Sloan
A short novel following detective Annabel Scheme and her AI assistant in an alternate, technology-saturated San Francisco as they take on a strange case.
Ajax Penumbra
Robin Sloan
A prequel novella in which a young Ajax Penumbra arrives in 1969 San Francisco searching for a lost book and discovers a curious 24-hour bookstore.
The P45 Diaries
Ben Hatch
Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore
Robin Sloan
An out-of-work web designer takes the night shift at an odd San Francisco bookstore and uncovers a secret society behind its unusual customers.
The GCHQ Puzzle Book
GCHQ
A collection of puzzles, codes and brainteasers of varying difficulty compiled by the UK intelligence agency GCHQ.
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