Author Archives: Booker
Verity Review: Colleen Hoover’s Lurid, Divisive Thriller
A lurid, gripping thriller built around a monstrous manuscript. It's hard to stop reading, but [...]
A Philosophy of Software Design Review: Complexity Is the Enemy
A short, sharp book that makes complexity the enemy and deep modules the cure, the [...]
Ikigai Review: A Gentle Primer That Oversells Its Secret
A pleasant, quick introduction to Japanese ideas about purpose and ageing well, but thin on [...]
Misery Review: Stephen King’s Tightest, Cruellest Thriller
Stephen King's tightest novel: a two-hander about a writer and his captor that's terrifying, funny [...]
A Little Life Review: Brilliant, Punishing and Hard to Forget
A huge, immersive novel about friendship and trauma that readers call either a masterpiece or [...]
The Undoing Project Review: The Friendship Behind Behavioral Economics
Michael Lewis turns the Kahneman and Tversky partnership into a gripping, moving story; lighter on [...]
A Brief History of Time Review: Big Questions, Hard Middle Chapters
Hawking's classic makes cosmology's biggest questions feel within reach, but its dense middle chapters lose [...]
The Four Pillars of Investing Review: Theory, History and Nerve
Bernstein's four-part education in theory, history, psychology and the investment business is one of the [...]
A Random Walk Down Wall Street Review: The Case for Index Funds
Malkiel's witty, evidence-heavy case that most investors can't beat the market remains one of the [...]
Noise Review: The Other Half of Human Error, Told at Length
An important idea stretched across a book twice as long as it needs to be: [...]
A Short History of Nearly Everything Review: Science as Great Stories
Bryson makes the history of science funny and gripping, but he favors anecdotes over explanations, [...]
In Cold Blood Review: A True-Crime Classic With an Accuracy Problem
Capote's account of the Clutter murders is gripping, beautifully built and hugely influential, but it [...]