Author Archives: Booker

The Big Short Review: The Crash Told Through the Outsiders

Lewis turns the 2008 mortgage meltdown into a gripping character story and explains the machinery [...]

Sapiens Review: A Dazzling Story That Outruns Its Evidence

Harari's sweeping history of humankind is hugely readable and full of provocative ideas, but specialists [...]

Clean Code Review: Good Instincts, Rigid Rules, Weak Examples

Clean Code will make you care about names and readable functions, but its rigid rules [...]

The Most Important Thing Review: Howard Marks on Risk and Cycles

Howard Marks distills decades of investing experience on risk, cycles and market psychology into a [...]

Thinking in Bets Review: Why My Best Decisions Sometimes Lose

A former poker pro explains why judging decisions by their results is a trap, and [...]

The Psychology of Money Review: Why Looking Rich Keeps Us Poor

Morgan Housel shows that real wealth is what you don't see, and The Millionaire Next [...]

How to Win Friends and Influence People Review: The Classic Art of Winning People Over

Nearly a century old and still quoted in every office, Dale Carnegie's classic is a [...]

The Alchemist Review: A Beautiful Fable for People Who Want to Live Fully

Paulo Coelho's short, moving fable about a shepherd boy chasing his dream is a love [...]

Journey Under the Midnight Sun Review: Keigo Higashino’s Saddest Mystery

A murder in 1970s Osaka, two children bound by a terrible secret, and one of [...]

Think and Grow Rich Review: Useful Grit, Dubious Claims

Hill's Depression-era bestseller has a few durable lessons on goals and persistence, buried under magical [...]

Crime and Punishment Review: A Murder Story Told From the Inside

Dostoevsky's novel about a poor student who kills to prove a theory is a gripping [...]

The Automatic Millionaire Review: Great System, Shaky Maths

Bach's pay-yourself-first automation plan is genuinely useful, but the book leans on optimistic returns, the [...]