Books

Audio summaries of the world's best books, in Dari

Today's Pick

The Lean Startup

Eric Ries

How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses

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Build better habits

Four books on how small, daily changes compound into big results.

4 books

Understand your mind

How the mind decides, why it slips, and how to quiet it.

4 books

Money and decisions

From financial habits to the mental traps that mislead us when we spend and invest.

3 books

People and meaning

Books about suffering, friendship, education and our shared history.

4 books

Build something

For anyone who wants to start something, focus on it, and see it through.

3 books

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Essentialism

Greg McKeown

The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

Quiet

Susan Cain

The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

Flow

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

The Psychology of Optimal Experience

The Obstacle Is the Way

Ryan Holiday

The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph: how the Stoic way of seeing, acting and enduring turns a problem into a path

Sophie's World

Jostein Gaarder

A Novel About the History of Philosophy: a mysterious course of letters leads a Norwegian schoolgirl from the first Greek thinkers to the twentieth century, and to a startling discovery about her own world

The Richest Man in Babylon

George S. Clason

The Success Secrets of the Ancients: parables set in ancient Babylon on saving, spending, investing, debt and work

Good to Great

Jim Collins

Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't: what a five-year study of eleven companies found about turning good results into great ones, and keeping them

Start with Why

Simon Sinek

How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action

Guns, Germs, and Steel

Jared Diamond

The Fates of Human Societies: why history unfolded so differently on different continents over the last 13,000 years

I Am Malala

Malala Yousafzai with Christina Lamb

The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

Born a Crime

Trevor Noah

Stories from a South African Childhood

Nonviolent Communication

Marshall B. Rosenberg

A Language of Life: a four-part way of speaking and listening (observations, feelings, needs and requests) that keeps people connected even in hard conversations

Spark

John J. Ratey with Eric Hagerman

The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain: a psychiatrist argues that aerobic exercise readies the brain to learn and helps it cope with stress, anxiety, depression, attention problems, addiction and aging

Cosmos

Carl Sagan

An astronomer's journey through space and history: how stars, life and science came to be, and what our place in the universe asks of us

Mindset

Carol Dweck

The New Psychology of Success

Emotional Intelligence

Daniel Goleman

Why understanding and managing feelings can matter more than IQ

Meditations

Marcus Aurelius

The private notebook of a Roman emperor on keeping a steady mind, doing your duty and facing death

The Psychology of Money

Morgan Housel

Twenty short chapters on why, with money, how you behave matters more than what you know

Zero to One

Peter Thiel

Notes on startups, or how to build the future: a co-founder of PayPal argues that lasting value comes from creating something new, not from copying what works

Factfulness

Hans Rosling, with Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Rönnlund

Ten reasons we're wrong about the world, and why things are better than you think

Long Walk to Freedom

Nelson Mandela

The autobiography of Nelson Mandela: from a village in the Transkei, through prison on Robben Island, to the presidency, in his own account

Never Split the Difference

Chris Voss

Negotiating as if your life depended on it: a former FBI hostage negotiator explains the tools he used in the field and now teaches

Why We Sleep

Matthew Walker

Unlocking the power of sleep and dreams: a neuroscientist argues that sleep supports memory, mood and health, and that modern life gives it too little room

A Brief History of Time

Stephen Hawking

From the Big Bang to Black Holes: a Cambridge physicist explains in plain language where the universe came from, what time is, and what we still do not know

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