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71 books across 16 categories. Tap a category to filter, or a book to read its cards.
Aesop's Fables
Aesop · 600 BC
Short animal fables teaching character and consequences in kid-perfect form.
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
Eric Jorgenson · 2020
A curated compendium of Naval Ravikant's ideas on wealth and happiness.
The Art of War
Sun Tzu · 500 BC
Ancient strategic principles on conflict, terrain, and positioning.
As a Man Thinketh
James Allen · 1903
A short 1903 essay arguing that thought is the seed of character and circumstance.
Atomic Habits
James Clear · 2018
Tiny 1% improvements compound into remarkable habit change over time.
Attached
Amir Levine & Rachel Heller · 2010
Attachment science explains your recurring patterns in romantic relationships.
BookScroll Originals
BookScroll Team · 2026
Original syntheses: what the smartest books agree on, distilled across the whole canon.
Breath
James Nestor · 2020
Rediscovering how breathing technique shapes health and performance.
Crucial Conversations
Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan & Al Switzler · 2002
Tools for talking well when stakes are high and opinions differ.
Daily Business Ideas
BookScroll Team · 2026
Fresh, concrete business and money-making ideas from the team — new every day.
Daily Spark
BookScroll Team · 2026
Real stories and hard-won drive — motivation that carries a move you can make today.
Deep Work
Cal Newport · 2016
Distraction-free concentration is rare, valuable, and trainable.
The E-Myth Revisited
Michael E. Gerber · 1995
Most small businesses fail because owners work in them, not on them.
Emotional Intelligence
Daniel Goleman · 1995
Why managing emotions well often matters more for success than raw IQ.
Enchiridion
Epictetus · 125
A short handbook on separating what's in our control from what isn't.
Essentialism
Greg McKeown · 2014
The disciplined pursuit of less, but better — doing what truly matters.
Everyday Health
BookScroll Team · 2026
Practical, consensus-backed health and self-care — brain, body, sleep, stress — in scroll-sized doses.
Extreme Ownership
Jocko Willink and Leif Babin · 2015
Navy SEAL leadership lessons built on owning every outcome, no excuses.
The 5 Love Languages
Gary Chapman · 1992
Five distinct ways people express and feel loved in relationships.
Flow
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi · 1990
The psychology of total absorption in a task — and how to engineer more of it.
The 4-Hour Workweek
Timothy Ferriss · 2007
Questions the default 9-to-5 with automation, outsourcing, and lifestyle design.
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin · 1791
Franklin's own account of self-improvement, virtue, and lifelong learning.
Getting Things Done
David Allen · 2001
A capture-and-review system for getting tasks out of your head and done.
Good to Great
Jim Collins · 2001
Research into what separates merely good companies from enduring great ones.
Grit
Angela Duckworth · 2016
Sustained passion and persistence predict achievement better than talent.
The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Ben Horowitz · 2014
Unvarnished advice on running a company when there's no easy answer.
High Output Management
Andrew S. Grove · 1983
A former Intel CEO's operating manual for managerial leverage and output.
How It Works
BookScroll Team · 2026
Team-authored explainers: inventions, everyday science, and how the world actually works.
How to Live on 24 Hours a Day
Arnold Bennett · 1908
An Edwardian essay on spending well the one resource everyone gets equally: time.
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Dale Carnegie · 1936
Foundational, still-copyrighted people-skills classic on winning goodwill.
Influence
Robert Cialdini · 1984
Six universal principles explain why we say yes — and how to spot them.
The Intelligent Investor
Benjamin Graham · 1949
The value-investing classic that separates investing from speculation.
The Lean Startup
Eric Ries · 2011
Build-measure-learn loops replace big upfront bets with validated learning.
The Lessons of History
Will & Ariel Durant · 1968
Five thousand years of history compressed into repeating patterns you can use.
Letters from a Stoic
Seneca · 65
Seneca's letters on facing adversity, time, and death with equanimity.
The Little Book of Common Sense Investing
John C. Bogle · 2007
Makes the case that low-cost index funds beat active stock-picking over time.
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl · 1946
A Holocaust survivor's case that meaning, not pleasure, is what drives us.
Mastery
Robert Greene · 2012
How history's masters moved through apprenticeship to creative mastery.
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius · 180
A Roman emperor's private Stoic notebook on virtue, duty, and mortality.
Mindset
Carol Dweck · 2006
Believing abilities can grow changes how you handle failure and effort.
Never Split the Difference
Chris Voss with Tahl Raz · 2016
FBI hostage-negotiation tactics adapted for everyday deals and conversations.
Nonviolent Communication
Marshall B. Rosenberg · 1999
A four-step language of observations, feelings, needs, and requests.
Outlive
Peter Attia with Bill Gifford · 2023
A longevity-medicine framework for outrunning the diseases that kill us.
Peak
Anders Ericsson with Robert Pool · 2016
The science of deliberate practice behind expert performance.
Poor Charlie's Almanack
Charles T. Munger · 2005
Charlie Munger's mental-models approach to rational thinking and judgment.
The Power of Habit
Charles Duhigg · 2012
How the cue-routine-reward loop explains and lets you rewire habits.
The Psychology of Money
Morgan Housel · 2020
Wealth is built more by behavior and temperament than by financial knowledge.
Rich Dad Poor Dad
Robert Kiyosaki · 1997
Reframes wealth around buying assets that pay you, not liabilities that cost you.
The Richest Man in Babylon
George S. Clason · 1926
Ancient-Babylon parables teaching saving, investing, and debt discipline.
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari · 2011
How shared fictions — money, nations, companies — built the human world.
Self-Reliance
Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1841
An essay urging trust in your own judgment over conformity.
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Stephen R. Covey · 1989
A principle-centered framework for personal and interpersonal effectiveness.
The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work
John Gottman with Nan Silver · 1999
Decades of marriage research distilled into what predicts divorce or thriving.
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson · 2003
The whole of science told as a story — how we know what we know.
The Simple Path to Wealth
JL Collins · 2016
A plain-spoken father-to-daughter guide to index investing and financial freedom.
So Good They Can't Ignore You
Cal Newport · 2012
Rare, valuable skills — not passion alone — build a compelling career.
Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain
John J. Ratey · 2008
Exercise as brain medicine — the strongest lever most people never use for mood, focus, and memory.
Start with Why
Simon Sinek · 2009
People don't buy what you do, they buy why you do it.
Steal Like an Artist
Austin Kleon · 2012
Originality is honest remixing — a working method for creative beginners.
Superforecasting
Philip Tetlock with Dan Gardner · 2015
What separates ordinary predictions from the habits of the best forecasters.
Tao Te Ching
Laozi · 600 BC
Terse verses on flowing with the natural way rather than forcing outcomes.
The Prince
Niccolò Machiavelli · 1513
A blunt Renaissance treatise on acquiring and holding power.
Think and Grow Rich
Napoleon Hill · 1937
A study of success built from interviews with early-1900s self-made millionaires.
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman · 2011
Two systems drive our thinking — one fast and intuitive, one slow and effortful.
Thinking in Bets
Annie Duke · 2018
Treats decisions as bets under uncertainty, judged by process, not outcome.
Walden
Henry David Thoreau · 1854
A deliberate life in the woods, questioning what we truly need.
The War of Art
Steven Pressfield · 2002
Names the enemy of every creative act — Resistance — and how professionals beat it.
The Way to Wealth
Benjamin Franklin · 1758
Franklin's proverb collection on thrift, hard work, and saving money.
Why We Sleep
Matthew Walker · 2017
The science of sleep and why it's the foundation of health and performance.
Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers
Robert M. Sapolsky · 1994
What chronic stress actually does to your body, from the scientist who measured it.
Zero to One
Peter Thiel with Blake Masters · 2014
Real progress means building something new, not competing over something old.