Editor's Choice
Looking for a new book to dive into? Our in-depth reviews cover some of the best new books being released into the world and use those books to gain a better understanding of the world, helping guide where to go—and what to read—next.
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Weird in a World That's Not: A Career Guide for Misfits, F*ckups, and Failures
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
Jennifer Romolini's new book about building a career is honest, real, wonderfully written, and just wonderful.
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Wild Ride: Inside Uber's Quest for World Domination
Book Review by Porchlight
Uber's story is one worth telling and listening to, and we’re fortunate Adam Lashinsky took on the formidable task.
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Insight: Why We're Not as Self-Aware as We Think, and How Seeing Ourselves Clearly Helps Us Succeed at Work and in Life
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
Dr. Tasha Eurich's new book is a sometimes uncomfortable, always powerful eye-opener to what it takes to be truly successful.
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The Land of Enterprise: A Business History of the United States
Book Review by Porchlight
Benjamin C. Waterhouse opens up the grand sweep of American history by looking at it from a business perspective.
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The CEO Pay Machine: How it Trashes America and How to Stop it
Book Review by Porchlight
Steven Clifford chronicles the inexorable rise of CEO pay, how it harms companies, curbs economic growth, and undermines democracy, and how we can fix it.
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Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy
Book Review by Porchlight
Jonathan Taplin's new book asks us to reconsider the virtues and values of the digital economy, and how we can rebuild it on more decentralized, democratic values.
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The New Urban Crisis: How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class—and What We Can Do About It
Book Review by Porchlight
Richard Florida's new book deepens his thoughts on the economic power of urbanism, detailing its negative consequences as well as its continued promise.
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The Chessboard and the Web: Strategies of Connection in a Networked World
Book Review by Porchlight
In her new book, Anne-Marie Slaughter gives us a new both/and paradigm with which to view the world.
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Sensemaking: The Power of the Humanities in the Age of the Algorithm
Book Review by Porchlight
Christian Madsbjerg's new book helps us make more sense of the world by encouraging us to include all the data in our decisions, human and technical.
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Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
Book Review by Porchlight
Kate Raworth has written a beautiful and powerful book about the limits and setbacks of current economic dogma, and provides us with a new model to replace it with.
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