Personal Development

The Art of Money Getting by P. T. Barnum

The Art of Money Gettingor or Golden Rules of Making Money by P. T. Barnum outlines a set of brilliant actions that can elevate...

The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg Esenwein and Dale Carnegie

The Art of Public Speaking is a classic book published over a century ago that succinctly captures tips to groom you into a proficient...

Self-Help by Samuel Smiles

Children's Books

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis

Just the title of this children's story The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, would entice any adult to take interest in this classical...

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain is, with The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, another book from the same author, one of the...

Heidi by Johanna Spyri

Classic Novels

Jane Erye by Charlotte Bronte

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte is one of those novels in English literature that’s strives to portray the travails girls go through to maturity....

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens captures a scenario in which two categories of people living in one city. The residential areas...

Dracula by Bram Stoker

Business Classics

Self-Help by Samuel Smiles

Self-Help by Samuel Smiles was written after the author abandoned his interest to become a member of parliament and decided that the best reform...

How to Attract and Hold an Audience by J. Berg Esenwein

How to Attract and Hold an Audience by J. Berg Esenwein is a public speaking self-help book that guides on how to keep your audience...

Humanities and Social Sciences

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft

Considered as the weaker sex, women often have to prove that they are just as ordinary as their male counterparts. A Vindication of the...

Propaganda by Edward Bernays

Propaganda by Edward Bernays explores the idea of convincing people to want things they didn't need. The author coins the term ‘engineering of consent’...

Science & Technology

On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin

On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin was the book of the year 1859, if not book of the 19th century, for it...

The Mysterious Universe by James Jeans

Life and its origin, the story of the creation of the earth we now live in, remains an enigma. As such, any attempt to...

Biography

Commodore Vanderbilt: An Epic of American Achievement by Arthur D. Howden Smith

Commodore Vanderbilt: An Epic of American Achievement by Arthur D. Howden Smith is a biography that tells the story of poor Vanderbilt, from his...

The life story of J. Pierpont Morgan: a biography by Carl Hovey

From financing the railroad industry to organizing the United States Steel, General Electric, while trying his hand in many other sectors, J.P. Morgan rose...

Spirituality

The confessions of Saint Augustine

The confessions of Saint Augustine is an autobiography and one of the most innovative and influential spirituality books. It was written when Saint Augustine...

The alchemy of happiness by Al Ghazzali

The Alchemy of Happiness by Al Ghazzali was written a thousand years ago. Al Ghazzali asserts his fundamental belief that a connection to God...

Classic Authors

Norman Angell

Sir Ralph Norman Angell, a winner of Nobel Prize in 1933, was one of the most revered authors, journalist, lecturer, and Member of Parliament...

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Frances Hodgson Burnett is a well-known author of children literature comprising of short stories and novels. Among her notable works A Little Princess (1905),...

Kenneth Grahame

Kenneth Grahame was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on March 8th, 1859. He was a year and a few months old when his father received...

Richard Maurice Bucke

A prominent Canadian psychiatrist, physician, and ardent student of the human mind, Richard Maurice Bucke maintained a strong friendship and devotion to Walt Whitman....

Arthur D. Howden Smith

Arthur D. Howden Smith was one of the most talented writers of his time. His works covered mainly Adventures, where he often created series....

F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1896, in St. Paul,” Minnesota and christened by Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald. Scott’s father, Edward, was...

Featured Book Reviews

The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery

The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery

The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery, a French pilot, and a writer, is an interesting story. The storyteller is a pilot who crashes...
The Art of War by Sun Tzu

The Art of War by Sun Tzu

Featured Classic Authors

Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott rose to fame due to her two-part book, Little Women (Part first & Part Second) which was an instant success. Her...
John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck

C. S. Lewis

C. S. Lewis

J. R. R. Tolkien

J. R. R. Tolkien

Andrew Carnegie

Andrew Carnegie