Power & money14 titles
Who gets to decide?
Ambition, institutions and the price of success.
A shelf of connections / October 2026
Every book.
A possible thread.
Begin with a question.
Follow it into another world.
87 title records
7 curated companions linked
01 / Choose a direction
Questions, in company.
Seven ways across the titles.
Our editorial connections, rather than a ranking.
Imagined worlds21 titles
What else is possible?
Invented places, adventures and altered realities.
Place & identity8 titles
Where does a life belong?
Landscape, belonging and the making of a self.
Language & attention6 titles
What changes when we notice?
Meaning, inward life and the habits of attention.
Memoir & lives15 titles
How do we tell a life?
Personal accounts, biographies and lives in retrospect.
Ideas & systems20 titles
How do things connect?
Organizations, invention and patterns of change.
The open shelf3 titles
Keep the question open.
Titles left ungrouped where a connection is less certain.
02 / A few possible crossings
Carry a question.
Three optional editorial reading paths.
Follow a connection at your own pace.
Place & choice
How does place shape a chosen life?
- Ethan Frome
Edith WhartonCurated companion
- The Kite Runner
Khaled HosseiniCurated companion
- Siddhartha
Hermann HesseCurated companion
Invented worlds
How do institutions shape a person’s agency?
- Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
Orson Scott CardBook catalog record
- Dune (Dune, #1)
Frank HerbertBook catalog record
- Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
Brandon SandersonCurated companion
Ideas & systems
Which conditions make a connection useful?
- New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World
Kevin KellyCurated companion
- The Wisdom of Crowds
James SurowieckiBook catalog record
- Once You're Lucky, Twice You're Good: The Rebirth of Silicon Valley and the Rise of Web 2.0
Sarah LacyBook catalog record
03 / The full snapshot
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Title and author metadata.
Companions appear where we have curated a door.
The theme above and your search work together.
All 87 title records shown.
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Power & money
Adventure Capitalist: The Ultimate Road Trip
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Imagined worlds
Animal Farm
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Imagined worlds
Anthem
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Place & identity
Beneath the Wheel
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Memoir & lives
Blood on the Horns: The Long Strange Ride of Michael Jordan's Chicago Bulls
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Memoir & lives
Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
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Memoir & lives
Bossypants
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Imagined worlds
Breakfast of Champions
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Imagined worlds
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Charlie Bucket, #1)
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Memoir & lives
Clapton: The Autobiography
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Memoir & lives
Conversations With My Agent
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Ideas & systems
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
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Power & money
Death of a Salesman
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Place & identity
Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
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Power & money
Desperate Networks
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Imagined worlds
Dune (Dune, #1)
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Imagined worlds
Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
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Place & identity
Ethan Frome
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Power & money
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
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Ideas & systems
Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
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Ideas & systems
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
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Ideas & systems
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't
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Imagined worlds
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
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Imagined worlds
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
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Language & attention
How to Win Friends & Influence People
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The open shelf
I Am America (And So Can You!)
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The open shelf
In Cold Blood
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Ideas & systems
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
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Ideas & systems
Inside Steve's Brain, Expanded Edition
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Ideas & systems
Instant: The Story of Polaroid
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Place & identity
Into the Wild
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Memoir & lives
It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life
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Memoir & lives
iWoz - Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It
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Power & money
Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street
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Imagined worlds
Lord of the Silver Bow (Troy, #1)
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Power & money
Master of the Game: Steve Ross and the Creation of Time Warner
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Imagined worlds
Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
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Ideas & systems
Moneyball
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Place & identity
Narcissus and Goldmund
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Ideas & systems
New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World
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Power & money
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
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Memoir & lives
Night
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Memoir & lives
Odyssey: Pepsi to Apple : A Journey of Adventure, Ideas, and the Future
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Ideas & systems
Once You're Lucky, Twice You're Good: The Rebirth of Silicon Valley and the Rise of Web 2.0
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Ideas & systems
Outliers: The Story of Success
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Ideas & systems
Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable
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Power & money
Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money—That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!
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Language & attention
Siddhartha
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Imagined worlds
Slaughterhouse-Five
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Place & identity
Steppenwolf
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Memoir & lives
Steve Jobs
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Ideas & systems
The 4-Hour Workweek
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Place & identity
The Catcher in the Rye
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Language & attention
The Celestine Prophecy (Celestine Prophecy, #1)
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Imagined worlds
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
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The open shelf
The Devil in the White City
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Power & money
The Devil Wears Prada (The Devil Wears Prada, #1)
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Ideas & systems
The Dilbert Principle: A Cubicle's-Eye View of Bosses, Meetings, Management Fads & Other Workplace Afflictions
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Memoir & lives
The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band
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Imagined worlds
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
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Language & attention
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
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Power & money
The Fountainhead
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Ideas & systems
The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement
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Power & money
The Godfather (The Godfather, #1)
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Power & money
The Great Gatsby
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Imagined worlds
The Hero of Ages (Mistborn, #3)
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Imagined worlds
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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Ideas & systems
The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business
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Memoir & lives
The Jordan Rules: The Inside Story of One Turbulent Season with Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls
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Place & identity
The Kite Runner
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Imagined worlds
The Lord of the Rings (The Lord of the Rings, #1-3)
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Ideas & systems
The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story
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Language & attention
The Old Man and the Sea
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Imagined worlds
The Princess Bride
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Power & money
The Richest Man in Babylon
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Imagined worlds
The Road
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Ideas & systems
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
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Imagined worlds
The Well of Ascension (Mistborn, #2)
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Ideas & systems
The Wisdom of Crowds
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Ideas & systems
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
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Power & money
Think and Grow Rich
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Imagined worlds
Treasure Island
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Memoir & lives
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
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Memoir & lives
Turning the Thing Around: My Life in Football
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Imagined worlds
Watchmen
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Memoir & lives
When the Game Was Ours
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Language & attention
Who Moved My Cheese?
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