Books like The Shape of a Pocket by John Berger

During World War II, a foster girl in Nazi Germany steals books to share with neighbors and a hidden Jewish man, proving literature’s power to nourish the soul amid darkness.

The Bell Jar is the sole novel by Sylvia Plath, a psychologically intense and autobiographical look at a young woman’s decline into mental illness.

Jennifer Egan’s interlocking narratives weave the lives of Bennie Salazar, a former punk rocker turned record executive, and Sasha, a restless young woman, across decades and continents, exploring music, memory and the fragile threads that bind us.

A New York novella that charts the quirky, uneasy friendship between the enigmatic Holly Golightly and her unnamed narrator, revealing the city’s social customs through the lens of a young woman’s coming‑of‑age.

Private Detective Jackson Brodie unravels three intertwined mysteries of loss, grief, and hidden secrets in England’s quiet suburbs.

Donald Trump shares his secrets for making a fortune and running a successful business in his book 'How to Get Rich'.

John Lennon: Uncovering the Life of the Legendary Rock Star

A charismatic teacher at Edinburgh’s Marcia Blaine School in the years before World War II shapes the lives of six chosen girls, leaving an indelible mix of inspiration and manipulation that echoes into their adulthood.

A detailed biography of Michael Jackson, tracing his life and career through interviews and exclusive access to his family and close associates.

A captivating true story of the charismatic Charles Ponzi, the man behind the Ponzi scheme that brought the Roaring Twenties to life.

Collected essays by Iris Murdoch on ethics, aesthetics, and the influence of existentialist and mystical thinkers, offering insight into her literary philosophy and modern Platonism.

A tale of deception, magic, and the rise of machines in the 18th and 19th centuries, featuring the historical figure of a chess-playing automaton and its mysterious disappearance from the world of wonderment to the United States.

A compelling exploration of mental health, gender, and institutionalization, blending journalism and psychological insights with the author's harrowing personal story of living as a man.

By making full use of the progress in deciphering the Maya hieroglyphic code, this examines the world and minds of the creators of Maya art, including a look at the Maya calendar.

A compelling look at the rise and fall of the Fox sisters and the birth of Spiritualism in America, blending historical narrative with supernatural elements.

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: America's Queen

A brilliant account of religion's role in the political thinking of the West, from the Enlightenment to the close of World War II.

John Thompson’s autobiography reveals the impact of a former basketball coach on American history and race relations.

Henry Skrimshander, a baseball star at the small Lake Michigan school Westish College, faces self‑doubt when a routine throw goes awry, unsettling the lives of five people.

The ideas of John Maynard Keynes have never been more timely. No one has bettered Keynes's description of the psychology of investors during a financial crisis: ‘The practice of calmness and immobility, of certainty and security, suddenly breaks down. New fears and hopes will, without warning, take charge of human conduct… the market will be subject to waves of optimistic and pessimistic sentiment.' Keynes's preeminent biographer, Robert Skidelsky, Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at the University of Warwick, brilliantly synthesizes from Keynes's career and life the aspects of his thinking that apply most directly to the world we currently live in. In so doing, Skidelsky shows that Keynes's mixture of pragmatism and realism – which distinguished his thinking from the neo-classical or Chicago school of economics that has been the dominant influence since the Thatcher-Reagan era and which made possible the raw market capitalism that created the current global financial crisis – is more pertinent and applicable than ever. Crucially Keynes offers nervous capitalists – and Keynes never wavered in his belief in the capitalist system – a positive answer to the question we now face: When unbridled capitalism falters, is there an alternative? "In the long run," as Keynes famously said, "we are all dead". We may not have time to wait for the perfect theoretical operation of capital as the neo-classicists insist will happen eventually. In the meantime, we have Keynes: more supple, more human and more magnificently real than ever.