18 2025 March
The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: The Secret Lives of Colour by Kassia St. Clair
There are colors that you may have heard of, and more than a few that you haven’t. This highly original book takes a look at...
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11 2025 March
The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: The Endless Refrain by David Rowell
What would a world without any new music sound like? Perhaps we are already there, a reality music writer and journalist David Rowell explores in...
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04 2025 March
The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: Community Data by Rahul Bhargava
For my book selection this week I’ll start by sharing that I have known this author for literally his entire life—because it’s my younger brother,...
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25 2025 February
The Non-Obvious Book of the Week:The Long View by Richard Fisher
What will it take to transform the way the world views time? Richard Fisher, a senior journalist with BBC Global News, explores this question and...
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18 2025 February
The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: How To Winter by Dr. Kari Leibowitz
February is notorious for being the toughest month of the year for many people. In the Northern hemisphere, these are the cold winter months where social isolation...
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13 2025 February
Are Book Blurbs Worth the Effort or a Tradition That “Rewards Connections Over Talent”?
By any measure, I’ve been pretty successful at getting book blurbs across my ten published books. Deepak Chopra. Tony Robbins. Adam Grant. They have all...
Read Now11 2025 February
The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: Negotiating While Black by Damali Peterman
If you are an avid follower of our Non-Obvious Book Awards program, you might recognize this week’s selection: Negotiating While Black. It was our pick...
Read Now04 2025 February
The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: Humanize: A Maker’s Guide to Designing Our Cities, by Thomas Heatherwick
Imagine a graphic novel that offers a compelling argument for why our cities can be more than just boring backdrops for daily routines. That’s the...
Read Now30 2025 January
The No Book: An Inside Look at Tim Ferriss’s New Book (and How He Protects His Time)
In case you’re not familiar with author Tim Ferriss, here’s a crazy fact about him: If he’s in a time when he isn’t checking email...
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The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: The Long History of the Future by Nicole Kobie
Wide-eyed predictions of the future are fun to read, and even more fun to write. Yet for every book that promises to predict the future,...
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The Library of Lost & Imaginary Books
There are books mentioned within the pages of other books that never existed on their own, but what if they did? That’s the fascinating story...
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The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: Brave New Words by Sal Khan
Back in April of 2023, Sal Khan (founder of Khan Academy) did a TED talk with a timely title: How AI Could Save (Not Destroy)...
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The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: Infectious Generosity by Chris Anderson
Chris Anderson knows big ideas. As the head of TED, the global organization behind TED talks and TED X events, he has been witness to...
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