The Best Books To Read on Fall
From captivating novels to insightful nonfiction, these are the books that are making the biggest splash in 2025! Add these to your TBR list and don’t miss out on the books everyone — from readers to critics — is talking about.
Source Code: My Beginnings
by Bill Gates
- Bill Gates is one of the most transformative figures of our age. In Source Code he takes us back to his beginnings.
He describes with candour his childhood in Seattle, the centrality of family – his close relationship with his card-playing grandmother and his demanding but caring parents – his struggles to fit in, his rebelliousness, his first deep friendships and the impact of losing his closest friend.
We see Gates’s extraordinary mind developing, the restless teenager who discovered a love of coding and computing at the dawn of a new era and felt that ‘by applying my brain, I could solve even the world’s most complex mysteries’. We see the earliest signs of his phenomenal business acumen, which led him to drop out of Harvard at the age of 20 to devote all his energies to Microsoft, the company he started with his childhood friend Paul Allen. He writes about his first involvement with three Steves – Jobs, Wozniak and Ballmer – who would play a crucial role in so much that followed.
Born of This Land: My Life Story
- Born of This Land: My Life Story is an English translation of the Chung Ju-yung's autobiography.
This book is an English Edition of Hyundai Group founder Chung Ju-Yung's autobiography "Born of this Land." It is now possible to read in English the journey of leaving home penniless and creating Hyundai Group only with his two mottos, sincerity and credit.
From starting the first car shop that burned down, to constructing the Soyang River Dam and Gyeongbu Expressway, to establish Hyundai Motor and Hyundai Heavy Industries, the Seosan Reclamation Project, the 88 Olympics, and the cattle drive to North Korea, we can meet the wisdom, indomitable will, and positive thinking.
The book, which consists of nine chapters, contains records of efforts and struggles to create businesses and countries in South Korea as a new country that suffered chaos through Japanese colonial era and the Korean War. Along with his story as an entrepreneur who made Hyundai a global company, readers can also get a glimpse of his personality as the eldest brother of seven siblings, as the husband of a wife, and as a father.
The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort to Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self
- 'If you've been looking for something different to level up your health, fitness, and personal growth, this is it'.-Melissa Urban, Whole30 CEO and New York Times bestselling author
- Discover the evolutionary mind and body benefits of living at the edges of your comfort zone and reconnecting with the wild.
In many ways, we're more comfortable than ever before. But could our sheltered, temperature-controlled, overfed, underchallenged lives actually be the leading cause of many our most urgent physical and mental health issues? In this gripping investigation, award-winning journalist Michael Easter seeks out off-the-grid visionaries, disruptive genius researchers, and mind-body conditioning trailblazers who are unlocking the life-enhancing secrets of a counterintuitive solution: discomfort.
Easter's journey to understand our evolutionary need to be challenged takes him to meet the NBA's top exercise scientist, who uses an ancient Japanese practice to build championship athletes; to the mystical country of Bhutan, where an Oxford economist and Buddhist leader are showing the world what death can teach us about happiness; to the outdoor lab of a young neuroscientist who's found that nature tests our physical and mental endurance in ways that expand creativity while taming burnout and anxiety; to the remote Alaskan backcountry on a demanding 33-day hunting expedition to experience the rewilding secrets of one of the last rugged places on Earth; and more.