Books

What to read next, the classics worth the effort and how to make reading a habit again.

GuideMarcus ValeNov 5, 20265 min

Six American novels, read in the order it happened

From Boston in 1774 to a Wyoming valley in the 1880s, a clean shelf of historical fiction that teaches our story better than a textbook did.

Audiobooks That Actually Work in the Car

Books on video

Worth an hour of your evening

From channels we rate. Plays on YouTube.

Joel SnapeDec 12

The Best Way To Build A Daily Reading Habit In 2025

Better IdeasNov 2

How to Read When You Hate Reading - 5 Tips and Tricks

Ali AbdaalApr 2

Give me 14 minutes and I'll show you how to read more books

Ryan HolidayJan 8

Give me 16 minutes and I'll teach you how to read like a PRO

Karsten KroeningMay 4

books every guy should read

Jack EdwardsApr 3

tier-ranking every classic book (so you know which ones to read)

Order of ManNov 22

7 Books Every Man Should Read

OdysseasNov 21

Why You Must Read Classics (and how to start).

Rob Pirie - The CauseJun 16

10 Books That Build Men

The Armchair AcademicMay 8

100 Books Every Man Must Read

Ian GubeliMay 24

The GREATEST Books I've Ever Read (In My Entire Life)

William DozierAug 15

Books every guy should consider REQUIRED reading

Ryan HolidayDec 6

The Best Books You Can Read

Alux.comJun 5

15 Classic Books Everyone Should Read In Their Lifetime Part I

The Counsel of TrentMay 26

10 Classic Novels Every Christian Should Read

Tristan and the ClassicsJan 26

Where To Start With Classic Books - 10 Classic Novels + A Bonus One

Books quizzes

Quiz yourself, then your friends

All quizzes

GuideSam OrtizSep 23, 20265 min

What to Read Aloud to Your Kids, Age by Age

A working list of read-aloud books from board books to Tolkien, with the mature content flagged and the ones that flop marked.

GuideMarcus ValeSep 23, 20266 min

Start Here If You Think You Hate Poetry

Eight books, a three-minute nightly habit, and the reason the stuff they assigned you in tenth grade never had a chance.

Ask BRO

Give me something to do with my kids this weekend

Ask it

GuideMarcus ValeSep 23, 20266 min

Reading After Sixty Without Fighting the Page

Better light, bigger type, the right device, and seven books that pay back a lifetime of reading rather than wasting what's left of it.

Shirts.com — Design it with AI. Wear it this week.

PartnerShirts.com

6 min read

War Memoirs From the Men Who Were Actually There

Ten first-person accounts of combat that beat any history book, plus honest warnings about which ones will knock the wind out of you.

Poll

What was your first ever job?

GuideMarcus ValeSep 23, 20266 min

Thrillers That Cost You Sleep and Not Your Conscience

Nine books that grab you on page one, with nothing in them you'd hide from your kids, plus honest flags on the ones that need them.

GuideNina CastellanSep 23, 20265 min

Books for Teenage Girls With Heroines Worth Copying

Ten novels and one memoir with girls at the center who are brave, stubborn, and good — plus what's in each one you should know about first.

Delicious.com — Nine thousand recipes and a plan for tonight

PartnerDelicious.com

GuideMarcus ValeSep 23, 20266 min

Biographies Good Enough to Keep You Up Past Midnight

Eight lives worth reading, ranked by how fast they hook you, plus the honest warning about which ones need a thousand pages to get going.

Quiz

Is your money actually in order?

Six questions. No email required, no sales pitch at the end.

GuideMarcus ValeSep 23, 20265 min

How to Finish a Book Again

You don't need more discipline. You need a shorter book, a worse chair for your phone, and permission to quit the ones that bore you.

GuideWes DunbarSep 23, 20266 min

The Westerns Worth Reading When It Gets Dark at Five

Nine frontier novels that actually hold up, what's in them, and which ones you can hand to a twelve-year-old.

Ask BRO

Pressure-test my business idea

Ask it

GuideNina CastellanSep 23, 20265 min

How to Start a Book Club That Survives Past March

Most groups die in month four from drift, not conflict. Lock the date, pick a short first book, and put one person in charge.

Names.com — The name is the first thing you sell

PartnerNames.com

GuideMarcus ValeSep 23, 20266 min

Eight History Books That Read Like Thrillers

Real events, real men, and prose good enough that you'll stay up past midnight. Start with Shackleton and build from there.

Poll

How many days a week are you actually training?

GuideSam OrtizSep 23, 20266 min

Books Teenage Boys Will Actually Finish

The rule that turns a quitter into a reader, plus fifteen books that survive contact with a distracted fifteen-year-old.

GuideMarcus ValeSep 23, 20266 min

Twenty Books Every Man Should Read Before Forty

Twenty books, ten years, one every six months. A list you can actually finish, with the mature-content flags nobody else bothers to give you.

CancerDefying.com — The research, protocols and reading in one place

PartnerCancerDefying.com

GuideRay OkonkwoSep 23, 20266 min

Nine Business Books That Actually Earn Their Pages

Most of the business shelf is one decent idea stretched to 240 hardcover pages. These nine aren't, and each one suits a different guy.

Quiz

Does your wardrobe actually fit you?

Five questions, honestly answered, and a plan for the next two weeks.

The Prairie Had No Trees, So They Built Houses of Grass

Preparedness5 min

Know Your Medication's Number Before the Lights Go Out

Ask BRO

Rehearse the raise conversation with me

Ask it

GuideGarden & YardWes DunbarNov 8, 20265 min

Beans Don't Feed Your Corn This Summer. They Feed Next Year's

Tuck bush beans between the hungry crops, but know when the nitrogen actually pays out, and what to do with the plants in September.

Coconut.com — Tell us when. We find where the sun is.

PartnerCoconut.com

History4 min read

A Wire Crew Finished the Pony Express in 112 Days

In the summer of 1861, crews strung wire across roughly 2,000 miles of wilderness in the middle of a war. When they finished, ten days became minutes.

Poll

Where does your phone charge overnight?

Older articles

Books

Six American novels, read in the order it happened

The founder memoirs that teach what business school skips

Classic Adventure Novels That Survive Being Read Out Loud

The Fatherhood Books New Dads Should Actually Read

What Your Library Card Is Actually Worth

Audiobooks That Actually Work in the Car

Worth an hour of your evening

Quiz yourself, then your friends

What to Read Aloud to Your Kids, Age by Age

Start Here If You Think You Hate Poetry

Reading After Sixty Without Fighting the Page

War Memoirs From the Men Who Were Actually There

Thrillers That Cost You Sleep and Not Your Conscience

Books for Teenage Girls With Heroines Worth Copying

Biographies Good Enough to Keep You Up Past Midnight

How to Finish a Book Again

The Westerns Worth Reading When It Gets Dark at Five

How to Start a Book Club That Survives Past March

Eight History Books That Read Like Thrillers

Books Teenage Boys Will Actually Finish

Twenty Books Every Man Should Read Before Forty

Nine Business Books That Actually Earn Their Pages

The Prairie Had No Trees, So They Built Houses of Grass

Know Your Medication's Number Before the Lights Go Out

Beans Don't Feed Your Corn This Summer. They Feed Next Year's

A Wire Crew Finished the Pony Express in 112 Days