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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.

GuideFoodWes DunbarSep 22, 20266 min

Six meals you should know by heart, and how to get there

Recipes are fine. But a man who can feed four people on a Tuesday without reading anything has something better than a recipe.

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GuideFitnessCal BrennanSep 22, 20266 min

What a proprietary blend on the label is actually hiding

Turn the tub around, spend ninety seconds on the back panel, and you'll know whether the thing in your hand is worth the money.

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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.

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Where does your best time with your kids happen?

GuideHunting & ShootingWes DunbarSep 22, 20266 min

Reading Sign Is a Clock, Not a Map

Most hunters can find deer sign. Far fewer can tell you when it was made, which is the only part that puts an animal in front of you.

GuideBooksMarcus 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.

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GuideBooksMarcus ValeSep 23, 20266 min

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.

Quiz

Does your wardrobe actually fit you?

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

GuideBooksMarcus 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.

GuideBooksNina 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.

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GuideBooksMarcus 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.

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GuideBooksMarcus 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.

Poll

When did you last ask for a raise?

GuideBooksWes 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.

GuideBooksNina 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.

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GuideBooksMarcus 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.

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Is your money actually in order?

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

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Books Teenage Boys Will Actually Finish

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Twenty Books Every Man Should Read Before Forty

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GuideBooksRay 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.

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