Instaread Summaries: 317 books

Summary of Putin Country by Anne Garrels | Includes Analysis Preview: Putin Country is an account of foreign correspondent Anne Garrels’s travels in, and study of, Chelyabinsk, Russia. Chelyabinsk is a region of south central Russia located at the southern end of the Ural mountain chain,...

Summary of Misbehaving by Richard H. Thaler | Includes Analysis   Preview: Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics is an introduction to behavioral economics and an account of Richard H. Thaler’s role in developing and popularizing the field. The traditional...

Summary of Dark Money by Jane Mayer | Includes Analysis   Preview: Dark Money by Jane Mayer profiles the wealthy donors who have funded and established organizations to promote libertarian ideals, particularly the brothers Charles and David Koch. They and their two other...

Summary of The Rise and Fall of American Growth by Robert J. Gordon | Includes Analysis   Preview: The Rise and Fall of American Growth is an analysis of American growth from 1870 to the present. It focuses especially on the unprecedented “special century” of 1870-1970....

Summary of The Only Game in Town by Mohamed A. El Erian | Includes Analysis   Preview: Mohamed A. El-Erian’s The Only Game in Town: Central Banks, Instability, and Avoiding the Next Collapse is a discussion of the role of central banks in confronting the current financial...

Summary of Team of Teams by General Stanley McChrystal | Includes Analysis   Preview: Team of Teams by General Stanley McChrystal is an examination of the process he began of restructuring the Joint Special Operations Command management style, from a rigid command...

Summary of Moneyball by Michael Lewis | Includes Analysis   Preview: Moneyball by Michael Lewis considers the unlikely success of the Oakland Athletics in the first few years of the twenty-first century. During this period, one of the teams with the lowest payrolls in Major...

Summary of High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove| Includes Analysis   Preview: First published in 1983, High Output Management by Andrew Grove is a management guide based on Grove’s 15 years of managerial experience and knowledge as a co-founder, president, and...

Summary of The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: by Patrick Lencioni | Includes Analysis   Preview: Patrick Lencioni’s The Five Dysfunctions of a Team is about the reasons teams fail to work together for the collective good of an organization and ways to overcome these problems…...

Summary of Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin | Includes Analysis   Preview: Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin is a guide to applying leadership principles of the United States Navy’s Sea, Air, and Land Teams (SEALs) to business....

Summary of I Will Teach You To Be Rich by Ramit Sethi | Includes Analysis   Preview: I Will Teach You to Be Rich is a do-it-yourself guide to building wealth over the course of one’s lifetime with no quick fixes or special tricks. This 2009 New York Times bestseller...

Summary of The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom | Includes Analysis   Preview: The Kitchen House, Kathleen Grissom’s debut novel, is a coming-of-age story about Lavinia, an Irish immigrant who grows up at Tall Oaks, a tobacco plantation in antebellum Virginia. When...

Summary of LaRose by Louise Erdrich | Includes Analysis   Preview:   LaRose by Louise Erdrich is a novel about two little boys who are torn from their families and the infinite sorrow that’s left in their wake of their separations. As the repercussions of a tragic hunting...

Summary of Born to Run by Christopher McDougall | Includes Analysis   Preview: Born to Run is a book about the natural virtues of running, based on Christopher McDougall’s own experiences, research, and training. It is centered on the Tarahumara, an indigenous Mexican tribe...