We’re not making it up: Fiction will really change your life. Here’s why

Fiction is really the genre that changes lives. Novels build imagination, boost empathy, make us wiser. Facts can only go so far

Sigh, CEOS. All those productivity hacks: Rising early, scheduling apps, Pomodoro techniques, kaizen checklists, blue-sky thinking, endless pivoting. And of course, they all love books – worthy self-help tomes, memoirs of other CEOs, marketing bibles strung up by case studies. Fiction? No thanks. Story books are a waste of time.

The Underground Railroad, offers a better understanding of American slavery than most history books.

Building worlds as a story unfolds builds our imaginative powers. Ask any fan of the Dune books.

India’s urban-rural divide and social systems are well conveyed in The White Tiger (2008).