Books

(Per)versions of Love and Hate Renata Salecl Why love and hate are so closely linked, in private lives and in politics, through psychoanalysis. $100M Leads Alex Hormozi The follow-up to $100M Offers tackles the next problem: getting enough people to see the offer, across outreach, content, ads and referrals. 1 recommender $100M Lost Chapters Alex Hormozi A bonus treasure chest of chapters Hormozi cut from his $100M trilogy, with extra tactics on customers, offers, hiring, and time. $100M Money Models Alex Hormozi How a business actually makes money: pricing structures, payment terms, and the sequences that turn one sale into many. 1 recommender $100M Offers Alex Hormozi A method for building offers so compelling that price stops being the obstacle, through value stacking, guarantees, scarcity and urgency. 1 recommender 10 Steps to Earning Awesome Grades (While Studying Less) Thomas Frank A practical, research-backed study system from the College Info Geek creator: better grades from smarter method rather than longer hours. 1001 Inventions Salim Al-Hassani An illustrated history of Muslim contributions to science and culture. 1 recommender 13 Bankers Simon Johnson and James Kwak The argument that America's largest banks became a political force before they became a financial risk, and that the two are connected. 1 recommender 1913: The Year Before the Storm Florian Illies What Europe's artists and writers were doing in 1913, told as if nobody knew what was coming. 1 recommender 1929 Andrew Ross Sorkin The Too Big to Fail method turned on 1929: who saw the crash coming, who did not, and how thin the line between them was. 1 recommender 1984 George Orwell George Orwell’s dystopia of total surveillance and rewritten truth, where the Party controls language, memory, and reality itself. 7 recommenders 21 Lessons for the 21st Century Yuval Noah Harari Harari turns from deep history to the present, on work after automation, resurgent nationalism and the growing scarcity of attention. 23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism Ha-Joon Chang A Cambridge economist punctures twenty-three common beliefs about how capitalism works. 1 recommender 2666 Roberto Bolaño Roberto Bolaño's posthumous five-part novel, in the Picador edition of Natasha Wimmer's translation. 1 recommender 30 Lessons for Living Karl Pillemer Life advice from people in their seventies, eighties and beyond, who have seen almost everything. 1 recommender 31 Dream Street Lisa Jewell A landlord who filled his house with people who cannot leave, and now has to move them on. 1 recommender 40 on Justice Omar Suleiman Commentary on forty hadith about justice and social reform. 5 More Sleeps ’til Christmas Jimmy Fallon Fallon's rhyming Christmas countdown: a boy too excited to sleep through the last five nights, a December bedtime read made for the season. 8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster Mirinae Lee Mirinae Lee's debut novel, written in English, follows one Korean woman's life from the Japanese occupation to the early 21st century. 1 recommender 8 Rules of Love Jay Shetty Shetty treats love as a learnable skill, eight rules on solitude, dating, conflict, and heartbreak, starting with learning to be alone well. A Brief History of Time Stephen Hawking Hawking set out to explain the universe with no maths, just the ideas, and made cosmology a bestseller 1 recommender A Bright Ray of Darkness Ethan Hawke A young actor whose marriage has collapsed finds his way back through a production of Henry IV, in Ethan Hawke's third novel. A Burning Megha Majumdar One careless post after an attack, and three lives that find her more useful guilty. 2 recommenders A Century of Tomorrows: How Imagining the Future Shapes the Present Glenn Adamson A history of futurology, including the futures imagined by people the field usually leaves out. 1 recommender A Cheesemonger’s Tour de France Ned Palmer A working cheesemonger crosses France region by region, using rinds and monastic orders as the way into local history and the AOC rules that froze it. 1 recommender A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books Charles Dickens Dickens's ghost story of the miser Ebenezer Scrooge, visited on Christmas Eve by the spirits of past, present and future, with his other Christmas books. 1 recommender A Clash of Kings George R. R. Martin A comet burns over a continent at war, and every man who calls himself king is certain the sign belongs to him. A Colony in a Nation Chris Hayes Hayes argues America runs two justice systems: a Nation for the privileged and a Colony, policed by force, for everyone else. A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole Ignatius J. Reilly, thirty and unemployed in New Orleans, blames the century for everything. 1 recommender A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court Mark Twain A modern engineer wakes in Camelot and industrializes it, in Twain's time-travel satire of feudal superstition, and of progress itself, that turns dark. A Cook’s Tour Anthony Bourdain Bourdain circles the globe in search of the perfect meal, from a Tokyo fish market to the Mekong Delta, eating whatever the moment demands. A Cuban Girl’s Guide to Tea and Tomorrow Laura Taylor Namey Sent from Miami to an English village after a devastating year, a Cuban American teenager has to choose her own future. 1 recommender A Cultural History of the British Empire John M. MacKenzie The empire understood through what it exported and absorbed rather than through what it governed. 1 recommender A Curtain of Green Eudora Welty Seventeen stories that found the whole American South inside small Mississippi rooms. 1 recommender A Dance with Dragons George R. R. Martin Ruling turns out to be harder than winning, as a queen, a dwarf and a lord commander each meet the limits of power. A Day with Picasso Billy Klüver A detective story in which two dozen undated snapshots are pinned to a single Montparnasse afternoon in 1916. 1 recommender