Books

Earn What You’re Really Worth Brian Tracy Tracy's argument that income tracks the value you create, and a plan to raise your skills, positioning, and pay to match it. Earth (The Book) Jon Stewart A deadpan owner's manual for planet Earth, written for the aliens who will find it after humanity is gone, from The Daily Show team. Earth House Hold Gary Snyder Fire lookout, logger, Zen student in Japan: journals from before the ecological ethics they describe had acquired a name or a movement. 1 recommender Earth Shapers: How We Mapped and Mastered the World, From the Panama Canal to the Baltic Way Maxim Samson The canals, walls, borders and human chains that redrew the surface of the planet. 1 recommender East of Eden John Steinbeck Steinbeck's sweeping retelling of Cain and Abel follows two families in California's Salinas Valley across generations of love and choice. 1 recommender Eat That Frog! Brian Tracy If the first thing you do each morning is eat a live frog, nothing worse can happen all day. Tracy's rule for doing the hardest task first. Edgedancer Brandon Sanderson A standalone Stormlight Archive novella starring Lift, a wisecracking street urchin with growing Radiant powers, chasing a killer between the main volumes. Educated Tara Westover Kept out of school and hospitals by a survivalist father in rural Idaho, Tara Westover set foot in a classroom at seventeen and ended up at Cambridge. 2 recommenders Ego Is the Enemy Ryan Holiday Ego tracked through aspiration, success and failure, doing different damage at each stage. 1 recommender Einstein Walter Isaacson The rebel patent clerk who rewrote physics, drawn from newly released letters that show the man behind the equations Elantris Brandon Sanderson A city of god-like beings is now a cursed ruin where the afflicted are exiled, and a prince has just been struck by the curse. 1 recommender Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees Jared Farmer Bristlecones, ginkgos, yews and baobabs became objects of science, tourism and grief, and dating them changed what deep time felt like to the people doing the counting. 1 recommender Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine Gail Honeyman A fiercely routined loner says exactly what she thinks, until an act of kindness starts unpicking a life built to keep everyone out. 1 recommender Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain’s Visionary Music Rob Young British folk revival traced back past Fairport Convention to Vaughan Williams and older visions still. 1 recommender Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast Megan Marshall Marshall studied under Bishop, and braids her own memories into the biography, which gives her access to the reticence Bishop built her life and work around. Ellen Foster Kaye Gibbons Kaye Gibbons's debut is narrated by a fierce, funny young girl who survives an abusive home and searches for a family of her own. 1 recommender Elon Musk Walter Isaacson Two years shadowing Musk across Tesla, SpaceX and Twitter, watching the drive and the recklessness feed off each other Eloquent Rage Brittney Cooper Cooper reclaims Black women's anger as clarity and fuel rather than the stereotype it gets flattened into. 1 recommender Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age Eleanor Barraclough A toy boat, a comb, a runic insult scratched in wood, isotopes in teeth. Barraclough builds the Viking age from small objects rather than from sagas and kings. 1 recommender Emma Who Saved My Life Wilton Barnhardt An aspiring actor lands in grimy 1970s New York and spends a decade orbiting his best friend. 1 recommender Emperor of the Seas: Kublai Khan and the Making of China Jack Weatherford How Kublai Khan beat Song China and then lost to Japan, told through the sea rather than the steppe. 1 recommender Empire of Pain Patrick Radden Keefe Three generations of a family that built a fortune on OxyContin and their name on museum walls. 1 recommender Empowered Marty Cagan The follow-up to Inspired, arguing that great products come not from star hires but from how everyday teams are coached and led. Enchantment Guy Kawasaki Kawasaki on the craft of genuine persuasion: how to win people over not by pressure but by likability, trustworthiness, and a cause worth believing in. Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bill Dobbins The landmark original: exercises by muscle group, routines for every level, and the training system that defined a sport. End the Fed Ron Paul Ron Paul's populist case for abolishing the Federal Reserve, the hidden engine of inflation, booms, busts, and endless government spending. Energy: A Beginner’s Guide Vaclav Smil Smil explains energy as one subject running from physics to food to industry, and is unsentimental about how slowly it changes. 1 recommender Engineering in Plain Sight Grady Hillhouse A practising civil engineer explains the cables, pipes, substations and towers you pass every day, turning an ordinary street into something a reader can actually read. 1 recommender Enlightenment in a Smart City: Edinburgh’s Civic Development, 1660-1750 Murray Pittock Edinburgh's Enlightenment explained through its drains, its street plans, and the building regulations behind them. 1 recommender Enlightenment Now Steven Pinker Pinker marshals data across dozens of measures to argue that life has been getting better, and why that matters. 1 recommender Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism Scott Horton The case that the war on terrorism created more terrorism than it ever prevented. Entrepreneur Revolution Daniel Priestley The industrial age is over and the mindset we were schooled into no longer fits the entrepreneurial one that replaced it. 1 recommender Enver Hoxha: Twentieth-Century Tyrant Robert C. Austin A small Balkan state broke with Yugoslavia, then Moscow, then Beijing, and covered itself in bunkers. Austin explains the sequence without claiming Hoxha becomes legible. 1 recommender Erik Satie Three Piece Suite Ian Penman Penman circles Satie in fragments: the velvet suits, the Rosicrucian phase, the furniture music, and a reputation that keeps getting rebuilt by other people. 1 recommender Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows Balli Kaur Jaswal A writing class for Punjabi widows in Southall turns into something far franker, funnier and more dangerous than its teacher expected. 1 recommender Erotic Vagrancy: Everything about Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor Roger Lewis Burton and Taylor across six hundred pages of drinking, jewels and films, written by a man who is plainly enjoying himself far too much to stop. 1 recommender