Books

A Family Matter Claire Lynch A mother loses her daughter to a court that could do that in 1982, and a family learns why forty years on. 1 recommender A Feast for Crows George R. R. Martin War is over in the south and the reckoning begins, in the quietest and most political volume Martin has written. A Fine Balance Rohinton Mistry Set in 1970s India during the Emergency, Rohinton Mistry braids together four strangers whose lives meet in a single cramped apartment. 1 recommender A Foreign Policy of Freedom Ron Paul Three decades of Paul's speeches arguing the Founders' non-interventionism: peace and trade over entangling alliances, undeclared wars, and the blowback they breed. Fable Adrienne Young Abandoned on an island at fourteen, a trader's daughter dredges gems to survive and buys her way back into his world. 1 recommender Factfulness Hans Rosling Rosling shows how a fact-based worldview corrects our instinct to see the world as more frightening than it is. 1 recommender Failed States Noam Chomsky The failed-state criteria turned back on the country that applies them to everyone else. Fair Play Eve Rodsky A card-based system for splitting domestic work, built on the idea that one partner's time is treated as infinite. 1 recommender Fairy Tale as Myth/Myth as Fairy Tale Jack Zipes Zipes traces how fairy tales were shaped, sanitised and weaponised as they passed through the centuries. 1 recommender Faith, Hope and Carnage Nick Cave Forty hours of conversation recorded after the death of Cave fifteen-year-old son, covering grief, songwriting, doubt and why he has no patience left for cynicism. 1 recommender Fall on Your Knees Ann-Marie MacDonald Ann-Marie MacDonald's novel spans generations of a troubled family on Cape Breton, unspooling long-hidden secrets. 1 recommender Famesick: A Memoir Lena Dunham Dunham on early fame, illness and the disorientation of having been very publicly young, written after a decade away from the spotlight she entered at twenty-four. 1 recommender Familiaris David Wroblewski David Wroblewski's novel tells the origin story of the Sawtelle family and their remarkable dogs in early twentieth-century Wisconsin. 1 recommender Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field Nancy Forbes, Basil Mahon Nancy Forbes and Basil Mahon tell how Michael Faraday and James Clerk Maxwell, a generation apart, uncovered the electromagnetic field that underpins modern life. 1 recommender Farewell, My Lovely Raymond Chandler Marlowe takes a missing-persons job for an ex-convict the size of a door, and it never gets simpler. 1 recommender Father Time: A Natural History of Men and Babies Sarah Blaffer Hrdy Becoming a father physically rewires men, and the science on it is newer than you would expect. 1 recommender Fear Less: Poetry in Perilous Times Tracy K. Smith A former Poet Laureate makes the case that attention to language is a civic capacity, written out of years taking poems into small towns and prisons. 1 recommender Fear of Flying Erica Jong A woman leaves her husband mid-conference and goes looking for a self she can stand. 1 recommender Feeding the Monster: Why Horror Has a Hold on Us Anna Bogutskaya Bogutskaya sorts horror by dread, disgust, paranoia and grief rather than subgenre, arguing the form handles what a culture cannot otherwise say aloud. 1 recommender Feel-Good Productivity Ali Abdaal Lasting productivity doesn't come from discipline or hustle but from feeling good, argues the doctor turned creator. Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center Bell Hooks The 1984 argument that a movement built by and for white middle-class women mistook its own position for the centre, and that its real power sits at the margin. 1 recommender Fiasco: The Inside Story of a Wall Street Trader Frank Partnoy Former derivatives salesman Frank Partnoy pulls back the curtain on the 1990s Wall Street trading floor and the complex products sold to unwary clients. 1 recommender Fields of Blood Karen Armstrong A historian questions the claim that religion is the main cause of war. 1 recommender Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars Kai Cheng Thom A runaway trans girl joins a gang of femme vigilantes in a fabulist memoir that cheerfully admits to lying. 1 recommender Fifth-Wave Feminism Mohammed Hijab A critique of contemporary feminism and a proposed alternative framework. Final Spin Jocko Willink Two brothers, a failing laundromat and one bad idea. Willink's first novel, and not a leadership book. Find Your Why Simon Sinek The workbook to Start With Why: a step-by-step way to actually surface the purpose the first book said you needed Finding Me Viola Davis Viola Davis's memoir traces her rise from deep poverty in Rhode Island to the heights of stage and screen. 1 recommender Finding My Virginity Richard Branson The sequel, two decades on: spaceflight, near-death, philanthropy, and a grandfather still asking what's next with nothing left to prove. Finding My Way Malala Yousafzai The part the headlines skipped: Oxford, friendship and growing up under a symbol she never chose. Fingerprints of the Gods Graham Hancock A globe-spanning investigation arguing that an advanced civilization was lost to prehistory, leaving traces in monuments, maps, and myths. 1 recommender Fire & Blood George R. R. Martin Three hundred years of Targaryen rule told as disputed chronicle, by a maester who often admits he cannot say what really happened. Fire in the Belly Cynthia Carr An artist who made his fury into work, by a journalist who was there in the East Village. 1 recommender Firefight Brandon Sanderson David heads to a drowned Manhattan hunting the Epic who may hold the answer, except she is the one person he does not want to kill. Firekeeper’s Daughter Angeline Boulley A biracial Ojibwe teenager becomes an FBI informant investigating a drug ring inside her own community. 1 recommender Firmament Simon Clark A science communicator takes readers into the atmosphere, the thin invisible layer of air that makes life possible and drives our weather. 1 recommender