Books

A Game of Thrones George R. R. Martin Nine noble families fight for control of Westeros while a forgotten enemy stirs beyond the Wall, in the novel that redrew modern fantasy. A Goat’s Song Dermot Healy A Catholic playwright and a Protestant policeman's daughter, drinking their way through a love that cannot hold. 1 recommender A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories Flannery O'Connor Ten stories in which grace arrives, when it arrives at all, through violence. 1 recommender A Guardian and a Thief Megha Majumdar Megha Majumdar's novel is set in a near-future Kolkata strained by climate crisis, following intersecting lives amid scarcity and desperation. 1 recommender A Guide to the Good Life William Irvine Stoicism presented as equipment for living rather than history, with its techniques set out to be used. 1 recommender G-Man Beverly Gage Fifty years of J. Edgar Hoover, drawn from files that outlived everyone he tried to ruin. 1 recommender Gang Leader for a Day Sudhir Venkatesh A young sociologist embeds with a Chicago crack-dealing gang and upends what he thought he knew about the urban poor. 1 recommender Gap Creek Robert Morgan Robert Morgan's novel follows a young Appalachian couple's first hard year of marriage at the turn of the twentieth century. 1 recommender Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom Norman Finkelstein Gaza reconstructed from the human-rights record, then a study of how that record got softened. Genome Matt Ridley Matt Ridley tours the human genome one chromosome at a time, turning genetics into a story about who we are and how we came to be. 2 recommenders Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife Francesca Wade What happened to Gertrude Stein's reputation after she died, and who decided what we would remember. 1 recommender Get Paid More and Promoted Faster Brian Tracy Career advancement treated as a solvable problem rather than a matter of luck or waiting your turn. Get Smart! Brian Tracy Tracy contrasts the thinking patterns of high and low performers, framed as switches you can consciously flip. Getting Rich Your Own Way Brian Tracy Tracy maps the routes people actually take to wealth, and argues you should pick the one that fits who you already are. Getting Things Done David Allen A complete system for capturing and acting on everything competing for your attention, starting with getting it out of your head. 2 recommenders Getting to Yes Roger Fisher, William Ury Roger Fisher and William Ury present the Harvard method of principled negotiation, focused on interests rather than positions to reach better agreements. 1 recommender Ghachar Ghochar Vivek Shanbhag A Bangalore family gets suddenly rich, and something in them quietly rots. 1 recommender Ghetto Klown John Leguizamo Leguizamo's Tony-nominated stage show reborn as comics, illustrating his rise from struggling actor to stage star with the motion prose can't capture. Ghost Stories Siri Hustvedt A novelist writes about four decades with Paul Auster and his death, and about what memory does to the people left behind. 1 recommender Gilead Marilynne Robinson Marilynne Robinson's Pulitzer-winning novel is a dying minister's luminous letter to his young son. 1 recommender Giovanni’s Room James Baldwin Published in 1956 against his publisher advice, with white characters so nobody could mistake what the novel was actually about. 4 recommenders Global Political Islam Peter Mandaville Islamist movements as varied local political actors rather than one phenomenon with one logic. Gmorning, Gnight! Lin-Manuel Miranda Miranda's morning-and-night pep talks, collected and illustrated by Jonny Sun, a pocket-sized ritual of encouragement to bookend the day. Go Back to Where You Came From Wajahat Ali A humorous memoir on being American and Muslim by writer Wajahat Ali. 1 recommender Go Gentle Maria Semple A novel by Maria Semple, author of Where'd You Go, Bernadette, and an Oprah's Book Club selection. A verified summary will follow. 1 recommender Goals! Brian Tracy Tracy's argument in one line: people succeed because they decide exactly what they want and write it down. Twenty-one steps for doing that. Gobsmacked! The British Invasion of American English Ben Yagoda Kerfuffle, one-off, go missing, gobsmacked: a catalogue of the British words quietly colonising American speech. 1 recommender God and the Devil: The Life and Work of Ingmar Bergman Peter Cowie Cowie knew him early, and covers the theatre productions and television work alongside the films, including the projects that never made it out of development. 1 recommender God and the Fascists Karlheinz Deschner Karlheinz Deschner’s critical account of the Vatican’s dealings with Mussolini, Hitler, Franco, and Pavelic. 1 recommender God is an Englishman: Christianity and the Creation of England Bijan Omrani Omrani argues English law, landscape and civic life are shaped by Christianity whether or not anyone still believes, and that forgetting it makes the history illegible. 1 recommender God: A Human History Reza Aslan A sweeping account of how humans have always made God in their own image, from cave paintings to the invention of monotheism. God’s Undertaker John C. Lennox An Oxford mathematician argues science has not disproven God. 1 recommender Gods, Guns and Missionaries: The Making of the Modern Hindu Identity Manu S. Pillai Modern Hindu identity was forged in argument with colonial missionaries, and both sides came away changed. 1 recommender Goethe: A Life in Ideas Matthew Bell Goethe as a thinker rather than a monument, including the science he cared about more than the poetry. 1 recommender Gone Bamboo Anthony Bourdain Bourdain's second novel drops a retired hitman into the Caribbean, where sun, rum, and old enemies conspire to pull him back into the business. Gone Before Goodbye Harlan Coben, Reese Witherspoon A disgraced Army combat surgeon takes a discreet job serving the very rich, in the first novel Coben and Witherspoon wrote together.