Books

I Am Malala Malala Yousafzai A childhood in the Swat Valley, a school, and the campaign that put a gunman on her bus. I Am These Truths Sunny Hostin, Charisse Jones The View co-host on growing up between two worlds in the Bronx, and what she saw from inside the American justice system. I Can Make You Smarter Paul McKenna Mental exercises aimed at sharpening thinking and recall. 1 recommender I Know This Much Is True Wally Lamb Wally Lamb's epic follows a man caring for his schizophrenic twin brother while unearthing three generations of family history. 1 recommender I Lost My Way Yasmin Mogahed Reflections on despair, repentance and return, written for anyone who feels distant from where they meant to be. I Who Have Never Known Men Jacqueline Harpman Thirty-nine women wake in an underground cage with no memory of arriving, and one child among them. 2 recommenders I’d Rather Be the Devil Stephen Calt A biographer spends years with a bluesman he reveres and does not much like. 1 recommender I’ll Die Before I’ll Run C.L. Sonnichsen The decade of Texas blood feuds after the Civil War, recovered by the historian who bothered to look. 1 recommender I’m Fine…And Other Lies Whitney Cummings Cummings turns her confessional comedy into candid essays on codependency, therapy, and the exhausting work of pretending to be fine. I’m Still Here Austin Channing Brown A Black woman's account of white institutions that want the credit for inclusion without the discomfort of change. 1 recommender I’m the One That I Want Margaret Cho Handed a sitcom about herself, then told to change to fit it. The collapse and what came after. Icy Sparks Gwyn Hyman Rubio Gwyn Hyman Rubio's novel follows a bright Kentucky girl in the 1950s whose Tourette's syndrome is misunderstood as madness. 1 recommender Idle Days in Patagonia W. H. Hudson A collecting trip to Patagonia ended by a gunshot wound, and the enforced stillness that followed turned into a study of what happens to a mind with nothing to do. 1 recommender If You Want to Write Brenda Ueland Brenda Ueland's warm, liberating classic on creativity, arguing that everyone is talented and has something to say. 1 recommender If You’re Not First, You’re Last Grant Cardone Written after the 2008 crash, Cardone's playbook for advancing when everyone else retreats, using aggressive sales and marketing to take market share in a downturn. Imaginable Jane McGonigal Exercises for rehearsing unthinkable futures, from a forecaster who simulated a pandemic in 2010. Immigration & Discrimination: (un)welcoming others Sahar Akhtar If a state may choose who enters, may it choose on any basis at all? A philosopher tests whether sovereignty really settles the question in advance. 1 recommender In a Lonely Place Dorothy B. Hughes A serial killer narrates postwar Los Angeles, and never once thinks of himself as one. 1 recommender In Cold Blood Truman Capote Four murders in Kansas, reported for six years and written like a novel. 1 recommender In Covid’s Wake: How Our Politics Failed Us Stephen Macedo Two Princeton political scientists on how institutions, expert bodies and the press handled the pandemic, and what it cost when deference replaced deliberation. 1 recommender In Defense of a Liberal Education Fareed Zakaria A defense of broad, humanistic learning in an age obsessed with job training, arguing that teaching people to think and write freely is exactly what the future demands. In Defense of Capitalism: Debunking the Myths Rainer Zitelmann A point-by-point rebuttal of the standard objections to capitalism, written squarely in the Friedman tradition. 1 recommender In Defense of Civilization: How Our Past Can Renew Our Present Michael R.J. Bonner A case that the West's inherited culture is worth defending, and a survey of what it contains. 1 recommender In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays Bertrand Russell Russell thought four hours a day would do, and that treating work as virtue was a moral confusion. Written between the wars, aimed at the machinery that produced them. 1 recommender In Search of Now: The Science of the Present Moment Jo Marchant Marchant asks what the present moment actually is, and finds physics, neuroscience and lived duration giving answers stranger and far less unified than intuition expects. 1 recommender In the Brewing Luminous: The Life and Music of Cecil Taylor Philip Freeman The first full biography of the pianist who made jazz unlistenable to some and essential to others. 1 recommender In the Distance Hernan Diaz A Swedish boy lands in California and walks the wrong way across a country he cannot read. 1 recommender In the Footsteps of the Prophet Tariq Ramadan The Prophet's life read episodically for what each moment asks of a reader now. In the Half Room Carson Ellis A room where everything exists in halves, drawn spare and slightly uncanny, until something arrives whole and rearranges the arithmetic. 1 recommender In the Heights: Finding Home Lin-Manuel Miranda, Quiara Alegria Hudes, Jeremy McCarter The annotated In the Heights libretto plus the story of the show that launched Miranda, from college project to Broadway to film. In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts Gabor Maté Drawn from his years treating addicts in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, Maté reframes addiction not as a choice or a disease but as a response to pain. Indigo Ellen Bass Bass writes desire, ageing, food and grief without embarrassment about pleasure or flinching at loss. The collection where her plainspoken late style arrives complete. 1 recommender Indus Journey Imran Khan A personal portrait of Pakistan's landscapes, peoples and layered past, traced along the river that made the country. Inevitable Illusions Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini A tour of the mental traps and cognitive illusions that reliably fool even careful thinkers. 1 recommender Infinite Country Patricia Engel One Colombian family split across two countries by an expired visa, told in short compressed chapters. 1 recommender Influence Robert Cialdini Six principles that produce compliance, documented from inside the industries that use them. 1 recommender