Books

An Islamic View of Gog and Magog in the Modern World Imran N. Hosein An eschatological reading of Gog and Magog, arguing that the Qur'anic account describes forces already at work in the modern age. 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 Capture the Castle Dodie Smith Cassandra Mortmain records her family's genteel poverty in a decaying castle in 1930s England. 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 Gonna Like Me Jamie Lee Curtis A girl learns to like herself every day, no matter what, in Jamie Lee Curtis's picture book about self-esteem. 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 Ida: A Sword Among Lions Paula J. Giddings A biography of Ida B. Wells, the journalist born into slavery who led the campaign against lynching. 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. Ill Fares the Land Tony Judt 1 recommender Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors Susan Sontag Susan Sontag's short, forceful case against the myths that cling to disease, and against blaming the sick for their illness. 1 recommender Illuminations Walter Benjamin The essays that carried Benjamin into English, including The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. 1 recommender Imaginable Jane McGonigal Exercises for rehearsing unthinkable futures, from a forecaster who simulated a pandemic in 2010. Imaginary Companions and the Children Who Create Them Marjorie Taylor Children who invent companions know exactly what they are doing, and the research says it is a skill, not a symptom. 1 recommender 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 Immortality Stephen Cave Four stories humans tell to escape death, and why the urge to live forever built civilization. Imperialism J. A. Hobson The classic 1902 argument that inequality at home drove the scramble for empire abroad. 1 recommender In a Different Voice Carol Gilligan The book that heard a different moral voice in women, and launched the ethics of care. 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. 2 recommenders In Command of History David Reynolds How Churchill wrote the history that decided how his war would be remembered, drafts and deletions included. 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 Light of India Octavio Paz The Mexican poet's reflections on India after six years as ambassador, written across two traditional societies. 1 recommender