Books

Kalam Cosmological Arguments Mohammed Hijab A defense of the kalam family of arguments for the existence of God. Kant: A Revolution in Thinking Marcus Willaschek A short route into the philosopher everyone is told to read and almost nobody finishes. 1 recommender Karate Chop Dorthe Nors Dorthe Nors's short story collection in Martin Aitken's English translation, published by Graywolf Press in 2014. Karl Popper: The Formative Years 1902-1945 Malachi Haim Hacohen The Viennese decades from the archives: the Jewish background he downplayed, the socialist youth politics, and the New Zealand exile where The Open Society was written. 1 recommender Kathmandu Thomas Bell A city book about Kathmandu, written by someone who stayed long enough to stop being a visitor. 1 recommender Keep the Aspidistra Flying George Orwell A struggling writer declares war on money and respectability, in Orwell's mordant comedy of ambition and compromise. Kerala, 1956 to the Present: India’s Miracle State Tirthankar Roy Kerala has India's best social indicators on modest income, and this is the short explanation why. 1 recommender Kidnapped Robert Louis Stevenson A cheated heir, a kidnapping at sea and a flight across the Highlands with a Jacobite outlaw. 1 recommender Kill the Radio Dorothea Rosa Herliany Poems by Dorothea Rosa Herliany, translated by Harry Aveling and published by Arc Publications in its Visible Poets series in 2007. 1 recommender Killers of the Flower Moon David Grann The Osage grew rich on oil, then began dying, and almost nobody was supposed to notice. 1 recommender Killing Floor Lee Child Jack Reacher's first adventure, in which a drifter arrested for murder in a small Georgia town discovers that the victim was his own brother. Kin Tayari Jones A novel by Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage, and an Oprah's Book Club selection. A verified summary will follow. 1 recommender King of Ashes S.A. Cosby Cosby's South, where a family debt cannot be settled in money, and going home is the most dangerous move available. 1 recommender King Rat James Clavell Prisoners of war struggle to survive in a Japanese camp in Singapore, in James Clavell's first novel. 1 recommender Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye Horace McCoy An articulate, well-read criminal narrates his own rise, which makes it far worse. 1 recommender Kitchen Confidential Anthony Bourdain The book that made Bourdain famous: a profane, exhilarating dispatch from behind the kitchen door, telling you what really goes on before your meal arrives. Knowledge of Angels Jill Paton Walsh On a medieval island, a wolf-child and an atheist become the same theological experiment. 1 recommender Kulti Mariana Zapata A professional footballer gets her childhood idol as coach, and he turns out to be difficult. 1 recommender The King and I: The Uncensored Tale of Luciano Pavarotti’s Rise to Fame by his Manager, Friend, and Sometime Adversary Herbert Breslin The manager who ran Pavarotti's career for thirty-six years, settling accounts both fondly and otherwise. 1 recommender The King’s Two Bodies Ernst Kantorowicz The doctrine that a king has a mortal body and an undying body politic, and what it did to medieval law. 1 recommender The Kitchen House Kathleen Grissom An Irish orphan working in a plantation kitchen alongside enslaved people finds herself caught between two worlds. 1 recommender The Knights of Crystallia Brandon Sanderson Alcatraz reaches the free kingdom of Mokia and discovers he is a celebrity there, which turns out to be its own kind of trap.