Books

A Map of the World Jane Hamilton Jane Hamilton's novel follows a farm family destroyed by a drowning accident and a false accusation. 1 recommender A Marriage at Sea Sophie Elmhirst They sold everything to sail away, then a whale sank the boat. Months adrift, with only each other to survive. 1 recommender A Matter of Degrees Gino Segre Physicist Gino Segre explores how temperature, from the human body to the cosmos, shapes life, matter, and the fate of the planet. 1 recommender A Memory of Light Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson The Last Battle, and the end of a series twenty-three years in the telling. Sanderson finishes what Robert Jordan began. A Million Little Pieces James Frey James Frey's raw addiction narrative, published as memoir and later revealed to be partly fabricated, follows a young man through rehab. 1 recommender A Million Miles in a Thousand Years Donald Miller If your life were a film, would anyone sit through it? Story principles, turned on the life he was actually living. 1 recommender A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life of the World’s Smartest Birds of Prey Jonathan Meiburg Darwin was puzzled by it, and so is everyone else: a South American falcon with the curiosity and problem-solving of a crow, followed through evolution and the Falklands. 1 recommender Machete Season Jean Hatzfeld Ten men who killed their neighbours explain, calmly, how it came to seem like ordinary work 1 recommender Madrid: A New Biography Luke Stegemann An Australian Hispanist makes the case for a persistently underrated capital, from the Habsburg court through the 1936 siege to the Movida and after. 1 recommender Main Street Millionaire Codie Sanchez The surest path to wealth isn't a flashy startup but buying an unglamorous, profitable small business: laundromats, plumbing, landscaping. Maintenance: Of Everything: Part One Stewart Brand Everything decays, and almost nobody writes about the unglamorous work of keeping the world running. 1 recommender Make Time Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky A flexible daily system from two former Google Ventures designers for reclaiming attention from busy schedules and endless distraction. 1 recommender Making Art and Making a Living: Adventures in Funding the Creative Life Mason Currey The author of Daily Rituals turns from how artists worked to how they paid for it: patrons, day jobs, spouses, inheritances, grants and a great deal of debt. 1 recommender Making Money in the Early Middle Ages Rory Naismith Coined money did not vanish after Rome, and its survival helped drag Europe out of the dark. 1 recommender Making Movies Sidney Lumet The director of Network and Dog Day Afternoon walks through how a film actually gets made, decision by decision. 1 recommender Malala’s Magic Pencil Malala Yousafzai A picture book about a pencil that could erase what is wrong, honest that the wishing does not work. Malibu Rising Taylor Jenkins Reid One party, four famous siblings, twenty-four hours, and by morning the house has burned down. 1 recommender Man-Devil: The Mind and Times of Bernard Mandeville, The Wickedest Man in Europe John Callanan Mandeville argued that private vices produce public benefits, and Europe called him the wickedest man alive. 1 recommender Man’s Search for Meaning Viktor E. Frankl A psychiatrist's account of the camps, and the argument he drew from them that meaning survives when nothing else does. 2 recommenders Manufacturing Consent Noam Chomsky How a free press produces conformity without censorship, and the model that predicts which stories run. Maps Nuruddin Farah An orphan raised by a woman he is not related to, in a war that keeps redrawing what country he belongs to. 1 recommender Marc’s Mission Jocko Willink Marc is stronger now, which turns out to be the easy part. The second book is about doubt. Maria Callas Arianna Huffington A portrait of the greatest opera diva of the century, tracing the soprano's rise, her love affair with Onassis, and the loneliness behind the fame. Marie Antoinette Stefan Zweig An ordinary woman handed an impossible position, written by a man watching his own Europe collapse. 1 recommender Mark Twain Ron Chernow Chernow's patient method meets its most performative subject: the man who built Mark Twain, and was nearly consumed by him. 1 recommender Martin & Malcolm & America James H. Cone A comparative study of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. 1 recommender Martin Buber: A Life of Faith and Dissent Paul Mendes-Flohr The philosopher of I and Thou, his Zionism and his dissent from it, his opposition to partition, and the dialogical philosophy that outlasted all of it. 1 recommender Master Your Time, Master Your Life Brian Tracy Tracy's time-management system splits the day into the kinds of time a full life needs, then hands you tools to master each. Mastering the Dynamics of Innovation James M. Utterback Utterback's study of how technologies and industries evolve, and why dominant designs decide who wins. 1 recommender Masters of Scale Reid Hoffman The lessons from Hoffman's podcast, gathered: what founders from Netflix to Spanx actually learned building at scale Mastery Robert Greene What separates a Da Vinci or a Darwin from the merely talented, traced as a path anyone can actually walk Matrescence: On Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood Lucy Jones The transformation of becoming a mother is as large as adolescence, and has been studied a small fraction as much. A word for the passage. 1 recommender Matriarch Tina Knowles Tina Knowles's memoir traces her journey from Galveston, Texas, to raising and building a family that reshaped American music. 1 recommender Matrix Lauren Groff Banished to a starving convent at seventeen, Marie de France decides to build a kingdom there instead. 1 recommender Maximum Achievement Brian Tracy Tracy's early synthesis of everything he taught: goals, self-concept, and the mental laws he claims govern achievement. Maybe Next Time Cesca Major A woman relives the day her husband dies, over and over, and each repetition shows her what she had stopped noticing. 1 recommender