Books

A Man Called Ove Fredrik Backman A grumpy, grieving widower's careful plans keep being interrupted by his new neighbors in Fredrik Backman's international bestseller. 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 Mathematician’s Apology G. H. Hardy Hardy's defence of pure mathematics as a creative art, with C. P. Snow's memoir of him as foreword. 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 Bullets James Fergusson 1 recommender 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 A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway Hemingway remembers being young, poor and writing in 1920s Paris, among Stein, Pound, Joyce and the Fitzgeralds. 1 recommender A Muslim Response to the Attack on America Imran N. Hosein A short work written in the aftermath of September 11 2001. Machete Season Jean Hatzfeld Ten men who killed their neighbours explain, calmly, how it came to seem like ordinary work 1 recommender Madinah Returns to Center-Stage in Akhir al-Zaman Imran N. Hosein A short work on Madinah's role at the end of time. 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 Maisie Dobbs Jacqueline Winspear A former housemaid turned wartime nurse sets up as a private investigator in 1929 London, and her first case leads her back to the trenches. 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 Make Trouble Cecile Richards The former head of Planned Parenthood tells her story and urges readers to stand up and speak out. Make Way for Ducklings Robert McCloskey A pair of mallards choose an island in the Boston Public Garden, and the city's traffic obligingly stops for them. 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. 2 recommenders Making Up the Mind Chris Frith Why the world you see is a model your brain builds, explained by a neuroscientist for the general reader. 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 and the Natural World Keith Thomas How the English learned to love wild nature and animals between 1500 and 1800. 1 recommender Man Gone Down Michael Thomas Four days, one man, and the arithmetic of what it costs to hold a family together when the money runs out. 1 recommender Man Tiger Eka Kurniawan Eka Kurniawan's slim novel about Margio, a young man who takes revenge for his mother, translated by Labodalih Sembiring and published by Verso in 2015. 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 Manifesto Global Economic Ethic Hans Küng & Klaus M. Leisinger 1 recommender 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.