Books

A Nation of Sheep Andrew Napolitano Liberty traded for the appearance of safety, argued while the trade was still being made. A New Earth Eckhart Tolle Eckhart Tolle argues that recognizing the ego is the first step toward a more awakened, present way of living. 1 recommender N by E Rockwell Kent A painter sails a small boat to Greenland in 1929, wrecks it, and stays. Illustrated throughout with his own woodcuts, written as starkly as he drew. 1 recommender Nada Jean-Patrick Manchette A cell of 1970s French radicals kidnaps the American ambassador, and discovers the state is happy to let hostages die. 1 recommender Nadja Andre Breton Breton spent ten days with a woman in Paris in 1928 and wrote it up with photographs of the places, inventing surrealist prose and documenting an obsession. 1 recommender Naked Pictures of Famous People Jon Stewart Stewart's pre-fame debut, a set of surreal comic essays imagining famous figures, from Princess Diana to Larry King, in ridiculous private moments. Natives Akala A rapper and writer weaves memoir with history to examine race and class in modern Britain. 1 recommender Necessary Illusions Noam Chomsky Where a state cannot compel belief it manufactures consent, and a free press turns out to be the most effective instrument. Nelson Mandela’s Favorite African Folktales Nelson Mandela The tales Mandela grew up with, gathered from across the continent and retold for a new generation of readers Never Name the Dead D.M. Rowell A Silicon Valley founder is summoned home to Kiowa country by a grandfather who knows something. 1 recommender Never Split the Difference Chris Voss, Tahl Raz A former FBI hostage negotiator turns high-stakes tactics into tools anyone can use: tactical empathy, calibrated questions, mirroring. 1 recommender New and Selected Poems Marie Howe Four decades in one volume, from the AIDS elegies through the late poems about ecology and God. The plainness is deceptive, and it holds up read aloud. 1 recommender New Masters of the Baltic Arthur Brown Ruhl A 1921 travel book about the new Baltic states, written before anyone knew how it ended. 1 recommender Next Year in Havana Chanel Cleeton A Cuban-American woman returns to scatter her grandmother's ashes, and uncovers the Havana love story that sent her family into exile. 1 recommender Nexus Yuval Noah Harari Information networks have always chosen order over truth, and Harari asks what happens when they stop needing us in the loop. Nico James Young Touring Europe with Nico in her heroin years, by the keyboard player who was there. 1 recommender Night Elie Wiesel Elie Wiesel's spare memoir of Auschwitz and Buchenwald, bearing witness to what he saw as a teenager and the faith it tested. 1 recommender Night People Mark Ronson A teenage DJ learning 1990s New York from behind the decks, before that nightlife was demolished. 1 recommender Nightcrawling Leila Mottley Leila Mottley's debut follows a seventeen-year-old in East Oakland pulled into sex work and then into a police scandal. 1 recommender Nightingale’s Song Robert Timberg Five Annapolis graduates, including John McCain, and the war that shaped all of them. 1 recommender No Excuses! Brian Tracy Tracy's case that self-discipline is the one habit underneath every other one, applied across work, money and relationships. No god but God Reza Aslan A narrative history of Islam that reads today's turmoil in the Muslim world as a reformation, a fight over who gets to define the faith. No More Mr Nice Guy Robert A. Glover Nice Guy Syndrome: men who suppress their needs, seek approval and avoid conflict in the hope of being liked, and end up frustrated instead. 1 recommender No Rules Rules Reed Hastings, Erin Meyer The Netflix playbook from its co-founder and a business scholar: strip away rules, raise talent density and candor, and trust freedom over control. Nobody’s Perfect Anthony Lane A decade of New Yorker film criticism by a man who is funniest when the movie is worst. 1 recommender Noise Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, Cass R. Sunstein Why two experts given the same facts reach different verdicts, and why that random scatter costs more than bias. Kahneman's follow-up on noisy judgment. Normal People Sally Rooney The on-and-off relationship between Connell and Marianne, from school in small-town Ireland through university in Dublin. 1 recommender North Sun Ethan Rutherford The whaleship voyage rewritten as literature: labour, endurance, and a small wooden world adrift on an indifferent sea. 1 recommender Northern Spy Flynn Berry A Belfast news producer sees her own sister in footage of an IRA robbery, and has to decide what she owes her. 1 recommender Not Accountable: Rethinking the Constitutionality of Public Employee Unions Philip K. Howard Public sector unions negotiate with officials they help elect, which Howard argues is the whole problem. 1 recommender Not Built in a Day: How Slavery Made the Roman Empire Emma Southon Southon writes Rome from the position of the enslaved rather than the owners, arguing the institution was not incidental to the empire but the thing holding it up. 1 recommender Not on Our Watch Don Cheadle, John Prendergast Actor Don Cheadle and activist John Prendergast turn outrage over Darfur into a practical handbook for ordinary citizens who want to help stop genocide. Not the End of the World: How We Can be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet Hannah Ritchie A data scientist's case that environmental despair is understandable and, on the numbers, wrong. 1 recommender Not Zero: How an Irrational Target Will Impoverish You, Help China (and Won’t Even Save the Planet) Ross Clark A sceptical case against net zero targets that stops well short of denying the science. 1 recommender Notes on Thought and Vision H. D. Written on Scilly in 1919 after a near-fatal pregnancy, this short prose meditation proposes a jellyfish-like over-mind through which vision arrives. Unclassifiable, and unlike anything else. 1 recommender Nothing to See Here Kevin Wilson The children catch fire when upset, and the novel is deadpan about everything except who cares for them. 1 recommender