Books

R.L.S. and His Sine Qua Non, Flashlights from Skerryvore Adelaide A. Boodle A young neighbour became Stevenson pupil and friend, and wrote down the Bournemouth household nearly four decades after he died. 1 recommender Rain of Ruin: Tokyo, Hiroshima, and the Surrender of Japan Richard Overy The firebombing of Tokyo killed more people than Hiroshima, and Overy treats both as one campaign. 1 recommender Rain or Shine Cyra McFadden The daughter of a rodeo announcer, raised between arenas and the wreckage of her parents' marriage. 1 recommender Raising Hare Chloe Dalton Stranded in the countryside by the pandemic, a foreign-policy adviser finds a newborn leveret and raises it without taming it. It comes and goes freely for two years. 1 recommender Random Acts of Medicine: The Hidden Forces That Sway Doctors, Impact Patients, and Shape Our Health Anupam B. Jena What happens to you in hospital depends partly on the day you arrive, and the data proves it. 1 recommender Range David Epstein Epstein argues that in most fields it's the generalists, not early specialists, who become creative and durable high performers. 1 recommender Rational Ritual Michael Suk-Young Chwe Why do public ceremonies exist? Because coordinated action needs everyone to know that everyone else knows. 1 recommender Ready, Fire, Aim Michael Masterson Masterson maps the four stages of business growth and what the founder must actually do in each one. 1 recommender Real Americans Rachel Khong Three generations of one family, and the difference between what parents pass on and what gets inherited anyway. 1 recommender Reality Is Broken Jane McGonigal Games as evidence of what reality lacks: clear goals, visible progress, difficulty worth the effort. Reasoning with God Khaled Abou El Fadl Shari'ah as a tradition of moral reasoning rather than a fixed code, and what literalism replaced. Rebecca Daphne du Maurier A young bride is haunted by the memory of her husband's glamorous first wife in du Maurier's timeless gothic novel. 2 recommenders Rebel Without a Crew Robert Rodriguez The diary of a seven-thousand-dollar film, including how it was paid for and what got faked. Reclaim Your Heart Yasmin Mogahed Reflections on attachment, loss and the life of the heart, and why placing our hopes in things that cannot hold them breaks us. Recognizing the Stranger Isabella Hammad A novelist asks what fiction's moment of recognition means when the recognition never arrives. 1 recommender Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions Russell Brand The twelve steps rewritten for people who would never walk into a church hall. Red Blood, Black Sand Chuck Tatum A teenage Marine lands on Iwo Jima beside the war most decorated enlisted man, and watches him die 1 recommender Red Famine Anne Applebaum Anne Applebaum’s account of the Holodomor, Stalin’s engineered famine that killed millions of Ukrainians in the early 1930s, and its long political aftermath. 1 recommender Red Notice Bill Browder Bill Browder’s memoir of investing in post-Soviet Russia, the murder of his lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, and his fight for justice. 1 recommender Red Rising Pierce Brown In a future divided by colour-coded castes, a lowly Red labouring beneath the surface of Mars discovers his people are being lied to. 1 recommender Redwood Court DéLana R. A. Dameron A Black family in 1990s South Carolina, seen through its youngest daughter and the neighbours on their street. 1 recommender Reinvention Brian Tracy Written into the teeth of the financial crisis, for people whose career change had just been decided for them rather than chosen. Religions of Early India: A Cultural History Richard H. Davis How four traditions grew up alongside and against each other in early India, then spread across the south and east. The background that later history keeps assuming. 1 recommender Remembering Denny Calvin Trillin The Yale golden boy everyone expected to become president, and why he killed himself instead. 1 recommender Remote Jason Fried The case for working from anywhere, written years before it was forced on everyone. How to do it without losing the company Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California John Charles Fremont An official government report on the 1842 expeditions, written up with his wife, that became a bestseller and a practical trail guide for emigrants heading west. 1 recommender Resistance and Liberation: France at War 1942-1945 Douglas Porch The French Resistance and the liberation, in far more detail than the national myth allows. 1 recommender Rest Alex Soojung-Kim Pang Rest isn't the opposite of work but its essential partner, as the routines of scientists, writers and artists quietly show. 1 recommender Retroland: A Reader’s Guide to the Dazzling Diversity of Modern Fiction Peter Kemp A veteran reviewer's opinionated tour of modern fiction, with the opinions left firmly in. 1 recommender Revenge of the Tipping Point Malcolm Gladwell Twenty-five years on, Gladwell returns to his own idea and asks who has learned to weaponise it. Revisiting South Africa’s Nuclear Weapons Program: Its History, Dismantlement, and Lessons for Today David Albright South Africa built six nuclear weapons and then voluntarily gave them up, which nobody else has done. 1 recommender Revive Your Heart Nouman Ali Khan Practical reflections on faith, prayer and staying grounded amid modern distraction, adapted from a series of talks. Revolution Russell Brand The comedian's polemic calling for political and spiritual change. 1 recommender Revolution by the Book Jamil Al-Amin Imam Jamil Al-Amin (H. Rap Brown) on faith, discipline, and inner struggle. 1 recommender Revolution for Dummies Bassem Youssef Bassem Youssef’s memoir of satire and survival during and after the Egyptian revolution, told with the humor that made him famous. Revolutionary Spring: Fighting for a New World 1848-1849 Christopher Clark Revolution broke out across Europe in 1848 and had failed almost everywhere within a year. 1 recommender