Books

A Year with Swollen Appendices: Brian Eno’s Diary Brian Eno Eno kept a diary for 1995, then wrote appendices that outgrew it, covering generative music, Oblique Strategies, and the daily texture of actually working. 1 recommender The Year of the Flood Margaret Atwood The same catastrophe as Oryx and Crake, told from below by the people those corporate compounds had already thrown away. Yankee Leviathan: The Origins of Central State Authority in America, 1859-1877 Richard Franklin Bensel The American central state was not built in Washington. It was built by the Civil War, on both sides. 1 recommender Year of Wonders Geraldine Brooks A Derbyshire village quarantines itself against the plague, and a housemaid becomes its unlikely healer. 1 recommender Year of Yes Shonda Rhimes The Shondaland creator's year of saying yes to everything that scared her, and the funny, candid reckoning with anxiety and overwork that followed. Yearbook Seth Rogen Rogen's first book: true, frequently absurd stories from a life spent getting high, getting famous, and embarrassing himself at both. Yellowface R. F. Kuang A failed novelist steals her dead friend's manuscript and publishes it as her own, then explains why she was right to. 1 recommender Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything Viktor E. Frankl Eleven months out of the camps, Frankl told a Vienna audience why life remains worth living. The lectures were then lost for seventy years and only recently recovered. 1 recommender Yes! Noah J. Goldstein, Steve J. Martin, Robert B. Cialdini Fifty short, evidence-backed tactics for getting people to agree, from the team behind Influence. 1 recommender Yoko: A Biography David Sheff The woman blamed for breaking up the Beatles, taken seriously as an artist in her own right. 1 recommender You Can Negotiate Anything Herb Cohen The terms you live with are usually the ones you never thought to question. A classic on treating that as fixable. 1 recommender You Can’t Win Jack Black A burglar and hobo's frank memoir of the American underworld, a cult classic that shaped William S. Burroughs. 1 recommender You Don’t Have to Be a Shark Robert Herjavec A case that selling is a learnable life skill, not a shark's instinct: persuasion as understanding what people want and helping them get it. You Have a Match Emma Lord A DNA test turns up the older sister nobody mentioned, and the two end up at the same summer camp. 1 recommender You Look Like a Thing and I Love You Janelle Shane AI explained through its funniest failures, because each one shows precisely where the understanding stops. 1 recommender You Should See Me in a Crown Leah Johnson A scholarship depends on winning prom queen, a contest a poor, Black, queer honour student has every reason to dread. 1 recommender You Think It, I’ll Say It Curtis Sittenfeld Ten stories about people confidently misjudging each other, from a writer with a merciless eye for self-deception. 1 recommender You’re Not Listening Kate Murphy Everyone is talking and no one is listening. On a skill that has become rare enough to be transformative. 1 recommender Your Baby’s First Word Will Be Dada Jimmy Fallon Fallon's bestselling read-aloud picture book: animal parents coaxing babies to say Dada first, a goofy joke for exhausted new fathers everywhere. Your Money or Your Life Vicki Robin A classic of financial independence that reframes money as life energy, the hours of your life you trade away for it. 1 recommender Yumi and the Nightmare Painter Brandon Sanderson Two people from incompatible worlds start swapping bodies against their will: a sacred stacker of stones, and a man who paints away nightmares.