Books

Cheap Novelties Ben Katchor 1 recommender Children of Time Adrian Tchaikovsky Winner of the 2016 Arthur C. Clarke Award, Adrian Tchaikovsky's science fiction novel of two species seeking a future. 1 recommender China to Chinatown J. A. G. Roberts How Chinese food travelled west, and the stereotypes that met it at both extremes. 1 recommender Chinese Cosmopolitanism: The History and Philosophy of an Idea Shuchen Xiang China had its own traditions of openness to outsiders, and rather more of them than expected. 1 recommender Christian Reconstruction: R. J. Rushdoony and American Religious Conservatism Michael J. McVicar An intellectual history of the theologian whose fringe theocratic programme shaped homeschooling, the religious right, and arguments now heard in the mainstream. 1 recommender Chronicle of a Death Foretold Gabriel García Márquez Gabriel García Márquez's novella about the murder of Santiago Nasar, told as a pseudo-journalistic reconstruction, in Gregory Rabassa's translation. 1 recommender Chronicles Bob Dylan A memoir that skips the famous years entirely, dwelling instead on the periods of learning and confusion. 1 recommender Churchill: A Life Martin Gilbert 1 recommender Churchill’s Legacy Churchill’s Legacy Peter Oborne and Jesse Norman Two conservatives argue that the Human Rights Act belongs to a tradition their own side helped build. 1 recommender Cinderella Ate My Daughter Peggy Orenstein What the pink princess culture sells to little girls, and how parents can push back. Cinderella Liberator Rebecca Solnit Solnit retells Cinderella so that the heroine frees herself, and everyone else, rather than marrying up. 1 recommender City of Gold: Dubai Jim Krane A trading port turned capitalist experiment at impossible speed, and the bill that came due. 1 recommender City of the Beasts Isabel Allende A teenager joins his fearless grandmother on an Amazon expedition in search of a legendary creature, in Isabel Allende's first young adult novel. City of Thorns Ben Rawlence Nine lives inside Dadaab, the vast Kenyan camp where hundreds of thousands of Somalis have waited for decades. 1 recommender Civilization Niall Ferguson Ferguson identifies six "killer apps" that let the West race ahead of the rest of the world, and asks whether that edge is fading. 2 recommenders Civilization and Its Discontents Sigmund Freud Freud's argument that civilisation is bought at the price of instinctual renunciation, and so can never fully satisfy. 1 recommender Classic Food of China Yan-Kit So A history of Chinese food culture and its regions, with a collection of classic recipes. 1 recommender Climate of Hope Michael Bloomberg Bloomberg and Carl Pope argue climate progress will come from cities and markets, not treaties, and lay out what works Climbing the Bookshelves Shirley Williams 1 recommender Closed Casket Sophie Hannah Sophie Hannah's Hercule Poirot mystery, set in Ireland and written with the Christie estate's authorisation. 1 recommender Cloud Atlas David Mitchell Six stories nested inside one another, from a nineteenth-century Pacific voyage to a post-apocalyptic Hawaii, each one echoing through the next. 2 recommenders Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI Ethan Mollick A Wharton professor's practical guide to working with large language models, written from constant use. 1 recommender Cockroach Rawi Hage An immigrant in Montreal, half man and half cockroach, tells his therapist the story of what he fled. 1 recommender Cold Hard Truth Kevin O'Leary The Shark Tank investor's unsentimental case that money buys freedom, emotion kills deals, and excuses are what stand between you and wealth. Cold Hard Truth on Family, Kids and Money Kevin O'Leary Why O'Leary thinks families should talk money openly, teach kids self-reliance early, and refuse to let love become an excuse for enabling. Collapse Jared Diamond Why some societies destroyed themselves while others survived, and what that means for ours. 1 recommender Collected Poems Jane Kenyon Kenyon spent her life in rural New Hampshire attending to weather, animals, marriage and depression, and died at forty-seven. Her plainness is a discipline, not a limit. 1 recommender Collected Poems, 1909-1962 T. S. Eliot The poems of T. S. Eliot in one volume, from Prufrock and The Waste Land to Four Quartets. 1 recommender Collected Stories Bruno Schulz Levine's translation of all Bruno Schulz's published stories, including The Cinnamon Shops, Jean-Baptiste Del Amo's pick. 1 recommender Colonel Lágrimas Carlos Fonseca Carlos Fonseca's novel about a man trying to compose a total encyclopaedia, translated by Megan McDowell. Color Me Flo Florynce Kennedy The civil rights lawyer who told everyone to stop agonising and start organising, in her own voice. 1 recommender Colors of the Mind Angus Fletcher An enquiry into how thought itself is represented in literature, from Shakespeare to Henry James. 1 recommender Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama Bob Odenkirk Bob Odenkirk's memoir of a career that ran from Chicago comedy clubs and Saturday Night Live to Better Call Saul. Comedy Sex God Pete Holmes Losing a marriage and a faith at once, then trying to keep the useful part of one of them. Coming Up for Air George Orwell A middle-aged insurance man revisits his boyhood town and finds it gone, in Orwell's novel of nostalgia and looming war. Common Sense on Mutual Funds John C. Bogle The founder of Vanguard explains why costs decide most investment returns, and why index funds usually come out ahead. 1 recommender