Books

Farewell, My Lovely Raymond Chandler Marlowe takes a missing-persons job for an ex-convict the size of a door, and it never gets simpler. 1 recommender Father Time: A Natural History of Men and Babies Sarah Blaffer Hrdy Becoming a father physically rewires men, and the science on it is newer than you would expect. 1 recommender Fear Less: Poetry in Perilous Times Tracy K. Smith A former Poet Laureate makes the case that attention to language is a civic capacity, written out of years taking poems into small towns and prisons. 1 recommender Fear of Flying Erica Jong A woman leaves her husband mid-conference and goes looking for a self she can stand. 1 recommender Feeding the Monster: Why Horror Has a Hold on Us Anna Bogutskaya Bogutskaya sorts horror by dread, disgust, paranoia and grief rather than subgenre, arguing the form handles what a culture cannot otherwise say aloud. 1 recommender Feel-Good Productivity Ali Abdaal Lasting productivity doesn't come from discipline or hustle but from feeling good, argues the doctor turned creator. Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center Bell Hooks The 1984 argument that a movement built by and for white middle-class women mistook its own position for the centre, and that its real power sits at the margin. 1 recommender Fiasco: The Inside Story of a Wall Street Trader Frank Partnoy Former derivatives salesman Frank Partnoy pulls back the curtain on the 1990s Wall Street trading floor and the complex products sold to unwary clients. 1 recommender Fields of Blood Karen Armstrong A historian questions the claim that religion is the main cause of war. 1 recommender Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars Kai Cheng Thom A runaway trans girl joins a gang of femme vigilantes in a fabulist memoir that cheerfully admits to lying. 1 recommender Fifth-Wave Feminism Mohammed Hijab A critique of contemporary feminism and a proposed alternative framework. Final Spin Jocko Willink Two brothers, a failing laundromat and one bad idea. Willink's first novel, and not a leadership book. Find Your Why Simon Sinek The workbook to Start With Why: a step-by-step way to actually surface the purpose the first book said you needed Finding Me Viola Davis Viola Davis's memoir traces her rise from deep poverty in Rhode Island to the heights of stage and screen. 1 recommender Finding My Virginity Richard Branson The sequel, two decades on: spaceflight, near-death, philanthropy, and a grandfather still asking what's next with nothing left to prove. Finding My Way Malala Yousafzai The part the headlines skipped: Oxford, friendship and growing up under a symbol she never chose. Fingerprints of the Gods Graham Hancock A globe-spanning investigation arguing that an advanced civilization was lost to prehistory, leaving traces in monuments, maps, and myths. 1 recommender Fire & Blood George R. R. Martin Three hundred years of Targaryen rule told as disputed chronicle, by a maester who often admits he cannot say what really happened. Fire in the Belly Cynthia Carr An artist who made his fury into work, by a journalist who was there in the East Village. 1 recommender Firefight Brandon Sanderson David heads to a drowned Manhattan hunting the Epic who may hold the answer, except she is the one person he does not want to kill. Firekeeper’s Daughter Angeline Boulley A biracial Ojibwe teenager becomes an FBI informant investigating a drug ring inside her own community. 1 recommender Firmament Simon Clark A science communicator takes readers into the atmosphere, the thin invisible layer of air that makes life possible and drives our weather. 1 recommender First Lie Wins Ashley Elston Her name is fake, her boyfriend is a job, and the woman whose identity she borrowed has just turned up. 1 recommender Five on a Treasure Island Enid Blyton The first Famous Five adventure: four children, a dog, and a mystery on a small island with a wrecked ship. 1 recommender Fixing France: How to Repair a Broken Republic Nabila Ramdani A French-Algerian journalist on the promises of liberty and equality, and the large part of the population to which they were never actually extended. 1 recommender Flashlight Susan Choi A father vanishes on a night-time beach walk, and the silence he leaves behind stretches across continents and decades. 1 recommender Flesh David Szalay A life recorded as things that happen to a body, with the interior deliberately withheld. 1 recommender Flight Plan Brian Tracy A pilot files a flight plan, takes off, and is off course most of the way, correcting constantly. Tracy's metaphor for how goals actually get reached. Focal Point Brian Tracy Find the one thing in each area of your life where doing it well makes everything else easier, then do that thing first. Focus: The ASML Way, Inside the Power Struggle Over the Most Complex Machine on Earth Marc Hijink One Dutch company makes the machines that make advanced chips, and no one else can. 1 recommender Food of the Gods Terence McKenna An ethnobotanist’s exploration of humanity’s ancient relationship with psychoactive plants and how altered states shaped human evolution and culture. 1 recommender Food, Health, and Happiness Oprah Winfrey Oprah’s favorite recipes alongside the story of how she reshaped her relationship with food, health, and pleasure. Fool’s Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan Scott Horton The case that the Afghanistan war was lost in its first year, and that everything after was denial. Football Chuck Klosterman Klosterman on why the violence is inseparable from the meaning, why the sport resists analytics, and how something this awkward became the American game. 1 recommender For Those Left Behind Omar Suleiman Islamic guidance on coping with bereavement and loss. Forcing God’s Hand Grace Halsell Grace Halsell examines how end-times theology shaped strands of American political thinking and foreign policy. 1 recommender