Books

Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits Philip A. Fisher Philip Fisher's classic case for buying great growth companies and holding them, judged by the quality of their business and management. 1 recommender Company Commander Charles B. MacDonald Twenty-one years old and handed a rifle company in the Ardennes, written while it was all still raw 1 recommender Compass Mathias Énard Mathias Énard's Prix Goncourt winning novel, translated by Charlotte Mandell, about a sleepless night in Vienna and a musicologist's memories of the Orient. Complete Works 1979-Today Zaha Hadid Everything Hadid built and everything she did not, from the early Suprematist paintings to the late parametric work, with the sketches that show how each began. 1 recommender Concerning My Daughter Kim Hye-jin Kim Hye-jin's short novel about a mother who must confront her adult daughter's life and relationship, translated by Jamie Chang. 1 recommender Concordant Discord: The Interdependence of Faiths R.C. Zaehner The Gifford Lectures of an Oxford scholar who thought the great religions were arguing about the same thing. 1 recommender Confession Martín Kohan Martín Kohan's novel about an Argentine woman's life in the shadow of the military junta, translated by Daniel Hahn for Charco Press in 2023. 1 recommender Confessions of a Barbarian Edward Abbey Four decades of private journals, angrier and less certain than the polished desert essays that built the public Abbey reputation. 1 recommender Confessions of an Economic Hit Man John Perkins A former consultant's account of how economic pressure serves foreign policy. 1 recommender Confessions of an Italian Ippolito Nievo Ippolito Nievo's epic historical novel of one man's long life and the unification of Italy, translated by Frederika Randall for Penguin Classics in 2014. 1 recommender Consent: A Memoir Jill Ciment A woman married her teacher, who began the relationship when she was seventeen, and reconsiders it decades on. 1 recommender Consolations II David Whyte Ordinary words taken one at a time by a poet rather than a lexicographer, and found to mean something considerably harder. 1 recommender Conspiracy Ryan Holiday How a billionaire secretly funded a lawsuit to destroy a publication, told as a study in patience. Constantinople in the Qur’an Imran N. Hosein A study of the city's place in Islamic eschatology and of the prophecies the author reads as attached to it. Constitutional Chaos Andrew Napolitano A former judge's account of the state breaking its own rules, from entrapment to coerced pleas. Contemporary Iranian Art: New Perspectives Hamid Keshmirshekan From Saqqakhaneh through the rupture of 1979 to the Tehran scene now, a survey that goes around the political narrative and arrives at the country anyway. 1 recommender Contours of the World Economy, 1-2030 AD Angus Maddison Two thousand years of the world economy, measured, by the historian who built the numbers. 1 recommender Conversations with Friends Sally Rooney Two former girlfriends and a married couple entangle in Sally Rooney's sharp debut about intimacy and self-discovery. 1 recommender Conversations with Myself Nelson Mandela Mandela unedited: the private letters, prison notebooks and taped talks behind the public statesman, in his own hand Conversations with Stalin Milovan Djilas 1 recommender Conviction Denise Mina A true-crime podcast names someone from the life a woman abandoned, and her carefully rebuilt existence collapses in an hour. 1 recommender Cosmic Queries Neil deGrasse Tyson The biggest questions, how it began, are we alone, how it ends, answered in the conversational StarTalk voice Counterfeit Kirstin Chen A burnt-out lawyer is recruited by an old roommate into a counterfeit handbag scheme built on being underestimated. 1 recommender Courage Is Calling Ryan Holiday Courage in its everyday form: the willingness to be disliked, to speak up, and to begin. Cover Up Peter Lance Peter Lance's 2005 investigation into what the US government is still hiding about the war on terror, in the Harper Paperbacks edition. 1 recommender Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches Marvin Harris Sacred cows, pig taboos and witch hunts, each read as a solution to a problem you have not spotted. 2 recommenders Crash Proof 2.0 Peter Schiff Schiff's pre-2008 forecast of collapse, with a defensive playbook of foreign stocks, commodities, and gold for investors who share his bearish, hard-money view. Create Your Own Future Brian Tracy Twelve factors Tracy argues separate people who shape their circumstances from those who wait to see what happens. Creativity John Cleese John Cleese's short, practical guide to creativity, which he treats as a skill anyone can learn rather than a rare gift. Creativity and Problem Solving Brian Tracy A pocket guide treating creativity as a trainable habit of asking better questions, not a gift some people are born with. Creativity, Inc. Ed Catmull, Amy Wallace Pixar's co-founder on how to build and protect a creative culture, drawing on the studio's own near-failures to show how to keep fear and complacency from killing good ideas. 1 recommender Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky A student in St Petersburg murders a pawnbroker to prove a theory about himself, and cannot live inside the proof. 1 recommender Critical and Historical Essays Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay's long review essays for the Edinburgh Review, the model for the form as it is still written. 1 recommender Critique of Pure Reason Immanuel Kant The book that reversed the question: not how thought conforms to the world, but how the world conforms to thought. 1 recommender Cross-Stitch Jazmina Barrera Jazmina Barrera's novel of three Mexican friends and a trip to Europe, translated by Christina MacSweeney. Crossing the Chasm Geoffrey A. Moore The classic playbook for taking a high-tech product from early adopters across the gap to a mainstream market. 1 recommender