Books

Forward Andrew Yang Drawing on his presidential and mayoral runs, Yang argues American politics is structurally broken and pitches reforms to loosen the two-party grip. Foundation Isaac Asimov Asimov's genre-defining saga: as a galactic empire decays, a scientist uses "psychohistory" to shorten the coming dark age, founding a colony to preserve knowledge for a better future. 1 recommender Four Thousand Weeks Oliver Burkeman The average human life is about four thousand weeks. Not another system for doing more, but an argument for accepting that you never will. 1 recommender Fragile Neighborhoods: Repairing American Society, One Zip Code at a Time Seth D. Kaplan Fix the street before you fix the country: social repair at the scale of a few blocks. 1 recommender Frankenstein Mary Shelley A student builds a living man from dead matter, then abandons him, in the novel that invented science fiction. 2 recommenders Franny and Zooey J.D. Salinger Two Glass siblings argue about faith and phoniness across a long afternoon in one apartment. 1 recommender Franz Liszt: The Weimar Years, 1848-1861 Alan Walker The middle volume of what many people call the finest musical biography ever written about anyone. 1 recommender Free Lea Ypi A childhood in the last Stalinist state, and a philosopher's question about what replaced it. 1 recommender Free Agent Nation Daniel Pink Pink's first book, and an early map of the freelance economy: the shift from lifelong employer to a nation of people working for themselves. Free to Choose Milton Friedman, Rose Friedman The Friedmans' accessible case for free markets and personal liberty, written for the general reader. 1 recommender Freedom Jonathan Franzen Jonathan Franzen's portrait of a Midwestern family across decades, tracing marriage, ambition, and the compromises of American freedom. 1 recommender Freedom from Fear: An Incomplete History of Liberalism Alan S. Kahan A history of liberalism organised around what it was afraid of rather than what it promised. 1 recommender Freedom Is a Constant Struggle Angela Davis Ferguson and Palestine treated as materially linked rather than as analogies for each other. Frida Kahlo: Love Letters Suzanne Barbezat Written in her late teens around the accident that reshaped her body, these letters catch a painter becoming herself in a voice far less certain than the public Frida. 1 recommender Friends and Strangers J. Courtney Sullivan A friendship across twenty years and an employment contract, warm and quietly unequal. 1 recommender Friends Until the End: Edmund Burke and Charles Fox in the Age of Revolution James Grant Burke and Fox were close allies until the French Revolution ended the friendship in public. 1 recommender From Genghis Khan to Tamerlane: The Reawakening of Mongol Asia Peter Jackson The Mongol empire outlasted its conquests by centuries, and this covers what came after Genghis. 1 recommender From Here to the Great Unknown Lisa Marie Presley, Riley Keough The memoir Lisa Marie Presley began before her death, completed by her daughter Riley Keough, tells the story of Elvis's only child. 1 recommender From Life Itself: Turkey, Istanbul, and a Neighborhood in Transition Suzy Hansen A journalist who has lived in Istanbul over a decade watches a fragile democracy become an autocracy, at the scale of one neighbourhood and its shopkeepers. 1 recommender From Scratch Tembi Locke A widow returns to her husband's Sicilian village with their daughter, and is taken in by the family who once rejected her. 1 recommender From Strength to Strength Arthur C. Brooks Brooks on why professional decline arrives earlier than expected, and what to build instead. 1 recommender From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler E.L. Konigsburg Two children run away to live in the Metropolitan Museum and stumble onto a genuine mystery. 1 recommender Full Engagement! Brian Tracy Tracy on unlocking the effort employees hold back: clear expectations, recognition, autonomy, and removing the fear that shuts people down. G-Man Beverly Gage Fifty years of J. Edgar Hoover, drawn from files that outlived everyone he tried to ruin. 1 recommender Gang Leader for a Day Sudhir Venkatesh A young sociologist embeds with a Chicago crack-dealing gang and upends what he thought he knew about the urban poor. 1 recommender Gap Creek Robert Morgan Robert Morgan's novel follows a young Appalachian couple's first hard year of marriage at the turn of the twentieth century. 1 recommender Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom Norman Finkelstein Gaza reconstructed from the human-rights record, then a study of how that record got softened. Genome Matt Ridley Matt Ridley tours the human genome one chromosome at a time, turning genetics into a story about who we are and how we came to be. 2 recommenders Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife Francesca Wade What happened to Gertrude Stein's reputation after she died, and who decided what we would remember. 1 recommender Get Paid More and Promoted Faster Brian Tracy Career advancement treated as a solvable problem rather than a matter of luck or waiting your turn. Get Smart! Brian Tracy Tracy contrasts the thinking patterns of high and low performers, framed as switches you can consciously flip. Getting Rich Your Own Way Brian Tracy Tracy maps the routes people actually take to wealth, and argues you should pick the one that fits who you already are. Getting Things Done David Allen A complete system for capturing and acting on everything competing for your attention, starting with getting it out of your head. 2 recommenders Getting to Yes Roger Fisher, William Ury Roger Fisher and William Ury present the Harvard method of principled negotiation, focused on interests rather than positions to reach better agreements. 1 recommender Ghachar Ghochar Vivek Shanbhag A Bangalore family gets suddenly rich, and something in them quietly rots. 1 recommender Ghetto Klown John Leguizamo Leguizamo's Tony-nominated stage show reborn as comics, illustrating his rise from struggling actor to stage star with the motion prose can't capture.