Books

Ghost Stories Siri Hustvedt A novelist writes about four decades with Paul Auster and his death, and about what memory does to the people left behind. 1 recommender Gilead Marilynne Robinson Marilynne Robinson's Pulitzer-winning novel is a dying minister's luminous letter to his young son. 1 recommender Giovanni’s Room James Baldwin Published in 1956 against his publisher advice, with white characters so nobody could mistake what the novel was actually about. 4 recommenders Global Political Islam Peter Mandaville Islamist movements as varied local political actors rather than one phenomenon with one logic. Gmorning, Gnight! Lin-Manuel Miranda Miranda's morning-and-night pep talks, collected and illustrated by Jonny Sun, a pocket-sized ritual of encouragement to bookend the day. Go Back to Where You Came From Wajahat Ali A humorous memoir on being American and Muslim by writer Wajahat Ali. 1 recommender Go Gentle Maria Semple A novel by Maria Semple, author of Where'd You Go, Bernadette, and an Oprah's Book Club selection. A verified summary will follow. 1 recommender Goals! Brian Tracy Tracy's argument in one line: people succeed because they decide exactly what they want and write it down. Twenty-one steps for doing that. Gobsmacked! The British Invasion of American English Ben Yagoda Kerfuffle, one-off, go missing, gobsmacked: a catalogue of the British words quietly colonising American speech. 1 recommender God and the Devil: The Life and Work of Ingmar Bergman Peter Cowie Cowie knew him early, and covers the theatre productions and television work alongside the films, including the projects that never made it out of development. 1 recommender God and the Fascists Karlheinz Deschner Karlheinz Deschner’s critical account of the Vatican’s dealings with Mussolini, Hitler, Franco, and Pavelic. 1 recommender God is an Englishman: Christianity and the Creation of England Bijan Omrani Omrani argues English law, landscape and civic life are shaped by Christianity whether or not anyone still believes, and that forgetting it makes the history illegible. 1 recommender God: A Human History Reza Aslan A sweeping account of how humans have always made God in their own image, from cave paintings to the invention of monotheism. God’s Undertaker John C. Lennox An Oxford mathematician argues science has not disproven God. 1 recommender Gods, Guns and Missionaries: The Making of the Modern Hindu Identity Manu S. Pillai Modern Hindu identity was forged in argument with colonial missionaries, and both sides came away changed. 1 recommender Goethe: A Life in Ideas Matthew Bell Goethe as a thinker rather than a monument, including the science he cared about more than the poetry. 1 recommender Gone Bamboo Anthony Bourdain Bourdain's second novel drops a retired hitman into the Caribbean, where sun, rum, and old enemies conspire to pull him back into the business. Gone Before Goodbye Harlan Coben, Reese Witherspoon A disgraced Army combat surgeon takes a discreet job serving the very rich, in the first novel Coben and Witherspoon wrote together. Good and Mad Rebecca Traister Traister traces how women's fury has driven American political change, and how reliably it gets dismissed. 1 recommender Good Bones Maggie Smith The collection built around the poem that travelled the world in 2016, in which a mother describes a broken world to her children and still sells it to them. Good Clean Fun Nick Offerman Offerman's part-memoir, part how-to celebration of woodworking, with plans, photos, and an argument for the deep satisfaction of building things by hand. Good Material Dolly Alderton A breakup from the confused side of it, until the novel hands the story to the person who left. 1 recommender Good to Great Jim Collins Collins's research into how good companies become great, and the disciplined leadership behind the leap. 1 recommender Good Work Paul Millerd The follow-up to The Pathless Path, on ambition, meaning, and what it takes to do work that matters on your own terms. 1 recommender Goodbye Russia: Rachmaninoff in Exile Fiona Maddocks Rachmaninoff left Russia in 1917 with almost nothing and never returned. The music changed accordingly. 1 recommender Government Bullies Rand Paul Paul's indictment of the regulatory state, told through ordinary Americans jailed or ruined by federal agencies, and a case for reining in bureaucratic power. Great Big Beautiful Life Emily Henry Two rival writers compete to ghostwrite a reclusive heiress's memoir, and discover she has more than one version of it. 1 recommender Great Expectations Charles Dickens Charles Dickens's novel follows the orphan Pip from a country forge to London gentility, and the mysterious fortune that lifts him. 1 recommender Greenlights Matthew McConaughey McConaughey mines thirty-five years of diaries for stories and livin wisdom, sorting his life into the green, yellow, and red lights that shaped it. Group Christie Tate A high-achieving law student joins a therapy group that demands total disclosure, and is undone and remade by it. 1 recommender Growth Hacker Marketing Ryan Holiday Marketing rebuilt around products that spread themselves, written when growth hacking still meant something specific rather than a job title. Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities Guillermo del Toro, Marc Scott Zicree A lavish tour through del Toro's private notebooks, sketches, and collection of the macabre, revealing the obsessions and images that feed his films. Gumption Nick Offerman Offerman celebrates twenty-one gutsy Americans, from Washington to Willie Nelson, using each as a peg for his heartfelt case about freedom and character. Guns, Germs, and Steel Jared Diamond Jared Diamond's sweeping account of why some societies came to dominate others, tracing it to geography rather than race. 3 recommenders Gym Launch Secrets Alex Hormozi Hormozi's earliest book, written for gym owners, distilling the systems he used to turn struggling fitness businesses around. H-Pop: The Secretive World of Hindutva Pop Stars Kunal Purohit India's Hindu nationalist pop stars have millions of listeners and almost no press attention. 1 recommender