Books

Die with Zero Bill Perkins Spend your wealth on rich experiences while you can still enjoy them, rather than dying with a large unspent balance. 1 recommender Diet for a Small Planet Frances Moore Lappé 1 recommender Difficult Women Roxane Gay Women the culture calls too much, written without any request for the reader's approval. Dignity in a Digital Age Ro Khanna A congressman's argument for spreading tech's gains beyond a few coastal cities. 1 recommender Direct from Dell Michael Dell Dell explains the inventory-light direct-sales model that made his company a phenomenon, founding it as a teenager and scaling it into a multibillion-dollar business. Dirty Wars Jeremy Scahill An investigation of America's covert wars and targeted killings. 1 recommender Disability Rights and Wrongs Tom Shakespeare A disability scholar argues that bodies matter as well as barriers, and rethinks disability rights. Disability Rights and Wrongs Revisited Tom Shakespeare A disability scholar updates his challenge to the social model, with new research and debates. Discipline Equals Freedom Jocko Willink Not a book of theory. A blunt manual for the moment the alarm goes off and you would rather not. Discipline Is Destiny Ryan Holiday Self-control as what decides who a talent becomes, and the point at which it curdles into vice. Discrimination and Disparities Thomas Sowell Thomas Sowell examines why outcomes differ between groups and argues that discrimination explains far less of the gap than is commonly assumed. Dishonest to God Mary Warnock 1 recommender Disowning Knowledge Stanley Cavell 1 recommender Dispatches Michael Herr Vietnam as it sounded to the men in it, written by a reporter who stopped pretending to be objective. 1 recommender Dispatches from the Edge Anderson Cooper Cooper braids the disasters he covered, from Katrina to the tsunami to Rwanda, with his own private losses, and asks what draws him to the edge. Display of Power Daymond John The FUBU origin story from the inside: how a Queens hustle became a global brand and rewrote the rules of streetwear Disputed Questions Thomas Merton A Trappist monk sets out what choosing solitude actually costs, and why he insisted it was not the same thing as withdrawing from the world. 1 recommender Disputing Disaster: A Sextet on the Great War Perry Anderson Six major historians of the First World War, examined for how each explained the catastrophe and which national position each was quietly arguing from. 1 recommender Distinction Pierre Bourdieu Why our tastes in food, music and art mark our social class, from a landmark French study. 1 recommender Divide Me by Zero Lara Vapnyar A Russian-born writer in New York faces her mother's death as her marriage and love life come apart. 1 recommender Divine Speech Nouman Ali Khan, Sharif Randhawa The Qur'an approached through the lens of literature, examining its structure, imagery and rhetorical craft. Do the KIND Thing Daniel Lubetzky The KIND founder argues companies needn't choose between profit and purpose, using KIND's rise to teach the AND mindset: healthy and tasty, doing well and good. Do the Work Steven Pressfield Resistance named as the enemy, and treated as a compass pointing at whatever matters most. 1 recommender Do You Feel Lucky? Kjartan Poskitt Chance and probability explained for schoolchildren, in the Murderous Maths series. 1 recommender Doc Watson: A Life in Music Eddie Huffman Blind from infancy and on disability until forty, Doc Watson then became America's greatest flatpicker. 1 recommender Doctor Faustus Thomas Mann A composer buys twenty-four years of genius with syphilis, narrated by a friend writing while the Reich collapses. Mann hardest book and his most direct reckoning. 1 recommender Dominion Tom Holland Why even committed atheists in the West think in categories Christianity invented. 1 recommender Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes A man reads too many chivalric romances and sets out to live inside one. 2 recommenders Done and Dusted Lyla Sage A woman comes home to a Wyoming ranch town and to her brother's best friend. 1 recommender Doom and Bloom Campbell Walker An illustrated case for choosing creativity over doom-scrolling in an anxious age, from the artist known online as Struthless. 1 recommender Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World Naomi Klein Naomi Klein kept being mistaken for Naomi Wolf, and followed the confusion somewhere much stranger. 1 recommender DotCom Secrets Russell Brunson The ClickFunnels co-founder lays out the sales-funnel strategy behind his own empire, guiding customers through a sequence rather than a single website. 1 recommender Doughnut Economics Kate Raworth The diagrams economists teach from leave out nature and the household, so she redrew them. 1 recommender Down and Out in Paris and London George Orwell Orwell's first book, a first-hand account of scraping by among dishwashers, tramps, and the poor of two great cities. Dracula Bram Stoker Bram Stoker's 1897 vampire novel, told in letters and diaries, follows the hunt for Count Dracula from Transylvania to England. 1 recommender Dream of Ding Village Yan Lianke Yan Lianke's novel about the blood-selling scandal in rural Henan that led to an AIDS crisis, in Cindy Carter's translation.