Books

Dream State Eric Puchner Eric Puchner's novel traces decades of friendship, marriage, and betrayal centered on a lakeside house in Montana. 1 recommender Dred Scott’s Revenge Andrew Napolitano Race in America told as a story of courtrooms and statutes, from Dred Scott through the long machinery of segregation. Drift into Failure Sidney Dekker How disasters from the sub-prime collapse to Space Shuttle Columbia grew out of small, everyday decisions inside complex systems. 1 recommender Drive Daniel Pink Carrots and sticks are a worse way to motivate people than we assume. Pink's case for autonomy, mastery and purpose instead. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead Olga Tokarczuk An eccentric older woman insists the animals are killing the hunters, and nobody takes her seriously. 1 recommender Driven Robert Herjavec The Shark Tank investor's memoir-and-manifesto on how an immigrant with nothing built a cybersecurity empire on preparation, relationships, and refusing to hear no. Drowning Ruth Christina Schwarz Christina Schwarz's novel circles the mysterious drowning of a young woman on a Wisconsin farm and the secrets her sister keeps. 1 recommender Dune Frank Herbert A desert planet, the substance that makes empire possible, and an ecology worked out before the plot. 1 recommender Dvoretsky’s Endgame Manual Mark Dvoretsky The modern classic of endgame study, rigorous training material trusted by generations of masters and serious students of chess. 1 recommender Dying to Win Robert A. Pape A data-driven study arguing suicide terrorism is strategic, not religious. 1 recommender Early Greek Philosophy Jonathan Barnes 1 recommender Earn What You’re Really Worth Brian Tracy Tracy's argument that income tracks the value you create, and a plan to raise your skills, positioning, and pay to match it. Earth (The Book) Jon Stewart A deadpan owner's manual for planet Earth, written for the aliens who will find it after humanity is gone, from The Daily Show team. Earth House Hold Gary Snyder Fire lookout, logger, Zen student in Japan: journals from before the ecological ethics they describe had acquired a name or a movement. 1 recommender Earth Shapers: How We Mapped and Mastered the World, From the Panama Canal to the Baltic Way Maxim Samson The canals, walls, borders and human chains that redrew the surface of the planet. 1 recommender Eartheater Dolores Reyes Dolores Reyes's novel about a girl on the outskirts of Buenos Aires who can see where women's bodies are buried, translated by Julia Sanches. 1 recommender East of Eden John Steinbeck Steinbeck's sweeping retelling of Cain and Abel follows two families in California's Salinas Valley across generations of love and choice. 3 recommenders Easy Riders, Raging Bulls Peter Biskind How Scorsese, Coppola, Friedkin and Bogdanovich seized Hollywood in the 1970s, and what it cost them. 1 recommender Eat That Frog! Brian Tracy If the first thing you do each morning is eat a live frog, nothing worse can happen all day. Tracy's rule for doing the hardest task first. Ecce Homo Friedrich Nietzsche 1 recommender Econned Yves Smith How mainstream economic ideas helped cause the 2008 crash, from a sharp financial blogger. 1 recommender Edgedancer Brandon Sanderson A standalone Stormlight Archive novella starring Lift, a wisecracking street urchin with growing Radiant powers, chasing a killer between the main volumes. Educated Tara Westover Kept out of school and hospitals by a survivalist father in rural Idaho, Tara Westover set foot in a classroom at seventeen and ended up at Cambridge. 2 recommenders Education and the Working Class Brian Jackson 1 recommender Ego Is the Enemy Ryan Holiday Ego tracked through aspiration, success and failure, doing different damage at each stage. 1 recommender Einstein Walter Isaacson The rebel patent clerk who rewrote physics, drawn from newly released letters that show the man behind the equations Einstein in Love Dennis Overbye The miracle year of 1905 told through the marriage inside it, drawing on letters between Einstein and the physics student who checked his maths. 1 recommender Einstein’s Clocks, Poincaré’s Maps Peter Galison Two men, two problems of synchronising clocks across distance, and the Swiss patent office where relativity quietly took shape. 1 recommender Einstein’s Dreams Alan Lightman Fables imagining the dreams of a young patent clerk, each built on a different way that time might work. 1 recommender El arte de la guerra Sun Tzu Edición de bolsillo bilingüe chino y español del tratado de estrategia de Sun Tzu, en la traducción de David Sevillano López para Penguin Clásicos. El cisne negro Nassim Nicholas Taleb Traducción al español de The Black Swan, de Nassim Nicholas Taleb, sobre el impacto de los sucesos raros e imprevisibles, en edición de bolsillo Booket. Elantris Brandon Sanderson A city of god-like beings is now a cursed ruin where the afflicted are exiled, and a prince has just been struck by the curse. 1 recommender Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees Jared Farmer Bristlecones, ginkgos, yews and baobabs became objects of science, tourism and grief, and dating them changed what deep time felt like to the people doing the counting. 1 recommender Eleanor of Aquitaine Alison Weir Queen of France, then queen of England, then regent into her eighties, and the legends started while she was alive. 1 recommender Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine Gail Honeyman A fiercely routined loner says exactly what she thinks, until an act of kindness starts unpicking a life built to keep everyone out. 1 recommender Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain’s Visionary Music Rob Young British folk revival traced back past Fairport Convention to Vaughan Williams and older visions still. 1 recommender