Books

Elena Knows Claudia Piñeiro Claudia Piñeiro's novel Elena sabe, shortlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize, translated by Frances Riddle for Charco Press. Eleven Minutes Paulo Coelho Paulo Coelho's novel of a young Brazilian woman who moves to Geneva and becomes a prostitute, in the Harper Perennial paperback. Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast Megan Marshall Marshall studied under Bishop, and braids her own memories into the biography, which gives her access to the reticence Bishop built her life and work around. Elizabeth Costello J. M. Coetzee J. M. Coetzee's 2003 novel in which an aging Australian writer lectures around the world on animals, censorship and belief. 1 recommender Ellen Foster Kaye Gibbons Kaye Gibbons's debut is narrated by a fierce, funny young girl who survives an abusive home and searches for a family of her own. 1 recommender Elon Musk Walter Isaacson Two years shadowing Musk across Tesla, SpaceX and Twitter, watching the drive and the recklessness feed off each other Eloquent Rage Brittney Cooper Cooper reclaims Black women's anger as clarity and fuel rather than the stereotype it gets flattened into. 1 recommender Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age Eleanor Barraclough A toy boat, a comb, a runic insult scratched in wood, isotopes in teeth. Barraclough builds the Viking age from small objects rather than from sagas and kings. 1 recommender Emma Who Saved My Life Wilton Barnhardt An aspiring actor lands in grimy 1970s New York and spends a decade orbiting his best friend. 1 recommender Emperor of the Seas: Kublai Khan and the Making of China Jack Weatherford How Kublai Khan beat Song China and then lost to Japan, told through the sea rather than the steppe. 1 recommender Emperors of Dreams Mike Jay Opium, ether, cocaine and cannabis were once sold openly. Mike Jay tells how the nineteenth century used them. 1 recommender Empire of Pain Patrick Radden Keefe Three generations of a family that built a fortune on OxyContin and their name on museum walls. 1 recommender Empowered Marty Cagan The follow-up to Inspired, arguing that great products come not from star hires but from how everyday teams are coached and led. Enchantment Guy Kawasaki Kawasaki on the craft of genuine persuasion: how to win people over not by pressure but by likability, trustworthiness, and a cause worth believing in. Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bill Dobbins The landmark original: exercises by muscle group, routines for every level, and the training system that defined a sport. End the Fed Ron Paul Ron Paul's populist case for abolishing the Federal Reserve, the hidden engine of inflation, booms, busts, and endless government spending. End Times Fascism Naomi Klein, Astra Taylor Klein and Astra Taylor examine a far right that welcomes catastrophe, from Christian nationalists to tech reactionaries, and how to resist it. Endurance Alfred Lansing Shackleton's crew loses their ship to the Antarctic ice and fights for more than a year to survive. 1 recommender Energy: A Beginner’s Guide Vaclav Smil Smil explains energy as one subject running from physics to food to industry, and is unsentimental about how slowly it changes. 1 recommender Engineering in Plain Sight Grady Hillhouse A practising civil engineer explains the cables, pipes, substations and towers you pass every day, turning an ordinary street into something a reader can actually read. 1 recommender English, August Upamanyu Chatterjee 1 recommender Enhancing Evolution John Harris A bioethicist argues that if an enhancement makes life go better, squeamishness is not a reason to refuse it. 1 recommender Enlightenment in a Smart City: Edinburgh’s Civic Development, 1660-1750 Murray Pittock Edinburgh's Enlightenment explained through its drains, its street plans, and the building regulations behind them. 1 recommender Enlightenment Now Steven Pinker Pinker marshals data across dozens of measures to argue that life has been getting better, and why that matters. 1 recommender Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism Scott Horton The case that the war on terrorism created more terrorism than it ever prevented. Entrepreneur Revolution Daniel Priestley The industrial age is over and the mindset we were schooled into no longer fits the entrepreneurial one that replaced it. 1 recommender Enver Hoxha: Twentieth-Century Tyrant Robert C. Austin A small Balkan state broke with Yugoslavia, then Moscow, then Beijing, and covered itself in bunkers. Austin explains the sequence without claiming Hoxha becomes legible. 1 recommender Erebus Michael Palin Michael Palin tells the life of HMS Erebus, from its Antarctic voyage of discovery to its disappearance on Franklin's lost Arctic expedition. Erik Satie Three Piece Suite Ian Penman Penman circles Satie in fragments: the velvet suits, the Rosicrucian phase, the furniture music, and a reputation that keeps getting rebuilt by other people. 1 recommender Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows Balli Kaur Jaswal A writing class for Punjabi widows in Southall turns into something far franker, funnier and more dangerous than its teacher expected. 1 recommender Erotic Vagrancy: Everything about Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor Roger Lewis Burton and Taylor across six hundred pages of drinking, jewels and films, written by a man who is plainly enjoying himself far too much to stop. 1 recommender Escape from Evil Ernest Becker Becker's sequel to The Denial of Death: how the fear of dying drives people to do evil. 1 recommender Essential Labor Angela Garbes The case that caregiving is the work holding everything up, and the reason it stays unpaid. 1 recommender Estonia Neil Taylor The clearest history in English of a country that has been independent for barely half its modern life. 1 recommender Eternal Treblinka Charles Patterson Charles Patterson's non-fiction book examining the human treatment of animals alongside the Holocaust. 1 recommender Ethics for the New Millennium Dalai Lama A case for compassion as the practical basis of ethics, argued without appeal to any one religion. 1 recommender