Books

European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages Ernst Robert Curtius A philologist traces the unbroken thread running from Homer and Virgil through Dante to Goethe. 1 recommender Eurotrash, A Novel Christian Kracht A road trip round Switzerland with a semi-crazy mother, a plastic bag of cash and a family fortune with Nazi money in it. Short, funny, unforgiving about respectability. 1 recommender Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution Cat Bohannon Two hundred million years of evolution retold from the female body outward rather than the male. 1 recommender Every Second Counts Lance Armstrong with Sally Jenkins 1 recommender Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel’s Messiah Charles King Messiah was written for a Dublin charity in three weeks, by a composer close to ruin. 1 recommender Every War Must End Fred Charles Iklé 1 recommender Everything Inside Edwidge Danticat Eight stories of Haitians and Haitian Americans, and the ways migration keeps working on a life long after arrival. 1 recommender Everything Is F*cked Mark Manson Manson's follow-up trades personal problems for a bigger question: how to sustain hope in a broken world, via pop philosophy and profane humor. Everything Is Mama Jimmy Fallon Fallon's follow-up flips the gag: babies who answer every question with Mama, a rhyming read-aloud gift giving mothers their due. Everything You Need to Know About Everything You Need to Know About Daniel Tatarsky A browsable miscellany of facts across every subject. 1 recommender Evil Under the Sun Agatha Christie A Hercule Poirot mystery from Agatha Christie, here in a 2025 HarperCollins paperback edition. 1 recommender Evvie Drake Starts Over Linda Holmes She was leaving him the day he died, and has told nobody. Grief complicated by relief. 1 recommender Excellent Advice for Living Kevin Kelly Wired's founding editor distills a lifetime into hundreds of short, sharp aphorisms on how to live, work, and treat other people well. 2 recommenders Exiled in Modernity: Delacroix, Civilization, and Barbarism David O'Brien Delacroix worried constantly about whether civilisation was truly advancing, and he put the question into his paintings. 1 recommender Existentialism and Humanism Jean-Paul Sartre Sartre's short, famous lecture on freedom and responsibility in a world without God. 1 recommender Exit Stalin: The Soviet Union as a Civilization 1953-1991 Mark B. Smith Smith treats the post-Stalin Soviet Union as a working civilisation with its own logic, covering housing, law, consumption and belief rather than counting down to collapse. 1 recommender Exit West Mohsin Hamid Two lovers flee their city's civil war through magical doors that open onto other parts of the world. 1 recommender Expert Secrets Russell Brunson How to turn what you know into a movement and a business, by finding your voice and leading a following of true fans. 2 recommenders Explaining Israel’s Mysterious Imperial Agenda Imran N. Hosein The author's reading of the political aims he attributes to the modern state of Israel. Explaining Successes in Africa: Things Don’t Always Fall Apart Erin Accampo Hern The African states that worked, examined for once instead of the far more familiar failures. 1 recommender Exposed Jean-Philippe Blondel A retiring teacher sits for a portrait by a former student, in Alison Anderson's translation. Extreme Ownership Jocko Willink The leader owns everything in their world. No exceptions, no blaming the plan, no blaming the people below. Extremophile Ian Green Biopunk London, where the corporations patent the biology and therefore own the bodies carrying it. 1 recommender Eye Level Jenny Xie Jenny Xie's debut collection travels from Phnom Penh to Corfu to New York in poems about solitude and the self. 1 recommender Eyes of the Rigel Roy Jacobsen Roy Jacobsen's novel Rigels øyne, published in Norwegian in 2017, in an English paperback from Quercus in 2021. F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Life in Letters F. Scott Fitzgerald, Matthew J. Bruccoli Fitzgerald's life told through his own letters, from early fame to his last years in Hollywood. 1 recommender F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby: A Literary Reference Matthew J. Bruccoli The newspaper stories, letters and real people behind The Great Gatsby, gathered in one volume. 1 recommender Fable Adrienne Young Abandoned on an island at fourteen, a trader's daughter dredges gems to survive and buys her way back into his world. 1 recommender Factfulness Hans Rosling Rosling shows how a fact-based worldview corrects our instinct to see the world as more frightening than it is. 1 recommender Failed States Noam Chomsky The failed-state criteria turned back on the country that applies them to everyone else. Fair Play Eve Rodsky A card-based system for splitting domestic work, built on the idea that one partner's time is treated as infinite. 1 recommender Fairy Tale as Myth/Myth as Fairy Tale Jack Zipes Zipes traces how fairy tales were shaped, sanitised and weaponised as they passed through the centuries. 1 recommender Faith, Hope and Carnage Nick Cave Forty hours of conversation recorded after the death of Cave fifteen-year-old son, covering grief, songwriting, doubt and why he has no patience left for cynicism. 1 recommender Fall on Your Knees Ann-Marie MacDonald Ann-Marie MacDonald's novel spans generations of a troubled family on Cape Breton, unspooling long-hidden secrets. 1 recommender False Self Linda Hopkins The rise and fall of Masud Khan, a brilliant psychoanalyst who could not face the truth about himself. 1 recommender Famesick: A Memoir Lena Dunham Dunham on early fame, illness and the disorientation of having been very publicly young, written after a decade away from the spotlight she entered at twenty-four. 1 recommender