Books

Diary of a Philosophy Student Simone de Beauvoir Beauvoir kept this diary at nineteen, before Sartre, already circling the questions about freedom and the other that would occupy her for the following six decades. 1 recommender Did You Hear About Kitty Karr? Crystal Smith Paul A white Hollywood legend dies and leaves everything to three Black sisters, and the reason reaches back to the studio era. 1 recommender 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 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 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. 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 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 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. 1 recommender 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 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. 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. 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 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 The Daily Laws Robert Greene One short lesson a day, drawn from across Greene's work, arranged to be read a page at a time over a year The Daily Stoic Ryan Holiday, Stephen Hanselman A year of daily Stoic wisdom, one short meditation a day drawn from Marcus Aurelius, Seneca and Epictetus. 2 recommenders