Books

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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Extreme Ownership Jocko Willink The leader owns everything in their world. No exceptions, no blaming the plan, no blaming the people below. The E-Myth Revisited Michael E. Gerber Most small businesses fail because they are started by technicians, people good at the craft who assume that is the same as running a business. 2 recommenders The Earth Transformed: An Untold History Peter Frankopan Climate as the driver of human history, across an enormous span and a great deal of evidence. 1 recommender The Economic Approach: Unpublished Writings of Gary S. Becker Gary S. Becker Unpublished writing from the economist who applied price theory to crime, marriage and discrimination. 1 recommender The Edible Woman Margaret Atwood A woman's body starts refusing food as her engagement closes around her, in the comic first novel Atwood wrote before the term existed. The Effective Executive Peter F. Drucker Drucker's timeless guide to the habits that make executives effective, starting with managing their own time and decisions. 2 recommenders The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld Visionary of Weimar Berlin Daniel Brook Magnus Hirschfeld built the world's first institute for sexual science, and the Nazis burned it. 1 recommender The Elements of Power: A Story of War, Technology, and the Dirtiest Supply Chain on Earth Nicolas Niarchos The cobalt in your phone comes out of Congolese mines, and the supply chain is worse than you think. 1 recommender The Elephant in the Brain Kevin Simler, Robin Hanson Much of human behaviour is driven by hidden, self-serving motives we would rather not admit, even to ourselves. 1 recommender The Emperor of Gladness Ocean Vuong Ocean Vuong's novel follows a lost young man in a Connecticut town who becomes caretaker to an elderly widow with dementia. 1 recommender The Emperor’s Soul Brandon Sanderson A condemned art forger has a hundred days to counterfeit a murdered emperor's soul, convincingly enough to fool the men who hired her. The End of Enlightenment: Empire, Commerce, Crisis Richard Whatmore It was supposed to end in progress and ended in pessimism, with its own best minds watching empire and war eat the liberty they had spent their lives theorising. 1 recommender The End of History and the Last Man Francis Fukuyama Fukuyama's landmark argument that liberal democracy may be the final form of human government. 1 recommender The End of Power Moisés Naím Power today is easier to get, harder to use and easier to lose, and Naim traces that shift across armies, parties, churches and firms. 1 recommender The English Patient Michael Ondaatje Four strangers in a bombed Italian villa, one of them burned beyond recognition and unwilling to say who he is. 1 recommender The Entrepreneur Roller Coaster Darren Hardy Written for the emotional reality of founding a company rather than its mechanics, and as preparation not encouragement. 1 recommender The Essays of Warren Buffett Warren Buffett Warren Buffett's shareholder-letter writings, arranged by theme into a readable guide to his thinking on business and investing. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine Ilan Pappé An Israeli historian arguing from Israel's own archives that 1948 followed a plan. The Everyday Hero Manifesto Robin Sharma Part memoir, part method: Sharma's framework for ordinary people to do heroic, generous work with their lives The Evolution of Everything Matt Ridley The case that morality, money and technology were never designed by anyone, and are better for it. 1 recommender The Executioner’s Song Norman Mailer Gary Gilmore demanded his own execution, and Mailer simply gets out of the way. 1 recommender