Books

First Lie Wins Ashley Elston Her name is fake, her boyfriend is a job, and the woman whose identity she borrowed has just turned up. 1 recommender Five on a Treasure Island Enid Blyton The first Famous Five adventure: four children, a dog, and a mystery on a small island with a wrecked ship. 1 recommender Fixing France: How to Repair a Broken Republic Nabila Ramdani A French-Algerian journalist on the promises of liberty and equality, and the large part of the population to which they were never actually extended. 1 recommender Flashlight Susan Choi A father vanishes on a night-time beach walk, and the silence he leaves behind stretches across continents and decades. 1 recommender Flesh David Szalay A life recorded as things that happen to a body, with the interior deliberately withheld. 1 recommender Flight Plan Brian Tracy A pilot files a flight plan, takes off, and is off course most of the way, correcting constantly. Tracy's metaphor for how goals actually get reached. Focal Point Brian Tracy Find the one thing in each area of your life where doing it well makes everything else easier, then do that thing first. Focus: The ASML Way, Inside the Power Struggle Over the Most Complex Machine on Earth Marc Hijink One Dutch company makes the machines that make advanced chips, and no one else can. 1 recommender Food of the Gods Terence McKenna An ethnobotanist’s exploration of humanity’s ancient relationship with psychoactive plants and how altered states shaped human evolution and culture. 1 recommender Food, Health, and Happiness Oprah Winfrey Oprah’s favorite recipes alongside the story of how she reshaped her relationship with food, health, and pleasure. Fool’s Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan Scott Horton The case that the Afghanistan war was lost in its first year, and that everything after was denial. Football Chuck Klosterman Klosterman on why the violence is inseparable from the meaning, why the sport resists analytics, and how something this awkward became the American game. 1 recommender For Those Left Behind Omar Suleiman Islamic guidance on coping with bereavement and loss. Forcing God’s Hand Grace Halsell Grace Halsell examines how end-times theology shaped strands of American political thinking and foreign policy. 1 recommender Forward Andrew Yang Drawing on his presidential and mayoral runs, Yang argues American politics is structurally broken and pitches reforms to loosen the two-party grip. Foundation Isaac Asimov Asimov's genre-defining saga: as a galactic empire decays, a scientist uses "psychohistory" to shorten the coming dark age, founding a colony to preserve knowledge for a better future. 1 recommender Four Thousand Weeks Oliver Burkeman The average human life is about four thousand weeks. Not another system for doing more, but an argument for accepting that you never will. 1 recommender Fragile Neighborhoods: Repairing American Society, One Zip Code at a Time Seth D. Kaplan Fix the street before you fix the country: social repair at the scale of a few blocks. 1 recommender Frankenstein Mary Shelley A student builds a living man from dead matter, then abandons him, in the novel that invented science fiction. 2 recommenders Franny and Zooey J.D. Salinger Two Glass siblings argue about faith and phoniness across a long afternoon in one apartment. 1 recommender Franz Liszt: The Weimar Years, 1848-1861 Alan Walker The middle volume of what many people call the finest musical biography ever written about anyone. 1 recommender Free Lea Ypi A childhood in the last Stalinist state, and a philosopher's question about what replaced it. 1 recommender Free Agent Nation Daniel Pink Pink's first book, and an early map of the freelance economy: the shift from lifelong employer to a nation of people working for themselves. Free to Choose Milton Friedman, Rose Friedman The Friedmans' accessible case for free markets and personal liberty, written for the general reader. 1 recommender Freedom Jonathan Franzen Jonathan Franzen's portrait of a Midwestern family across decades, tracing marriage, ambition, and the compromises of American freedom. 1 recommender Freedom from Fear: An Incomplete History of Liberalism Alan S. Kahan A history of liberalism organised around what it was afraid of rather than what it promised. 1 recommender Freedom Is a Constant Struggle Angela Davis Ferguson and Palestine treated as materially linked rather than as analogies for each other. Frida Kahlo: Love Letters Suzanne Barbezat Written in her late teens around the accident that reshaped her body, these letters catch a painter becoming herself in a voice far less certain than the public Frida. 1 recommender Friends and Strangers J. Courtney Sullivan A friendship across twenty years and an employment contract, warm and quietly unequal. 1 recommender Friends Until the End: Edmund Burke and Charles Fox in the Age of Revolution James Grant Burke and Fox were close allies until the French Revolution ended the friendship in public. 1 recommender From Genghis Khan to Tamerlane: The Reawakening of Mongol Asia Peter Jackson The Mongol empire outlasted its conquests by centuries, and this covers what came after Genghis. 1 recommender From Here to the Great Unknown Lisa Marie Presley, Riley Keough The memoir Lisa Marie Presley began before her death, completed by her daughter Riley Keough, tells the story of Elvis's only child. 1 recommender From Life Itself: Turkey, Istanbul, and a Neighborhood in Transition Suzy Hansen A journalist who has lived in Istanbul over a decade watches a fragile democracy become an autocracy, at the scale of one neighbourhood and its shopkeepers. 1 recommender From Scratch Tembi Locke A widow returns to her husband's Sicilian village with their daughter, and is taken in by the family who once rejected her. 1 recommender From Strength to Strength Arthur C. Brooks Brooks on why professional decline arrives earlier than expected, and what to build instead. 1 recommender From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler E.L. Konigsburg Two children run away to live in the Metropolitan Museum and stumble onto a genuine mystery. 1 recommender