Books

Good and Mad Rebecca Traister Traister traces how women's fury has driven American political change, and how reliably it gets dismissed. 1 recommender Good Bones Maggie Smith The collection built around the poem that travelled the world in 2016, in which a mother describes a broken world to her children and still sells it to them. Good Clean Fun Nick Offerman Offerman's part-memoir, part how-to celebration of woodworking, with plans, photos, and an argument for the deep satisfaction of building things by hand. Good Material Dolly Alderton A breakup from the confused side of it, until the novel hands the story to the person who left. 1 recommender Good to Great Jim Collins Collins's research into how good companies become great, and the disciplined leadership behind the leap. 1 recommender Good Work Paul Millerd The follow-up to The Pathless Path, on ambition, meaning, and what it takes to do work that matters on your own terms. 1 recommender Goodbye Russia: Rachmaninoff in Exile Fiona Maddocks Rachmaninoff left Russia in 1917 with almost nothing and never returned. The music changed accordingly. 1 recommender Government Bullies Rand Paul Paul's indictment of the regulatory state, told through ordinary Americans jailed or ruined by federal agencies, and a case for reining in bureaucratic power. Great Big Beautiful Life Emily Henry Two rival writers compete to ghostwrite a reclusive heiress's memoir, and discover she has more than one version of it. 1 recommender Great Expectations Charles Dickens Charles Dickens's novel follows the orphan Pip from a country forge to London gentility, and the mysterious fortune that lifts him. 1 recommender Greenlights Matthew McConaughey McConaughey mines thirty-five years of diaries for stories and livin wisdom, sorting his life into the green, yellow, and red lights that shaped it. Group Christie Tate A high-achieving law student joins a therapy group that demands total disclosure, and is undone and remade by it. 1 recommender Growth Hacker Marketing Ryan Holiday Marketing rebuilt around products that spread themselves, written when growth hacking still meant something specific rather than a job title. Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities Guillermo del Toro, Marc Scott Zicree A lavish tour through del Toro's private notebooks, sketches, and collection of the macabre, revealing the obsessions and images that feed his films. Gumption Nick Offerman Offerman celebrates twenty-one gutsy Americans, from Washington to Willie Nelson, using each as a peg for his heartfelt case about freedom and character. Guns, Germs, and Steel Jared Diamond Jared Diamond's sweeping account of why some societies came to dominate others, tracing it to geography rather than race. 3 recommenders Gym Launch Secrets Alex Hormozi Hormozi's earliest book, written for gym owners, distilling the systems he used to turn struggling fitness businesses around. The Gardener and the Carpenter Alison Gopnik Stop building the child to a plan. A developmental psychologist's case for tending conditions instead of engineering outcomes. 1 recommender The Gathering Storm Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson The first volume Sanderson completed from Robert Jordan's notes after his death, carrying the Wheel of Time toward its Last Battle. The Genesis Machine Amy Webb, Andrew Hessel A futurist's account of synthetic biology, the technology that lets us write life rather than read it. 1 recommender The German Historicist Tradition Frederick C. Beiser The German thinkers who decided history was the key to everything, and why almost nobody reads them now. 1 recommender The Girl with the Louding Voice Abi Daré Fourteen, sold into service in Lagos, and determined to get the schooling that lets her speak. 1 recommender The Giver Lois Lowry In a painless, colorless utopia, a boy chosen to hold his society's memories discovers the cost of its perfect order. 1 recommender The Giver of Stars Jojo Moyes Depression-era women rode books into the Kentucky mountains, and one English bride found the first thing that was truly hers. 1 recommender The Glorians: Visitations from the Holy Ordinary Terry Tempest Williams Williams finds the sacred in forests, oceans and moss rather than doctrine, carrying the desert-shaped attention of Refuge into a book about plural gods. 1 recommender The Go-Giver Bob Burg, John David Mann A short business parable: an ambitious striver learns from a mentor that the secret to success is giving more than you take. 1 recommender The Goal Eliyahu M. Goldratt Told as a novel: a plant manager races to save his failing factory and learns that a system is only as fast as its constraint. 2 recommenders The Golden Hour Matthew Specktor The son of a CAA superagent on growing up inside the light thrown by the movies. 1 recommender The Golden Notebook Doris Lessing Four notebooks for the parts of a life that will not cohere, and a fifth that tries to join them. Lessing own preface is impatient with how it got read. 1 recommender The Golden Spiders Rex Stout A boy hires Nero Wolfe with pocket change and is dead before the retainer clears. 1 recommender The Good Earth Pearl S. Buck Pearl S. Buck's novel follows a Chinese farmer's rise from poverty to wealth and the pull the land keeps on him. 1 recommender The Good Lord Bird James McBride A boy freed by John Brown is mistaken for a girl, and decides not to correct anyone for years. 1 recommender The Good Soldier Ford Madox Ford Two perfect marriages recounted by the one person least equipped to understand either. 1 recommender The Grasshopper: Games, Life, and Utopia Bernard Suits A dying grasshopper and his disciples argue their way toward the claim that in utopia, with all work automated, game-playing would be the only thing left to do. 1 recommender The Great CEO Within Matt Mochary The operational playbook an executive coach uses with top founders, covering hiring, culture, meetings and the machinery of building a company. 1 recommender The Great Delusion John Mearsheimer Why spreading democracy by force failed: nationalism and realism are the stronger forces.