Books

Lila Marilynne Robinson Marilynne Robinson tells the story of the drifter who becomes the young wife of Gilead's aging minister, and the hard life she left behind. 1 recommender Limitless Jim Kwik The brain coach's system for learning faster and remembering more, built on mindset, motivation, and method, and the belief that learning is trainable. Limitless: The Federal Reserve Takes on a New Age of Crisis Jeanna Smialek The Federal Reserve went from lender of last resort to backstop for almost everything. 1 recommender Linchpin Seth Godin The people who matter at work are not the compliant ones: a case for becoming impossible to replace Lincoln in the Bardo George Saunders A president grieving in a crypt at night, narrated by a chorus of ghosts who cannot agree. 1 recommender Little Big Man Thomas Berger A 111-year-old claims he was raised Cheyenne, fought at Little Bighorn, and knew everyone worth knowing. 1 recommender Little Fires Everywhere Celeste Ng A custody fight splits a meticulously planned suburb, exposing what its residents really believe about motherhood and class. 1 recommender Little Terrarium Little Terrarium Hannah Fries Fries writes poems about roots, soil and small enclosed worlds, arguing by sustained attention that what happens underground holds everything above it in place. 1 recommender Little Wonder Sophie Chen Keller A novel by Sophie Chen Keller and one of the newest Oprah's Book Club selections. A verified summary will follow. 1 recommender Live Your Dreams Les Brown Motivational lessons from the speaker Les Brown. 1 recommender Lives of the Wives: Five Literary Marriages Carmela Ciuraru Five literary marriages seen from the wife's side, and most of the husbands come off badly. 1 recommender Logically Fallacious Bo Bennett A reference catalogue of more than 300 logical fallacies. 1 recommender Lolita Vladimir Nabokov A monstrous narrator tells his own story so beautifully that the prose itself becomes the trap. 1 recommender Long Island Colm Toibin Colm Toibin's sequel to Brooklyn finds Eilis Lacey, now living on Long Island, returning to Ireland when her marriage is upended. 1 recommender Long Walk to Freedom Nelson Mandela Twenty-seven years in prison, the negotiations that ended apartheid, told by the man who chose reconciliation over revenge Looking for Smoke K. A. Cobell Four Blackfeet teenagers are pulled into the search for a missing girl, in a community used to no one looking. 1 recommender Lord of Light Roger Zelazny The original crew made themselves immortal and rule a colony planet as the Hindu pantheon, until one of them reintroduces Buddhism as a weapon. Hugo winner, 1968. 1 recommender Losing My Virginity Richard Branson The Virgin founder's candid origin story: student magazine to global empire, and the say-yes-then-figure-it-out philosophy behind every reckless bet. Lost Lambs Madeline Cash Catastrophe and small talk delivered at identical volume, with no signal for when it is joking. 1 recommender Love & Happiness Yasmin Mogahed Short reflections and quotations on love, healing and the inner life, brief by design and meant to be read a page at a time. Love and Saint Augustine Hannah Arendt Arendt was twenty-two when she asked what Augustine meant by love, and found three answers that refuse to reconcile. Her first book, and the last translated. 1 recommender Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel García Márquez Gabriel Garcia Marquez's novel follows a man who waits more than fifty years to renew his love for a woman he lost in youth. 1 recommender Love Letter to a Garden Debbie Millman The Design Matters host turns to her own garden, hand-lettering a book that opens at the Big Bang and narrows to one plot of ground worth tending slowly. 1 recommender Love Medicine Louise Erdrich Fifty years of two Ojibwe families told in overlapping voices, starting with a death in the snow. 1 recommender Love Poems Pablo Neruda Written in exile on Capri and published anonymously to protect the woman they were for, set here against the Spanish in a pocket-sized bilingual edition. 1 recommender Love Warrior Glennon Doyle Melton Glennon Doyle's memoir traces her path through addiction and a broken marriage toward hard-won self-acceptance. 1 recommender Loving Sylvia Plath: A Reclamation Emily Van Duyne A reconsideration of Plath that puts the abuse back in the story and takes her prose seriously. 1 recommender Lucky Marissa Stapley A lifelong con artist is left holding a winning lottery ticket she cannot cash without revealing who she is. 1 recommender Luna and the Witch Throw a Halloween Party Aubrey Plaza, Dan Murphy The Christmas Witch's niece Luna sets out to throw the perfect Halloween party, learning that a little chaos is what makes a celebration memorable. The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy Ursula K. Le Guin Le Guin on why fantasy is not escapism and why Americans are afraid of dragons, sharp about her field and sharper about the critics who condescended to it. 1 recommender The Last Earth Ramzy Baroud Displacement told by the people who lived it, on the argument that they are the reliable witnesses. The Last House Guest Megan Miranda In a Maine resort town, a local girl refuses to accept that her wealthy summer friend's death was suicide. 1 recommender The Last Human Job: The Work of Connecting in a Disconnected World Allison Pugh The jobs that survive automation will be the ones that require actually connecting with people. 1 recommender The Last Mrs. Parrish Liv Constantine A calculating outsider sets out to steal a wealthy woman's perfect life, in a thriller that turns everything over midway. 1 recommender The Last Romantics Tara Conklin Four siblings raise each other through a mother's withdrawal, and spend decades settling the debt. 1 recommender The Last Story of Mina Lee Nancy Jooyoun Kim A daughter finds her mother dead in her Koreatown apartment, and discovers the life she never thought to ask about. 1 recommender