Books

Margaret Thatcher John Campbell 1 recommender Maria Callas Arianna Huffington A portrait of the greatest opera diva of the century, tracing the soprano's rise, her love affair with Onassis, and the loneliness behind the fame. Marie Antoinette Stefan Zweig An ordinary woman handed an impossible position, written by a man watching his own Europe collapse. 1 recommender Mark Twain Ron Chernow Chernow's patient method meets its most performative subject: the man who built Mark Twain, and was nearly consumed by him. 1 recommender Martin & Malcolm & America James H. Cone A comparative study of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. 1 recommender Martin Buber: A Life of Faith and Dissent Paul Mendes-Flohr The philosopher of I and Thou, his Zionism and his dissent from it, his opposition to partition, and the dialogical philosophy that outlasted all of it. 1 recommender Master Your Time, Master Your Life Brian Tracy Tracy's time-management system splits the day into the kinds of time a full life needs, then hands you tools to master each. Mastering the Dynamics of Innovation James M. Utterback Utterback's study of how technologies and industries evolve, and why dominant designs decide who wins. 1 recommender Masterminds of Terror Yosri Fouda and Nick Fielding Yosri Fouda and Nick Fielding's account of Fouda's 2002 meetings with two planners of the 9/11 attacks, in the Arcade paperback. Masters of Scale Reid Hoffman The lessons from Hoffman's podcast, gathered: what founders from Netflix to Spanx actually learned building at scale Masters of the Dew Jacques Roumain A man returns to his drought-stricken Haitian village after fifteen years cutting cane in Cuba, carrying the idea that water might be found and shared. 1 recommender Mastery Robert Greene What separates a Da Vinci or a Darwin from the merely talented, traced as a path anyone can actually walk Matrescence: On Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood Lucy Jones The transformation of becoming a mother is as large as adolescence, and has been studied a small fraction as much. A word for the passage. 1 recommender Matriarch Tina Knowles Tina Knowles's memoir traces her journey from Galveston, Texas, to raising and building a family that reshaped American music. 1 recommender Matrix Lauren Groff Banished to a starving convent at seventeen, Marie de France decides to build a kingdom there instead. 1 recommender Mau Mau and the Kikuyu L S B Leakey 1 recommender Maximum Achievement Brian Tracy Tracy's early synthesis of everything he taught: goals, self-concept, and the mental laws he claims govern achievement. Maybe Next Time Cesca Major A woman relives the day her husband dies, over and over, and each repetition shows her what she had stopped noticing. 1 recommender Meditations Marcus Aurelius The private notebooks of a Roman emperor, still read as the most practical of the Stoic texts. 3 recommenders Medium Raw Anthony Bourdain A decade after Kitchen Confidential, a wiser and richer Bourdain reckons with fame, fatherhood, and the food world he helped change. Meeting Muhammad Omar Suleiman Fifty short reflections on the character and life of the Prophet Muhammad. Meetings with Remarkable Muslims Barnaby Rogerson and Rose Baring 1 recommender Melincourt Thomas Love Peacock An orangutan becomes a baronet and runs for Parliament in Peacock's satire of Regency England. 1 recommender Mellon vs. Churchill: The Untold Story of Treasury Titans at War Jill Eicher Britain owed America a fortune after the First World War, and two finance ministers spent a decade fighting over it. 1 recommender Memoir of an Amnesiac Jan J Dominique 1 recommender Memoir of Hungary Sándor Márai 1 recommender Memoirs Pablo Neruda Finished days before he died, in the weeks after Pinochet coup: consulships in Rangoon and Madrid, the Spanish war, escape over the Andes on horseback. 1 recommender Memoirs and Misinformation Jim Carrey, Dana Vachon Carrey's surreal, semi-autobiographical novel with Dana Vachon: a burned-out megastar adrift in an apocalyptic Hollywood, part celebrity satire, part inquiry into whether the self is real. Memoirs of an Infantry Officer Siegfried Sassoon 1 recommender Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois Marguerite de Valois The earliest memoir by a Frenchwoman, written to answer her enemies by a queen who had survived all of them. 1 recommender Memorial Drive Natasha Trethewey Former US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey returns to the murder of her mother by her former stepfather, and to the girl she was then. 1 recommender Memory in Oral Traditions David C. Rubin Cognitive science applied to oral tradition: how rhyme, rhythm and imagery carried the Iliad before writing. 1 recommender Merchants of Doubt Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway Historians Oreskes and Conway expose how the same handful of contrarian scientists worked to manufacture doubt about tobacco, acid rain, and climate change, delaying action for decades. 1 recommender Metaphors of Memory Douwe Draaisma How every age has described memory in the technology of its day, from wax tablets to the computer. 1 recommender Methland Nick Reding 1 recommender Methodology for the Study of the Qur’an Imran N. Hosein The author's method: reading the Qur'an as an internally coherent whole rather than verse by verse.