Books

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. 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 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. 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 Michael Healy, 1873-1941, An Tur Gloine’s Stained Glass Pioneer David Caron The Dublin stained-glass pioneer who worked beside Clarke, Geddes and Hone, given the full scholarly study his windows had never previously received. 1 recommender Michael Jordan: The Life Roland Lazenby The definitive Jordan biography, including the gambling, the cruelty and the father, which the legend leaves out. 1 recommender Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides Spanning three generations of a Greek American family, Eugenides's novel is narrated by Cal, raised as a girl before discovering his true self. 1 recommender Midnight Motorbike Maureen Shay Tajsar Too hot to sleep, a girl rides pillion through banyan groves and past painted elephants and temples of stone monkeys, in illustrations that carry the heat. 1 recommender Midwives Chris Bohjalian Chris Bohjalian's novel turns on a home birth gone wrong and the trial of the midwife accused of killing her patient. 1 recommender Migration: New & Selected Poems W. S. Merwin Fifty years in one volume, from early formal verse through the punctuationless middle period to poems written while restoring a palm forest on a dead volcano. 1 recommender Mikey and the Dragons Jocko Willink A boy who is frightened of everything meets the one thing everyone agrees is worth fearing. Militant Modernism Owen Hatherley A defence of the concrete, the collective and the socialist architecture everyone now agrees to hate. 1 recommender Milk and Honey Rupi Kaur Kaur's spare, illustrated poems on violence, loss, love and healing, the collection that made poetry go viral. 1 recommender Million Dollar Habits Brian Tracy Tracy's claim that successful people are simply running better habits, and that habits are installable rather than inherited. Million Dollar Weekend Noah Kagan You can validate a business idea in a single weekend by doing the two scariest things: asking for money, and getting a no. 1 recommender Mindset Carol S. Dweck The difference between believing ability is innate and believing it can be developed, and how much rides on which one you hold. 2 recommenders Misquoting Muhammad Jonathan A.C. Brown How Muslim scholars have handled the hardest material in their own tradition, without simplifying it. Miss Leoparda Natalia Shaloshvili A leopard drives the bus, and the town discovers what it had been relying on only once the route quietly stops running altogether. 1 recommender Mistborn: Secret History Brandon Sanderson A novella that runs alongside the original Mistborn trilogy and quietly rewrites what you thought was happening in it. Read it after The Hero of Ages. Mistborn: The Final Empire Brandon Sanderson Ash falls from the sky and a god-emperor has ruled for a thousand years. A street thief with rare powers joins a crew plotting the impossible. 1 recommender Mitosis Brandon Sanderson A Reckoners novella set between Steelheart and Firefight, in which a newly free Newcago discovers the Epics have not finished with it. Mixed Signals: Alien Communication Across the Iron Curtain Rebecca Charbonneau SETI was one of the few places Soviet and American scientists worked together, which made listening for aliens a proxy for the harder problem of talking. 1 recommender Moby-Dick Herman Melville A whaling voyage, an encyclopedia of whales, and a captain who has decided the ocean owes him an answer. 1 recommender Models Mark Manson Manson's pre-fame dating book rejects pickup tricks for honesty and self-work, arguing character, not tactics, is what actually attracts. Models of My Life Herbert A. Simon The autobiography of Nobel laureate Herbert Simon, tracing a restless mind across economics, psychology, and artificial intelligence. 1 recommender Modern Man in Search of a Soul C. G. Jung Dreams, the stages of life, and the problem Jung thought modern people faced once religion stopped organising the inside of their heads. 1 recommender Modern Poetry Diane Seuss After the Pulitzer, Seuss turns on her own form and asks what poetry is actually for, unsentimental about the consolations verse is supposed to provide. 1 recommender Modernism: A Literature in Crisis Terry Eagleton Eagleton on why modernism happened when it did, and what its writers were actually reacting against. 1 recommender Mom & Me & Mom Maya Angelou Angelou's final memoir, on the mother who sent her away as a child and the reconciliation that followed. 1 recommender Money Tony Robbins Robbins interviewed fifty of the world's top investors and turned what they agree on into a plan for ordinary savers Monumental: Great Buildings of the World Through the Hands and Eyes of a Stonemason Simon Warrack A stonemason who has restored Angkor Wat and Venetian churches writes about Lalibela, Great Zimbabwe and Venice from the position of whoever cut the stone. 1 recommender More Myself Alicia Keys Alicia Keys tells her story in her own words and through the voices of people close to her, from young New York pianist to global star. Mother London Michael Moorcock Three Londoners who met in a psychiatric hospital carry the city's memory between them, from the Blitz to the 1980s. 1 recommender