Books

Noughts & Crosses Malorie Blackman A society split between ruling dark-skinned Crosses and oppressed light-skinned noughts, and two young people on the wrong sides of it. 2 recommenders The Names Florence Knapp Three futures branch from one exhausted decision at a registry office: what to call a newborn son. 1 recommender The Nasty Bits Anthony Bourdain A gleefully uneven grab-bag of Bourdain's shorter writing, from travel dispatches to rants, collecting the scraps that didn't fit his other books. The New Byzantines: The Rise of Greece and Return of the Near East Sean Mathews A case for reading Greece as part of the Middle East rather than the edge of Europe. 1 recommender The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man John Perkins Perkins returns to his account of steering poor countries into unpayable debt, and argues the same machinery now runs everywhere, including at home. The New Digital Age Eric Schmidt, Jared Cohen Schmidt and Cohen forecast how connectivity will reshape states, business, war, and privacy, as billions more people come online in the decades ahead. The New Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bill Dobbins Widely called the bible of bodybuilding: a vast, fully revised reference collecting everything Schwarzenegger knew about training. The New Jim Crow Michelle Alexander Alexander argues that mass incarceration has become a new system of racial control in America. 1 recommender The New Machiavelli H. G. Wells Wells wrote a scandal into a novel: a politician who wrecks everything for a love affair, and the English public life that made both possible. Publishers refused it. 1 recommender The New One Minute Manager Ken Blanchard, Spencer Johnson A young man searches for an effective manager and learns three techniques, starting with the one-minute goal. 1 recommender The New Rulers of the World John Pilger Essays on globalization, power, and Western foreign policy. 1 recommender The Night Eternal Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan The trilogy's finale: two years after the vampires seized the world and blotted out the sun, the last human resistance makes a desperate bid to reclaim the day. The Night Manager John le Carré A hotel night manager is recruited to bring down an arms dealer he has good reason to hate. 1 recommender The Night Tiger Yangsze Choo A severed finger, a missing grave and a weretiger legend collide in 1930s colonial Malaya. 1 recommender The Night-Comers The Night-Comers Eric Ambler A mining engineer in a collapsing Southeast Asian republic finds himself holding the wrong secret. 1 recommender The Nightingale Kristin Hannah One sister smuggles airmen over the Pyrenees, the other endures a soldier in her kitchen, and the novel calls both courage. 1 recommender The Normans: Power, Conquest and Culture in 11th-Century Europe Judith A. Green The Normans conquered England, Sicily and more, and built something distinctive in each place. 1 recommender The North Water Ian McGuire A doomed Arctic whaler carrying an opium-addicted surgeon and a man who is simply evil. 1 recommender The North Will Rise Again: In Search of the Future in Northern Heartlands Alex Niven Niven argues the north of England holds a political and cultural inheritance that London-centred accounts keep missing, in part travelogue and part deindustrial polemic. 1 recommender