Books

Our Own Worst Enemy Tom Nichols Nichols argues the threat to democracy comes less from tyrants than from bored, resentful citizens. 1 recommender Out of Many, One George W. Bush Forty-three portraits painted by the former president, each with the story of the immigrant who sat for it. 1 recommender Out of Place Edward Said A childhood between Jerusalem, Cairo and Beirut, and never being wholly at home in any language. Out of Sri Lanka: Tamil, Sinhala & English Poetry from Sri Lanka and its Diasporas Vidyan Ravinthiran Sri Lankan poetry in Tamil, Sinhala and English, gathered across the divisions of a civil war. 1 recommender Outlawed Anna North In an 1894 where barren women are hanged as witches, a midwife's daughter flees and joins a gang of outlaws. 1 recommender Outliers Malcolm Gladwell Nobody succeeds alone. Behind every outlier sits a birth date, a culture and an accident of timing. Outlive Peter Attia Longevity reframed around healthspan, the years you live in good health, not merely how long you last. 1 recommender Owl Lake Owl Lake Keizaburo Tejima A father owl hunts through one northern night in Japanese woodblock prints: dark water, pale wings, and the long patience of a bird that must feed its young by dawn. 1 recommender The Obstacle Is the Way Ryan Holiday What blocks the path becomes the path, turned into a practical method with historical examples. The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway Hemingway's spare, Pulitzer-winning novella: an old Cuban fisherman battles a giant marlin far out at sea, a study in endurance, dignity, and grace under pressure. 2 recommenders The Op-Ed Novel: A Literary History of Post-Franco Spain Becquer Seguin Spanish novelists have long doubled as columnists, and Seguin argues the two forms together are how the country wrote its democracy into existence. 1 recommender The Original Brandon Sanderson, Mary Robinette Kowal Accused of murdering her husband, a woman is offered a grim bargain: hunt down her own Original to earn a pardon. 1 recommender The Original Whole Earth Catalog Stewart Brand The 1968 catalog of tools, books and methods that taught a generation it could equip itself without waiting for permission. 1 recommender The Origins of Poverty and Wealth Rainer Zitelmann A libertarian writer tours the world asking why some countries got rich and others did not. 1 recommender The Other Side of Change Maya Shankar Cognitive scientist Maya Shankar explores who we become when life doesn't go as planned, and how to find identity and meaning on the far side of upheaval. 1 recommender The Other Woman Sandie Jones A woman's perfect romance runs into his mother, in a domestic thriller that keeps you unsure whose version to believe. 1 recommender The Outsiders William N. Thorndike Jr. A study of eight unconventional CEOs who delivered extraordinary returns by mastering the quiet art of capital allocation. 1 recommender