Books

Rework Jason Fried A blunt anti-business book: forget plans, meetings and growth for its own sake, and just build something and ship it Rhodesia: A Complete History 1890-1980 Peter Baxter Ninety years of Rhodesia, from Cecil Rhodes to the end, without a thesis to sell. 1 recommender Rhythm of War Brandon Sanderson Navani's scholars race the enemy for a scientific breakthrough while Kaladin fights an enemy he cannot punch: his own mind. Rich Dad Poor Dad Robert T. Kiyosaki The money lessons of two father figures: a highly educated but cash-strapped poor dad, and a friend's entrepreneurial rich dad. 1 recommender Ride the Devil’s Herd John Boessenecker Tombstone told through the Cowboys rather than the Earps, by the genre's most exacting researcher. 1 recommender Right Is Wrong Arianna Huffington A blistering polemic against the Bush-era right, arguing that a fringe minority captured American politics while the media waved it through. Right-Wing Women Andrea Dworkin Dworkin on why women support movements that constrain them, and why the reasoning is not stupid. 1 recommender Rise and Grind Daymond John A look at the daily routines of high performers, and John's argument that grind, done deliberately, is a learnable discipline River, Cross My Heart Breena Clarke Breena Clarke's novel follows a Black family in 1920s Washington, D.C., after the drowning of a young daughter. 1 recommender Romantic Comedy Curtis Sittenfeld A late-night sketch writer has a theory about why schlubby men date pop stars, then a pop star seems interested in her. 1 recommender Rosarita Anita Desai A stranger in Mexico claims to have known her mother. A short, unsettling enquiry into the stories families do not tell. 1 recommender Rose Lane Says: Thoughts on Race, Liberty, and Equality, 1942-1945 David T. Beito The wartime newspaper columns of a founding libertarian who wrote about race when few on her side did. 1 recommender Ruby Cynthia Bond Cynthia Bond's novel follows a broken woman's return to a small Texas town and the man determined to save her. 1 recommender Rule Breaker Investing David Gardner The Motley Fool co-founder lays out the contrarian, growth-minded philosophy he used to spot market-beating companies long before the crowd did. 1 recommender Rural Hours: The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner, and Rosamond Lehmann Harriet Baker Woolf, Townsend Warner and Lehmann left London for cold cottages, and had to work out how to keep writing among neighbours who had no idea what they did. 1 recommender The Radium Girls Kate Moore The young factory women poisoned by the luminous paint they were told to lick, and their fight to be believed. 1 recommender The Rainbow Comes and Goes Anderson Cooper, Gloria Vanderbilt When his mother turned 91, Cooper started a year-long correspondence with her. The letters become a frank, tender reckoning between mother and son. The Rape of Nanking Iris Chang The 1937 massacre much of the world managed to forget, documented before the last witnesses died 1 recommender The Rapture of Canaan Sheri Reynolds Sheri Reynolds's novel follows a teenage girl in a strict backwoods religious sect as faith, first love, and pregnancy collide. 1 recommender The Rational Male Rollo Tomassi The manosphere's founding text, and the reference point for a body of writing built on it. The Rational Optimist Matt Ridley Prosperity comes from exchange and specialisation, Ridley argues, and the pessimists have been wrong for two centuries. 1 recommender The Reader Bernhard Schlink Bernhard Schlink's novel follows a German teenager's affair with an older woman, whose wartime secret surfaces years later at a trial. 1 recommender The Real Crash Peter Schiff Schiff's argument that 2008 was a symptom and the real reckoning, a debt-and-dollar crash, still looms unless America embraces radical fixes. The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Life of Frantz Fanon Adam Shatz The Martinican psychiatrist who treated torturers and their victims in Algeria, then wrote the century most influential account of colonial violence. 1 recommender The Reformation as Renewal: Retrieving the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church Matthew Barrett A long argument that the Reformers were retrieving the catholic tradition rather than breaking it. 1 recommender The Reformer Stephen F. Williams The story of Vasily Maklakov, the liberal lawyer who fought to steer late imperial Russia toward reform before revolution closed the door. 1 recommender The Relationship Handbook George Pransky Most arguments are a mood, not an issue. A short guide to telling which one you are in. 1 recommender The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro An aging English butler reflects on a life of dignified service and quiet regret in Ishiguro's Booker Prize-winning novel. 3 recommenders The Revolution: A Manifesto Ron Paul Paul's 2008 bestseller distilling his creed, constitutional limits, sound money, non-intervention, and civil liberties, into an unlikely movement manifesto. The Ride of a Lifetime Robert Iger Fifteen years leading Disney, from steadying a troubled business to acquiring Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm and Fox. 1 recommender The Right Stuff Tom Wolfe Test pilots and the first astronauts, and the unnamed quality they were all measured against. 1 recommender The Righteous Mind Jonathan Haidt Why decent people disagree so bitterly about politics and religion. Intuition comes first, and reasoning mostly arrives to justify it. 3 recommenders The Rise and Fall of the EAST: How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success, and Why They Might Lead to Its Decline Yasheng Huang Exams and stability made China successful for a thousand years, and may now be the problem. 1 recommender The Rise of Modern Chinese Thought Wang Hui A landmark Chinese work of intellectual history, arguing modernity was not simply imported from the West. 1 recommender The Rithmatist Brandon Sanderson At a school where chalk drawings fight for their lives, a talentless student is the only one paying attention when Rithmatists start disappearing. The River Is Waiting Wally Lamb Wally Lamb's novel follows a young father whose life collapses after a terrible accident sends him to prison. 1 recommender