Books

The Tree John Fowles Fowles sets his father tidy orchard against tangled woodland, and argues that classifying nature is how we avoid experiencing it. 1 recommender The Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding Humberto R. Maturana The 1984 book that gave autopoiesis to a general readership, arguing that living and knowing are one activity. Quietly foundational for systems theory and cognitive science. 1 recommender The Tree Within: The Mexican Nobel Laureate Octavio Paz’s Years in India Indranil Chakravarty Octavio Paz spent six years as Mexico's ambassador to India, and it reshaped everything he wrote after. 1 recommender The Trees Percival Everett A Mississippi procedural in which a body will not stay in the morgue, and the joke stops being one. 1 recommender The Trolls of Wall Street: How the Outcasts and Insurgents are Hacking the Markets Nathaniel Popper The WallStreetBets crowd took on the hedge funds, and the joke turned into a market event. 1 recommender The Truth About Immigration: Why Successful Societies Welcome Newcomers Zeke Hernandez A business professor makes the economic case for immigration, and cites the numbers rather than the anecdotes. 1 recommender The Turnout Megan Abbott A family ballet school, an outsider inside the building, and the brutality underneath the discipline. 1 recommender The Twelve Tribes of Hattie Ayana Mathis Ayana Mathis follows Hattie and her many children through the Great Migration, in linked stories of a family scattered across the century. 1 recommender Their Blood, Our Bullets: The Hidden Story of the US-Russia War for Ukraine Their Blood, Our Bullets: The Hidden Story of the US-Russia War for Ukraine Aaron Maté The proxy war in Ukraine argued as a policy the United States chose rather than inherited. Theodore and Woodrow Andrew Napolitano Two presidents remembered as great reformers, recast here as the men who taught Washington to ignore its own constitutional limits. There and Back Jimmy Chin Two decades of Jimmy Chin's photographs from Everest to Yosemite's big walls, shot mid-climb, with the harrowing stories behind each image. There Are Rivers in the Sky Elif Shafak One drop of water links Victorian London, a Yazidi girl in 2014 Iraq and a hydrologist on the Thames, with Gilgamesh running somewhere underneath. 1 recommender There Is No Place for Us Brian Goldstone Full-time work and nowhere to live: the Pulitzer-winning account of families the housing market has priced out of their own city. 1 recommender There There Tommy Orange Twelve Native lives converging on an Oakland powwow, in a novel with no reservation in it. 1 recommender There Were Giants in the Land: Episodes in the Life of W. Cleon Skousen There Were Giants in the Land: Episodes in the Life of W. Cleon Skousen Jo Ann Skousen The life of the Mormon anticommunist whose ideas keep resurfacing in American conservative politics. 1 recommender There’s Nothing Wrong With Her Kate Weinberg Bedridden with an illness doctors keep failing to find, she starts receiving visits from a dead Italian. 1 recommender These Wilds Beyond Our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity’s Search for Home Bayo Akomolafe Letters to a young daughter, moving between Nigerian village life and Western academia, asking what home means for someone who belongs fully to neither world. 1 recommender They Flew: A History of the Impossible Carlos M.N. Eire Levitating saints and bilocating friars, taken seriously by a Yale historian rather than explained away. 1 recommender Things Become Other Things Craig Mod Mod walks the Kii Peninsula writing letters to a friend who died young in Connecticut, on class, escape, and what an adopted country can and cannot give. 1 recommender Think Again Adam Grant Grant makes the case that rethinking is a skill, and that the smartest people are the ones willing to be wrong. 1 recommender Think Big Grace Lordan An evidence-based guide to designing the career you actually want, from the behavioural scientist running the LSE's Inclusion Initiative. 1 recommender Think Like a Monk Jay Shetty Three years of monastic training rebuilt as a practical program for managing ego, fear, and purpose without leaving your ordinary life. Think Remarkable Guy Kawasaki, Madisun Nuismer Drawing on his podcast interviews with remarkable people, Kawasaki lays out nine paths, growth, grit, grace, and more, for building a life that makes a difference. Thinking in Bets Annie Duke A poker champion on separating a good decision from a good outcome, which are far less related than they feel. 1 recommender Thinking, Fast and Slow Daniel Kahneman The two systems behind every judgment you make: one fast, intuitive and often wrong, one slow and effortful. Kahneman's life's work for a general reader. 1 recommender Third World America Arianna Huffington Huffington's alarm at a hollowing-out middle class, crumbling infrastructure and a political system she argues has stopped working for ordinary people. This Book Loves You PewDiePie A self-help parody in which the author keeps reminding you that you bought a motivational book from a video-game YouTuber. This Boy’s Life Tobias Wolff A boy invents a better version of himself to survive a stepfather and the Pacific Northwest. 1 recommender This Day Wendell Berry Nearly forty years of Sunday sabbath poems made while walking one Kentucky farm, and left unpolished because they were written outdoors. 1 recommender This House of Grief Helen Garner A writer in a murder trial, recording her own shifting judgement rather than a verdict. 2 recommenders This Is Baby Jimmy Fallon Fallon names a baby's parts, head to toes to ticklish belly, in a warm, silly call-and-response read-aloud for the youngest listeners. This Is How It Always Is Laurie Frankel A family of five sons rearranges itself around the youngest, who knows she is a girl, and around the secret they choose to keep. 1 recommender This Is Marketing Seth Godin Marketing not as spam and pressure but as generous service to the smallest audience you can afford to serve 1 recommender This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage Ann Patchett Two decades of Patchett's essays on marriage, friendship, bookselling and the unglamorous discipline of writing. 1 recommender This Is Water David Foster Wallace A commencement speech about attention: how you choose to see the dull, irritating parts of adult life is the whole game 1 recommender This Motherless Land Nikki May Sent from Nigeria to an English family that will not quite have her, in a Mansfield Park recast. 1 recommender