Books

Familiaris David Wroblewski David Wroblewski's novel tells the origin story of the Sawtelle family and their remarkable dogs in early twentieth-century Wisconsin. 1 recommender Families and How to Survive Them Robin Skynner, John Cleese Psychiatrist Robin Skynner and his former patient John Cleese talk through what makes families and marriages work. Famous Financial Fiascos John Train Brief, entertaining stories of manias, frauds and blow-ups, and the human weaknesses behind them. 1 recommender Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field Nancy Forbes, Basil Mahon Nancy Forbes and Basil Mahon tell how Michael Faraday and James Clerk Maxwell, a generation apart, uncovered the electromagnetic field that underpins modern life. 1 recommender Farewell, My Lovely Raymond Chandler Marlowe takes a missing-persons job for an ex-convict the size of a door, and it never gets simpler. 1 recommender Fasting and Power Imran N. Hosein On fasting as a source of strength, in the individual and in the community. Fat Is a Feminist Issue Susie Orbach A psychotherapist's argument that compulsive eating and dieting are about women's lives, not a lack of willpower. 1 recommender Father and Son Edmund Gosse A son's account of breaking with his fiercely religious father, and the book that made that break public in 1907. 1 recommender Father Time: A Natural History of Men and Babies Sarah Blaffer Hrdy Becoming a father physically rewires men, and the science on it is newer than you would expect. 1 recommender Fault Lines Raghuram G. Rajan The deeper causes of the financial crisis: inequality, export dependence, and a financial sector asked to paper over both. 2 recommenders Fear Less: Poetry in Perilous Times Tracy K. Smith A former Poet Laureate makes the case that attention to language is a civic capacity, written out of years taking poems into small towns and prisons. 1 recommender Fear of Flying Erica Jong A woman leaves her husband mid-conference and goes looking for a self she can stand. 1 recommender Feeding the Monster: Why Horror Has a Hold on Us Anna Bogutskaya Bogutskaya sorts horror by dread, disgust, paranoia and grief rather than subgenre, arguing the form handles what a culture cannot otherwise say aloud. 1 recommender Feel-Good Productivity Ali Abdaal Lasting productivity doesn't come from discipline or hustle but from feeling good, argues the doctor turned creator. Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center Bell Hooks The 1984 argument that a movement built by and for white middle-class women mistook its own position for the centre, and that its real power sits at the margin. 1 recommender Fences and Windows Naomi Klein Klein's newspaper columns and speeches from the height of the anti-globalization movement, written in the two and a half years after No Logo. Fever Dream Samanta Schweblin Samanta Schweblin's short, unsettling novel, built as a dialogue at a hospital bed, in Megan McDowell's translation for Riverhead. 2 recommenders Fiasco: The Inside Story of a Wall Street Trader Frank Partnoy Former derivatives salesman Frank Partnoy pulls back the curtain on the 1990s Wall Street trading floor and the complex products sold to unwary clients. 1 recommender Ficciones Jorge Luis Borges Jorge Luis Borges's short stories of labyrinths, libraries and invented worlds, in the Grove Press paperback. 1 recommender Field Notes on Democracy Arundhati Roy Essays on what Indian democracy looks like from below — the courts, Kashmir, Maoist insurgency, communal violence. 1 recommender Fields of Blood Karen Armstrong A historian questions the claim that religion is the main cause of war. 1 recommender Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars Kai Cheng Thom A runaway trans girl joins a gang of femme vigilantes in a fabulist memoir that cheerfully admits to lying. 1 recommender Fifth-Wave Feminism Mohammed Hijab A critique of contemporary feminism and a proposed alternative framework. Final Spin Jocko Willink Two brothers, a failing laundromat and one bad idea. Willink's first novel, and not a leadership book. Find Your Why Simon Sinek The workbook to Start With Why: a step-by-step way to actually surface the purpose the first book said you needed Finding Me Viola Davis Viola Davis's memoir traces her rise from deep poverty in Rhode Island to the heights of stage and screen. 1 recommender Finding My Virginity Richard Branson The sequel, two decades on: spaceflight, near-death, philanthropy, and a grandfather still asking what's next with nothing left to prove. Finding My Way Malala Yousafzai The part the headlines skipped: Oxford, friendship and growing up under a symbol she never chose. Fingerprints of the Gods Graham Hancock A globe-spanning investigation arguing that an advanced civilization was lost to prehistory, leaving traces in monuments, maps, and myths. 1 recommender Finna Nino Cipri Nino Cipri's 2020 novella about two ex-partners at a big box furniture store who must follow a lost customer through a wormhole. 1 recommender Fire & Blood George R. R. Martin Three hundred years of Targaryen rule told as disputed chronicle, by a maester who often admits he cannot say what really happened. Fire in the Belly Cynthia Carr An artist who made his fury into work, by a journalist who was there in the East Village. 1 recommender Firefight Brandon Sanderson David heads to a drowned Manhattan hunting the Epic who may hold the answer, except she is the one person he does not want to kill. Firekeeper’s Daughter Angeline Boulley A biracial Ojibwe teenager becomes an FBI informant investigating a drug ring inside her own community. 1 recommender Firmament Simon Clark A science communicator takes readers into the atmosphere, the thin invisible layer of air that makes life possible and drives our weather. 1 recommender First Lie Wins Ashley Elston Her name is fake, her boyfriend is a job, and the woman whose identity she borrowed has just turned up. 1 recommender