Books

Like a Sky Inside Jakuta Alikavazovic A night locked inside the Louvre, and the father who once asked how she would steal the Mona Lisa. 1 recommender Like a Virgin Richard Branson Branson answers the real questions entrepreneurs ask, funding, hiring, marketing cheap, in short contrarian chapters that argue against the MBA playbook. Like Silicon from Clay: What Ancient Jewish Wisdom Can Teach Us About AI Michael M. Rosen What the rabbis said about golems, creation and moral agency, brought to bear on artificial intelligence. 1 recommender Lila Marilynne Robinson Marilynne Robinson tells the story of the drifter who becomes the young wife of Gilead's aging minister, and the hard life she left behind. 1 recommender Limitless Jim Kwik The brain coach's system for learning faster and remembering more, built on mindset, motivation, and method, and the belief that learning is trainable. Limitless: The Federal Reserve Takes on a New Age of Crisis Jeanna Smialek The Federal Reserve went from lender of last resort to backstop for almost everything. 1 recommender Linchpin Seth Godin The people who matter at work are not the compliant ones: a case for becoming impossible to replace Lincoln in the Bardo George Saunders A president grieving in a crypt at night, narrated by a chorus of ghosts who cannot agree. 1 recommender Little Big Man Thomas Berger A 111-year-old claims he was raised Cheyenne, fought at Little Bighorn, and knew everyone worth knowing. 1 recommender Little Fires Everywhere Celeste Ng A custody fight splits a meticulously planned suburb, exposing what its residents really believe about motherhood and class. 1 recommender Little Terrarium Little Terrarium Hannah Fries Fries writes poems about roots, soil and small enclosed worlds, arguing by sustained attention that what happens underground holds everything above it in place. 1 recommender Little Wonder Sophie Chen Keller A novel by Sophie Chen Keller and one of the newest Oprah's Book Club selections. A verified summary will follow. 1 recommender Live Your Dreams Les Brown Motivational lessons from the speaker Les Brown. 1 recommender Lives of the Wives: Five Literary Marriages Carmela Ciuraru Five literary marriages seen from the wife's side, and most of the husbands come off badly. 1 recommender Logically Fallacious Bo Bennett A reference catalogue of more than 300 logical fallacies. 1 recommender Lolita Vladimir Nabokov A monstrous narrator tells his own story so beautifully that the prose itself becomes the trap. 1 recommender Long Island Colm Toibin Colm Toibin's sequel to Brooklyn finds Eilis Lacey, now living on Long Island, returning to Ireland when her marriage is upended. 1 recommender Long Walk to Freedom Nelson Mandela Twenty-seven years in prison, the negotiations that ended apartheid, told by the man who chose reconciliation over revenge Looking for Smoke K. A. Cobell Four Blackfeet teenagers are pulled into the search for a missing girl, in a community used to no one looking. 1 recommender Lord of Light Roger Zelazny The original crew made themselves immortal and rule a colony planet as the Hindu pantheon, until one of them reintroduces Buddhism as a weapon. Hugo winner, 1968. 1 recommender Losing My Virginity Richard Branson The Virgin founder's candid origin story: student magazine to global empire, and the say-yes-then-figure-it-out philosophy behind every reckless bet. Lost Lambs Madeline Cash Catastrophe and small talk delivered at identical volume, with no signal for when it is joking. 1 recommender Love & Happiness Yasmin Mogahed Short reflections and quotations on love, healing and the inner life, brief by design and meant to be read a page at a time. Love and Saint Augustine Hannah Arendt Arendt was twenty-two when she asked what Augustine meant by love, and found three answers that refuse to reconcile. Her first book, and the last translated. 1 recommender Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel García Márquez Gabriel Garcia Marquez's novel follows a man who waits more than fifty years to renew his love for a woman he lost in youth. 1 recommender Love Letter to a Garden Debbie Millman The Design Matters host turns to her own garden, hand-lettering a book that opens at the Big Bang and narrows to one plot of ground worth tending slowly. 1 recommender Love Medicine Louise Erdrich Fifty years of two Ojibwe families told in overlapping voices, starting with a death in the snow. 1 recommender Love Poems Pablo Neruda Written in exile on Capri and published anonymously to protect the woman they were for, set here against the Spanish in a pocket-sized bilingual edition. 1 recommender Love Warrior Glennon Doyle Melton Glennon Doyle's memoir traces her path through addiction and a broken marriage toward hard-won self-acceptance. 1 recommender Loving Sylvia Plath: A Reclamation Emily Van Duyne A reconsideration of Plath that puts the abuse back in the story and takes her prose seriously. 1 recommender Lucky Marissa Stapley A lifelong con artist is left holding a winning lottery ticket she cannot cash without revealing who she is. 1 recommender Luna and the Witch Throw a Halloween Party Aubrey Plaza, Dan Murphy The Christmas Witch's niece Luna sets out to throw the perfect Halloween party, learning that a little chaos is what makes a celebration memorable. Machete Season Jean Hatzfeld Ten men who killed their neighbours explain, calmly, how it came to seem like ordinary work 1 recommender Madrid: A New Biography Luke Stegemann An Australian Hispanist makes the case for a persistently underrated capital, from the Habsburg court through the 1936 siege to the Movida and after. 1 recommender Main Street Millionaire Codie Sanchez The surest path to wealth isn't a flashy startup but buying an unglamorous, profitable small business: laundromats, plumbing, landscaping. Maintenance: Of Everything: Part One Stewart Brand Everything decays, and almost nobody writes about the unglamorous work of keeping the world running. 1 recommender