Books

Growth of the Soil Knut Hamsun Knut Hamsun's 1917 novel of a man who settles in rural Norway, which won him the Nobel Prize, in Sverre Lyngstad's translation for Penguin Classics. 1 recommender Guernica! Guernica! Herbert R. Southworth How the bombing of Guernica was reported, denied and turned into propaganda, and how the truth came out. 1 recommender Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities Guillermo del Toro, Marc Scott Zicree A lavish tour through del Toro's private notebooks, sketches, and collection of the macabre, revealing the obsessions and images that feed his films. Gulliver’s Travels Jonathan Swift Swift's 1726 satire of politics, science and human vanity, disguised as a book of voyages. 1 recommender Gumption Nick Offerman Offerman celebrates twenty-one gutsy Americans, from Washington to Willie Nelson, using each as a peg for his heartfelt case about freedom and character. Guns at Last Light Rick Atkinson The last year of the war in western Europe, from D-Day to victory, told through the people who fought it. 1 recommender Guns, Germs, and Steel Jared Diamond Jared Diamond's sweeping account of why some societies came to dominate others, tracing it to geography rather than race. 4 recommenders Gym Launch Secrets Alex Hormozi Hormozi's earliest book, written for gym owners, distilling the systems he used to turn struggling fitness businesses around. H-Pop: The Secretive World of Hindutva Pop Stars Kunal Purohit India's Hindu nationalist pop stars have millions of listeners and almost no press attention. 1 recommender Hag-Seed Margaret Atwood The Tempest restaged inside a prison by a theatre director whose own bitter exile makes the revenge plot uncomfortably personal. Hagakure Tsunetomo Yamamoto A retired samurai dictating a warrior code to a generation that had no more use for it, fragmentary and severe throughout. 1 recommender Hal Moore on Leadership Harold G. Moore The commander from Ia Drang on what he actually did when the position looked hopeless 1 recommender Half of a Yellow Sun Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie The brief life of Biafra, told through a household rather than a battlefield. 1 recommender Half the Sky Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn Two Pulitzer winners report on the oppression of women across the developing world, and on what actually works against it. 2 recommenders Halflife Meghan O'Rourke Meghan O'Rourke's first collection, whose sleepless speakers come of age amid love affairs, obsession and the threat of war. Ham on Rye Charles Bukowski Charles Bukowski's semi-autobiographical 1982 novel following Henry Chinaski through childhood and youth in Depression-era Los Angeles. 1 recommender Hamas: A Beginner’s Guide Khaled Hroub Hamas described from its own documents, for readers who want to understand rather than be told. Hamilton: The Revolution Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jeremy McCarter The annotated Hamilton libretto plus the behind-the-scenes story of its making, Miranda's footnotes and McCarter's history of a Broadway phenomenon. Hamlet William Shakespeare A prince, a ghost and a murdered king, in the Arden edition of Shakespeare's most famous play. 1 recommender Hannah Hoch Dawn Ades She cut Weimar magazines apart to attack the politics and gender roles printed inside them. The fullest survey yet of a founder long treated as peripheral. 1 recommender Hannah’s Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth Catherine Pakaluk About five percent of American women have five or more children, and Pakaluk went and asked them why. 1 recommender Happy Derren Brown An illusionist dismantling the happiness industry, then rebuilding something older and considerably less flattering. 2 recommenders Happy Like Murderers Gordon Burn Fred and Rosemary West, written without a single concession to the true-crime appetite. 1 recommender Happy Sexy Millionaire Steven Bartlett Part memoir, part manifesto, challenging the cultural obsession with wealth, status and validation as the route to happiness. 1 recommender Happy Wife Meredith Lavender and Kendall Shores The marriage everyone envied was a performance, and the audience missed every rehearsal. 1 recommender Hark! A Vagrant Kate Beaton Kate Beaton's wickedly funny comics skewering history, literature and the people who take both too seriously. 1 recommender Harley Loco Rayya Elias A Syrian immigrant, a punk hairdresser, a heroin addict and a survivor, in roughly that order and all at once. 1 recommender Harriet Tubman Catherine Clinton The woman behind the icon: escapee, Underground Railroad conductor, and Union Army scout. 1 recommender Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets J.K. Rowling Harry's second year at Hogwarts turns sinister when students are found petrified. 1 recommender Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows J.K. Rowling Harry abandons Hogwarts to hunt Horcruxes in the series' final battle. 1 recommender Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire J.K. Rowling Harry is forced into a deadly tournament between three wizarding schools. 1 recommender Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince J.K. Rowling Dumbledore tutors Harry in Voldemort's hidden history as war gathers. 1 recommender Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix J.K. Rowling The Ministry denies Voldemort's return while Harry organizes a secret student resistance. 2 recommenders Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban J.K. Rowling An escaped prisoner with ties to Harry's past closes in on Hogwarts. 1 recommender Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone J.K. Rowling An orphaned boy discovers he is a wizard and enters a hidden world of magic. 1 recommender Harry Potter Paperback Box Set J.K. Rowling All seven books of J.K. Rowling's series, from a boy's first letter from Hogwarts to his final battle with Lord Voldemort. 1 recommender