Books

Have Mercy on Us Lisa Cupolo Stories of women at the moment the wrong decision has already been made. 1 recommender Having Spent Life Seeking Kae Tempest A poet who performs writing for the page, with rhythm doing the work punctuation usually does. 1 recommender Headhunters Jo Nesbø Jo Nesbø's 2008 thriller about a corporate recruiter who leads a double life as an art thief, translated by Don Bartlett. Healing the Emptiness Yasmin Mogahed Where the hollow feeling comes from, and why it persists even when a life looks full from the outside. Heart Berries Terese Marie Mailhot A slim, ferocious memoir of growing up on the Seabird Island Band reservation, written partly from a psychiatric ward. 2 recommenders Heart Lamp: Selected Stories Banu Mushtaq Twelve stories of Muslim women in southern India, written in Kannada across three decades, colliding with tradition and modernity at once. 1 recommender Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad A steamer captain travels up an African river in search of Kurtz, an ivory trader who has gone beyond the reach of any law. 1 recommender Heartburn Nora Ephron A food writer discovers her husband's affair while seven months pregnant, and includes the recipes. 1 recommender Heartwood Amity Gaige A hiker disappears 200 miles from the end of the trail, and the search asks why she walked into the woods at all. 1 recommender Heavy Kiese Laymon Kiese Laymon's memoir of growing up Black in Mississippi, his mother, food, gambling and writing. 1 recommender Hegemony or Survival Noam Chomsky American strategy read as a standing choice of dominance over security, with the risk exported. Heidi Johanna Spyri An orphan sent to her grandfather in the Alps, and the homesickness that nearly kills her in the city. 1 recommender Hell Yeah or No Derek Sivers Short, sharp essays on what's worth doing, built on one rule: if it isn't a hell yeah, it's a no. 1 recommender Hello America J. G. Ballard An expedition crosses an abandoned, desertified America a century after its collapse, and finds what has grown there. 1 recommender Hello Beautiful Ann Napolitano Ann Napolitano's novel, echoing Little Women, follows four devoted sisters and the wounded man who marries into their family. 1 recommender Henry V William Shakespeare A king talks his outnumbered army into a battle they should lose, and the play watches what that costs 1 recommender Herald of a Restless World: How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People Emily Herring Bergson filled lecture halls and stopped traffic in New York, and then philosophy forgot him. 1 recommender Here Comes Everybody Clay Shirky What happens to institutions when the cost of getting a group to act together falls to almost nothing. 2 recommenders Here for It R. Eric Thomas Essays on being the only one in the room, funny without pretending the situation was. 1 recommender Here on Earth Alice Hoffman Alice Hoffman reworks Wuthering Heights in a New England town, as a woman returns home and falls back under an old, destructive love. 1 recommender Here One Moment Liane Moriarty A woman on a delayed flight tells every passenger how and when they will die, and then it starts happening. 1 recommender Here, Right Matters Alexander Vindman The officer who testified in the first Trump impeachment on duty, immigration, and the cost of speaking up. 1 recommender Hero of Two Worlds Mike Duncan A moderate in two revolutions, eventually turned on by both sides he tried to hold together. 1 recommender Heroes of Progress: 65 People Who Changed the World Alexander C.R. Hammond Sixty-five short lives of the people who made the modern world materially better, Borlaug included. 1 recommender Heuristics and Biases Thomas Gilovich, Dale Griffin and Daniel Kahneman The essay collection that gathered a generation of research on how intuitive judgement goes wrong. 1 recommender Hidden Valley Road Robert Kolker Robert Kolker's nonfiction account follows one American family with twelve children, six of whom developed schizophrenia, and the science their story advanced. 1 recommender Hildegard of Bingen’s Book of Divine Works: With Letters and Songs Hildegard of Bingen A twelfth-century abbess saw the cosmos as one living body, wrote the music and medicine too, and told popes what she thought. 1 recommender Hillbilly Elegy J. D. Vance A memoir of growing up in an Appalachian family, and of the gulf between where the author came from and where he ended up. 1 recommender Himalaya Michael Palin Michael Palin's six-month journey around the world's highest mountains, up to Everest Base Camp, with photographs by Basil Pao. Hire and Keep the Best People Brian Tracy Hiring is the most expensive decision a manager makes badly. Tracy's twenty-one techniques for getting it right and holding on to the result. His Dark Materials Philip Pullman A girl, an alethiometer, and a soul that walks beside her as an animal - then the argument gets much larger. 1 recommender His Only Wife Peace Adzo Medie A Ghanaian bride is married off to lure a man away from the woman he loves, and slowly decides what she is owed. 1 recommender Histories of the Hanged David Anderson 1 recommender History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides Thucydides on the war between Athens and Sparta, and on why states do what they do — in the Landmark edition with maps and appendices. 1 recommender Hitchcock François Truffaut Truffaut's book-length interview with Alfred Hitchcock, working through the films one by one, in the revised edition. 1 recommender Hitler’s People: The Faces of the Third Reich Richard J. Evans Portraits of the Nazi leadership, and the uncomfortable finding that many of them were unremarkable. 1 recommender