Books

Music of Exile: The Untold Story of the Composers who Fled Hitler Michael Haas Some reached Hollywood, some reached nowhere, and some never recovered the reputation the interruption cost them. What became of the composers Hitler drove out. 1 recommender Mustang Sally Edward Allen A tenured English professor blunders through campus orthodoxy and a Nevada brothel, in that order. 1 recommender My Antonia Willa Cather A Bohemian immigrant girl on the Nebraska prairie, remembered by the boy who never quite had her. 1 recommender My Booky Wook Russell Brand Addiction, expulsion and early stand-up, written in the ornate register that became his trademark. My Face for the World to See Alfred Hayes He pulls a stranger from the surf, and the rescue quietly dismantles the life he had. 2 recommenders My Father Was a Freedom Fighter Ramzy Baroud One family from a village lost in 1948 into a Gaza refugee camp, following his father through it. My Great Predecessors, Part I Garry Kasparov The first volume of Kasparov's acclaimed history of the world chess champions, analyzing the games and careers of the early greats from Steinitz onward. My Journeys in Economic Theory Edmund Phelps A Nobel laureate's memoir, as interested in Rawls and Italian opera as in the Phillips curve. 1 recommender My Life on the Road Gloria Steinem The feminist icon's memoir of a life spent traveling and organizing, and the road-learned lessons about listening, movement-building, and her mother that shaped her. 1 recommender My Nine Lives: A Memoir of Many Careers in Music Leon Fleisher A concert pianist lost the use of his right hand at thirty-six and built four decades of career around it. 1 recommender My Other Heart Emma Nanami Strenner A child vanishes on the way home to Vietnam, and two girls spend years working out who they actually are. 1 recommender My Remarkable Journey Larry King King's candid memoir, from a poor Brooklyn boyhood as Larry Zeiger to America's most famous microphone, told in his conversational broadcast voice. My Very Own Special Particular Private and Personal Cat Sandol Stoddard A child lays claim to a cat through an escalating series of adjectives, and the cat declines to acknowledge any of them. 1 recommender My View of the World Erwin Schrodinger Two long essays written thirty-five years apart, in which a Nobel physicist asks why there appears to be only one world when billions of observers are looking. 1 recommender Mysticism and Dissent: Socioreligious Dissent in Qajar Iran Mangol Bayat Shaykhism, Babism and the emergence of the Bahai faith, traced through the heterodox currents running under nineteenth-century Iran and the dissent that followed. 1 recommender Myth America Kevin M. Kruse, Julian E. Zelizer Historians debunk enduring myths about the American past. 1 recommender N by E Rockwell Kent A painter sails a small boat to Greenland in 1929, wrecks it, and stays. Illustrated throughout with his own woodcuts, written as starkly as he drew. 1 recommender Nada Jean-Patrick Manchette A cell of 1970s French radicals kidnaps the American ambassador, and discovers the state is happy to let hostages die. 1 recommender Nadja Andre Breton Breton spent ten days with a woman in Paris in 1928 and wrote it up with photographs of the places, inventing surrealist prose and documenting an obsession. 1 recommender Naked Pictures of Famous People Jon Stewart Stewart's pre-fame debut, a set of surreal comic essays imagining famous figures, from Princess Diana to Larry King, in ridiculous private moments. Natives Akala A rapper and writer weaves memoir with history to examine race and class in modern Britain. 1 recommender Necessary Illusions Noam Chomsky Where a state cannot compel belief it manufactures consent, and a free press turns out to be the most effective instrument. Nelson Mandela’s Favorite African Folktales Nelson Mandela The tales Mandela grew up with, gathered from across the continent and retold for a new generation of readers Never Name the Dead D.M. Rowell A Silicon Valley founder is summoned home to Kiowa country by a grandfather who knows something. 1 recommender Never Split the Difference Chris Voss, Tahl Raz A former FBI hostage negotiator turns high-stakes tactics into tools anyone can use: tactical empathy, calibrated questions, mirroring. 1 recommender New and Selected Poems Marie Howe Four decades in one volume, from the AIDS elegies through the late poems about ecology and God. The plainness is deceptive, and it holds up read aloud. 1 recommender New Masters of the Baltic Arthur Brown Ruhl A 1921 travel book about the new Baltic states, written before anyone knew how it ended. 1 recommender Next Year in Havana Chanel Cleeton A Cuban-American woman returns to scatter her grandmother's ashes, and uncovers the Havana love story that sent her family into exile. 1 recommender Nexus Yuval Noah Harari Information networks have always chosen order over truth, and Harari asks what happens when they stop needing us in the loop. Nico James Young Touring Europe with Nico in her heroin years, by the keyboard player who was there. 1 recommender Night Elie Wiesel Elie Wiesel's spare memoir of Auschwitz and Buchenwald, bearing witness to what he saw as a teenager and the faith it tested. 1 recommender Night People Mark Ronson A teenage DJ learning 1990s New York from behind the decks, before that nightlife was demolished. 1 recommender Nightcrawling Leila Mottley Leila Mottley's debut follows a seventeen-year-old in East Oakland pulled into sex work and then into a police scandal. 1 recommender Nightingale’s Song Robert Timberg Five Annapolis graduates, including John McCain, and the war that shaped all of them. 1 recommender No Excuses! Brian Tracy Tracy's case that self-discipline is the one habit underneath every other one, applied across work, money and relationships. No god but God Reza Aslan A narrative history of Islam that reads today's turmoil in the Muslim world as a reformation, a fight over who gets to define the faith.