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No More Mr Nice Guy
Nice Guy Syndrome: men who suppress their needs, seek approval and avoid conflict in the hope of being liked, and end up frustrated instead.
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No Rules Rules
The Netflix playbook from its co-founder and a business scholar: strip away rules, raise talent density and candor, and trust freedom over control.
Nobody’s Perfect
A decade of New Yorker film criticism by a man who is funniest when the movie is worst.
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Noise
Why two experts given the same facts reach different verdicts, and why that random scatter costs more than bias. Kahneman's follow-up on noisy judgment.
Normal People
The on-and-off relationship between Connell and Marianne, from school in small-town Ireland through university in Dublin.
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North Sun
The whaleship voyage rewritten as literature: labour, endurance, and a small wooden world adrift on an indifferent sea.
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Northern Spy
A Belfast news producer sees her own sister in footage of an IRA robbery, and has to decide what she owes her.
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Not Accountable: Rethinking the Constitutionality of Public Employee Unions
Public sector unions negotiate with officials they help elect, which Howard argues is the whole problem.
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Not Built in a Day: How Slavery Made the Roman Empire
Southon writes Rome from the position of the enslaved rather than the owners, arguing the institution was not incidental to the empire but the thing holding it up.
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Not on Our Watch
Actor Don Cheadle and activist John Prendergast turn outrage over Darfur into a practical handbook for ordinary citizens who want to help stop genocide.
Not the End of the World: How We Can be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet
A data scientist's case that environmental despair is understandable and, on the numbers, wrong.
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Not Zero: How an Irrational Target Will Impoverish You, Help China (and Won’t Even Save the Planet)
A sceptical case against net zero targets that stops well short of denying the science.
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Notes on Thought and Vision
Written on Scilly in 1919 after a near-fatal pregnancy, this short prose meditation proposes a jellyfish-like over-mind through which vision arrives. Unclassifiable, and unlike anything else.
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Nothing to See Here
The children catch fire when upset, and the novel is deadpan about everything except who cares for them.
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Noughts & Crosses
A society split between ruling dark-skinned Crosses and oppressed light-skinned noughts, and two young people on the wrong sides of it.
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Oathbringer
Dalinar Kholin confronts the past he has spent a lifetime not remembering, just as the Everstorm breaks and humanity's coalition begins to fracture.
Obvious in Hindsight
A novel about flying cars, written by the venture capitalist who spent years fighting regulators.
Old as Stone, Hard as Rock: of Humans and War
An Italian illustrator set out to draw wartime poets, could not shake the images, and made a wordless book in which colour and sequence carry what language dropped.
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Old Filth
A retired judge, raised as a Raj orphan and shipped to Wales at five, reckons late in life with everything he never said.
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Olive, Again
Elizabeth Strout returns to the prickly, unforgettable Olive Kitteridge in linked stories of a small Maine town.
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Omaha Beach and Beyond
Nineteen years old in the first wave at Omaha, and still going months later in Germany
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On Becoming a Person
The 1961 papers where client-centred therapy began, arguing that people change when met with unconditional regard rather than diagnosis. Includes his lecture on listening.
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On Becoming Fearless
Written partly for her daughters, Huffington maps the fears that hold women back, from the body to money to speaking up, and how to move past them.
On Consolation
Job, Cicero, Primo Levi and Akhmatova, all read for what consolation used to mean before grief became something to be managed.
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On Dublin Street
An American with a buried past rents a room in Edinburgh from the wrong man's sister.
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On Getting Better
A psychoanalyst asks whether the modern demand to improve yourself has quietly become a way of declining to live at all.
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On Immunity
An essayist becomes a mother, meets the fear around vaccination, and traces what immunity means to us as a metaphor.
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On Looking
A poet treats looking as a moral discipline, turning it on a dead deer, a body on a slab, a heap of coal. Unsettling in the best way.
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On Natural Capital: The Value of the World Around Us
The economist who put a price on nature, on why leaving it out of the accounts guarantees we spend it.
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On Not Knowing: How to Love and Other Essays
Essays that begin in ordinary confusion about love, parenting and ambition, then refuse the tidy resolution, treating uncertainty as a position rather than a failure of nerve.
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On the Calculation of Volume
Tara Selter wakes every morning on the eighteenth of November. Balle takes a premise that could be a joke and follows its physics and its marriage entirely seriously.
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On the Road
The book that taught American prose to move at the speed of a car with nowhere particular to be.
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On the Rooftop
A mother drills her three daughters toward stardom in 1950s San Francisco, as their Black neighbourhood is razed.
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On Writing
Half autobiography, half toolkit, written either side of the van that nearly killed him.
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On Writing Well
In print since 1976, and still one instruction above all others: cut every word doing no work.
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One Day in December
She locks eyes with a stranger through a bus window; a year later, her best friend introduces him as her boyfriend.
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