Books

How to Be a Woman Caitlin Moran Part memoir, part polemic: Moran makes the case for feminism while being extremely funny about her own life. 1 recommender How to Be an Antiracist Ibram X. Kendi Part memoir, part argument: Ibram X. Kendi on what it means to be antiracist, for individuals and for society. How to Disappear Akiko Busch Akiko Busch looks at invisibility in nature, art and science as a calmer way to live in a watched world. 1 recommender How to End a Love Story Yulin Kuang Two writers share a TV writers' room and a tragedy neither has forgiven the other for. 1 recommender How to Get Rich Felix Dennis The least sentimental book about wealth in print, written by someone unsure he would recommend it. 1 recommender How to Lie with Statistics Darrell Huff A brief, funny guide to spotting misleading numbers, still in print more than seventy years after it first appeared. 2 recommenders How To Live on an Island Sandy Gingras Tides, weather and small communities, illustrated by an artist asking what it does to live somewhere with edges you can walk to. 1 recommender How to Not Die Alone Logan Ury A behavioural scientist who leads relationship research at Hinge applies decision science to dating, and to the patterns that sabotage it. 1 recommender How to Say Babylon Safiya Sinclair A Jamaican girlhood ruled by her father's doctrine, and poetry as the only available exit. 2 recommenders How to Take Smart Notes Sönke Ahrens The slip-box method behind the prolific sociologist Niklas Luhmann, where notes connect and think with you rather than pile up. 1 recommender How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish 1 recommender How to Talk to Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere Larry King King distills decades of interviewing into a friendly primer on conversation, where honesty, curiosity, and real interest beat any trick or script. How to Think Like Sherlock Daniel Smith Observation, memory, and reasoning techniques modelled on Sherlock Holmes. 1 recommender How to Think More About Sex Alain de Botton Sex treated as a subject worthy of calm, honest reflection rather than embarrassment or cliche. 1 recommender How to Win at the Sport of Business Mark Cuban Cuban's blog distilled: no pedigree required, just relentless learning and the willingness to outwork everyone in the room How to Win Friends and Influence People Dale Carnegie Dale Carnegie's enduring guide to dealing with people, built on genuine interest, appreciation, and seeing things from another's point of view. 1 recommender How Will You Measure Your Life? Clayton M. Christensen A Harvard professor turns the tools of business strategy on personal life: career, relationships, and staying out of jail. 1 recommender Howards End E. M. Forster The Schlegels and the Wilcoxes, the house that outlasts them both, and the wych elm standing over it. 1 recommender Human Capital for Humans: An Accessible Introduction to the Economic Science of People Pablo A. Peña Why economists treat schooling, training and experience as investments, explained without any of the equations. 1 recommender Human Compatible Stuart Russell Berkeley AI pioneer Stuart Russell argues that the standard model of building ever-smarter machines to pursue fixed goals is a mistake, and proposes a new foundation for keeping AI provably beneficial to humans. 2 recommenders Human Dark with Sugar Brenda Shaughnessy Winner of the James Laughlin Award, on desire, disappointment and the failures of the body, in a voice that manages funny and wounded within a single line. 1 recommender Hummingbird Salamander Jeff VanderMeer A security consultant is drawn into a mystery by a taxidermied hummingbird from an extinct species. Hunger Roxane Gay Gay writes with unsparing honesty about her body, the assault that reshaped it, and living in a world hostile to size. 1 recommender Hunger Knut Hamsun Knut Hamsun's 1890 novel set in Christiania, now Oslo, in Sverre Lyngstad's translation for Penguin. 1 recommender Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl Carrie Brownstein The Sleater-Kinney guitarist on family, punk, and the hunger that drove her onto a stage. 1 recommender Hungry City Carolyn Steel How the need to feed cities has shaped their streets and lives, from ancient Rome to modern London. I Am Malala Malala Yousafzai A childhood in the Swat Valley, a school, and the campaign that put a gunman on her bus. I Am These Truths Sunny Hostin, Charisse Jones The View co-host on growing up between two worlds in the Bronx, and what she saw from inside the American justice system. I Can Make You Smarter Paul McKenna Mental exercises aimed at sharpening thinking and recall. 1 recommender I Capture the Castle Dodie Smith Cassandra Mortmain records her family's genteel poverty in a decaying castle in 1930s England. 1 recommender I Know This Much Is True Wally Lamb Wally Lamb's epic follows a man caring for his schizophrenic twin brother while unearthing three generations of family history. 1 recommender I Lost My Way Yasmin Mogahed Reflections on despair, repentance and return, written for anyone who feels distant from where they meant to be. I Who Have Never Known Men Jacqueline Harpman Thirty-nine women wake in an underground cage with no memory of arriving, and one child among them. 2 recommenders I’d Rather Be the Devil Stephen Calt A biographer spends years with a bluesman he reveres and does not much like. 1 recommender I’ll Die Before I’ll Run C.L. Sonnichsen The decade of Texas blood feuds after the Civil War, recovered by the historian who bothered to look. 1 recommender I’m Fine…And Other Lies Whitney Cummings Cummings turns her confessional comedy into candid essays on codependency, therapy, and the exhausting work of pretending to be fine.