Books

One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez Garcia Marquez traces seven generations of the Buendia family in the town of Macondo, in the novel that defined magical realism. 2 recommenders One Lonely Night Mickey Spillane Mike Hammer at full throttle, answering his critics by shooting his way through them. 1 recommender One Long Night Andrea Pitzer The camp as an invention, traced from 1890s Cuba to the present, country by country. 1 recommender One Long River of Song: Notes on Wonder Brian Doyle Hummingbird hearts, a son faulty one, and long sentences written by a man who knew he was running out of time to stop. 1 recommender One to Many Jason Fladlien The webinar operator's playbook for selling to a room of hundreds as persuasively as selling to one. 1 recommender Only the Paranoid Survive Andrew S. Grove Intel's Andrew Grove explains how to spot the strategic inflection points that can remake or destroy a company, drawing on his own hard calls. 1 recommender Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration Bryan Caplan An economist argues for open borders in comic-book form, working through wages, culture and crime with the citations left visible in the margins. Open House Elizabeth Berg Elizabeth Berg's novel follows a newly divorced woman who takes in boarders and slowly rebuilds a life of her own. 1 recommender Orbital Samantha Harvey Almost nothing happens across sixteen orbits of the Earth, and the novel won the Booker Prize anyway, on sustained attention alone. 1 recommender Orientalism Edward Said Western scholarship on the East read as a system for managing it rather than knowing it. Origins Neil deGrasse Tyson The whole story of everything, from the first second after the Big Bang to the chemistry that made life Orwell’s Revenge Peter W. Huber A rewrite of 1984 arguing Orwell had the technology backwards, and that networks scatter power rather than concentrate it. 1 recommender Oryx and Crake Margaret Atwood A man who may be the last human alive pieces together how corporate bioengineering and one friend's genius ended the world Our Crumbling Foundation: How We Solve Canada’s Housing Crisis Gregor Craigie Canada's housing shortage explained by a broadcaster who went and looked at what other countries do. 1 recommender Our Missing Hearts Celeste Ng In a near-future America that removes children from disloyal parents, a boy goes looking for his exiled poet mother. 1 recommender Our Own Worst Enemy Tom Nichols Nichols argues the threat to democracy comes less from tyrants than from bored, resentful citizens. 1 recommender Out of Many, One George W. Bush Forty-three portraits painted by the former president, each with the story of the immigrant who sat for it. 1 recommender Out of Place Edward Said A childhood between Jerusalem, Cairo and Beirut, and never being wholly at home in any language. Out of Sri Lanka: Tamil, Sinhala & English Poetry from Sri Lanka and its Diasporas Vidyan Ravinthiran Sri Lankan poetry in Tamil, Sinhala and English, gathered across the divisions of a civil war. 1 recommender Outlawed Anna North In an 1894 where barren women are hanged as witches, a midwife's daughter flees and joins a gang of outlaws. 1 recommender Outliers Malcolm Gladwell Nobody succeeds alone. Behind every outlier sits a birth date, a culture and an accident of timing. Outlive Peter Attia Longevity reframed around healthspan, the years you live in good health, not merely how long you last. 1 recommender Owl Lake Owl Lake Keizaburo Tejima A father owl hunts through one northern night in Japanese woodblock prints: dark water, pale wings, and the long patience of a bird that must feed its young by dawn. 1 recommender Pachinko Min Jin Lee Four generations of a Korean family in Japan, enduring an adopted country that never quite accepts them. 2 recommenders Paddle Your Own Canoe Nick Offerman Offerman's ribald memoir-manifesto on delicious living, self-reliance, craftsmanship, and red meat, in the deadpan voice that made Ron Swanson a hero. Pakistan: A Personal History Imran Khan Part memoir, part history: Pakistan's story from its founding through the decades Imran Khan lived and played through. Paleoeconomics: Climate Change and Economic Development in Prehistory Ola Olsson Climate and geography in prehistory, and the long course of economic development that followed from both. 1 recommender Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict Oren Kessler Partition was first proposed during the 1936 revolt, the Palestinian leadership was broken, and the Haganah learned to fight. The shape was set before 1948. 1 recommender Palestine Inside Out Saree Makdisi The occupation documented through permits and checkpoints rather than through episodes of violence. Palestinian Identity Rashid Khalidi How Palestinian national identity formed before 1948, answered from the documentary record. Palestinian Refugees in International Law Francesca Albanese The standard legal reference on why Palestinian refugees sit outside the framework covering everyone else. Paper Girl Beth Macy The Dopesick reporter turns her attention homeward, and finds the national story running straight through her own family. 1 recommender Paradise Toni Morrison Toni Morrison's novel opens with a massacre at a rural women's shelter, then unfolds the history of an all-Black Oklahoma town. 1 recommender Paradise Bronx: The Life and Times of New York’s Greatest Borough Ian Frazier Frazier walked the borough end to end over several years, taking in the Grand Concourse, the burning of the seventies, hip hop, and the expressway that split it. 1 recommender Parallel Lives: A Love Story from a Lost Continent Iain Pears A British art historian married a Russian curator who had survived the siege of Leningrad as a child. Their novelist son-in-law reconstructs the marriage from letters. 1 recommender Parliamentary America: The Least Radical Means of Radically Repairing Our Broken Democracy Maxwell Stearns The case for fixing American democracy by importing the parliamentary machinery rather than rewriting the values. 1 recommender