Books

I’m Gonna Like Me Jamie Lee Curtis A girl learns to like herself every day, no matter what, in Jamie Lee Curtis's picture book about self-esteem. I’m Still Here Austin Channing Brown A Black woman's account of white institutions that want the credit for inclusion without the discomfort of change. 1 recommender I’m the One That I Want Margaret Cho Handed a sitcom about herself, then told to change to fit it. The collapse and what came after. Icy Sparks Gwyn Hyman Rubio Gwyn Hyman Rubio's novel follows a bright Kentucky girl in the 1950s whose Tourette's syndrome is misunderstood as madness. 1 recommender Ida: A Sword Among Lions Paula J. Giddings A biography of Ida B. Wells, the journalist born into slavery who led the campaign against lynching. 1 recommender Idle Days in Patagonia W. H. Hudson A collecting trip to Patagonia ended by a gunshot wound, and the enforced stillness that followed turned into a study of what happens to a mind with nothing to do. 1 recommender If You Want to Write Brenda Ueland Brenda Ueland's warm, liberating classic on creativity, arguing that everyone is talented and has something to say. 1 recommender If You’re Not First, You’re Last Grant Cardone Written after the 2008 crash, Cardone's playbook for advancing when everyone else retreats, using aggressive sales and marketing to take market share in a downturn. Ill Fares the Land Tony Judt 1 recommender Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors Susan Sontag Susan Sontag's short, forceful case against the myths that cling to disease, and against blaming the sick for their illness. 1 recommender Illuminations Walter Benjamin The essays that carried Benjamin into English, including The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. 1 recommender Imaginable Jane McGonigal Exercises for rehearsing unthinkable futures, from a forecaster who simulated a pandemic in 2010. Imaginary Companions and the Children Who Create Them Marjorie Taylor Children who invent companions know exactly what they are doing, and the research says it is a skill, not a symptom. 1 recommender Immigration & Discrimination: (un)welcoming others Sahar Akhtar If a state may choose who enters, may it choose on any basis at all? A philosopher tests whether sovereignty really settles the question in advance. 1 recommender Immortality Stephen Cave Four stories humans tell to escape death, and why the urge to live forever built civilization. Imperialism J. A. Hobson The classic 1902 argument that inequality at home drove the scramble for empire abroad. 1 recommender In a Different Voice Carol Gilligan The book that heard a different moral voice in women, and launched the ethics of care. In a Lonely Place Dorothy B. Hughes A serial killer narrates postwar Los Angeles, and never once thinks of himself as one. 1 recommender In Cold Blood Truman Capote Four murders in Kansas, reported for six years and written like a novel. 2 recommenders In Command of History David Reynolds How Churchill wrote the history that decided how his war would be remembered, drafts and deletions included. 1 recommender In Covid’s Wake: How Our Politics Failed Us Stephen Macedo Two Princeton political scientists on how institutions, expert bodies and the press handled the pandemic, and what it cost when deference replaced deliberation. 1 recommender In Defense of a Liberal Education Fareed Zakaria A defense of broad, humanistic learning in an age obsessed with job training, arguing that teaching people to think and write freely is exactly what the future demands. In Defense of Capitalism: Debunking the Myths Rainer Zitelmann A point-by-point rebuttal of the standard objections to capitalism, written squarely in the Friedman tradition. 1 recommender In Defense of Civilization: How Our Past Can Renew Our Present Michael R.J. Bonner A case that the West's inherited culture is worth defending, and a survey of what it contains. 1 recommender In Light of India Octavio Paz The Mexican poet's reflections on India after six years as ambassador, written across two traditional societies. 1 recommender In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays Bertrand Russell Russell thought four hours a day would do, and that treating work as virtue was a moral confusion. Written between the wars, aimed at the machinery that produced them. 1 recommender In Search of Khidr’s Footprints in Akhir al-Zaman Imran N. Hosein On the figure of Khidr and the traces the author reads as his in the present age. In Search of Lost Time Marcel Proust Proust's seven-volume novel of memory, childhood and high society in France, in a Modern Library edition. 1 recommender In Search of Now: The Science of the Present Moment Jo Marchant Marchant asks what the present moment actually is, and finds physics, neuroscience and lived duration giving answers stranger and far less unified than intuition expects. 1 recommender In Spite of the Gods Edward Luce The Financial Times correspondent's account of how India's economy actually works, and why it grew in ways no model predicted. 1 recommender In the Brewing Luminous: The Life and Music of Cecil Taylor Philip Freeman The first full biography of the pianist who made jazz unlistenable to some and essential to others. 1 recommender In the Distance Hernan Diaz A Swedish boy lands in California and walks the wrong way across a country he cannot read. 1 recommender In the Footsteps of the Prophet Tariq Ramadan The Prophet's life read episodically for what each moment asks of a reader now. In the Half Room Carson Ellis A room where everything exists in halves, drawn spare and slightly uncanny, until something arrives whole and rearranges the arithmetic. 1 recommender In the Heights: Finding Home Lin-Manuel Miranda, Quiara Alegria Hudes, Jeremy McCarter The annotated In the Heights libretto plus the story of the show that launched Miranda, from college project to Broadway to film. In the Land of Pain Alphonse Daudet Brief, unsparing notes by the French novelist Alphonse Daudet on the pain of tertiary syphilis, edited and translated into English by Julian Barnes. 1 recommender