Books

Principles Ray Dalio The transparent, rules-based system Dalio used to run Bridgewater, written as a set of principles anyone can adopt Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order Ray Dalio Five hundred years of empires rising and falling, read as a repeating cycle, with a hard look at where the US and China sit Principles for Navigating Big Debt Crises Ray Dalio Dalio's template for how debt crises actually unfold, drawn from studying 48 of them, including the ones he traded through Principles for Success Ray Dalio The ideas of Principles compressed into an illustrated thirty-minute read, aimed squarely at younger readers Progressive Myths Michael Huemer A philosopher takes progressive claims one at a time and asks whether the evidence supports them. Providence Geoffrey Wolff A crime novel about Rhode Island's capital, precise enough that the city is the real subject. 1 recommender Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine Scott Horton A revisionist account arguing NATO expansion, not Russian aggression, started the new Cold War. Pudd’nhead Wilson Mark Twain Two babies, one white and one enslaved, are switched at birth, and Twain uses the swap to detonate the era's assumptions about race and identity. Pumping Iron Charles Gaines, George Butler The book behind the documentary that made bodybuilding, and Schwarzenegger, famous. 1 recommender Purple Cow Seth Godin In a field of brown cows, only a purple one gets noticed: Godin's case that safe and average is now the riskiest bet Queen Charlotte Julia Quinn, Shonda Rhimes Julia Quinn and Shonda Rhimes turn the Bridgerton prequel into a novel: young Queen Charlotte's arranged marriage and the love that defined a reign. Quiet Susan Cain Institutions built around an extrovert ideal, and what gets systematically lost when the loudest contribution wins. 1 recommender Qur’an 30 for 30 Omar Suleiman, Ismail Kamdar Thirty short reflections pairing each part of the Qur'an with a life theme. R.L.S. and His Sine Qua Non, Flashlights from Skerryvore Adelaide A. Boodle A young neighbour became Stevenson pupil and friend, and wrote down the Bournemouth household nearly four decades after he died. 1 recommender Rain of Ruin: Tokyo, Hiroshima, and the Surrender of Japan Richard Overy The firebombing of Tokyo killed more people than Hiroshima, and Overy treats both as one campaign. 1 recommender Rain or Shine Cyra McFadden The daughter of a rodeo announcer, raised between arenas and the wreckage of her parents' marriage. 1 recommender Raising Hare Chloe Dalton Stranded in the countryside by the pandemic, a foreign-policy adviser finds a newborn leveret and raises it without taming it. It comes and goes freely for two years. 1 recommender Random Acts of Medicine: The Hidden Forces That Sway Doctors, Impact Patients, and Shape Our Health Anupam B. Jena What happens to you in hospital depends partly on the day you arrive, and the data proves it. 1 recommender Range David Epstein Epstein argues that in most fields it's the generalists, not early specialists, who become creative and durable high performers. 1 recommender Rational Ritual Michael Suk-Young Chwe Why do public ceremonies exist? Because coordinated action needs everyone to know that everyone else knows. 1 recommender Ready, Fire, Aim Michael Masterson Masterson maps the four stages of business growth and what the founder must actually do in each one. 1 recommender Real Americans Rachel Khong Three generations of one family, and the difference between what parents pass on and what gets inherited anyway. 1 recommender Reality Is Broken Jane McGonigal Games as evidence of what reality lacks: clear goals, visible progress, difficulty worth the effort. Reasoning with God Khaled Abou El Fadl Shari'ah as a tradition of moral reasoning rather than a fixed code, and what literalism replaced. Rebecca Daphne du Maurier A young bride is haunted by the memory of her husband's glamorous first wife in du Maurier's timeless gothic novel. 2 recommenders Rebel Without a Crew Robert Rodriguez The diary of a seven-thousand-dollar film, including how it was paid for and what got faked. Reclaim Your Heart Yasmin Mogahed Reflections on attachment, loss and the life of the heart, and why placing our hopes in things that cannot hold them breaks us. Recognizing the Stranger Isabella Hammad A novelist asks what fiction's moment of recognition means when the recognition never arrives. 1 recommender Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions Russell Brand The twelve steps rewritten for people who would never walk into a church hall. Red Blood, Black Sand Chuck Tatum A teenage Marine lands on Iwo Jima beside the war most decorated enlisted man, and watches him die 1 recommender Red Famine Anne Applebaum Anne Applebaum’s account of the Holodomor, Stalin’s engineered famine that killed millions of Ukrainians in the early 1930s, and its long political aftermath. 1 recommender Red Notice Bill Browder Bill Browder’s memoir of investing in post-Soviet Russia, the murder of his lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, and his fight for justice. 1 recommender Red Rising Pierce Brown In a future divided by colour-coded castes, a lowly Red labouring beneath the surface of Mars discovers his people are being lied to. 1 recommender Redwood Court DéLana R. A. Dameron A Black family in 1990s South Carolina, seen through its youngest daughter and the neighbours on their street. 1 recommender Reinvention Brian Tracy Written into the teeth of the financial crisis, for people whose career change had just been decided for them rather than chosen. Religions of Early India: A Cultural History Richard H. Davis How four traditions grew up alongside and against each other in early India, then spread across the south and east. The background that later history keeps assuming. 1 recommender