Books

A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life of the World’s Smartest Birds of Prey Jonathan Meiburg Darwin was puzzled by it, and so is everyone else: a South American falcon with the curiosity and problem-solving of a crow, followed through evolution and the Falklands. 1 recommender A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway Hemingway remembers being young, poor and writing in 1920s Paris, among Stein, Pound, Joyce and the Fitzgeralds. 1 recommender A Muslim Response to the Attack on America Imran N. Hosein A short work written in the aftermath of September 11 2001. A Nation of Sheep Andrew Napolitano Liberty traded for the appearance of safety, argued while the trade was still being made. A New Earth Eckhart Tolle Eckhart Tolle argues that recognizing the ego is the first step toward a more awakened, present way of living. 1 recommender A People’s History of the United States Howard Zinn Howard Zinn retells American history from the vantage of workers, women, and the marginalized rather than its usual victors. 1 recommender A Potter’s Book Bernard Leach The 1940 manual that shaped studio pottery in the West, part technical handbook and part manifesto. 1 recommender A Prayer for Owen Meany John Irving John Irving's novel of a small boy with a strange voice who believes he is God's instrument. 1 recommender A River Runs Through It and Other Stories Norman Maclean Two brothers, fly fishing and grief in Montana, in one of the best-loved American novellas. 1 recommender A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There Aldo Leopold Published months after Leopold died in 1949, and still the founding argument that soil, water and animals belong to a moral community rather than a balance sheet. 1 recommender A Savage War of Peace Alistair Horne 1 recommender A Short History of Nearly Everything Bill Bryson A determined amateur works out how science actually established what it knows, and finds the researchers stranger than the findings. A Short History of Truth Julian Baggini Ten kinds of truth and how each can go wrong, as a guide for a post-truth age. A Small Personal Voice Doris Lessing Lessing on the novelist obligation: neither propaganda nor retreat, but a small personal voice saying honestly what it knows. Long out of print, still unanswered. 1 recommender A Star Danced Gertrude Lawrence The stage star's own account of a career that ran from London music halls to Broadway. 1 recommender A Storm of Swords George R. R. Martin The volume where Martin cashes in every promise he made about consequence, at a wedding readers have never quite recovered from. A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens Charles Dickens's novel of the French Revolution braids love and sacrifice through the terror of London and Paris. 2 recommenders A Thief of Time Tony Hillerman Leaphorn hunts a missing archaeologist through Anasazi ruins and a whitewater canyon. 1 recommender A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini Two women a generation apart, forced into one household, across thirty years of Afghan history. 1 recommender A Thread of Violence Mark O'Connell 1 recommender A Tract on Monetary Reform John Maynard Keynes Keynes on inflation, deflation and the management of money, written before the General Theory. 1 recommender A Treatise on Liberal Critiques of Ridda Mohammed Hijab An examination of apostasy in Islamic law and its liberal critics. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Betty Smith Francie Nolan's Williamsburg childhood, and the ailanthus in the tenement yard that will not be got rid of. 1 recommender A Very Expensive Poison Luke Harding Luke Harding’s investigation of the polonium poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko in London and the trail leading back to the Kremlin. 1 recommender A Virtuous Woman Kaye Gibbons Kaye Gibbons tells the story of an unlikely Southern marriage in alternating voices, looking back after the wife's death. 1 recommender A Vision of Fire Gillian Anderson, Jeff Rovin A child psychologist investigates young people around the world struck by the same strange visions, in book one of the EarthEnd Saga. A Visit from the Goon Squad Jennifer Egan Thirteen linked stories about a record executive, his assistant and the people around them, moving from the 1970s into the future. 1 recommender A Walk in the Woods Bill Bryson Two unprepared friends take on the Appalachian Trail, in a book as much about American forests as about failing to walk them. A Whole New Mind Daniel Pink As routine work is automated or offshored, Pink argues the premium shifts to design, empathy and meaning, the right-brain skills. A Woman Is No Man Etaf Rum Three generations of Palestinian-American women in Brooklyn, and the silences each one is handed. 1 recommender A World Apart Gustaw Herling A Polish writer's account of the gulag, written in 1951, years before Solzhenitsyn and largely ignored at the time. 1 recommender A Writer At War Vasily Grossman 1 recommender A Year with Swollen Appendices: Brian Eno’s Diary Brian Eno Eno kept a diary for 1995, then wrote appendices that outgrew it, covering generative music, Oblique Strategies, and the daily texture of actually working. 1 recommender Aalto in Detail: A Catalogue of Components Celine Dietziker Alvar Aalto designed the door handles too, and this catalogues every component he touched. 1 recommender Aaron’s Rod D. H. Lawrence A miner walks out on his family at Christmas carrying a flute, and Lawrence follows him through London and Italy without a plot. 1 recommender Absalom, Absalom! William Faulkner William Faulkner's 1936 Southern Gothic novel of the rise and fall of the plantation owner Thomas Sutpen, told by several unreliable narrators. 2 recommenders