Books

Crushing It! Gary Vaynerchuk A follow-up to Crush It!, updating the personal-brand playbook for the age of Instagram and podcasts, with case studies of people who built businesses on their own influence. Cry, the Beloved Country Alan Paton Alan Paton's 1948 novel follows a Black minister searching for his son in Johannesburg, a lament for a South Africa breaking under racial injustice. 1 recommender Crying in H Mart Michelle Zauner Grief in a Korean grocery aisle, where food is the last language left between a daughter and her mother. 1 recommender Cue the Sun! The Invention of Reality TV Emily Nussbaum Reality television did not begin with Survivor. It began with Candid Camera, and it was always a little cruel. 1 recommender Cull of the Wild: Killing in the Name of Conservation Hugh Warwick Saving one species usually means killing another, and conservation rarely admits how routine that is. 1 recommender Culpability Bruce Holsinger Bruce Holsinger's novel follows a family reckoning with guilt and artificial intelligence after a fatal accident involving their self-driving car. 1 recommender Culture and Imperialism Edward Said The empire sitting quietly in the background of novels about something else entirely. Cursed Daughters Oyinkan Braithwaite A child born the day a cousin is buried, and the family belief that decides who she must therefore be. 1 recommender Cypria: A Journey to the Heart of the Mediterranean Alex Christofi Cyprus as its own place rather than a beach, a conflict, or somebody else's strategic asset. 1 recommender Cytonic Brandon Sanderson Lost in the nowhere between worlds, Spensa hunts the truth about her own powers among pirates and things that eat memory. The Cactus Sarah Haywood A rigidly self-sufficient woman at forty-five faces a contested will and an unplanned pregnancy in the same week. 1 recommender The Call of the Tribe Mario Vargas Llosa A novelist's account of the seven liberal thinkers who turned him away from the left. 1 recommender The Cancer Journals Audre Lorde Lorde on her diagnosis, her mastectomy, and her refusal of the prosthesis she was expected to wear, insisting throughout that silence about illness is a political act. The Case Against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money Bryan Caplan Employers pay for the credential rather than the algebra. Caplan follows the signalling evidence to conclusions about public funding that few readers accept whole. The Case Against Socialism Rand Paul Paul's one-sided brief marshaling history and economics, from Venezuela to the Nordics, to argue that socialism trends toward scarcity, coercion, and lost freedom. The Case of Ireland: Commerce, Empire and the European Order, 1750-1848 James Stafford Ireland argued its way into the Union on commercial grounds, and this recovers those arguments. 1 recommender The Casual Vacancy J.K. Rowling Rowling's first novel for adults: when a parish councilman dies suddenly, a small English town's genteel surface cracks open to reveal class resentment, addiction, and quiet cruelty. The Checklist Manifesto Atul Gawande Surgeon Atul Gawande shows how a tool as humble as a checklist can prevent catastrophic mistakes in medicine, aviation, and business, where expertise alone isn't enough. 1 recommender The Cherokees in War & at Peace 1670-1840 David Narrett A century and a half of Cherokee diplomacy, warfare and forced removal, told with the Cherokee as political actors negotiating among empires rather than as victims of history. 1 recommender The Chess Revolution: From the Ancient World to the Digital Age Peter Doggers From Indian origins to engines and streaming, taking in the game long entanglement with mathematics and war, and what changed once computers stopped losing. 1 recommender The Chicago Manual of Style University of Chicago Press Editorial Staff The definitive American reference on grammar, usage, and citation for writers and editors. 1 recommender The Chicken Sisters KJ Dell'Antonia Two rival family fried-chicken joints have faced off for a century, until a reality show arrives to film the feud. 1 recommender The Children of Athena: Greek Intellectuals in the Age of Rome: 150 BC-400 AD Charles Freeman Rome conquered Greece and then spent several centuries being educated by the Greek intellectuals it ruled. 1 recommender The China Study T. Colin Campbell, Thomas M. Campbell II A long-running nutrition study making the case that a whole-food, plant-based diet is linked to better long-term health. 1 recommender The Choice Ahmed Deedat Ahmed Deedat's collected works of Muslim-Christian comparative religion. 1 recommender The Christie Affair Nina de Gramont Agatha Christie's real eleven-day disappearance, narrated by the mistress her husband left her for. 1 recommender The Christmas Pig J.K. Rowling A standalone children's tale: on Christmas Eve, a boy who has lost his beloved toy pig sets off with its replacement into the Land of the Lost to get it back. The Churchill Factor Boris Johnson A brisk, opinionated portrait of Churchill and the argument that individuals really do change history. 1 recommender The Clash of the Cultures John C. Bogle Vanguard founder John Bogle argues that long-term investing has been crowded out by short-term speculation, and makes the case to return to basics. 1 recommender The Club Ellery Lloyd A celebrity members' club opens on a private island, and its perfect launch weekend ends in bodies. 1 recommender The Code Breaker Walter Isaacson How Jennifer Doudna and CRISPR gave humanity the power to edit its own genes, and the moral questions that came with it The Code, The Evaluation, The Protocols Jocko Willink A short, severe standard to measure yourself against, written to be re-read rather than finished. The Cold Dish Craig Johnson A Wyoming sheriff, his Cheyenne best friend, and a killing that looks a lot like revenge. 1 recommender The Cold Hard Truth on Men, Women, and Money Kevin O'Leary Fifty everyday money mistakes, sorted by life stage, each with O'Leary's blunt fix: spend less, automate saving, treat debt like a fire. The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas Dylan Thomas The poems Thomas chose to keep, in the order he settled on, including the villanelle he wrote as his father lay dying. 1 recommender The Color Purple Alice Walker Celie's letters trace a Black woman's journey from brutal abuse toward self-possession in the American South. 1 recommender