Books

How the Best Leaders Lead Brian Tracy Tracy's field guide to leadership as developable practice: strategy, priorities, team-building, and accountability, not an innate gift. How the Scots Invented the Modern World Arthur Herman Arthur Herman argues that Enlightenment Scotland handed the modern world many of its founding ideas, from free markets to modern democracy. 1 recommender How the World Made the West: A 4,000 Year History Josephine Quinn Four thousand years of the West being made by everywhere else, not by Greece and Rome alone. 1 recommender How to Be a Woman Caitlin Moran Part memoir, part polemic: Moran makes the case for feminism while being extremely funny about her own life. 1 recommender How to End a Love Story Yulin Kuang Two writers share a TV writers' room and a tragedy neither has forgiven the other for. 1 recommender How to Get Rich Felix Dennis The least sentimental book about wealth in print, written by someone unsure he would recommend it. 1 recommender How To Live on an Island Sandy Gingras Tides, weather and small communities, illustrated by an artist asking what it does to live somewhere with edges you can walk to. 1 recommender How to Not Die Alone Logan Ury A behavioural scientist who leads relationship research at Hinge applies decision science to dating, and to the patterns that sabotage it. 1 recommender How to Say Babylon Safiya Sinclair A Jamaican girlhood ruled by her father's doctrine, and poetry as the only available exit. 2 recommenders How to Take Smart Notes Sönke Ahrens The slip-box method behind the prolific sociologist Niklas Luhmann, where notes connect and think with you rather than pile up. 1 recommender How to Talk to Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere Larry King King distills decades of interviewing into a friendly primer on conversation, where honesty, curiosity, and real interest beat any trick or script. How to Think Like Sherlock Daniel Smith Observation, memory, and reasoning techniques modelled on Sherlock Holmes. 1 recommender How to Think More About Sex Alain de Botton Sex treated as a subject worthy of calm, honest reflection rather than embarrassment or cliche. 1 recommender How to Win at the Sport of Business Mark Cuban Cuban's blog distilled: no pedigree required, just relentless learning and the willingness to outwork everyone in the room How to Win Friends and Influence People Dale Carnegie Dale Carnegie's enduring guide to dealing with people, built on genuine interest, appreciation, and seeing things from another's point of view. 1 recommender How Will You Measure Your Life? Clayton M. Christensen A Harvard professor turns the tools of business strategy on personal life: career, relationships, and staying out of jail. 1 recommender Human Capital for Humans: An Accessible Introduction to the Economic Science of People Pablo A. Peña Why economists treat schooling, training and experience as investments, explained without any of the equations. 1 recommender Human Compatible Stuart Russell Berkeley AI pioneer Stuart Russell argues that the standard model of building ever-smarter machines to pursue fixed goals is a mistake, and proposes a new foundation for keeping AI provably beneficial to humans. 2 recommenders Human Dark with Sugar Brenda Shaughnessy Winner of the James Laughlin Award, on desire, disappointment and the failures of the body, in a voice that manages funny and wounded within a single line. 1 recommender Hunger Roxane Gay Gay writes with unsparing honesty about her body, the assault that reshaped it, and living in a world hostile to size. 1 recommender Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl Carrie Brownstein The Sleater-Kinney guitarist on family, punk, and the hunger that drove her onto a stage. 1 recommender The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood In the Republic of Gilead, fertile women are conscripted as breeders, and Offred remembers a world where she had a name. 3 recommenders The Happiness Hypothesis Jonathan Haidt Ancient wisdom put to the test of modern psychology, with a rider perched on an elephant he does not control. 1 recommender The Hate U Give Angie Thomas Starr is the only witness when a police officer kills her unarmed childhood friend, and her two worlds collide. 1 recommender The Hating Game Sally Thorne Two executive assistants compete for the same promotion and lose the plot entirely. 1 recommender The Healthcare Labyrinth: A Guide to Navigating Health Plans and Fixing American Health Insurance Marc S. Ryan How American health insurance actually works, priced and administered, rather than how the debate describes it. 1 recommender The Heart Goes Last Margaret Atwood A couple trade their freedom for security in a town where every second month is spent inside its prison, by design. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers Carson McCullers's debut gathers lonely souls in a 1930s Georgia town around a deaf-mute man they each turn to. 1 recommender The Heart Is a Shifting Sea Elizabeth Flock Ten years reporting on three Mumbai marriages, told with the access of a novelist. 1 recommender The Heart of a Woman Maya Angelou The fourth volume of Maya Angelou's autobiography, following her into activism, motherhood, and the civil rights movement. 1 recommender The Heir Apparent Rebecca Armitage Inside a royal household where the succession is at stake and someone on the staff has stopped cooperating. 1 recommender The Henna Artist Alka Joshi In 1950s Jaipur a woman escapes her marriage to become henna artist to the wealthy, until the sister she never knew arrives. 1 recommender The Hero of Ages Brandon Sanderson The mists are killing people, ash is burying the world, and the god-like Ruin walks free. The finale of the original Mistborn trilogy. The Highest Exam: How the Gaokao Shapes China Ruixue Jia One examination decides a Chinese teenager's future, and the country has organised itself around it. 1 recommender The History of White People Nell Irvin Painter Whiteness as an invention with a traceable history, and a surprising amount of art criticism. 1 recommender The Holocaust Industry Norman Finkelstein A survivors' son on how the memory became an institution, and who the reparations actually reached.