Books

Iqbal and Pakistan’s Moment of Truth Imran N. Hosein On Muhammad Iqbal's vision for a Muslim polity and how far Pakistan has answered it. Iranian Architecture: A Visual History Sohrab Sardashti Iranian architecture photographed at length, for readers who may never be able to visit any of it. 1 recommender Iraq Confidential Scott Ritter The weapons inspections from inside, including the intelligence operations running under their cover. Is a River Alive? Robert Macfarlane Three rivers, in Ecuador, India and Canada, and the legal movement arguing they hold rights of their own. The question in the title is not rhetorical. 1 recommender Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? Mindy Kaling Kaling's debut collection of comic essays, from bookish immigrant kid to The Office writers' room, in the confident-yet-insecure voice that made her a star. Is There Really a Human Race? Jamie Lee Curtis A child wonders whether life is a race to win or a journey to enjoy, in Jamie Lee Curtis's picture book. Islam Hans Küng 1 recommender Islam and Buddhism in the Modern World Imran N. Hosein A comparative study of the two religions and the ground the author finds common to them. Islam and Politics Peter Mandaville From the earliest disputes over authority to the present, showing how much theology is about power. Islam and the Secular State Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im 1 recommender Islamesque: The Forgotten Craftsmen Who Built Europe’s Medieval Monuments Diana Darke Darke traces the pointed arch, the ribbed vault and the geometric ornament back through Sicily and Spain, and asks why the craftsmen were written out. 1 recommender Isola Allegra Goodman A French noblewoman is marooned on an island off Quebec in the 1540s, in a novel drawn from a real survival. 1 recommender Istanbul Orhan Pamuk A childhood spent in a city that cannot stop mourning the empire it used to be. 1 recommender It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson The Basecamp founders make the case for the calm company, rejecting hustle and long hours as badges of honour. 1 recommender It Is Dangerous to Be Right When the Government Is Wrong Andrew Napolitano Rights come before governments rather than from them, and a state that claims to grant your freedoms can take them back. It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful Jack Lowery The artists of Gran Fury turned ACT UP's rage into posters a city could not ignore. 1 recommender Italy Reborn: From Fascism to Democracy Mark Gilbert Between 1943 and 1958 a defeated fascist state with no democratic tradition built a working democracy. De Gasperi did much of it, and is barely remembered. 1 recommender The Ickabog J.K. Rowling A fairy tale about a prosperous kingdom, a monster that may or may not be real, and how a convenient lie, once told by those in power, can grow into something monstrous. The Idea Factory Jon Gertner How one lab produced the transistor, the laser and information theory, and what conditions made that possible. 1 recommender The Idea Machine: How Books Built Our World Joel J. Miller Scrolls, codices, marginalia, print and the paperback, told as episodes, arguing the book is less a container for ideas than a machine that keeps producing them. 1 recommender The Idea of Epilepsy: A Medical and Social History of Epilepsy in the Modern Era (1860-2020) Simon Shorvon A century and a half of epilepsy, the treatments, and the stigma that outlasted most of them. 1 recommender The Idiot Elif Batuman A Harvard freshman in 1995 falls into an email correspondence with an older Hungarian math student. 1 recommender The Idiot Fyodor Dostoevsky Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel of Prince Myshkin, a young man whose goodness sets him against a worldly society, in the Pevear and Volokhonsky translation. 1 recommender The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Rebecca Skloot The woman whose cells were taken without consent in 1951 and never stopped dividing, and the family left behind. 1 recommender The Importance of the Prohibition of Riba in Islam Imran N. Hosein A shorter statement of the case against riba and why the author holds it to be central. The Indo-Europeans Rediscovered: How a Scientific Revolution is Rewriting Their Story J.P. Mallory Ancient DNA has upended the story of where the Indo-European languages came from, and who carried them. 1 recommender The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman Angela Carter A war fought with illusions rather than weapons, as one doctor's machines dissolve the boundary between desire and reality. 1 recommender The Infinite Game Simon Sinek Business has no finish line, so playing to win misreads the game: a case for leading toward a cause that outlasts you The Inner Game of Tennis W. Timothy Gallwey W. Timothy Gallwey's classic on the mental side of tennis, and of performing well at almost anything. 1 recommender The Inner Life of Animals Peter Wohlleben Peter Wohlleben's follow-up to The Hidden Life of Trees, turning his attention to animals. The Innocents Abroad Mark Twain Twain's irreverent bestseller about a steamship tour of Europe and the Holy Land, puncturing guidebook piety and the American tourist alike. The Innovator’s Dilemma Clayton M. Christensen Christensen's classic on why well-run companies get toppled by disruptive innovation, and how to avoid it. 2 recommenders The Innovators Walter Isaacson Not one genius but a century of collaborators, from Ada Lovelace to the founders of Google, who together built the computer age The Intelligent Investor Benjamin Graham Benjamin Graham's foundational guide to value investing, built around margin of safety and treating a stock as a piece of a business. 1 recommender The Intermediaries: A Weimar Story Brandy Schillace A Weimar story about the people Hirschfeld's institute served, recovered from records long thought lost. 1 recommender The Invention of Wings Sue Monk Kidd A novel tracing the entwined lives of a Charleston slaveholder’s daughter and an enslaved girl she is given as a gift. 1 recommender