Books

Mother Mary Comes to Me Arundhati Roy Mary Roy won a landmark case in India Supreme Court and was, by her daughter account, impossible to live with. Arundhati Roy writes her anyway. 2 recommenders Mother of Pearl Melinda Haynes Melinda Haynes's novel weaves together Black and white lives in 1950s Mississippi as an unlikely friendship confronts the town's divisions. 1 recommender Mother-Daughter Murder Night Nina Simon A body in a California slough forces three generations of women, none of them speaking properly, to investigate together. 1 recommender Motivation Brian Tracy A pocket guide arguing managers cannot motivate anyone, they can only remove what is demotivating them. Motorhome Prophecies: A Journey of Healing and Forgiveness Carrie Sheffield Raised in a motorhome by a father who believed he was a prophet, and the long climb out. 1 recommender Mozart the Performer: Variations on the Showman’s Art Dorian Bandy Mozart was a showman before he was a composer, and the performing shaped everything he wrote. 1 recommender Mr. Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense Jenny Uglow Before the nonsense verse, Lear painted parrots at twenty and hid his epilepsy for life. Uglow gives the ornithologist and the limerick-writer equal standing. 1 recommender Mr. Putin Fiona Hill, Clifford G. Gaddy Fiona Hill and Clifford Gaddy’s analytical portrait of Vladimir Putin through the identities that shape how he rules. 1 recommender Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf One June day in London, a party being planned and a war still going off in someone's head. 1 recommender Mrs. Nixon Ann Beattie A novelist circles Pat Nixon, admits she cannot reach her, and writes that as the book. 1 recommender Music for Chameleons Truman Capote Late Capote: stories, a novella and a day spent with Marilyn Monroe. 1 recommender Music of Exile: The Untold Story of the Composers who Fled Hitler Michael Haas Some reached Hollywood, some reached nowhere, and some never recovered the reputation the interruption cost them. What became of the composers Hitler drove out. 1 recommender Mustang Sally Edward Allen A tenured English professor blunders through campus orthodoxy and a Nevada brothel, in that order. 1 recommender My Antonia Willa Cather A Bohemian immigrant girl on the Nebraska prairie, remembered by the boy who never quite had her. 1 recommender My Booky Wook Russell Brand Addiction, expulsion and early stand-up, written in the ornate register that became his trademark. My Face for the World to See Alfred Hayes He pulls a stranger from the surf, and the rescue quietly dismantles the life he had. 2 recommenders My Father Was a Freedom Fighter Ramzy Baroud One family from a village lost in 1948 into a Gaza refugee camp, following his father through it. My Great Predecessors, Part I Garry Kasparov The first volume of Kasparov's acclaimed history of the world chess champions, analyzing the games and careers of the early greats from Steinitz onward. My Journeys in Economic Theory Edmund Phelps A Nobel laureate's memoir, as interested in Rawls and Italian opera as in the Phillips curve. 1 recommender My Life on the Road Gloria Steinem The feminist icon's memoir of a life spent traveling and organizing, and the road-learned lessons about listening, movement-building, and her mother that shaped her. 1 recommender My Nine Lives: A Memoir of Many Careers in Music Leon Fleisher A concert pianist lost the use of his right hand at thirty-six and built four decades of career around it. 1 recommender My Other Heart Emma Nanami Strenner A child vanishes on the way home to Vietnam, and two girls spend years working out who they actually are. 1 recommender My Remarkable Journey Larry King King's candid memoir, from a poor Brooklyn boyhood as Larry Zeiger to America's most famous microphone, told in his conversational broadcast voice. My Very Own Special Particular Private and Personal Cat Sandol Stoddard A child lays claim to a cat through an escalating series of adjectives, and the cat declines to acknowledge any of them. 1 recommender My View of the World Erwin Schrodinger Two long essays written thirty-five years apart, in which a Nobel physicist asks why there appears to be only one world when billions of observers are looking. 1 recommender Mysticism and Dissent: Socioreligious Dissent in Qajar Iran Mangol Bayat Shaykhism, Babism and the emergence of the Bahai faith, traced through the heterodox currents running under nineteenth-century Iran and the dissent that followed. 1 recommender Myth America Kevin M. Kruse, Julian E. Zelizer Historians debunk enduring myths about the American past. 1 recommender The Magic of Silence: Caspar David Friedrich’s Journey Through Time Florian Illies Who bought the paintings, who burned them, who found them again, and how the Nazi embrace nearly finished Friedrich. Art history written as the biography of objects. 1 recommender The Magic World E. Nesbit Twelve stories in which over-supervised Edwardian children finally get into proper trouble. 1 recommender The Magical Reality of Nadia Bassem Youssef, Catherine R. Daly A middle-grade adventure, co-written by Bassem Youssef, about an Egyptian American girl and a magical figure freed from an ancient amulet. The Magician’s Nephew C.S. Lewis How the wardrobe got there, how the lamp-post got there, and how Narnia was sung into being. 1 recommender The Making of a Manager Julie Zhuo Julie Zhuo became a manager at 25 with no idea what she was doing. This is the guide she wished she'd had. 1 recommender The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece Tom Hanks Hanks's debut novel, a fond insider's tour of how a superhero blockbuster actually gets made, from first idea to final cut. The Making of the Modern Philippines: Pieces of a Jigsaw State Philip Bowring Why a country with real advantages has stayed poorer than its neighbours for a long time. 1 recommender The Maltese Falcon Dashiell Hammett Everyone wants the black bird, everyone is lying, and Sam Spade trusts none of them. 1 recommender The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit Sloan Wilson The commute, the office, the mortgage, and the war none of it quite covers up. 1 recommender