Books

Snapshot Brandon Sanderson Two detectives work inside a perfect recreation of a single day, hunting a killer among people who will cease to exist at midnight. So Late in the Day Claire Keegan Small refusals and narrowing lives, in stories where what is withheld carries the weight. 1 recommender So You Want to Own Greenland? Elizabeth Buchanan Everyone who has tried to buy, claim or annex Greenland, set out dispassionately, including the Norwegian claim to the eastern coast that went to the Hague. 1 recommender Society of Lies Lauren Ling Brown A woman returns to Princeton for her sister's graduation and ends up investigating her death instead. 1 recommender Solito, Solita Steven Mayers, Jonathan Freedman Young Central Americans tell, in their own words, how and why they made the journey north alone. 1 recommender Some Bright Nowhere Ann Packer Ann Packer's novel, a 2025 Oprah's Book Club selection. A fuller description will be added once verified against the finished book. 1 recommender Someday Is Today Matthew Dicks An urgent case against someday, from a novelist who wrote his books in the margins of a full-time job. 1 recommender Someone Alice McDermott An ordinary Irish-American life in Brooklyn, told with no dramatic events and no wasted sentences. 1 recommender Something for Nothing Brian Tracy Tracy's odd one out: a broadside against the wish for unearned reward, and the least self-help-shaped book he wrote. Something in the Water Catherine Steadman A honeymoon dive turns up something that should have been left alone, and a couple discovers what they are willing to do. 1 recommender Something of Myself Rudyard Kipling Kipling last book, unfinished at his death, guarded about his private life and remarkably open about craft, including the Daemon he credited for his best work. 1 recommender Song of Solomon Toni Morrison Toni Morrison's novel follows a man nicknamed Milkman Dead as he leaves Michigan to trace his family's roots and finds a buried history. 2 recommenders Songs in Ordinary Time Mary McGarry Morris Mary McGarry Morris's novel follows a struggling single mother in 1960s Vermont drawn into the orbit of a charming con man. 1 recommender Southern Europe in the Age of Revolutions Maurizio Isabella The 1820s revolutions in Spain, Portugal, Italy and Greece, treated as one connected movement. 1 recommender Southern Honor Bertram Wyatt-Brown Why men in the antebellum South were prepared to kill over an insult, taken seriously as a system. 1 recommender Speak to Win Brian Tracy Tracy spent decades on stage before writing this. Public speaking treated as a learnable mechanic rather than a nerve to be conquered. Spectacular Things Beck Dorey-Stein One sister is bound for the national football team; the other has spent her life making that possible. 1 recommender Spellbound: How Charisma Shaped American History From the Puritans to Donald Trump Molly Worthen American history retold through charisma, from Puritan preachers to Trump, with technology mattering less than expected. 1 recommender Spiritual Enlightenment Jed McKenna A blunt, iconoclastic book stripping spirituality of comfort and dogma, presenting enlightenment as seeing through illusion rather than achieving bliss. 1 recommender Stag Dance Torrey Peters A novel and three stories about desire and transition, including one set in a logging camp. 1 recommender Stalactite & Stalagmite: A Big Tale from a Little Cave Drew Beckmeyer Two rock formations grow toward each other across geological time. It is a love story and an honest account of cave formation, and the romance takes a hundred thousand years. 1 recommender Standard Deviation Katherine Heiny A husband, his exhaustingly charming second wife, his first wife, and a club of origami obsessives. 1 recommender Starling House Alix E. Harrow In a dying Kentucky coal town, a woman takes a cleaning job at the cursed house everyone else avoids. 1 recommender Starry Messenger Neil deGrasse Tyson What the view from space does to earthbound arguments: Tyson turns the cosmic lens on politics, war, race and truth Starship Troopers Robert A. Heinlein Powered armour and interstellar war, wrapped around an argument about who has earned the vote. 1 recommender Starsight Brandon Sanderson Spensa goes undercover among the very aliens who have been bombing her people, and finds the enemy is not what she was told. Start With Why Simon Sinek People don't buy what you do, they buy why you do it: the Golden Circle idea that launched a thousand mission statements Steelheart Brandon Sanderson Ordinary people woke up with superpowers and promptly became tyrants. David saw Steelheart bleed once, and has spent his life planning to make it happen again. Steve Jobs Walter Isaacson Built from over forty interviews with Jobs himself, an unsparing portrait of the genius and the cruelty in equal measure Still Born Guadalupe Nettel Two friends who swore off motherhood, and a novel that refuses to resolve the ambivalence. 1 recommender Still Lives Maria Hummel An artist who paints murdered women vanishes on her opening night, in a mystery with the art world's appetites in its sights. 1 recommender Stillness Is the Key Ryan Holiday The scarce resource is not information but the stillness to think, and it is harder than it sounds. Stinger Robert R. McCammon A dying Texas border town is sealed inside an alien sphere, with a relentless bounty hunter loose in its streets. 1 recommender Stolen Lives Malika Oufkir Malika Oufkir's memoir recounts twenty years her family spent imprisoned in the Moroccan desert after her father's failed coup. 1 recommender Stone Mattress Margaret Atwood Nine tales about people old enough to have outlived their own reputations, and what they decide to do about it. Stones from the River Ursula Hegi Ursula Hegi's novel follows a dwarf named Trudi through a German town across both world wars, watching neighbors turn toward Nazism. 1 recommender