Books

Three Guineas Virginia Woolf A man asked Woolf how to prevent war. Her 1938 answer ties it to the education and employment of women, and proposes a Society of Outsiders. 1 recommender Three Women Lisa Taddeo Eight years of reporting on the desire of three real women, told with the intimacy of fiction and none of its cover. 1 recommender Thrive Arianna Huffington After collapsing from exhaustion, Huffington argues that money and power are only two metrics of success, and a life needs a third: well-being. Through the Woods Emily Carroll Five illustrated horror tales in the fairy-tale tradition, where the woods are dark and something is always waiting. 1 recommender Throwback Maurene Goo A teenager is thrown back to 1995 and ends up at high school with her own mother, who turns out to be a stranger. 1 recommender Time Power Brian Tracy Tracy's full time-management system, longer and more systematic than Eat That Frog, treating time as the one resource you cannot make more of. Tiny Beautiful Things Cheryl Strayed Strayed's Dear Sugar columns, in which she answers strangers' hardest questions mostly by telling them her own story. 1 recommender Tiny Tim Harry M. Stein A reporter simply hangs around the ukulele novelty act until the whole strange truth comes out. 1 recommender Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. Ron Chernow Ron Chernow's definitive biography of John D. Rockefeller, the driven, devout oil baron who became America's first billionaire. 1 recommender To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings John O'Donohue An Irish poet and former priest writes blessings for the occasions that otherwise pass unmarked: a new job, a death, leaving home, a marriage ending, a diagnosis. 1 recommender To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee Harper Lee's Pulitzer-winning story of childhood, conscience, and racial injustice in the Depression-era South. 1 recommender To Sell Is Human Daniel Pink One in nine workers sells for a living, and the other eight now sell too. Pink on persuasion as a modern survival skill. To the Linksland Michael Bamberger A young writer caddies his way across Europe and finds golf worth taking seriously. 1 recommender To the Moon and Back Eliana Ramage A Cherokee woman spends her life pursuing a place in space, and negotiating what leaving home is allowed to cost. 1 recommender To The Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement Benjamin Nathans Soviet dissidents mostly failed, mostly went to prison, and eventually turned out to be right. 1 recommender Together Is Better Simon Sinek An illustrated fable about leaving a job you've outgrown to find people worth working alongside: Sinek's ideas in miniature Tokyo Ever After Emiko Jean A Californian teenager learns her absent father is the Crown Prince of Japan, and is flown to Tokyo to meet him. 1 recommender Tolerance Is a Wasteland Saree Makdisi How the vocabulary of tolerance and coexistence can do political work its plain meaning conceals. Tom Lake Ann Patchett Three grown daughters press their mother for the story of the famous actor she loved one summer, long before them. 1 recommender Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart Gordon Livingston Thirty plain truths from a psychiatrist who lost two sons in one year, written without consolation. 1 recommender Tools of Titans Tim Ferriss Distilled tactics and routines from hundreds of Ferriss's podcast guests, with a foreword by Arnold Schwarzenegger. 1 recommender Total Recall Arnold Schwarzenegger A boy from postwar Austria wills himself into becoming the world's greatest bodybuilder, then Hollywood's biggest star, then governor of California. Towers of Midnight Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson The penultimate Wheel of Time volume, converging the scattered threads as Rand's reckoning approaches and Perrin finally faces his. Traction Gino Wickman The Entrepreneurial Operating System, a practical framework for getting a grip on a growing company. 1 recommender Traffic Secrets Russell Brunson The question every online business hits eventually: how do you actually get customers to your funnels? Brunson reframes traffic as finding people who already want you. 1 recommender Trailblazer Marc Benioff Benioff's argument that a company's values are its best strategy, told through building Salesforce and its 1-1-1 giving model Trampoline Robert Gipe A teenage girl in coal-country Kentucky, drawn as well as written, watching the mountain go. 1 recommender Transcendent Kingdom Yaa Gyasi A neuroscientist studying addiction in mice, because her brother died of it and science has not helped. 1 recommender Transformed Marty Cagan Cagan's SVPG guide to the messy real-world work of shifting an established company onto the product operating model the best tech firms use. Transforming Noise: A History of Science and Technology from Disturbing Sounds to Informational Errors, 1900-1955 Chen-Pang Yeang Noise was a nuisance to engineers until it became the central concept in information theory. 1 recommender Travels With Charley John Steinbeck Steinbeck at sixty, driving the country with a poodle, looking for a place he still recognised. 1 recommender Tress of the Emerald Sea Brandon Sanderson A window-washer leaves her island to rescue the boy she loves, crossing seas of spore that kill on contact. Princess Bride by way of the Cosmere. Tribe of Mentors Tim Ferriss Ferriss poses the same eleven questions to a hundred world-class performers, crowd-sourcing their routines, book picks, and rules into a dip-in reference. Tribes Seth Godin The internet let any shared interest become a movement: what it needs is not more managers but someone willing to lead Trillion Dollar Coach Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, Alan Eagle The authors distill the coaching wisdom of Bill Campbell, the mentor to Steve Jobs and Google's founders, on building teams where trust and people come first. Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class Rob Henderson Seven foster homes, then the Air Force, Yale and Cambridge, and the memoir where luxury beliefs got their fullest and most personal statement. 1 recommender