Books

Remembering Denny Calvin Trillin The Yale golden boy everyone expected to become president, and why he killed himself instead. 1 recommender Remote Jason Fried The case for working from anywhere, written years before it was forced on everyone. How to do it without losing the company Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California John Charles Fremont An official government report on the 1842 expeditions, written up with his wife, that became a bestseller and a practical trail guide for emigrants heading west. 1 recommender Resistance and Liberation: France at War 1942-1945 Douglas Porch The French Resistance and the liberation, in far more detail than the national myth allows. 1 recommender Rest Alex Soojung-Kim Pang Rest isn't the opposite of work but its essential partner, as the routines of scientists, writers and artists quietly show. 1 recommender Retroland: A Reader’s Guide to the Dazzling Diversity of Modern Fiction Peter Kemp A veteran reviewer's opinionated tour of modern fiction, with the opinions left firmly in. 1 recommender Revenge of the Tipping Point Malcolm Gladwell Twenty-five years on, Gladwell returns to his own idea and asks who has learned to weaponise it. Revisiting South Africa’s Nuclear Weapons Program: Its History, Dismantlement, and Lessons for Today David Albright South Africa built six nuclear weapons and then voluntarily gave them up, which nobody else has done. 1 recommender Revive Your Heart Nouman Ali Khan Practical reflections on faith, prayer and staying grounded amid modern distraction, adapted from a series of talks. Revolution Russell Brand The comedian's polemic calling for political and spiritual change. 1 recommender Revolution by the Book Jamil Al-Amin Imam Jamil Al-Amin (H. Rap Brown) on faith, discipline, and inner struggle. 1 recommender Revolution for Dummies Bassem Youssef Bassem Youssef’s memoir of satire and survival during and after the Egyptian revolution, told with the humor that made him famous. Revolutionary Spring: Fighting for a New World 1848-1849 Christopher Clark Revolution broke out across Europe in 1848 and had failed almost everywhere within a year. 1 recommender Rework Jason Fried A blunt anti-business book: forget plans, meetings and growth for its own sake, and just build something and ship it Rhodesia: A Complete History 1890-1980 Peter Baxter Ninety years of Rhodesia, from Cecil Rhodes to the end, without a thesis to sell. 1 recommender Rhythm of War Brandon Sanderson Navani's scholars race the enemy for a scientific breakthrough while Kaladin fights an enemy he cannot punch: his own mind. Rich Dad Poor Dad Robert T. Kiyosaki The money lessons of two father figures: a highly educated but cash-strapped poor dad, and a friend's entrepreneurial rich dad. 1 recommender Ride the Devil’s Herd John Boessenecker Tombstone told through the Cowboys rather than the Earps, by the genre's most exacting researcher. 1 recommender Right Is Wrong Arianna Huffington A blistering polemic against the Bush-era right, arguing that a fringe minority captured American politics while the media waved it through. Right-Wing Women Andrea Dworkin Dworkin on why women support movements that constrain them, and why the reasoning is not stupid. 1 recommender Rise and Grind Daymond John A look at the daily routines of high performers, and John's argument that grind, done deliberately, is a learnable discipline River, Cross My Heart Breena Clarke Breena Clarke's novel follows a Black family in 1920s Washington, D.C., after the drowning of a young daughter. 1 recommender Romantic Comedy Curtis Sittenfeld A late-night sketch writer has a theory about why schlubby men date pop stars, then a pop star seems interested in her. 1 recommender Rosarita Anita Desai A stranger in Mexico claims to have known her mother. A short, unsettling enquiry into the stories families do not tell. 1 recommender Rose Lane Says: Thoughts on Race, Liberty, and Equality, 1942-1945 David T. Beito The wartime newspaper columns of a founding libertarian who wrote about race when few on her side did. 1 recommender Ruby Cynthia Bond Cynthia Bond's novel follows a broken woman's return to a small Texas town and the man determined to save her. 1 recommender Rule Breaker Investing David Gardner The Motley Fool co-founder lays out the contrarian, growth-minded philosophy he used to spot market-beating companies long before the crowd did. 1 recommender Rural Hours: The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner, and Rosamond Lehmann Harriet Baker Woolf, Townsend Warner and Lehmann left London for cold cottages, and had to work out how to keep writing among neighbours who had no idea what they did. 1 recommender Sahih al-Bukhari Imam al-Bukhari The most authoritative collection of hadith in Sunni Islam. 2 recommenders Sahih Muslim Imam Muslim One of the two most authoritative hadith collections in Sunni Islam. 1 recommender Sailing Alone Around the Room Billy Collins Poems that start somewhere domestic and are elsewhere entirely by the last line. 1 recommender Sam Walton: Made in America Sam Walton The Walmart founder's own account of building the world's largest retailer from a single small-town store. 1 recommender Sankofa Chibundu Onuzo A mixed-race Londoner discovers the father she never knew became an African president, and goes to find him. 1 recommender Sapiens Yuval Noah Harari How an unremarkable African ape became the dominant force on the planet, told through the cognitive, agricultural and scientific revolutions. 5 recommenders Say Nothing Patrick Radden Keefe A mother of ten taken from her Belfast flat in 1972, and the decades of silence that followed. 1 recommender Say You’re One of Them Uwem Akpan Uwem Akpan's story collection views violence and upheaval across Africa through the clear eyes of children. 1 recommender