Books

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark Alvin Schwartz Campfire folk tales retold for young readers, made unforgettable by Stephen Gammell's nightmarish illustrations. 1 recommender Scattered Gabor Maté Maté, who has ADHD himself, argues it is less a genetic disorder than a response to early stress, and that it can be healed rather than only managed. Schattenfroh Michael Lentz A thousand pages of German memory, guilt and paternal authority, called untranslatable right up until somebody translated it. Admirers and detractors both invoke Solenoid. 1 recommender Schoenberg: Why He Matters Harvey Sachs An introduction to Schoenberg that admits how much of his music people genuinely dislike. 1 recommender Schubert: A Musical Wayfarer Lorraine Byrne Bodley Everything about Schubert, and above all the music, in something close to definitive form. 1 recommender Scorecard Marketing Daniel Priestley, Glen Carlson A four-step playbook for using quizzes and scorecards to generate better leads by engaging prospects instead of interrupting them. 1 recommender Scrappy Little Nobody Anna Kendrick Anna Kendrick turns her sharp, self-deprecating wit on her own life, from awkward childhood to the strange realities of fame. Screw It, Let’s Do It Richard Branson Branson's maxims in miniature: believe in yourself, protect the downside, have fun, and stop overthinking the leap you keep postponing. Searching for Sylvie Lee Jean Kwok The capable sister vanishes in the Netherlands, and the family history explains more than the search. 1 recommender Second Place Rachel Cusk A woman invites a famous painter to her marshland guest house and regrets it almost at once. 1 recommender Secrets and Lies David Southwell A survey of history's most notorious conspiracies and cover-ups. 1 recommender Secrets of Mental Math Arthur Benjamin Techniques for doing fast arithmetic in your head. 1 recommender Secrets of Sand Hill Road Scott Kupor An a16z partner explains how venture capital actually works, from term sheets to what VCs really want. 1 recommender Security Analysis Benjamin Graham, David Dodd The foundational text of value investing by Benjamin Graham and David Dodd, laying out how to analyze securities and value a business from its fundamentals. 1 recommender Seize the Day Saul Bellow Half a day in the life of a man who has run out of road, and knows it. 1 recommender Selected Writings Rene Magritte Magritte argued about resemblance and thought with the same precision his paintings used to disrupt them, in manifestos and interviews collected in English at last. 1 recommender Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians Tara Isabella Burton Curating a public self is not new, and Da Vinci was doing it long before Instagram. 1 recommender Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids Bryan Caplan If parenting shapes children far less than we assume, then the rational response is to relax about it and have more of them. Cheerfully provocative. Sell or Be Sold Grant Cardone Cardone's core sales philosophy: everyone is selling something, all the time, so mastering how to persuade and close is a life skill, not just a job function. Serenade James M. Cain A washed-up opera singer in Mexico finds his voice again through a woman, and wrecks everything reaching for it. 1 recommender Set Boundaries, Find Peace Nedra Glover Tawwab Therapist Nedra Glover Tawwab lays out how to set and hold healthy boundaries at work, with family, and with yourself, without the guilt. 1 recommender Settle for More Megyn Kelly The broadcaster's account of trading a law career for television news, and what it cost her once the spotlight turned hostile. Seven Days in June Tia Williams Two writers who spent one week together as teenagers, and fifteen years hiding messages in their novels, meet again. 1 recommender Several Short Sentences About Writing Verlyn Klinkenborg Most of what school taught you about writing is debris. A rebuild, working one sentence at a time. 1 recommender Sex and World Peace Valerie M. Hudson, Bonnie Ballif-Spanvill, Mary Caprioli, Chad F. Emmett Data-driven argument that the security of women is the best predictor of whether a state is peaceful. 1 recommender Shadows of Self Brandon Sanderson A killer who can wear other people's faces is stoking unrest in Elendel, and the hunt drags Wax into the machinery of his own religion. Shake It Up, Baby! The Rise of Beatlemania and the Mayhem of 1963 Ken McNab At the start of 1963 they expected to end up writing songs for other people. By the end they were the most famous band in Britain. McNab tracks the year. 1 recommender Shark Tales Barbara Corcoran, Bruce Littlefield Corcoran turns a $1,000 loan and her mother's kitchen-table wisdom into a real estate empire, telling the story as blunt, funny business lessons. Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia Sam Dalrymple Burma in 1937, the Gulf states, India and Pakistan, then Bangladesh: five partitions treated as one connected process that drew the map of modern Asia. 1 recommender She’s Come Undone Wally Lamb Wally Lamb's debut follows Dolores Price from a troubled childhood through years of pain and slow recovery, told in her sharp, wounded voice. 1 recommender Shelter from the Storm: How a COVID Mortgage Meltdown Was Averted Mark Calabria The American mortgage market nearly seized up in 2020, and this is the account from inside. 1 recommender Shifting Sands: A Human History of the Sahara Judith Scheele Two decades of field work argue the desert is a connective region rather than an empty barrier, with a coherence that ignores every border drawn across it. 1 recommender Ship of Fools Tucker Carlson A conservative commentator's critique of the American ruling class. Shoot the Widow: Adventures of a Biographer in Search of Her Subject Meryle Secrest Secrest wrote lives of Dali, Berenson, Wright and Sondheim, and here describes what it took to reach each one: the locked archives, and the widows guarding them. 1 recommender Shooting Stars LeBron James Four friends, one Akron high school team, and the loyalty that carried all of them out. Shot in the Heart Mikal Gilmore The brother of an executed murderer goes back through the family that produced them both. 1 recommender