Books

Justice Is Coming Cenk Uygur The case that popular positions keep losing to organised money, from the founder of The Young Turks. Kalam Cosmological Arguments Mohammed Hijab A defense of the kalam family of arguments for the existence of God. Kant: A Revolution in Thinking Marcus Willaschek A short route into the philosopher everyone is told to read and almost nobody finishes. 1 recommender Karate Chop Dorthe Nors Dorthe Nors's short story collection in Martin Aitken's English translation, published by Graywolf Press in 2014. Karl Popper: The Formative Years 1902-1945 Malachi Haim Hacohen The Viennese decades from the archives: the Jewish background he downplayed, the socialist youth politics, and the New Zealand exile where The Open Society was written. 1 recommender Kathmandu Thomas Bell A city book about Kathmandu, written by someone who stayed long enough to stop being a visitor. 1 recommender Keep the Aspidistra Flying George Orwell A struggling writer declares war on money and respectability, in Orwell's mordant comedy of ambition and compromise. Kerala, 1956 to the Present: India’s Miracle State Tirthankar Roy Kerala has India's best social indicators on modest income, and this is the short explanation why. 1 recommender Kidnapped Robert Louis Stevenson A cheated heir, a kidnapping at sea and a flight across the Highlands with a Jacobite outlaw. 1 recommender Kill the Radio Dorothea Rosa Herliany Poems by Dorothea Rosa Herliany, translated by Harry Aveling and published by Arc Publications in its Visible Poets series in 2007. 1 recommender Killers of the Flower Moon David Grann The Osage grew rich on oil, then began dying, and almost nobody was supposed to notice. 1 recommender Killing Floor Lee Child Jack Reacher's first adventure, in which a drifter arrested for murder in a small Georgia town discovers that the victim was his own brother. Kin Tayari Jones A novel by Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage, and an Oprah's Book Club selection. A verified summary will follow. 1 recommender King of Ashes S.A. Cosby Cosby's South, where a family debt cannot be settled in money, and going home is the most dangerous move available. 1 recommender King Rat James Clavell Prisoners of war struggle to survive in a Japanese camp in Singapore, in James Clavell's first novel. 1 recommender Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye Horace McCoy An articulate, well-read criminal narrates his own rise, which makes it far worse. 1 recommender Kitchen Confidential Anthony Bourdain The book that made Bourdain famous: a profane, exhilarating dispatch from behind the kitchen door, telling you what really goes on before your meal arrives. Knowledge of Angels Jill Paton Walsh On a medieval island, a wolf-child and an atheist become the same theological experiment. 1 recommender Kulti Mariana Zapata A professional footballer gets her childhood idol as coach, and he turns out to be difficult. 1 recommender L.A. Weather María Amparo Escandón A year with a Mexican American family in Los Angeles, told through drought, fire and a marriage quietly ending. 1 recommender La semana laboral de 4 horas Timothy Ferriss Edición ampliada en español del libro de Timothy Ferriss sobre cómo diseñar un estilo de vida con menos horas de trabajo, publicada por Aguilar en 2022. Lady Tremaine Rachel Hochhauser The Cinderella story told by the stepmother, and the arithmetic of a widow with two daughters and no money. 1 recommender Land Where I Flee Prajwal Parajuly Three siblings return to Gangtok for their grandmother's birthday, all of them lying. 1 recommender Landscape & Memory Simon Schama 1 recommender Last Things Last Things Jenny Offill Eight-year-old Grace is pulled between a mother who believes in monsters and a father who believes in science. Late Migrations Margaret Renkl A backyard natural history and a family's deaths, braided in short chapters until they are one subject. 1 recommender Leaders Eat Last Simon Sinek The best leaders sacrifice their own comfort for their people, the way a commander eats after the troops: trust as biology Leadership Strategy and Tactics Jocko Willink The questions leaders actually ask, answered directly: how to take charge, when to push, when to shut up. Lean Thinking James P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones The foundational guide to lean production and stripping waste out of how organizations work. 1 recommender Learn to Earn Peter Lynch, John Rothchild A plain guide for young and first time investors on how companies grow, how stocks work and why owning shares pays over decades. Learning by Doing James Bessen 1 recommender Leave the World Behind Rumaan Alam Something has happened in the city, nobody can find out what, and the not-knowing does the damage. 1 recommender Lee Miller’s War Antony Penrose and David E. Scherman The photographs and dispatches Lee Miller sent from the liberation of Europe, collected by her son. 1 recommender Leg over Leg Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq Humphrey Davies's English translation of Volumes One and Two of Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq's 1855 Arabic work Leg over Leg, from the Library of Arabic Literature. 1 recommender Legion: The Many Lives of Stephen Leeds Brandon Sanderson All three Legion novellas in one volume, including the concluding Lies of the Beholder, where Stephen's aspects start to unravel. Lenin’s Kisses Yan Lianke Yan Lianke's 2004 novel, known in Chinese as Shòu huó, in Carlos Rojas's English translation from Grove Press.