Books

Shots Heard Round the World: America, Britain, and Europe in the Revolutionary War John Ferling Ferling puts the colonial campaign inside the wider European war it became, weighing French, Spanish and British strategy as heavily as anything at Saratoga. 1 recommender Show and Biz: The Market Economy in TV Series and Popular Culture (2000-2020) Maria Blanco What television series since 2000 have actually taught viewers about markets, trade and money. 1 recommender Show Your Work! Austin Kleon You don't have to be a genius to get discovered, you have to be findable. Ten principles for sharing your work. 1 recommender Shuggie Bain Douglas Stuart A boy in 1980s Glasgow certain he can save his mother, in a novel that refuses to agree. 1 recommender Shutter Ramona Emerson A Navajo forensic photographer sees the dead in her crime-scene images, and they want something. 1 recommender Sid Meier’s Memoir! Sid Meier A working designer's account of four decades, candid about the failures and the features players hated. Silver Screen Fiend Patton Oswalt Oswalt on his four-year addiction to revival-cinema filmgoing, a love letter to movies and a caution about worshiping art instead of making your own. Sister Outsider Audre Lorde Lorde's essential essays on race, class, sexuality and the uses of anger, including the master's tools. 1 recommender Six of Crows Leigh Bardugo A fantasy heist: six dangerous outcasts recruited for an impossible break-in that could make them rich or get them killed. 1 recommender Skin in the Game Nassim Nicholas Taleb Decisions made by people who do not bear the downside, and exposure to consequences as the filter that fixes it. 1 recommender Skyward Brandon Sanderson Humanity is pinned to one planet under alien bombardment, and the daughter of a pilot branded a coward is determined to fly anyway. Skyward Flight: The Collection Brandon Sanderson, Janci Patterson Three Skyward novellas in one volume, handing the story to FM, Jorgen and Alanik while Spensa is away in the nowhere. Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut A prisoner of war survives the firebombing of Dresden and comes unstuck in time. 1 recommender Slave to Sensation Nalini Singh In a world where cold, emotionless Psy live alongside shape-shifting Changelings, one of each is drawn together hunting a killer. 1 recommender Slavery and Islam Jonathan A.C. Brown Why a tradition that regulated slavery never abolished it, without apologetics or easy condemnation. Slouch: Posture Panic in Modern America Beth Linker A century of Americans being told to stand up straight, and the science that was never there. 1 recommender Slow Dance Rainbow Rowell The two friends everyone expected to end up together meet again at thirty-three, after the years took them elsewhere. 1 recommender Slow Productivity Cal Newport Three principles against the frantic, visible busyness of knowledge work: do fewer things, work at a natural pace, obsess over quality. 1 recommender Small Boat Vincent Delecroix A Channel drowning, and the operator who took the calls, told largely as her own defence. 1 recommender Small Isn’t Beautiful: The Case Against Localism Trevor Latimer Local government is not automatically better government, and the case for it mostly does not hold. 1 recommender Small Things Like These Claire Keegan Claire Keegan's slim, luminous novel follows an Irish coal merchant who confronts the cruelty of a convent laundry at Christmas. 2 recommenders Smart People Should Build Things Andrew Yang Yang's first book, on steering talented graduates away from finance and consulting and toward building companies, especially outside the coastal hubs. Smoke and Ashes: Opium’s Hidden Histories Amitav Ghosh Opium built modern Asia and a good deal of Western wealth, and the receipts are still traceable. 1 recommender 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