Books

Lincoln in the Bardo George Saunders A president grieving in a crypt at night, narrated by a chorus of ghosts who cannot agree. 1 recommender Linea Nigra Jazmina Barrera Jazmina Barrera's hybrid book on pregnancy and early motherhood, translated by Christina MacSweeney. Linked Albert-Lázló Barabási 1 recommender Little Angels Tanya Byron, Sacha Baveystock Practical advice for parents of young children, from the psychologist behind the BBC series. Little Bee Chris Cleave A novel about a Nigerian asylum seeker and an English magazine editor, and the day that binds them. 1 recommender Little Big Man Thomas Berger A 111-year-old claims he was raised Cheyenne, fought at Little Bighorn, and knew everyone worth knowing. 1 recommender Little Fires Everywhere Celeste Ng A custody fight splits a meticulously planned suburb, exposing what its residents really believe about motherhood and class. 1 recommender Little Terrarium Hannah Fries Fries writes poems about roots, soil and small enclosed worlds, arguing by sustained attention that what happens underground holds everything above it in place. 1 recommender Little Women Louisa May Alcott Four sisters, one attic, and a heroine who wanted to write far more than she wanted to marry. 1 recommender Little Wonder Sophie Chen Keller A novel by Sophie Chen Keller and one of the newest Oprah's Book Club selections. A verified summary will follow. 1 recommender Live Your Dreams Les Brown Motivational lessons from the speaker Les Brown. 1 recommender Lives of the Wives: Five Literary Marriages Carmela Ciuraru Five literary marriages seen from the wife's side, and most of the husbands come off badly. 1 recommender Living in Denial Kari Marie Norgaard Why people who know about climate change still carry on as before, seen through one Norwegian town. 2 recommenders Lloyd George John Grigg 1 recommender Logically Fallacious Bo Bennett A reference catalogue of more than 300 logical fallacies. 1 recommender Logicomix Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H. Papadimitriou Bertrand Russell's search for the foundations of mathematics, told as a graphic novel about its own making. 1 recommender Lolita Vladimir Nabokov A monstrous narrator tells his own story so beautifully that the prose itself becomes the trap. 2 recommenders Long Island Colm Toibin Colm Toibin's sequel to Brooklyn finds Eilis Lacey, now living on Long Island, returning to Ireland when her marriage is upended. 1 recommender Long Walk to Freedom Nelson Mandela Twenty-seven years in prison, the negotiations that ended apartheid, told by the man who chose reconciliation over revenge Looking Backward Edward Bellamy Edward Bellamy's 1888 utopian novel in which a man sleeps for 100 years and wakes to a socialist America. 1 recommender Looking for Smoke K. A. Cobell Four Blackfeet teenagers are pulled into the search for a missing girl, in a community used to no one looking. 1 recommender Lord of Light Roger Zelazny The original crew made themselves immortal and rule a colony planet as the Hindu pantheon, until one of them reintroduces Buddhism as a weapon. Hugo winner, 1968. 1 recommender Los Alamos Joseph Kanon In 1945 an intelligence officer is sent to Los Alamos to solve a murder while Oppenheimer's scientists race to test the atomic bomb. 1 recommender Los Angeles Reyner Banham 1 recommender Los líderes comen al final Simon Sinek Traducción al español de Leaders Eat Last, de Simon Sinek, sobre por qué algunos equipos funcionan bien y otros no, publicada por Empresa Activa en 2023. Losing My Virginity Richard Branson The Virgin founder's candid origin story: student magazine to global empire, and the say-yes-then-figure-it-out philosophy behind every reckless bet. Lost Lambs Madeline Cash Catastrophe and small talk delivered at identical volume, with no signal for when it is joking. 1 recommender Love & Happiness Yasmin Mogahed Short reflections and quotations on love, healing and the inner life, brief by design and meant to be read a page at a time. Love and Saint Augustine Hannah Arendt Arendt was twenty-two when she asked what Augustine meant by love, and found three answers that refuse to reconcile. Her first book, and the last translated. 1 recommender Love in the Big City Sang Young Park Sang Young Park's novel of four linked stories about love, loss and friendship in Seoul, translated by Anton Hur. 1 recommender Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel García Márquez Gabriel Garcia Marquez's novel follows a man who waits more than fifty years to renew his love for a woman he lost in youth. 2 recommenders Love Letter to a Garden Debbie Millman The Design Matters host turns to her own garden, hand-lettering a book that opens at the Big Bang and narrows to one plot of ground worth tending slowly. 1 recommender Love Medicine Louise Erdrich Fifty years of two Ojibwe families told in overlapping voices, starting with a death in the snow. 1 recommender Love Poems Pablo Neruda Written in exile on Capri and published anonymously to protect the woman they were for, set here against the Spanish in a pocket-sized bilingual edition. 1 recommender Love Warrior Glennon Doyle Melton Glennon Doyle's memoir traces her path through addiction and a broken marriage toward hard-won self-acceptance. 1 recommender Love, Anger, Madness Marie Vieux-Chauvet Three linked novellas of life under the Duvalier dictatorship, withdrawn before publication because printing them would have endangered the author's family. 1 recommender