Books

Suicide Pact Andrew Napolitano Every emergency enlarges the presidency and no emergency ever quite ends, which is how the office keeps the powers it borrows. Sula Toni Morrison Toni Morrison's novel traces a lifelong friendship between two Black women whose choices set them on very different paths. 1 recommender Summer on Highland Beach Sunny Hostin The third Summer Beach novel, set in the Chesapeake town that affluent Black families built as their own summer retreat. Summer on Sag Harbor Sunny Hostin The series moves to Sag Harbor, where a woman returning to her family's summer community finds it changing around her. Summer on the Bluffs Sunny Hostin Three goddaughters, one Oak Bluffs house, and the summer the woman who raised them decides which of them inherits it. Summer Sisters Judy Blume Twenty years of a friendship across a class divide, beginning with one invitation to Martha's Vineyard. 1 recommender Super Agers: An Evidence-Based Approach to Longevity Eric Topol A cardiologist reviews what the longevity evidence actually supports, from immune ageing to GLP-1 drugs, and is explicit about the point where the data runs out. 1 recommender Superintelligence Nick Bostrom Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom's rigorous examination of what happens if machine intelligence surpasses our own, and why steering that transition may be the defining challenge of the age. 1 recommender Superman: For Tomorrow Jim Lee A million people vanish and Superman cannot undo it, drawn on a deliberately monumental scale. Supernova Era Cixin Liu Everyone over the age of thirteen is going to die, and the children have eight months to prepare. 1 recommender Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! Richard P. Feynman The Nobel physicist as safe-cracker, bongo player and relentless prankster, with curiosity as a way of living 1 recommender Surfacing Margaret Atwood A search for a missing father in the Quebec bush turns into a woman shedding language, company and her own assembled self. Swift River Essie Chambers The only mixed-race girl in a mill town, and letters from an aunt filling in a father's disappearance. 1 recommender Swimming in the Dark Tomasz Jedrowski First love in 1980s Poland, where the relationship and the politics turn out to be one choice. 1 recommender Switch Chip Heath and Dan Heath What looks like a people problem is usually a situation problem. A three-part model for changing either. 1 recommender Swords into Plowshares Ron Paul Paul's part-memoir, part-argument against America's permanent war economy, tracing how militarism, central banking, and lost liberties feed each other. Syntactic Structures Noam Chomsky The short 1957 monograph that made grammar a property of the mind rather than a habit learned. Taking a Stand Rand Paul Paul's 2016 campaign manifesto and memoir, arguing for a more libertarian Republican Party on criminal justice, privacy, surveillance, and foreign restraint. Tales from the Perilous Realm J.R.R. Tolkien Tolkien's shorter fiction from outside Middle-earth, closing with the essay arguing that fairy tales were never meant for children alone. 1 recommender Talking to Strangers Malcolm Gladwell We are terrible at reading people we have never met, and the consequences reach from the courtroom to the traffic stop. Tao Te Ching Lao Tzu The ancient Chinese classic of Taoism: eighty-one short poems on humility, non-action, and living in harmony with the Tao, the force behind everything. 1 recommender Tara Road Maeve Binchy Maeve Binchy's novel follows two women, one in Dublin and one in New York, who swap houses and lives for a transforming summer. 1 recommender Taxocracy: What You Don’t Know About Taxes and How They Rule Your Daily Life Scott Hodge Tax incentives quietly decide what gets built, bought and borrowed, and almost nobody notices. 1 recommender Tchaikovsky’s Empire: A New Life of Russia’s Greatest Composer Simon Morrison Morrison puts Tchaikovsky inside the imperial court that paid for and constrained him, and gives the music as much attention as the life, including the death myths. 1 recommender Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom Bell Hooks hooks makes the case for the classroom as shared risk rather than transmission, drawing on segregated schooling and what it cost her to become a professor. 1 recommender Tears for Water Alicia Keys Poems and lyrics from the notebooks Alicia Keys kept long before she was famous. Telephone Tales Gianni Rodari A travelling salesman phones his daughter each night with a story, kept short because calls cost money. Sixty absurd, political, quietly subversive tales. 1 recommender Tell Me Everything Elizabeth Strout Elizabeth Strout gathers Lucy Barton, Olive Kitteridge, and lawyer Bob Burgess in a small Maine town around a local mystery. 1 recommender Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World Fareed Zakaria Written in the thick of COVID-19, Zakaria draws ten lessons about markets, government, inequality, and globalization, arguing the pandemic accelerated changes already underway. Thank You, Everything Icinori Icinori build a picture book from gratitude for rain, bread and worn-out tools, drawing on the Japanese belief that objects acquire a spirit after a century of service. 1 recommender That Bird Has My Wings Jarvis Jay Masters Jarvis Jay Masters's memoir recounts a brutal childhood, a wrongful path to San Quentin's death row, and his turn toward Buddhism. 1 recommender The 100 Absolutely Unbreakable Laws of Business Success Brian Tracy Tracy's claim that business runs on laws as reliable as gravity, and that most failure is someone violating one without knowing it. The 10X Rule Grant Cardone Cardone's signature argument: set targets ten times bigger than you think you need, and take ten times the action, because most people fail by aiming too low. The 21 Success Secrets of Self-Made Millionaires Brian Tracy Twenty-one wealth-building habits of the self-made, boiled to a read-in-one-sitting checklist of disciplines rather than any get-rich shortcut. The 3 Alarms Eric Partaker Peak performance framed around three daily alarms, one each for health, wealth and relationships, so the areas that matter don't get crowded out. 1 recommender The 33 Strategies of War Robert Greene Military strategy from Sun Tzu to Napoleon, repurposed for the everyday conflicts of ambition, work and rivalry