Books

Loving Sylvia Plath: A Reclamation Emily Van Duyne A reconsideration of Plath that puts the abuse back in the story and takes her prose seriously. 1 recommender Lucky Marissa Stapley A lifelong con artist is left holding a winning lottery ticket she cannot cash without revealing who she is. 1 recommender Lucky Jim Kingsley Amis Kingsley Amis's comic debut about a bored young history lecturer stuck at a provincial English university. 1 recommender Lud-in-the-Mist Hope Mirrlees A town that has decided Faerie does not exist, and the fruit being smuggled across the border to its children. 1 recommender Luna and the Witch Throw a Halloween Party Aubrey Plaza, Dan Murphy The Christmas Witch's niece Luna sets out to throw the perfect Halloween party, learning that a little chaos is what makes a celebration memorable. Machete Season Jean Hatzfeld Ten men who killed their neighbours explain, calmly, how it came to seem like ordinary work 1 recommender Madinah Returns to Center-Stage in Akhir al-Zaman Imran N. Hosein A short work on Madinah's role at the end of time. Madrid: A New Biography Luke Stegemann An Australian Hispanist makes the case for a persistently underrated capital, from the Habsburg court through the 1936 siege to the Movida and after. 1 recommender Main Street Millionaire Codie Sanchez The surest path to wealth isn't a flashy startup but buying an unglamorous, profitable small business: laundromats, plumbing, landscaping. Maintenance: Of Everything: Part One Stewart Brand Everything decays, and almost nobody writes about the unglamorous work of keeping the world running. 1 recommender Maisie Dobbs Jacqueline Winspear A former housemaid turned wartime nurse sets up as a private investigator in 1929 London, and her first case leads her back to the trenches. 1 recommender Make Time Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky A flexible daily system from two former Google Ventures designers for reclaiming attention from busy schedules and endless distraction. 1 recommender Make Trouble Cecile Richards The former head of Planned Parenthood tells her story and urges readers to stand up and speak out. Make Way for Ducklings Robert McCloskey A pair of mallards choose an island in the Boston Public Garden, and the city's traffic obligingly stops for them. 1 recommender Making Art and Making a Living: Adventures in Funding the Creative Life Mason Currey The author of Daily Rituals turns from how artists worked to how they paid for it: patrons, day jobs, spouses, inheritances, grants and a great deal of debt. 1 recommender Making Money in the Early Middle Ages Rory Naismith Coined money did not vanish after Rome, and its survival helped drag Europe out of the dark. 1 recommender Making Movies Sidney Lumet The director of Network and Dog Day Afternoon walks through how a film actually gets made, decision by decision. 2 recommenders Making Up the Mind Chris Frith Why the world you see is a model your brain builds, explained by a neuroscientist for the general reader. 1 recommender Malala’s Magic Pencil Malala Yousafzai A picture book about a pencil that could erase what is wrong, honest that the wishing does not work. Malibu Rising Taylor Jenkins Reid One party, four famous siblings, twenty-four hours, and by morning the house has burned down. 1 recommender Man and the Natural World Keith Thomas How the English learned to love wild nature and animals between 1500 and 1800. 1 recommender Man Gone Down Michael Thomas Four days, one man, and the arithmetic of what it costs to hold a family together when the money runs out. 1 recommender Man Tiger Eka Kurniawan Eka Kurniawan's slim novel about Margio, a young man who takes revenge for his mother, translated by Labodalih Sembiring and published by Verso in 2015. 1 recommender Man-Devil: The Mind and Times of Bernard Mandeville, The Wickedest Man in Europe John Callanan Mandeville argued that private vices produce public benefits, and Europe called him the wickedest man alive. 1 recommender Man’s Search for Meaning Viktor E. Frankl A psychiatrist's account of the camps, and the argument he drew from them that meaning survives when nothing else does. 2 recommenders Manifesto Global Economic Ethic Hans Küng & Klaus M. Leisinger 1 recommender Manufacturing Consent Noam Chomsky How a free press produces conformity without censorship, and the model that predicts which stories run. Maps Nuruddin Farah An orphan raised by a woman he is not related to, in a war that keeps redrawing what country he belongs to. 1 recommender Marc’s Mission Jocko Willink Marc is stronger now, which turns out to be the easy part. The second book is about doubt. Margaret Thatcher John Campbell 1 recommender Maria Callas Arianna Huffington A portrait of the greatest opera diva of the century, tracing the soprano's rise, her love affair with Onassis, and the loneliness behind the fame. Marie Antoinette Stefan Zweig An ordinary woman handed an impossible position, written by a man watching his own Europe collapse. 1 recommender Mark Twain Ron Chernow Chernow's patient method meets its most performative subject: the man who built Mark Twain, and was nearly consumed by him. 1 recommender Martin & Malcolm & America James H. Cone A comparative study of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. 1 recommender Martin Buber: A Life of Faith and Dissent Paul Mendes-Flohr The philosopher of I and Thou, his Zionism and his dissent from it, his opposition to partition, and the dialogical philosophy that outlasted all of it. 1 recommender Master Your Time, Master Your Life Brian Tracy Tracy's time-management system splits the day into the kinds of time a full life needs, then hands you tools to master each.