Books

The Chess Revolution: From the Ancient World to the Digital Age Peter Doggers From Indian origins to engines and streaming, taking in the game long entanglement with mathematics and war, and what changed once computers stopped losing. 1 recommender The Chicago Manual of Style University of Chicago Press Editorial Staff The definitive American reference on grammar, usage, and citation for writers and editors. 1 recommender The Chicken Sisters KJ Dell'Antonia Two rival family fried-chicken joints have faced off for a century, until a reality show arrives to film the feud. 1 recommender The Children of Athena: Greek Intellectuals in the Age of Rome: 150 BC-400 AD Charles Freeman Rome conquered Greece and then spent several centuries being educated by the Greek intellectuals it ruled. 1 recommender The China Study T. Colin Campbell, Thomas M. Campbell II A long-running nutrition study making the case that a whole-food, plant-based diet is linked to better long-term health. 1 recommender The Choice Ahmed Deedat Ahmed Deedat's collected works of Muslim-Christian comparative religion. 1 recommender The Christie Affair Nina de Gramont Agatha Christie's real eleven-day disappearance, narrated by the mistress her husband left her for. 1 recommender The Christmas Pig J.K. Rowling A standalone children's tale: on Christmas Eve, a boy who has lost his beloved toy pig sets off with its replacement into the Land of the Lost to get it back. The Churchill Factor Boris Johnson A brisk, opinionated portrait of Churchill and the argument that individuals really do change history. 1 recommender The Clash of the Cultures John C. Bogle Vanguard founder John Bogle argues that long-term investing has been crowded out by short-term speculation, and makes the case to return to basics. 1 recommender The Club Ellery Lloyd A celebrity members' club opens on a private island, and its perfect launch weekend ends in bodies. 1 recommender The Code Breaker Walter Isaacson How Jennifer Doudna and CRISPR gave humanity the power to edit its own genes, and the moral questions that came with it The Code, The Evaluation, The Protocols Jocko Willink A short, severe standard to measure yourself against, written to be re-read rather than finished. The Cold Dish Craig Johnson A Wyoming sheriff, his Cheyenne best friend, and a killing that looks a lot like revenge. 1 recommender The Cold Hard Truth on Men, Women, and Money Kevin O'Leary Fifty everyday money mistakes, sorted by life stage, each with O'Leary's blunt fix: spend less, automate saving, treat debt like a fire. The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas Dylan Thomas The poems Thomas chose to keep, in the order he settled on, including the villanelle he wrote as his father lay dying. 1 recommender The Color Purple Alice Walker Celie's letters trace a Black woman's journey from brutal abuse toward self-possession in the American South. 1 recommender The Comeback Ella Berman A vanished actress returns to face the producer who made her, and the pressure to call it luck. 1 recommender The Comfort Crisis Michael Easter Modern life has engineered away the discomfort humans evolved with, and we are worse off for it. 1 recommender The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year Margaret Renkl Fifty-two weeks of watching a single Nashville garden, written about loss and climate grief without that phrase appearing once anywhere. 1 recommender The Coming Wave Mustafa Suleyman Suleyman helped build the technology he is warning about, and argues that containment is the one problem AI and synthetic biology share and nobody has solved. 1 recommender The Common Reader Virginia Woolf Woolf wrote criticism for people without university Greek, on Montaigne, Austen and the obscure lives she liked rescuing from footnotes. The most companionable criticism in English. 1 recommender The Complete Persepolis Marjane Satrapi Satrapi's graphic memoir of growing up during and after the Iranian revolution, drawn in stark black and white. 1 recommender The Complete Short Stories of W. Somerset Maugham W. Somerset Maugham Scandal and murder in the colonial Far East, recounted over a nightcap by a narrator who knew everyone. 1 recommender The Compound Effect Darren Hardy Small repeated choices, and the long unglamorous stretch where compounding is real but invisible. 1 recommender The Constitution in Exile Andrew Napolitano A former judge argues that Washington seized its powers not by amendment but by quiet reinterpretation, one ruling at a time. The Convoy Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse She survived the Rwandan genocide in a humanitarian convoy, then spent decades tracking down proof it happened. 1 recommender The Corrections Jonathan Franzen Jonathan Franzen's novel gathers a scattered Midwestern family for one last Christmas as the aging parents and grown children confront their failures. 1 recommender The Courage to Be Disliked Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga A dialogue between a philosopher and a sceptical young man, distilling Alfred Adler's psychology into a provocative argument about freedom. 2 recommenders The Covenant of Water Abraham Verghese Abraham Verghese's epic follows three generations of a family in South India haunted by a mysterious pattern of drownings. 1 recommender The Creative Mind: Myths and Mechanisms Margaret A. Boden Boden separates combinational, exploratory and transformational creativity, then tests each against what machines could do, back when computational models were still in their infancy. 1 recommender The Cross and the Crescent Jerald F. Dirks A comparison of Christianity and Islam by a former Methodist deacon. 1 recommender The Crossing Point: Selected Talks and Writings M. C. Richards A poet and potter from Black Mountain College gathers talks on craft and education, written from the conviction that art and life were never separate activities. 1 recommender The Daily Laws Robert Greene One short lesson a day, drawn from across Greene's work, arranged to be read a page at a time over a year The Daily Stoic Ryan Holiday, Stephen Hanselman A year of daily Stoic wisdom, one short meditation a day drawn from Marcus Aurelius, Seneca and Epictetus. 2 recommenders The Dark Enlightenment Nick Land Democracy as a failure mode, and exit in place of voice. The founding text of neoreaction, cited constantly and read rarely, listed here because Cowen read it. 1 recommender