Books

Abundance Ezra Klein Why a rich country cannot build housing, transit or clean energy, and the case that the scarcity is self-inflicted. 2 recommenders Abyss Pilar Quintana Pilar Quintana's novel Los abismos, winner of the Premio Alfaguara de Novela in 2021, in Lisa Dillman's English translation. Accidental Presidents Jared Cohen The eight vice presidents who inherited the office on a president's death, and what each did with it. 1 recommender According to Queeney Beryl Bainbridge Samuel Johnson's last years, seen sideways by a child who found him ridiculous. 1 recommender Achieving Our Country Richard Rorty A 1998 warning that a disillusioned electorate would eventually reach for a strongman. 1 recommender Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man Steve Harvey Harvey's blockbuster insider's guide to how men really think about love, teaching women the rules men play by, from the ninety-day rule on. Act Like a Success, Think Like a Success Steve Harvey Harvey trades dating for ambition, arguing everyone has one defining gift, and drawing on his rise from homeless comedian to mogul to help you find yours. Advanced Selling Strategies Brian Tracy Not a beginner's book. The full professional system, built on military strategy, for people who already sell well and want to sell far better. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain Huck and the runaway Jim raft down the Mississippi in Twain's vernacular masterpiece on conscience, freedom, and the racism of the antebellum South. 1 recommender Affluenza Oliver James Why chasing money, status and possessions is making people in rich countries ill, according to a British psychologist. Aflame: Learning from Silence Pico Iyer A non-Christian has been going on retreat to a Benedictine hermitage above Big Sur for thirty years. This is what he found there about attention and loss. 1 recommender Africa in My Blood: An Autobiography in Letters Jane Goodall Letters from 1934 to 1966: the childhood ambition, the secretarial job that funded the passage, and the first Gombe seasons before anyone believed chimpanzees used tools. 1 recommender Africa: The Definitive Visual History of a Continent DK A visual history of Africa arranged by region rather than by the borders Europeans drew. 1 recommender After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations Eric H. Cline The sequel question: after the Bronze Age collapse, why did some civilisations come back? 1 recommender After Atlas Emma Newman A detective who is legally property is handed the one murder case he has every reason to refuse. 1 recommender After the Flood: Inside Bob Dylan’s Memory Palace Robert Polito Bob Dylan's late career, read as closely as scripture by a critic who has plainly read everything. 1 recommender After the Last Sky Edward Said Said's text set against Jean Mohr's photographs, on exile and on being the subject of other people's pictures. 1 recommender After the Nazis: The Story of Culture in West Germany Michael H. Kater Literature, film, music and art rebuilding after 1945 while carrying compromised figures and unexamined pasts, from Gruppe 47 through the New German Cinema. 1 recommender After the Spike Dean Spears & Michael Geruso 1 recommender Against All Enemies Richard A. Clarke Richard A. Clarke's 2004 insider account of America's war on terror, by the former chief counter-terrorism adviser, from Free Press. 1 recommender Against Interpretation Susan Sontag The argument that hunting for a work's hidden meaning is a way of avoiding the work itself. 1 recommender Against the Gods Peter L. Bernstein How people learned to measure chance, and why that idea sits underneath modern finance. 1 recommender Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity Paul Kingsnorth An anti-technology argument from a former environmental activist who became a Christian and left the grid. 1 recommender Against the Web Michael Brooks A left-wing broadcaster takes on Jordan Peterson, Sam Harris and the Intellectual Dark Web, and asks why their message found such a large audience online. 1 recommender Against the World: Anti-Globalism and Mass Politics Between the World Wars Tara Zahra The backlash against globalisation is not new, and the 1920s version ended extremely badly. 1 recommender Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death M. C. Beaton A retired PR boss moves to the Cotswolds, enters a shop-bought quiche, and the judge drops dead. Age of Revolutions Fareed Zakaria Zakaria traces four centuries of upheaval, from the Dutch and industrial revolutions to today, to argue that eras of rapid progress reliably provoke fierce backlash. AI Narratives Stephen Cave, Kanta Dihal, Sarah Dillon From ancient myths to modern fiction, the stories humans have told about thinking machines. Air Traffic Gregory Pardlo Pulitzer-winning poet Gregory Pardlo turns to prose in a memoir of fatherhood, race and ambition. 1 recommender Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians Brandon Sanderson On his thirteenth birthday Alcatraz gets a bag of sand and learns the world is secretly run by a cult of librarians. His talent is breaking things. Alchemy Rory Sutherland An Ogilvy advertising veteran argues that human behaviour runs on psychological logic, and that changing how something feels often beats changing what it is. Alfred Schnittke Alexander Ivashkin The Soviet composer who spliced Baroque pastiche, serialism and film music into single works and called it polystylism, studied by the cellist who premiered him. 1 recommender Alias Grace Margaret Atwood A real 1843 double murder, reimagined: was the servant Grace Marks a monster, a victim, or something no one can name All About Love Bell Hooks Bell Hooks argues that love is an action rather than a feeling, and that we are taught almost nothing about how to do it. 3 recommenders All Adults Here Emma Straub One accident dislodges a memory, and a family starts reassessing what it thought it had agreed. 1 recommender All Fours Miranda July She sets out to cross America, stops at the next town, and the whole book happens there. 1 recommender