Books

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