Books

Storm of Steel Ernst Junger The First World War told by a German officer who found it terrible and, disconcertingly, exhilarating 1 recommender Storyworthy Matthew Dicks A champion storyteller's method for finding and telling the small, true stories hidden in ordinary life. 1 recommender Straight Talk, No Chaser Steve Harvey Harvey's follow-up field guide for finding, keeping, and reading a man, expanding his blunt, comic, man-explaining-men advice to every relationship stage. Strange Stability: How Cold War Scientists Set Out to Control the Arms Race and Ended up Serving the Military-Industrial Complex Benjamin Wilson Cold War scientists set out to control the arms race and were absorbed by the system they meant to restrain. 1 recommender Strange Weather in Tokyo Hiromi Kawakami A woman in her thirties keeps running into her old schoolteacher at the same bar, and neither hurries. 1 recommender Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel Edwin Frank The NYRB Classics editor reads the century through thirty-odd novels, from Machado de Assis to Perec, arguing the form kept reinventing what it could be. 1 recommender Strata: Stories from Deep Time Laura Poppick Poppick reads Earth history out of rock layers, oxygen and mass extinction, making deep time legible rather than merely enormous, without leaving the field work out. 1 recommender Stravinsky: The Second Exile, France and America 1934-1971 Stephen Walsh Stravinsky from the flight to France through Hollywood, in what may be the best life of him. 1 recommender Stride Toward Freedom Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s account of the Montgomery bus boycott. 1 recommender Strong Ground Brené Brown Brené Brown returns to the research on courage and connection, mapping how we stay grounded and lead with integrity when everything around us feels unstable. 1 recommender Stumbling on Happiness Daniel Gilbert We are reliably wrong about what will make us happy, and the imagination doing the predicting never admits it. 1 recommender Success Is a Journey Brian Tracy The closest Tracy comes to memoir, built around the overland trek across Africa he made in his twenties with almost no money. Such a Fun Age Kiley Reid A babysitter is accused of kidnapping the child she cares for, and the people rushing to help have their own reasons. 1 recommender 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. The Sales Acceleration Formula Mark Roberge HubSpot's former sales chief on building a sales team as a repeatable, measurable system rather than an art. 1 recommender The Sanatorium Sarah Pearse A converted Alpine tuberculosis sanatorium, now a luxury hotel, cut off by a storm as guests begin disappearing. 1 recommender The Sari Shop Rupa Bajwa A shop assistant in Amritsar unfolds saris for women whose lives he will never enter. 1 recommender The Scent Keeper Erica Bauermeister A girl raised on a remote island among bottled scents must work out how much of her childhood her father invented. 1 recommender The Science Delusion Rupert Sheldrake A biologist challenges what he calls the dogmas of modern science. 1 recommender The Science of Free Will: How Determinism Affects Everything from the Future of AI to Traffic to God to Bees Samir Varma A physicist's case that determinism and free will are compatible, and that the difference shows up everywhere. 1 recommender