Books

Wild Dark Shore Charlotte McConaghy The last family on a sinking island guarding a seed vault pull a stranger from the sea, and she will not say why she came. 1 recommender Wild Problems Russ Roberts The decisions no spreadsheet can settle, because living through them changes the person who chose. 1 recommender Will Will Smith, Mark Manson Smith's strikingly candid memoir, written with Mark Manson, on the fear and relentless drive beneath the smile, from West Philadelphia to superstardom. Win Every Argument Mehdi Hasan A broadcaster's guide to winning arguments and speaking persuasively. Wind and Truth Brandon Sanderson Ten days remain before the contest of champions decides Roshar. The finale of the Stormlight Archive's first arc, where four books of threads converge. Wind in the Rock Ann Zwinger Zwinger walks Grand Gulch, Slickhorn and Fish Creek recording geology and Anasazi remains, and what that particular solitude does to the person walking through it. 1 recommender Wings: A Story of a Band on the Run Paul McCartney Farm rehearsals, a university tour in a van, and Lagos, assembled from interviews with everyone involved in the band McCartney built after the Beatles ended. 1 recommender Winter Is Coming Garry Kasparov Kasparov argues that the West misread the end of the Cold War as a victory, and spent the years since letting an autocrat rebuild. Wireheads: An Unnatural History of Technology in the Brain Mike Jay Two centuries of trying to reach the brain directly, from electrodes to deep brain stimulation, alongside the science fiction that kept arriving there first. 1 recommender Wise Blood Flannery O'Connor A veteran founds the Church Without Christ and finds he cannot preach his way out of belief. 1 recommender Wise Guy Guy Kawasaki Part memoir, part life lessons, Kawasaki tells the stories behind his unlikely career, from Apple to venture capital, and the ideas about grace and growth he drew from each. With the Old Breed E.B. Sledge A mortarman at Peleliu and Okinawa, writing without a shred of the gloss usually applied to that war 1 recommender Within These Wicked Walls Lauren Blackwood A young exorcist takes the one job nobody else will, cleansing a haunted castle, in an Ethiopian-inspired Jane Eyre. 1 recommender Without Lying Down Cari Beauchamp The highest-paid screenwriter in Hollywood was a woman, and the industry forgot on purpose. 1 recommender Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women Jane Hirshfield Forty-three centuries of sacred poetry by women, from Sumerian temple hymns through Mirabai and Rabia, in the anthology that made much of it visible in English. 1 recommender Women Who Run With the Wolves Clarissa Pinkola Estes A Jungian analyst reads myths and folk tales to recover what she calls the Wild Woman archetype. 1 recommender Women, Race & Class Angela Davis Where the abolitionist and suffrage movements broke along race and class, and who paid for it. Wonderful Tonight Pattie Boyd The model and muse behind "Something" and "Layla" tells her own story of life at the center of rock and roll. 1 recommender Wooden on Leadership John Wooden, Steve Jamison The legendary UCLA coach lays out the Pyramid of Success and the daily habits behind ten championships. 1 recommender Words of Radiance Brandon Sanderson Shallan hunts a lost ancient city and Kaladin weighs what it costs to protect people he has every reason to hate. World Order Henry Kissinger Kissinger examines how different civilizations have conceived of world order, and why a shared international system is so hard to sustain. 1 recommender World Orders Old and New Noam Chomsky The Cold War ends and a new world order is announced, and Chomsky argues almost nothing underneath it has actually changed. World Travel Anthony Bourdain, Laurie Woolever Assembled by his longtime assistant after his death, a guide to the places Bourdain loved, in his own words where he left them. Worth the Risk Allison Schrager An economist on the seven ways people misprice risk, and why refusing to take any is itself a cost nobody counts. 1 recommender Write Useful Books Rob Fitzpatrick Non-fiction treated as a product with users: recruit testers, watch where they stall, rewrite until it works. 1 recommender Writers & Lovers Lily King The unglamorous middle of a writing life: debt, grief, and a novel nobody believes in any more. 1 recommender Written in Water: The Ephemeral Life of the Classic in Art Rochelle Gurstein If nothing is a classic, art cannot challenge anyone, which is the problem Gurstein sets out. 1 recommender Wrong Place, Wrong Time Gillian McAllister A mother sees her son commit murder, then wakes each day further back in time, hunting the moment that caused it. 1 recommender Wyatt Earp Casey Tefertiller The definitive life of a man Hollywood rescued from a reputation he had largely earned. 1 recommender