Books

The Girl with the Louding Voice Abi Daré Fourteen, sold into service in Lagos, and determined to get the schooling that lets her speak. 1 recommender The Giver Lois Lowry In a painless, colorless utopia, a boy chosen to hold his society's memories discovers the cost of its perfect order. 1 recommender The Giver of Stars Jojo Moyes Depression-era women rode books into the Kentucky mountains, and one English bride found the first thing that was truly hers. 1 recommender The Glorians: Visitations from the Holy Ordinary Terry Tempest Williams Williams finds the sacred in forests, oceans and moss rather than doctrine, carrying the desert-shaped attention of Refuge into a book about plural gods. 1 recommender The Go-Giver Bob Burg, John David Mann A short business parable: an ambitious striver learns from a mentor that the secret to success is giving more than you take. 1 recommender The Goal Eliyahu M. Goldratt Told as a novel: a plant manager races to save his failing factory and learns that a system is only as fast as its constraint. 2 recommenders The Golden Hour Matthew Specktor The son of a CAA superagent on growing up inside the light thrown by the movies. 1 recommender The Golden Notebook Doris Lessing Four notebooks for the parts of a life that will not cohere, and a fifth that tries to join them. Lessing own preface is impatient with how it got read. 1 recommender The Golden Spiders Rex Stout A boy hires Nero Wolfe with pocket change and is dead before the retainer clears. 1 recommender The Good Earth Pearl S. Buck Pearl S. Buck's novel follows a Chinese farmer's rise from poverty to wealth and the pull the land keeps on him. 1 recommender The Good Lord Bird James McBride A boy freed by John Brown is mistaken for a girl, and decides not to correct anyone for years. 1 recommender The Good Soldier Ford Madox Ford Two perfect marriages recounted by the one person least equipped to understand either. 1 recommender The Grasshopper: Games, Life, and Utopia Bernard Suits A dying grasshopper and his disciples argue their way toward the claim that in utopia, with all work automated, game-playing would be the only thing left to do. 1 recommender The Great CEO Within Matt Mochary The operational playbook an executive coach uses with top founders, covering hiring, culture, meetings and the machinery of building a company. 1 recommender The Great Delusion John Mearsheimer Why spreading democracy by force failed: nationalism and realism are the stronger forces. The Great Divide Cristina Henriquez The Panama Canal told from underneath, by the people who dug it and the people it displaced. 1 recommender The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald A man rebuilds himself entirely around a woman who was never going to be worth it. 1 recommender The Great Rat Race Escape MJ DeMarco DeMarco's fastlane philosophy told as a parable: a fictional couple escapes wage slavery by building a purpose-driven business, framework by framework. The Great Ron Paul: The Scott Horton Show Interviews 2004-2019 Scott Horton Fifteen years of Ron Paul interviews, gathered by the antiwar broadcaster who conducted them. The Great Theft Khaled Abou El Fadl Islam argued back from puritanism using classical jurisprudence rather than liberal appeals. The Guest List Lucy Foley A celebrity wedding on a storm-cut Irish island, where the guests all have grievances and one of them ends up dead. 1 recommender The Gunfighters The Gunfighters Paul Trachtman The Time-Life Old West volume that sat on a generation of teenage bookshelves. 1 recommender The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood In the Republic of Gilead, fertile women are conscripted as breeders, and Offred remembers a world where she had a name. 3 recommenders The Happiness Hypothesis Jonathan Haidt Ancient wisdom put to the test of modern psychology, with a rider perched on an elephant he does not control. 1 recommender The Hate U Give Angie Thomas Starr is the only witness when a police officer kills her unarmed childhood friend, and her two worlds collide. 1 recommender The Hating Game Sally Thorne Two executive assistants compete for the same promotion and lose the plot entirely. 1 recommender The Healthcare Labyrinth: A Guide to Navigating Health Plans and Fixing American Health Insurance Marc S. Ryan How American health insurance actually works, priced and administered, rather than how the debate describes it. 1 recommender The Heart Goes Last Margaret Atwood A couple trade their freedom for security in a town where every second month is spent inside its prison, by design. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers Carson McCullers's debut gathers lonely souls in a 1930s Georgia town around a deaf-mute man they each turn to. 1 recommender The Heart Is a Shifting Sea Elizabeth Flock Ten years reporting on three Mumbai marriages, told with the access of a novelist. 1 recommender The Heart of a Woman Maya Angelou The fourth volume of Maya Angelou's autobiography, following her into activism, motherhood, and the civil rights movement. 1 recommender The Heir Apparent Rebecca Armitage Inside a royal household where the succession is at stake and someone on the staff has stopped cooperating. 1 recommender The Henna Artist Alka Joshi In 1950s Jaipur a woman escapes her marriage to become henna artist to the wealthy, until the sister she never knew arrives. 1 recommender The Hero of Ages Brandon Sanderson The mists are killing people, ash is burying the world, and the god-like Ruin walks free. The finale of the original Mistborn trilogy. The Highest Exam: How the Gaokao Shapes China Ruixue Jia One examination decides a Chinese teenager's future, and the country has organised itself around it. 1 recommender The History of White People Nell Irvin Painter Whiteness as an invention with a traceable history, and a surprising amount of art criticism. 1 recommender