Books

The Holocaust Industry Norman Finkelstein A survivors' son on how the memory became an institution, and who the reparations actually reached. The House in the Pines Ana Reyes Two young women dropped dead in front of the same man, and the only witness cannot trust her own memory. 1 recommender The House of Eve Sadeqa Johnson Two 1950s women, one facing a pregnancy that would end her scholarship, the other marrying into a Black elite that judges her. 1 recommender The House on Mango Street Sandra Cisneros A girl's year in a Chicago barrio, built from fragments that add up to a decision about her life. 1 recommender The House on the Borderland William Hope Hodgson A recluse's manuscript records swine-things besieging his house and a vision of the death of the solar system. 1 recommender The Human Stain Philip Roth A classics professor is destroyed for a word he did not mean, while guarding a secret nobody suspects. 1 recommender The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine Rashid Khalidi A colonial war in six declarations, written by a historian with his family's papers to hand. The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins In a dystopian future, teenager Katniss volunteers for a televised fight to the death and becomes a symbol of rebellion. 1 recommender The Husbands Holly Gramazio The attic keeps producing new husbands, which turns out to be a very sharp question about settling. 1 recommender The Ickabog J.K. Rowling A fairy tale about a prosperous kingdom, a monster that may or may not be real, and how a convenient lie, once told by those in power, can grow into something monstrous. The Idea Factory Jon Gertner How one lab produced the transistor, the laser and information theory, and what conditions made that possible. 1 recommender The Idea Machine: How Books Built Our World Joel J. Miller Scrolls, codices, marginalia, print and the paperback, told as episodes, arguing the book is less a container for ideas than a machine that keeps producing them. 1 recommender The Idea of Epilepsy: A Medical and Social History of Epilepsy in the Modern Era (1860-2020) Simon Shorvon A century and a half of epilepsy, the treatments, and the stigma that outlasted most of them. 1 recommender The Indo-Europeans Rediscovered: How a Scientific Revolution is Rewriting Their Story J.P. Mallory Ancient DNA has upended the story of where the Indo-European languages came from, and who carried them. 1 recommender The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman Angela Carter A war fought with illusions rather than weapons, as one doctor's machines dissolve the boundary between desire and reality. 1 recommender The Infinite Game Simon Sinek Business has no finish line, so playing to win misreads the game: a case for leading toward a cause that outlasts you The Innocents Abroad Mark Twain Twain's irreverent bestseller about a steamship tour of Europe and the Holy Land, puncturing guidebook piety and the American tourist alike. The Innovator’s Dilemma Clayton M. Christensen Christensen's classic on why well-run companies get toppled by disruptive innovation, and how to avoid it. 2 recommenders The Innovators Walter Isaacson Not one genius but a century of collaborators, from Ada Lovelace to the founders of Google, who together built the computer age The Intelligent Investor Benjamin Graham Benjamin Graham's foundational guide to value investing, built around margin of safety and treating a stock as a piece of a business. 1 recommender The Intermediaries: A Weimar Story Brandy Schillace A Weimar story about the people Hirschfeld's institute served, recovered from records long thought lost. 1 recommender The Invention of Wings Sue Monk Kidd A novel tracing the entwined lives of a Charleston slaveholder’s daughter and an enslaved girl she is given as a gift. 1 recommender The Islamic Gold Dinar Ahamed Kameel Mydin Meera The case for a gold-based currency as an alternative to fiat money, from one of Islamic finance's most cited voices. The Island of Missing Trees Elif Shafak Two young lovers on opposite sides of Cyprus, and the buried history their London-raised daughter cannot get anyone to explain. 1 recommender The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy John Mearsheimer A contested case that a lobby has bent US policy away from its own interest, and the fight it started. The Jetsetters Amanda Eyre Ward A widow wins a Mediterranean cruise and gathers her three adult children, each concealing a disaster from the others. 1 recommender The Journalist and the Murderer Janet Malcolm A convicted murderer sued the writer profiling him, and Malcolm turns the case into an indictment of journalism itself. 1 recommender The King and I: The Uncensored Tale of Luciano Pavarotti’s Rise to Fame by his Manager, Friend, and Sometime Adversary Herbert Breslin The manager who ran Pavarotti's career for thirty-six years, settling accounts both fondly and otherwise. 1 recommender The Knights of Crystallia Brandon Sanderson Alcatraz reaches the free kingdom of Mokia and discovers he is a celebrity there, which turns out to be its own kind of trap. The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy Ursula K. Le Guin Le Guin on why fantasy is not escapism and why Americans are afraid of dragons, sharp about her field and sharper about the critics who condescended to it. 1 recommender The Last Earth Ramzy Baroud Displacement told by the people who lived it, on the argument that they are the reliable witnesses. The Last House Guest Megan Miranda In a Maine resort town, a local girl refuses to accept that her wealthy summer friend's death was suicide. 1 recommender The Last Human Job: The Work of Connecting in a Disconnected World Allison Pugh The jobs that survive automation will be the ones that require actually connecting with people. 1 recommender The Last Mrs. Parrish Liv Constantine A calculating outsider sets out to steal a wealthy woman's perfect life, in a thriller that turns everything over midway. 1 recommender The Last Romantics Tara Conklin Four siblings raise each other through a mother's withdrawal, and spend decades settling the debt. 1 recommender The Last Story of Mina Lee Nancy Jooyoun Kim A daughter finds her mother dead in her Koreatown apartment, and discovers the life she never thought to ask about. 1 recommender