Books

The Last Thing He Told Me Laura Dave A husband disappears leaving cash and a two-word note, and his wife and hostile stepdaughter go looking for who he was. 1 recommender The Last Tycoon F. Scott Fitzgerald Fitzgerald died before finishing it, leaving the best portrait anyone wrote of a studio boss at work. 1 recommender The Lathe of Heaven Ursula K. Le Guin George Orr dreams, and reality rearranges itself to match. His psychiatrist decides to aim those dreams at a better world, with the results you would expect. 1 recommender The Lawful and the Prohibited in Islam Yusuf al-Qaradawi What Islamic law permits and forbids across ordinary life, written for readers rather than jurists. The Laws of Human Nature Robert Greene Why people do what they do, and how to read the envy, aggression and self-deception they would rather you missed The Leader Who Had No Title Robin Sharma Leadership is a choice, not a rank. A fable arguing anyone can lead from wherever they stand, title or none The Legend of the Christmas Witch Aubrey Plaza, Dan Murphy A wintry picture book introducing Kristtörn, the Christmas Witch and long-lost twin sister of Santa Claus, separated at birth and raised worlds apart. The Less You Know, the Better You Sleep David Satter David Satter’s case that post-Soviet Russia’s descent into authoritarianism was built on manufactured terror and manipulated truth. 1 recommender The Library Book Susan Orlean A forgotten 1986 fire destroyed a million books in Los Angeles, and Orlean uses it to ask what libraries are really for. 1 recommender The Life of Muhammad Tahia Al-Ismail An accessible English narrative of the Prophet Muhammad's life. 1 recommender The Light in Hidden Places Sharon Cameron The true story of a Polish teenager who hid thirteen people in her attic while German soldiers lived downstairs. 1 recommender The Light We Carry Michelle Obama The practical follow-up to Becoming: the habits and mindsets Obama leans on to stay steady when everything feels unstable The Light We Lost Jill Santopolo Two students meet on September 11th, and spend thirteen years learning that loving each other and living their lives may not be compatible. 1 recommender The Line of Beauty Alan Hollinghurst A young gay man lodges with a Tory MP's family and mistakes proximity to power for belonging. 1 recommender The Little Book of Bull Moves in Bear Markets Peter Schiff Schiff's compact Little Book guide to defensive, globally diversified investing, foreign markets, commodities, and gold, for the turbulent times he expects. The Little Book of Common Sense Investing John C. Bogle Vanguard founder John Bogle makes the case that low-cost index funds, held for the long run, beat almost everything else for ordinary investors. 1 recommender The Little Drummer Girl John le Carré An actress is recruited to play a part for Israeli intelligence, and stops knowing where the role ends. 1 recommender The Little Locksmith Katharine Butler Hathaway Strapped to a board for ten years of childhood, she emerged determined to build a life nobody thought she was owed. 1 recommender The Log from the Sea of Cortez John Steinbeck Steinbeck and a marine biologist set out to collect specimens and came back with an argument about seeing, and why explaining a thing can explain it away. 1 recommender The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny Kiran Desai The Booker winner returns to displacement, not as subject but as the air two people breathe across India and America. 1 recommender The Long Slide Tucker Carlson A collection of Tucker Carlson's magazine journalism from three decades. The Look Michelle Obama Dressing under scrutiny: the former First Lady on clothes as authorship, and on what a public wardrobe is asked to carry. 1 recommender The Loss of Hindustan: The Invention of India Manan Ahmed Asif India was imagined as Hindustan for centuries, and the switch to India was a colonial act. 1 recommender The Lost Metal Brandon Sanderson Wax has traded law work for the Senate, but the conspiracy Wayne and Marasi are chasing reaches far beyond Elendel, and beyond the planet. The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois Honoree Fanonne Jeffers Honoree Fanonne Jeffers's epic follows a Black family across centuries of American history through the eyes of a young scholar. 1 recommender The Lover Marguerite Duras A French schoolgirl and a wealthy older man in colonial Vietnam, recalled decades later without apology. 1 recommender The Luck Factor Richard Wiseman A psychologist spent years studying people who consider themselves lucky or unlucky, and concluded that luck is largely a mindset you can cultivate. 1 recommender The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination Stuart A. Reid Congo's first prime minister lasted ten weeks, and Washington had already decided he should go. 1 recommender The Lying Game Ruth Ware Four school friends made a game of lying; seventeen years on, a three-word text drags them back to what they buried. 1 recommender The Magic of Silence: Caspar David Friedrich’s Journey Through Time Florian Illies Who bought the paintings, who burned them, who found them again, and how the Nazi embrace nearly finished Friedrich. Art history written as the biography of objects. 1 recommender The Magic World E. Nesbit Twelve stories in which over-supervised Edwardian children finally get into proper trouble. 1 recommender The Magical Reality of Nadia Bassem Youssef, Catherine R. Daly A middle-grade adventure, co-written by Bassem Youssef, about an Egyptian American girl and a magical figure freed from an ancient amulet. The Magician’s Nephew C.S. Lewis How the wardrobe got there, how the lamp-post got there, and how Narnia was sung into being. 1 recommender The Making of a Manager Julie Zhuo Julie Zhuo became a manager at 25 with no idea what she was doing. This is the guide she wished she'd had. 1 recommender The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece Tom Hanks Hanks's debut novel, a fond insider's tour of how a superhero blockbuster actually gets made, from first idea to final cut. The Making of the Modern Philippines: Pieces of a Jigsaw State Philip Bowring Why a country with real advantages has stayed poorer than its neighbours for a long time. 1 recommender