Books

The Night Manager John le Carré A hotel night manager is recruited to bring down an arms dealer he has good reason to hate. 1 recommender The Night Tiger Yangsze Choo A severed finger, a missing grave and a weretiger legend collide in 1930s colonial Malaya. 1 recommender The Night-Comers The Night-Comers Eric Ambler A mining engineer in a collapsing Southeast Asian republic finds himself holding the wrong secret. 1 recommender The Nightingale Kristin Hannah One sister smuggles airmen over the Pyrenees, the other endures a soldier in her kitchen, and the novel calls both courage. 1 recommender The Normans: Power, Conquest and Culture in 11th-Century Europe Judith A. Green The Normans conquered England, Sicily and more, and built something distinctive in each place. 1 recommender The North Water Ian McGuire A doomed Arctic whaler carrying an opium-addicted surgeon and a man who is simply evil. 1 recommender The North Will Rise Again: In Search of the Future in Northern Heartlands Alex Niven Niven argues the north of England holds a political and cultural inheritance that London-centred accounts keep missing, in part travelogue and part deindustrial polemic. 1 recommender The Obstacle Is the Way Ryan Holiday What blocks the path becomes the path, turned into a practical method with historical examples. The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway Hemingway's spare, Pulitzer-winning novella: an old Cuban fisherman battles a giant marlin far out at sea, a study in endurance, dignity, and grace under pressure. 2 recommenders The Op-Ed Novel: A Literary History of Post-Franco Spain Becquer Seguin Spanish novelists have long doubled as columnists, and Seguin argues the two forms together are how the country wrote its democracy into existence. 1 recommender The Original Brandon Sanderson, Mary Robinette Kowal Accused of murdering her husband, a woman is offered a grim bargain: hunt down her own Original to earn a pardon. 1 recommender The Original Whole Earth Catalog Stewart Brand The 1968 catalog of tools, books and methods that taught a generation it could equip itself without waiting for permission. 1 recommender The Origins of Poverty and Wealth Rainer Zitelmann A libertarian writer tours the world asking why some countries got rich and others did not. 1 recommender The Other Side of Change Maya Shankar Cognitive scientist Maya Shankar explores who we become when life doesn't go as planned, and how to find identity and meaning on the far side of upheaval. 1 recommender The Other Woman Sandie Jones A woman's perfect romance runs into his mother, in a domestic thriller that keeps you unsure whose version to believe. 1 recommender The Outsiders William N. Thorndike Jr. A study of eight unconventional CEOs who delivered extraordinary returns by mastering the quiet art of capital allocation. 1 recommender The Painter of Signs R.K. Narayan A sign painter in Malgudi falls for a woman touring the district promoting birth control. 1 recommender The Paper Palace Miranda Cowley Heller One day at a Cape Cod summer house, one impossible choice, and fifty years of what the family never said. 1 recommender The Parables of the Qur’an Yasir Qadhi The Qur'an argues in images as much as in instruction, and this gathers those comparisons and explains what each one is for. The Paradox of Choice Barry Schwartz Past a certain point, more options stop being freedom and start manufacturing regret. 1 recommender The Path Made Clear Oprah Winfrey Oprah gathers guidance and stories to help readers find their direction and sense of purpose. The Pathless Path Paul Millerd Leaving an elite consulting career to build a life outside conventional definitions of success, part memoir and part manifesto. 1 recommender The People of Hemso August Strindberg A farmhand marries the widow who owns the farm and sets about remaking a small Stockholm island. Strindberg 1887 comedy of ambition, barely read outside Sweden. 1 recommender The Perfect Mile: Three Athletes, One Goal, and Less Than Four Minutes to Achieve It Neal Bascomb Three runners on three continents chased the four-minute mile in 1954, and the Australian broke the record within weeks of Bannister setting it. 1 recommender The Permanent Problem: The Uncertain Transition from Mass Plenty to Mass Flourishing Brink Lindsey Keynes thought abundance would set us free. Lindsey asks why it has left so many people miserable. 1 recommender The Person and the Situation Lee Ross Character explains less of human behaviour than we assume; the room people stand in explains far more. 1 recommender The Phoenix Pencil Company Allison King A granddaughter inherits her family's Shanghai pencil company, and pencils that can be made to give back what they wrote. 1 recommender The Pillars of the Earth Ken Follett Ken Follett's epic of the building of a cathedral in twelfth-century England, following the masons, monks, and nobles whose fates it shapes. 1 recommender The Pilot’s Wife Anita Shreve Anita Shreve's novel follows a woman who, after her pilot husband dies in a crash, uncovers the double life he kept hidden. 1 recommender The Player of Games Iain M. Banks A bored master of games from a post-scarcity utopia is sent to an empire where the game decides who rules. 1 recommender The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver A Baptist missionary drags his wife and four daughters to the Belgian Congo in 1959, where the family and the country are changed forever. 1 recommender The Pole J.M. Coetzee A Polish pianist falls for a married Catalan woman, and neither of them handles it well. 1 recommender The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy: Engaging the Rhythm of Regulation Deb Dana Dana takes polyvagal theory out of the laboratory, mapping how the nervous system moves between safety, mobilisation and shutdown, and what returns a person to steadiness. 1 recommender The Post-American World Fareed Zakaria Not about the decline of America, Zakaria argues, but "the rise of the rest": a world where power and growth spread to many nations, and how the US can lead within it. The Postman Always Rings Twice James M. Cain A drifter, a roadside diner, a wife, and a plan that was never going to hold. 1 recommender The Power Naomi Alderman Teenage girls worldwide develop the power to deliver electric shocks, and the global order inverts. 1 recommender