Books

Reinvention Brian Tracy Written into the teeth of the financial crisis, for people whose career change had just been decided for them rather than chosen. Religions of Early India: A Cultural History Richard H. Davis How four traditions grew up alongside and against each other in early India, then spread across the south and east. The background that later history keeps assuming. 1 recommender Remembering Denny Calvin Trillin The Yale golden boy everyone expected to become president, and why he killed himself instead. 1 recommender Remote Jason Fried The case for working from anywhere, written years before it was forced on everyone. How to do it without losing the company Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California John Charles Fremont An official government report on the 1842 expeditions, written up with his wife, that became a bestseller and a practical trail guide for emigrants heading west. 1 recommender Resistance and Liberation: France at War 1942-1945 Douglas Porch The French Resistance and the liberation, in far more detail than the national myth allows. 1 recommender Rest Alex Soojung-Kim Pang Rest isn't the opposite of work but its essential partner, as the routines of scientists, writers and artists quietly show. 1 recommender Retroland: A Reader’s Guide to the Dazzling Diversity of Modern Fiction Peter Kemp A veteran reviewer's opinionated tour of modern fiction, with the opinions left firmly in. 1 recommender Revenge of the Tipping Point Malcolm Gladwell Twenty-five years on, Gladwell returns to his own idea and asks who has learned to weaponise it. Revisiting South Africa’s Nuclear Weapons Program: Its History, Dismantlement, and Lessons for Today David Albright South Africa built six nuclear weapons and then voluntarily gave them up, which nobody else has done. 1 recommender Revive Your Heart Nouman Ali Khan Practical reflections on faith, prayer and staying grounded amid modern distraction, adapted from a series of talks. Revolution Russell Brand The comedian's polemic calling for political and spiritual change. 1 recommender Revolution by the Book Jamil Al-Amin Imam Jamil Al-Amin (H. Rap Brown) on faith, discipline, and inner struggle. 1 recommender Revolution for Dummies Bassem Youssef Bassem Youssef’s memoir of satire and survival during and after the Egyptian revolution, told with the humor that made him famous. Revolutionary Spring: Fighting for a New World 1848-1849 Christopher Clark Revolution broke out across Europe in 1848 and had failed almost everywhere within a year. 1 recommender Rework Jason Fried A blunt anti-business book: forget plans, meetings and growth for its own sake, and just build something and ship it Rhodesia: A Complete History 1890-1980 Peter Baxter Ninety years of Rhodesia, from Cecil Rhodes to the end, without a thesis to sell. 1 recommender Rhythm of War Brandon Sanderson Navani's scholars race the enemy for a scientific breakthrough while Kaladin fights an enemy he cannot punch: his own mind. Rich Dad Poor Dad Robert T. Kiyosaki The money lessons of two father figures: a highly educated but cash-strapped poor dad, and a friend's entrepreneurial rich dad. 1 recommender Ride the Devil’s Herd John Boessenecker Tombstone told through the Cowboys rather than the Earps, by the genre's most exacting researcher. 1 recommender Riders on the Storm John Densmore The Doors' drummer on the six years he spent in the band, written while still trying to make sense of them. 1 recommender Right Is Wrong Arianna Huffington A blistering polemic against the Bush-era right, arguing that a fringe minority captured American politics while the media waved it through. Right-Wing Women Andrea Dworkin Dworkin on why women support movements that constrain them, and why the reasoning is not stupid. 1 recommender Righteous Victims Benny Morris 1 recommender Rise and Grind Daymond John A look at the daily routines of high performers, and John's argument that grind, done deliberately, is a learnable discipline River, Cross My Heart Breena Clarke Breena Clarke's novel follows a Black family in 1920s Washington, D.C., after the drowning of a young daughter. 1 recommender Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe Defoe's castaway adventure, often credited with marking the start of realistic fiction. 1 recommender Roman Republics Harriet I. Flower There was no single Roman Republic, only a sequence of them, each breaking under pressures the last had not faced. 1 recommender Romans and Aliens J P V D Balsdon 1 recommender Romantic Comedy Curtis Sittenfeld A late-night sketch writer has a theory about why schlubby men date pop stars, then a pop star seems interested in her. 1 recommender Roosevelt and Hopkins Robert E. Sherwood 1 recommender Rosarita Anita Desai A stranger in Mexico claims to have known her mother. A short, unsettling enquiry into the stories families do not tell. 1 recommender Rose Lane Says: Thoughts on Race, Liberty, and Equality, 1942-1945 David T. Beito The wartime newspaper columns of a founding libertarian who wrote about race when few on her side did. 1 recommender Ruby Cynthia Bond Cynthia Bond's novel follows a broken woman's return to a small Texas town and the man determined to save her. 1 recommender Rule Breaker Investing David Gardner The Motley Fool co-founder lays out the contrarian, growth-minded philosophy he used to spot market-beating companies long before the crowd did. 1 recommender Rules for a Knight Ethan Hawke A fifteenth-century knight writes to his four children about how to live, in Ethan Hawke's short book of moral lessons.