Books

Rumours of a Hurricane Tim Lott A London couple try to keep their marriage and their footing through the Thatcher years. Rural Hours: The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner, and Rosamond Lehmann Harriet Baker Woolf, Townsend Warner and Lehmann left London for cold cottages, and had to work out how to keep writing among neighbours who had no idea what they did. 1 recommender Russia at War Alexander Werth 1 recommender Ryszard Kapuściński Artur Domosławski A biography of the celebrated Polish reporter that asks how far his vivid accounts of Africa and Latin America blurred fact and fiction. 1 recommender Sabbath’s Theater Philip Roth Philip Roth's novel of Mickey Sabbath, a 64-year-old former puppeteer, which won the 1995 National Book Award for Fiction. 1 recommender Sabriel Garth Nix 1 recommender Sahih al-Bukhari Imam al-Bukhari The most authoritative collection of hadith in Sunni Islam. 2 recommenders Sahih Muslim Imam Muslim One of the two most authoritative hadith collections in Sunni Islam. 1 recommender Sailing Alone Around the Room Billy Collins Poems that start somewhere domestic and are elsewhere entirely by the last line. 1 recommender Sam Walton: Made in America Sam Walton The Walmart founder's own account of building the world's largest retailer from a single small-town store. 1 recommender Saman Ayu Utami Ayu Utami's 1998 debut novel about four women friends and a former priest, translated into English by Pamela Allen and published by Equinox in 2005. 1 recommender Same as Ever Morgan Housel The future is unpredictable, but people are not. Housel on what stays the same. Sankofa Chibundu Onuzo A mixed-race Londoner discovers the father she never knew became an African president, and goes to find him. 1 recommender Sapiens Yuval Noah Harari How an unremarkable African ape became the dominant force on the planet, told through the cognitive, agricultural and scientific revolutions. 5 recommenders Say Nothing Patrick Radden Keefe A mother of ten taken from her Belfast flat in 1972, and the decades of silence that followed. 1 recommender Say You’re One of Them Uwem Akpan Uwem Akpan's story collection views violence and upheaval across Africa through the clear eyes of children. 1 recommender Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark Alvin Schwartz Campfire folk tales retold for young readers, made unforgettable by Stephen Gammell's nightmarish illustrations. 1 recommender Scattered Gabor Maté Maté, who has ADHD himself, argues it is less a genetic disorder than a response to early stress, and that it can be healed rather than only managed. Schattenfroh Michael Lentz A thousand pages of German memory, guilt and paternal authority, called untranslatable right up until somebody translated it. Admirers and detractors both invoke Solenoid. 1 recommender Schoenberg: Why He Matters Harvey Sachs An introduction to Schoenberg that admits how much of his music people genuinely dislike. 1 recommender Schoolgirls Peggy Orenstein A year inside two middle schools, watching girls lose their confidence as adolescence begins. Schubert: A Musical Wayfarer Lorraine Byrne Bodley Everything about Schubert, and above all the music, in something close to definitive form. 1 recommender Scoop Evelyn Waugh A nature columnist is sent by mistake to cover a foreign war, and somehow gets the scoop. 2 recommenders Scorecard Marketing Daniel Priestley, Glen Carlson A four-step playbook for using quizzes and scorecards to generate better leads by engaging prospects instead of interrupting them. 1 recommender Scrappy Little Nobody Anna Kendrick Anna Kendrick turns her sharp, self-deprecating wit on her own life, from awkward childhood to the strange realities of fame. Screw It, Let’s Do It Richard Branson Branson's maxims in miniature: believe in yourself, protect the downside, have fun, and stop overthinking the leap you keep postponing. Searching for Sylvie Lee Jean Kwok The capable sister vanishes in the Netherlands, and the family history explains more than the search. 1 recommender Season of Migration to the North Tayeb Salih Tayeb Salih's 1966 Sudanese novel about a returning student and the enigmatic Mustafa Sa'eed, in Denys Johnson-Davies's translation, published by Penguin in 2003. 1 recommender Seasonal Adjustments Adib Khan 1 recommender Second Place Rachel Cusk A woman invites a famous painter to her marshland guest house and regrets it almost at once. 1 recommender Secrets and Lies David Southwell A survey of history's most notorious conspiracies and cover-ups. 1 recommender Secrets of Closing the Sale Zig Ziglar Zig Ziglar's long-running sales manual on closing, built from stories and more than a hundred named techniques for asking for the order. Secrets of Mental Math Arthur Benjamin Techniques for doing fast arithmetic in your head. 1 recommender Secrets of Sand Hill Road Scott Kupor An a16z partner explains how venture capital actually works, from term sheets to what VCs really want. 1 recommender Security Analysis Benjamin Graham, David Dodd The foundational text of value investing by Benjamin Graham and David Dodd, laying out how to analyze securities and value a business from its fundamentals. 1 recommender Seize the Day Saul Bellow Half a day in the life of a man who has run out of road, and knows it. 1 recommender