Books

Selected Poems Aleksandr Blok A selection from Russia's greatest Symbolist poet, including The Twelve, his poem of the 1917 revolution. 1 recommender Selected Short Stories Rabindranath Tagore Tagore's Bengali stories of village life, poverty and family, from the writer who was the first non-European to win the Nobel in Literature. 1 recommender Selected Writings Rene Magritte Magritte argued about resemblance and thought with the same precision his paintings used to disrupt them, in manifestos and interviews collected in English at last. 1 recommender Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians Tara Isabella Burton Curating a public self is not new, and Da Vinci was doing it long before Instagram. 1 recommender Self-theories Carol S. Dweck The research behind the growth mindset: how beliefs about ability shape the response to failure. 1 recommender Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids Bryan Caplan If parenting shapes children far less than we assume, then the rational response is to relax about it and have more of them. Cheerfully provocative. Sell or Be Sold Grant Cardone Cardone's core sales philosophy: everyone is selling something, all the time, so mastering how to persuade and close is a life skill, not just a job function. Selling the Invisible Harry Beckwith Short, practical lessons on marketing services, where customers cannot see or touch what they are buying before they buy it. Serenade James M. Cain A washed-up opera singer in Mexico finds his voice again through a woman, and wrecks everything reaching for it. 1 recommender Set Boundaries, Find Peace Nedra Glover Tawwab Therapist Nedra Glover Tawwab lays out how to set and hold healthy boundaries at work, with family, and with yourself, without the guilt. 1 recommender Settle for More Megyn Kelly The broadcaster's account of trading a law career for television news, and what it cost her once the spotlight turned hostile. Seven Days in June Tia Williams Two writers who spent one week together as teenagers, and fifteen years hiding messages in their novels, meet again. 1 recommender Seven Japanese Tales Junichiro Tanizaki Howard Hibbett's English translation of seven works by Junichiro Tanizaki, including the 1933 novella A Portrait of Shunkin. 1 recommender Several Short Sentences About Writing Verlyn Klinkenborg Most of what school taught you about writing is debris. A rebuild, working one sentence at a time. 1 recommender Sex and World Peace Valerie M. Hudson, Bonnie Ballif-Spanvill, Mary Caprioli, Chad F. Emmett Data-driven argument that the security of women is the best predictor of whether a state is peaceful. 1 recommender Shadows of Self Brandon Sanderson A killer who can wear other people's faces is stoking unrest in Elendel, and the hunt drags Wax into the machinery of his own religion. Shake It Up, Baby! The Rise of Beatlemania and the Mayhem of 1963 Ken McNab At the start of 1963 they expected to end up writing songs for other people. By the end they were the most famous band in Britain. McNab tracks the year. 1 recommender Shark Tales Barbara Corcoran, Bruce Littlefield Corcoran turns a $1,000 loan and her mother's kitchen-table wisdom into a real estate empire, telling the story as blunt, funny business lessons. Sharp’s Dictionary of Power and Struggle Gene Sharp 1 recommender Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia Sam Dalrymple Burma in 1937, the Gulf states, India and Pakistan, then Bangladesh: five partitions treated as one connected process that drew the map of modern Asia. 1 recommender She’s Come Undone Wally Lamb Wally Lamb's debut follows Dolores Price from a troubled childhood through years of pain and slow recovery, told in her sharp, wounded voice. 1 recommender Shelter from the Storm: How a COVID Mortgage Meltdown Was Averted Mark Calabria The American mortgage market nearly seized up in 2020, and this is the account from inside. 1 recommender Shifting Sands: A Human History of the Sahara Judith Scheele Two decades of field work argue the desert is a connective region rather than an empty barrier, with a coherence that ignores every border drawn across it. 1 recommender Ship Breaker Paolo Bacigalupi In a world past cheap oil, children crawl through wrecked tankers for scrap copper, and one of them finds a survivor. 1 recommender Ship of Fools Tucker Carlson A conservative commentator's critique of the American ruling class. Shogun James Clavell An English navigator shipwrecked on the coast of Japan in 1600 is drawn into the power struggle of a warlord who means to rule the country. 2 recommenders Shoot the Widow: Adventures of a Biographer in Search of Her Subject Meryle Secrest Secrest wrote lives of Dali, Berenson, Wright and Sondheim, and here describes what it took to reach each one: the locked archives, and the widows guarding them. 1 recommender Shooting Stars LeBron James Four friends, one Akron high school team, and the loyalty that carried all of them out. Shot in the Heart Mikal Gilmore The brother of an executed murderer goes back through the family that produced them both. 1 recommender Shots Heard Round the World: America, Britain, and Europe in the Revolutionary War John Ferling Ferling puts the colonial campaign inside the wider European war it became, weighing French, Spanish and British strategy as heavily as anything at Saratoga. 1 recommender Show and Biz: The Market Economy in TV Series and Popular Culture (2000-2020) Maria Blanco What television series since 2000 have actually taught viewers about markets, trade and money. 1 recommender Show Your Work! Austin Kleon You don't have to be a genius to get discovered, you have to be findable. Ten principles for sharing your work. 1 recommender Shuggie Bain Douglas Stuart A boy in 1980s Glasgow certain he can save his mother, in a novel that refuses to agree. 1 recommender Shutter Ramona Emerson A Navajo forensic photographer sees the dead in her crime-scene images, and they want something. 1 recommender Shutter Island Dennis Lehane Dennis Lehane's 2003 thriller about a U.S. Marshal sent to a hospital for the criminally insane, in the William Morrow paperback. 1 recommender Shyness and Dignity Dag Solstad Dag Solstad's 1994 novel about a schoolteacher in crisis, translated by Sverre Lyngstad and published by Graywolf Press in 2006. 1 recommender