Books

The Sirens’ Call Chris Hayes Hayes argues that the fight for our attention has become the defining struggle of the age, reshaping politics, work, and our sense of self. 1 recommender The Sleep Revolution Arianna Huffington A full-throated case against the cult of sleep deprivation, blending the science of sleep with a plea to stop treating exhaustion as a badge of honor. The Soccer War Ryszard Kapuscinski Dispatches from twenty-seven coups and revolutions, and the football match that started a war. 1 recommender The Soul of a Butterfly Muhammad Ali, Hana Yasmeen Ali Muhammad Ali's late-life reflections, written with his daughter. 1 recommender The Soul of Civility: Timeless Principles to Heal Society and Ourselves Alexandra Hudson Civility is not politeness, and confusing the two is how societies lose the ability to disagree. 1 recommender The Souls of Animals Gary Kowalski Animals grieve, play and create, argued from behaviour rather than doctrine, for readers told that believing so is merely sentimental. The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner William Faulkner's novel tells of a fading Southern family through four wildly different narrators, one of them a disabled man. 1 recommender The Splendid and the Vile Erik Larson Churchill's first year as prime minister, told through the Blitz and the family living through it. 1 recommender The Spy Who Came in From the Cold John le Carré An agent is sent east on one last operation whose real purpose nobody has told him. 1 recommender The Start-Up of You Reid Hoffman Run your career like a startup in permanent beta: take smart risks, build a network, and never stop adapting The State Philip Pettit A political philosopher asks what a state actually is, and what would make one legitimate. 1 recommender The Story of Edgar Sawtelle David Wroblewski David Wroblewski's novel, echoing Hamlet, follows a mute Wisconsin boy who breeds dogs and confronts his father's death. 1 recommender The Strain Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan Book one of del Toro and Hogan's trilogy: a plane lands dead at JFK and a CDC doctor uncovers not a virus but an ancient vampiric plague poised to consume New York. The Strangest Secret Earl Nightingale The 1956 spoken-word classic that sold a million copies on one disarmingly simple idea: we become what we think about. 1 recommender The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Thomas S. Kuhn Kuhn's classic on how science advances not smoothly but through disruptive paradigm shifts. 1 recommender The Struggle for Taiwan: A History of America, China, and the Island Caught Between Sulmaan Wasif Khan Taiwan told as a triangle, with the island itself given as much agency as Washington or Beijing. 1 recommender The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck Mark Manson The anti-positivity self-help phenomenon: a good life comes from choosing the few things worth caring about and letting go of the rest. 1 recommender The Successor: Boris Nemtsov, Vladimir Putin, and the Death of Russian Democracy Mikhail Fishman Nemtsov was once Yeltsin likely successor and was shot within sight of the Kremlin in 2015. Fishman uses that career to trace how Russia turned. 1 recommender The Summer Book Tove Jansson A grandmother and granddaughter share a Finnish island, and neither of them mentions the death that put them there. 1 recommender The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway Expatriates drift from Paris cafes to Pamplona bullrings, all of them wounded in ways nobody will name. 1 recommender The Sun Does Shine Anthony Ray Hinton Anthony Ray Hinton's memoir recounts thirty years he spent on Alabama's death row for a crime he did not commit. 1 recommender The Sun Sets in Singapore Kehinde Fadipe Three high-achievers in expatriate Singapore, where success is measured exactly and its cost never mentioned. 1 recommender The Sunlit Man Brandon Sanderson A fugitive runs for his life on a planet where the sunrise itself will kill him, staying ahead of a dawn that never stops coming. The Surrender Experiment Michael A. Singer A decades-long experiment in saying yes to whatever life presented, instead of following personal preference, from the author of The Untethered Soul. 1 recommender The Sweaty Startup Nick Huber The surest path to wealth isn't a flashy tech unicorn but an unglamorous, boring business nobody else wants to run. 1 recommender The Sweetness of Water Nathan Harris Nathan Harris's debut follows two freed brothers and a hidden pair of Confederate lovers in a Georgia town just after the Civil War. 1 recommender The Tea Party Goes to Washington Rand Paul Paul's first book, part 2010 victory account, part Tea Party manifesto against bailouts, deficits, and a bipartisan establishment he vowed to confront. The Tell Amy Griffin Amy Griffin's memoir follows a successful woman who, in midlife, recovers buried memories of childhood trauma and reckons with them. 1 recommender The Testaments Margaret Atwood Gilead told from inside its machinery, fifteen years on, by three women who could bring the regime down. Booker winner The Theft of Nations Ahamed Kameel Mydin Meera Subtitled Returning to Gold, an argument that fiat currency and fractional-reserve banking quietly transfer wealth from the many to the few. The Things I Would Tell You Sabrina Mahfouz An anthology of fiction, poetry and essays by British Muslim women writing past the headlines about them. 1 recommender The Things That Nobody Knows William Hartston A tour of the big questions science still cannot answer. 1 recommender The Things We Make: The Unknown History of Invention from Cathedrals to Soda Cans Bill Hammack An engineer explains how things are actually made, from Gothic cathedrals to the aluminium can. 1 recommender The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World’s Most Coveted Microchip Stephen Witt Nvidia spent thirty years building chips almost nobody wanted, then the AI boom arrived. 1 recommender The Third Chimpanzee Jared Diamond Jared Diamond examines what the small genetic gap between humans and apes reveals about our rise, our habits, and our capacity for self-destruction. 1 recommender The Third Door Alex Banayan At eighteen he hacked a TV game show to fund the quest: track down the world's most successful people and ask how they actually got their start. 1 recommender