Books

The Wars of the Roses Dan Jones Thirty years of English dynastic slaughter, told so clearly you can follow who is winning. 1 recommender The Water Dancer Ta-Nehisi Coates Ta-Nehisi Coates’s debut novel follows an enslaved man with a mysterious power and his path into the fight for freedom. 1 recommender The Waters Bonnie Jo Campbell A healer, her granddaughter and a Michigan swamp, with a suspicious town at the edge of it. 1 recommender The Way of Integrity Martha Beck Martha Beck's guide to living in alignment with your own truth, built on the structure of Dante's Inferno, and an Oprah's Book Club selection. 1 recommender The Way of Kings Brandon Sanderson A slave, a scholar and a highprince in a vast, storm-scoured world. The first volume of Sanderson's epic Stormlight Archive. 1 recommender The Way of the Superior Man David Deida A cult classic addressing men on purpose, relationships and sexuality, arguing a man should live his deepest purpose rather than wait for certainty. 1 recommender The Wealth and Poverty of Nations David S. Landes Historian David Landes ranges across centuries to ask why some nations grew rich while others stayed poor, weighing culture, geography, and institutions. 1 recommender The Wedding People Alison Espach She arrives at the hotel with no luggage and no plan to leave, and walks into someone else's wedding. 1 recommender The Well of Ascension Brandon Sanderson The tyrant is dead, and now the rebels have to govern, with three armies besieging the capital and the economy collapsing under them. The White People and Other Weird Stories Arthur Machen Machen's tales of pagan survivals and creeping dread, the weird fiction that Lovecraft revered. 1 recommender The Wilderness Angela Flournoy Friendship given the weight most novels reserve for marriage: five women, tracked across the long middle of adult life. 1 recommender The Will to Win Robert Herjavec Herjavec reframes winning as a trainable discipline of focus, fitness, and honest self-assessment, illustrated with deals, races, and the failures that taught him most. The Willpower Instinct Kelly McGonigal Willpower as a physiological capacity with limits, where self-criticism makes it worse rather than better. 1 recommender The Wisdom of Sundays Oprah Winfrey Highlights from Oprah’s Super Soul conversations, arranged as insights on meaning, presence, and personal growth. The Woman Who Could Not Forget Ying-Ying Chang Iris Chang mother on what documenting a massacre cost her daughter, who took her own life at thirty-six 1 recommender The Women Kristin Hannah Hannah follows an army nurse through two tours of Vietnam and a homecoming that proves harder than the war, into a country insisting women were never there. 1 recommender The Wordy Book Julie Paschkis Julie Paschkis pairs each image with a phrase that declines to settle, in the saturated folk style of her Neruda picture books. 1 recommender The Work of Art Adam Moss The former editor of New York magazine interviews dozens of artists, writers, and musicians about how a finished work actually gets made, mess and all. 1 recommender The Works of John Leguizamo John Leguizamo Four landmark solo-show scripts in which Leguizamo plays dozens of characters to dissect machismo, immigration, and identity with tenderness and savagery. The World According to Garp John Irving A wrestler turned novelist, his famously radical mother, and a life visited by absurd and sudden violence. 1 recommender The World at First Light: A New History of the Renaissance Bernd Roeck A very long Renaissance history that asks why it happened in Europe and not somewhere else. 1 recommender The Worth of Water Gary White, Matt Damon An actor and an engineer discover that the poor will repay loans for clean water, then rebuild their charity around it. The Wounded Generation: Coming Home After World War II David Nasaw Sixteen million Americans came home from the war, and the country decided not to ask how they were. 1 recommender The Wren, the Wren Anne Enright A celebrated poet walks out on his family, and Enright prints his poems beside the wreckage so readers can price one against the other. 1 recommender The Year of the Flood Margaret Atwood The same catastrophe as Oryx and Crake, told from below by the people those corporate compounds had already thrown away. Their Blood, Our Bullets: The Hidden Story of the US-Russia War for Ukraine Their Blood, Our Bullets: The Hidden Story of the US-Russia War for Ukraine Aaron Maté The proxy war in Ukraine argued as a policy the United States chose rather than inherited. Theodore and Woodrow Andrew Napolitano Two presidents remembered as great reformers, recast here as the men who taught Washington to ignore its own constitutional limits. There and Back Jimmy Chin Two decades of Jimmy Chin's photographs from Everest to Yosemite's big walls, shot mid-climb, with the harrowing stories behind each image. There Are Rivers in the Sky Elif Shafak One drop of water links Victorian London, a Yazidi girl in 2014 Iraq and a hydrologist on the Thames, with Gilgamesh running somewhere underneath. 1 recommender There Is No Place for Us Brian Goldstone Full-time work and nowhere to live: the Pulitzer-winning account of families the housing market has priced out of their own city. 1 recommender There There Tommy Orange Twelve Native lives converging on an Oakland powwow, in a novel with no reservation in it. 1 recommender There Were Giants in the Land: Episodes in the Life of W. Cleon Skousen There Were Giants in the Land: Episodes in the Life of W. Cleon Skousen Jo Ann Skousen The life of the Mormon anticommunist whose ideas keep resurfacing in American conservative politics. 1 recommender There’s Nothing Wrong With Her Kate Weinberg Bedridden with an illness doctors keep failing to find, she starts receiving visits from a dead Italian. 1 recommender These Wilds Beyond Our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity’s Search for Home Bayo Akomolafe Letters to a young daughter, moving between Nigerian village life and Western academia, asking what home means for someone who belongs fully to neither world. 1 recommender They Flew: A History of the Impossible Carlos M.N. Eire Levitating saints and bilocating friars, taken seriously by a Yale historian rather than explained away. 1 recommender Things Become Other Things Craig Mod Mod walks the Kii Peninsula writing letters to a friend who died young in Connecticut, on class, escape, and what an adopted country can and cannot give. 1 recommender