Books

My Remarkable Journey Larry King King's candid memoir, from a poor Brooklyn boyhood as Larry Zeiger to America's most famous microphone, told in his conversational broadcast voice. My Struggle Karl Ove Knausgaard Book 1 of Karl Ove Knausgård's six-book autobiographical novel series, translated by Don Bartlett and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2013. 2 recommenders My Very Own Special Particular Private and Personal Cat Sandol Stoddard A child lays claim to a cat through an escalating series of adjectives, and the cat declines to acknowledge any of them. 1 recommender My View of the World Erwin Schrodinger Two long essays written thirty-five years apart, in which a Nobel physicist asks why there appears to be only one world when billions of observers are looking. 1 recommender Mysticism and Dissent: Socioreligious Dissent in Qajar Iran Mangol Bayat Shaykhism, Babism and the emergence of the Bahai faith, traced through the heterodox currents running under nineteenth-century Iran and the dissent that followed. 1 recommender Myth America Kevin M. Kruse, Julian E. Zelizer Historians debunk enduring myths about the American past. 1 recommender The Machinery of Life David S. Goodsell Illustrations of the cell drawn to scale and in context, showing molecular machinery as it is actually crowded together. 1 recommender The Magic of Silence: Caspar David Friedrich’s Journey Through Time Florian Illies Who bought the paintings, who burned them, who found them again, and how the Nazi embrace nearly finished Friedrich. Art history written as the biography of objects. 1 recommender The Magic World E. Nesbit Twelve stories in which over-supervised Edwardian children finally get into proper trouble. 1 recommender The Magical Reality of Nadia Bassem Youssef, Catherine R. Daly A middle-grade adventure, co-written by Bassem Youssef, about an Egyptian American girl and a magical figure freed from an ancient amulet. The Magician’s Nephew C.S. Lewis How the wardrobe got there, how the lamp-post got there, and how Narnia was sung into being. 1 recommender The Mahabharata Anonymous & translated and abridged by John D. Smith 1 recommender The Making of a Manager Julie Zhuo Julie Zhuo became a manager at 25 with no idea what she was doing. This is the guide she wished she'd had. 1 recommender The Making of Addiction Louise Foxcroft How nineteenth-century doctors turned the use of opium into a disease called addiction. The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece Tom Hanks Hanks's debut novel, a fond insider's tour of how a superhero blockbuster actually gets made, from first idea to final cut. The Making of the Modern Philippines: Pieces of a Jigsaw State Philip Bowring Why a country with real advantages has stayed poorer than its neighbours for a long time. 1 recommender The Maltese Falcon Dashiell Hammett Everyone wants the black bird, everyone is lying, and Sam Spade trusts none of them. 1 recommender The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit Sloan Wilson The commute, the office, the mortgage, and the war none of it quite covers up. 1 recommender The Man Who Came Uptown George Pelecanos A prison librarian, a man just released, and the favour he owes to the wrong person. 1 recommender The Man Who Counted Malba Tahan 1 recommender The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat Oliver Sacks A neurologist's portraits of patients whose strange conditions reveal how the mind makes a self. 1 recommender The Man Without a Face Masha Gessen Masha Gessen’s account of Vladimir Putin’s rise from KGB officer to unchallenged ruler of Russia. 1 recommender The MANIAC Benjamin Labatut Von Neumann rendered as fiction, then handed over to AlphaGo and what came after. 1 recommender The Many Lives of Mama Love Lara Love Hardin Lara Love Hardin's memoir traces her fall from suburban mother to jail for heroin-fueled theft, and her rise as a ghostwriter. 1 recommender The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe Sarah Churchwell Why so many different Marilyn Monroes exist, and what the myths say about their makers. The Marriage Portrait Maggie O'Farrell A Medici girl married at fifteen becomes certain her husband intends to kill her, in a novel drawn from a real death. 1 recommender The Martian Chronicles Ray Bradbury Linked stories of the settlement of Mars, written as elegy rather than as engineering. 2 recommenders The Master and His Emissary Iain McGilchrist A psychiatrist argues that the differing outlooks of the brain's two hemispheres have shaped Western culture since the ancient Greeks. 1 recommender The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov Mikhail Bulgakov's satire of the devil's visit to Soviet Russia, in Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky's Penguin Classics translation. 1 recommender The Mattering Instinct Rebecca Newberger Goldstein Goldstein argues the drive to matter is basic equipment rather than vanity, then follows what that implies for ethics, ambition, and how we justify ourselves. 1 recommender The Means of Escape Penelope Fitzgerald Her only story collection, assembled as she was dying, ranging from Tasmania to the supernatural. 1 recommender The Measure of a Man Sidney Poitier Sidney Poitier's memoir reflects on his journey from poverty in the Bahamas to Hollywood, and on the values that guided him. 1 recommender The Measure of Economies: Measuring Productivity in an Age of Technological Change Marshall B. Reinsdorf Productivity statistics were built for a different economy, and this is the technical case for fixing them. 1 recommender The Measure of Progress: Counting What Really Matters Diane Coyle Our economic statistics were designed for a world of factories, and they no longer see what matters. 1 recommender The Memory Theater Karin Tidbeck Karin Tidbeck's 2021 novel, written in English, about two friends trying to escape a timeless realm called the Gardens. The Messiah, the Qur’an and Akhir al-Zaman Imran N. Hosein The Qur'anic account of the Messiah and his return, read against the end of time.