Books

The Scientific Deception of the New Atheists Mohammed Hijab An argument that New Atheist writers overstate what science can prove. The Score Takes Care of Itself Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh The legendary NFL coach's leadership philosophy: obsess over the standard of performance and the details, and the wins, the score, will follow on their own. 1 recommender The Scrivener’s Bones Brandon Sanderson Alcatraz heads into the Library of Alexandria to find his missing father, where the librarians will trade you anything for your soul. The Sealed Nectar Safiur Rahman Mubarakpuri An award-winning English biography of the Prophet Muhammad. 1 recommender The Second Mountain David Brooks A fulfilling life has two mountains: the first about career and status, the second, often reached through a valley of suffering, about something larger. 1 recommender The Secret Julie Garwood A Scottish highlander marries an Englishwoman to settle a debt, which goes as expected. 1 recommender The Secret of the Old Clock Carolyn Keene The first Nancy Drew mystery, and the reason a generation of girls expected to solve things themselves. 1 recommender The Secrets We Kept Lara Prescott The true-ish story of the CIA operation that turned Doctor Zhivago into a weapon, told largely by the women who typed it. 1 recommender The Selfish Gene Richard Dawkins Richard Dawkins reframes evolution from the gene's point of view, casting living things as vehicles built to carry genes forward. 1 recommender The Sense of an Ending Julian Barnes A retired man receives a bequest that proves his version of his own youth was a convenient edit. 1 recommender The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo Taylor Jenkins Reid A reclusive, ageing Hollywood icon finally tells the truth about her glamorous, ruthless rise, and about all seven husbands. 1 recommender The Shattered Lens Brandon Sanderson The librarians besiege Mokia with an army of living romance novels, and Alcatraz has only a talent for breaking things to stop them. The Shining Stephen King A failing writer takes his family to mind an empty hotel, which has been waiting for exactly him. 1 recommender The Shipping News Annie Proulx A failed newspaperman takes his daughters to Newfoundland and slowly stops apologising for existing. 1 recommender The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway Ernest Hemingway The complete short fiction, where the method was worked out before the novels used it. 1 recommender The Shortest History of Ireland James Hawes Two millennia compressed into a short opinionated narrative, from the Normans through the plantations and the Famine to partition, with maps and actual judgements. 1 recommender The Simple Path to Wealth J L Collins Built from letters to his daughter, personal finance boiled down to a few durable principles: avoid debt, spend less than you earn, and invest simply. 1 recommender The Singularity Is Near Ray Kurzweil The prediction that machine intelligence will overtake ours, dated and argued rather than merely asserted. 1 recommender The Sirah of the Prophet Yasir Qadhi A single-volume life of the Prophet that shows its sources openly and marks plainly where the earliest accounts disagree with one another. 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