Books

Think Again Adam Grant Grant makes the case that rethinking is a skill, and that the smartest people are the ones willing to be wrong. 1 recommender Think Big Grace Lordan An evidence-based guide to designing the career you actually want, from the behavioural scientist running the LSE's Inclusion Initiative. 1 recommender Think Like a Monk Jay Shetty Three years of monastic training rebuilt as a practical program for managing ego, fear, and purpose without leaving your ordinary life. Think Remarkable Guy Kawasaki, Madisun Nuismer Drawing on his podcast interviews with remarkable people, Kawasaki lays out nine paths, growth, grit, grace, and more, for building a life that makes a difference. Thinking in Bets Annie Duke A poker champion on separating a good decision from a good outcome, which are far less related than they feel. 1 recommender Thinking, Fast and Slow Daniel Kahneman The two systems behind every judgment you make: one fast, intuitive and often wrong, one slow and effortful. Kahneman's life's work for a general reader. 1 recommender Third World America Arianna Huffington Huffington's alarm at a hollowing-out middle class, crumbling infrastructure and a political system she argues has stopped working for ordinary people. This Book Loves You PewDiePie A self-help parody in which the author keeps reminding you that you bought a motivational book from a video-game YouTuber. This Boy’s Life Tobias Wolff A boy invents a better version of himself to survive a stepfather and the Pacific Northwest. 1 recommender This Day Wendell Berry Nearly forty years of Sunday sabbath poems made while walking one Kentucky farm, and left unpolished because they were written outdoors. 1 recommender This House of Grief Helen Garner A writer in a murder trial, recording her own shifting judgement rather than a verdict. 2 recommenders This Is Baby Jimmy Fallon Fallon names a baby's parts, head to toes to ticklish belly, in a warm, silly call-and-response read-aloud for the youngest listeners. This Is How It Always Is Laurie Frankel A family of five sons rearranges itself around the youngest, who knows she is a girl, and around the secret they choose to keep. 1 recommender This Is Marketing Seth Godin Marketing not as spam and pressure but as generous service to the smallest audience you can afford to serve 1 recommender This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage Ann Patchett Two decades of Patchett's essays on marriage, friendship, bookselling and the unglamorous discipline of writing. 1 recommender This Is Water David Foster Wallace A commencement speech about attention: how you choose to see the dull, irritating parts of adult life is the whole game 1 recommender This Motherless Land Nikki May Sent from Nigeria to an English family that will not quite have her, in a Mansfield Park recast. 1 recommender Three Guineas Virginia Woolf A man asked Woolf how to prevent war. Her 1938 answer ties it to the education and employment of women, and proposes a Society of Outsiders. 1 recommender Three Women Lisa Taddeo Eight years of reporting on the desire of three real women, told with the intimacy of fiction and none of its cover. 1 recommender Thrive Arianna Huffington After collapsing from exhaustion, Huffington argues that money and power are only two metrics of success, and a life needs a third: well-being. Through the Woods Emily Carroll Five illustrated horror tales in the fairy-tale tradition, where the woods are dark and something is always waiting. 1 recommender Throwback Maurene Goo A teenager is thrown back to 1995 and ends up at high school with her own mother, who turns out to be a stranger. 1 recommender Time Power Brian Tracy Tracy's full time-management system, longer and more systematic than Eat That Frog, treating time as the one resource you cannot make more of. Tiny Beautiful Things Cheryl Strayed Strayed's Dear Sugar columns, in which she answers strangers' hardest questions mostly by telling them her own story. 1 recommender Tiny Tim Harry M. Stein A reporter simply hangs around the ukulele novelty act until the whole strange truth comes out. 1 recommender Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. Ron Chernow Ron Chernow's definitive biography of John D. Rockefeller, the driven, devout oil baron who became America's first billionaire. 1 recommender To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings John O'Donohue An Irish poet and former priest writes blessings for the occasions that otherwise pass unmarked: a new job, a death, leaving home, a marriage ending, a diagnosis. 1 recommender To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee Harper Lee's Pulitzer-winning story of childhood, conscience, and racial injustice in the Depression-era South. 1 recommender To Sell Is Human Daniel Pink One in nine workers sells for a living, and the other eight now sell too. Pink on persuasion as a modern survival skill. To the Linksland Michael Bamberger A young writer caddies his way across Europe and finds golf worth taking seriously. 1 recommender To the Moon and Back Eliana Ramage A Cherokee woman spends her life pursuing a place in space, and negotiating what leaving home is allowed to cost. 1 recommender To The Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement Benjamin Nathans Soviet dissidents mostly failed, mostly went to prison, and eventually turned out to be right. 1 recommender Together Is Better Simon Sinek An illustrated fable about leaving a job you've outgrown to find people worth working alongside: Sinek's ideas in miniature Tokyo Ever After Emiko Jean A Californian teenager learns her absent father is the Crown Prince of Japan, and is flown to Tokyo to meet him. 1 recommender Tolerance Is a Wasteland Saree Makdisi How the vocabulary of tolerance and coexistence can do political work its plain meaning conceals. Tom Lake Ann Patchett Three grown daughters press their mother for the story of the famous actor she loved one summer, long before them. 1 recommender