Books

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Stephen R. Covey Personal and professional effectiveness organised around seven habits, from be proactive to sharpen the saw. 1 recommender The Abominable Man Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö's 1971 police novel, the seventh Martin Beck book, in Thomas Teal's translation. 1 recommender The Abrahamic Faiths Jerald F. Dirks A former Methodist deacon's comparative study of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. 1 recommender The Abundance: Narrative Essays Old and New Annie Dillard The essays that made a generation of nature writers, including Living Like Weasels and Total Eclipse, refusing every consolation the subject matter invites. 1 recommender The Achieving of The Great Gatsby The Achieving of The Great Gatsby Robert Emmet Long How Fitzgerald grew from a promising young satirist into the writer of The Great Gatsby. 1 recommender The Adventures of Augie March Saul Bellow Bellow's picaresque novel follows a Chicago boy through jobs, loves and schemes from the Depression to the war. 1 recommender The Adventures of China Iron Gabriela Cabezón Cámara Gabriela Cabezón Cámara's 2017 novel reimagining the gaucho epic Martín Fierro from his wife's point of view, shortlisted for the 2020 International Booker Prize. 1 recommender The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain Twain's sunlit romance of Mississippi boyhood, pranks, treasure, and a witnessed murder, with a satirist's eye for respectable hypocrisy underneath. The Afterlife Penelope Fitzgerald The essays and reviews, for readers who have finished the nine novels and want more. 1 recommender The Afterlife Is Where We Come From Alma Gottlieb Among the Beng, babies arrive from the afterlife and only slowly consent to stay - and everything follows from that. 1 recommender The Age of AI Eric Schmidt, Henry Kissinger, Daniel Huttenlocher Kissinger, Schmidt, and Huttenlocher weigh how artificial intelligence will reshape knowledge, security, and human identity, and the questions societies must confront now. The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton Old New York enforces its rules so politely that nobody has to say what is being taken away. 1 recommender The Alchemist Paulo Coelho A shepherd boy leaves Andalusia for the pyramids chasing a recurring dream, and is taught to read the omens on the way. 1 recommender The Aleph and Other Stories Jorge Luis Borges Borges's labyrinths and infinities, including The Immortal and The Aleph, in one volume. 2 recommenders The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook Alice B. Toklas Recipes threaded through a life with Gertrude Stein in Paris, including the hashish fudge that made it notorious. 1 recommender The Alice Network Kate Quinn Two wars, two women, and a real network of female spies whose work history almost entirely forgot. 1 recommender The Alliance Reid Hoffman Lifetime employment is dead, so stop pretending. A new pact between company and employee built on honest, finite tours of duty The Alloy of Law Brandon Sanderson Three centuries on, Mistborn's world has railroads and revolvers, and Allomancy is a lawman's tool. A frontier lawman is pressed back into the city. The Altar of My Soul Marta Moreno Vega A Puerto Rican scholar returns to the faith her grandmother practised and she was taught to hide. 1 recommender The American Cafe Sara Sue Hoklotubbe A Cherokee woman takes over a small-town diner and is promptly blamed for a murder. 1 recommender The American Frugal Housewife The American Frugal Housewife Lydia Maria Child Advice on running a home on very little money, and a window onto everyday life in the 1830s. 1 recommender The Annals Tacitus Tacitus on the emperors from Tiberius to Nero, written by a senator who watched autocracy corrode the people closest to it. 1 recommender The Anxious Generation Jonathan Haidt The rewiring of childhood around smartphones and social media, and the mental-health crisis that followed a play-based upbringing's collapse. 2 recommenders The Arabian Nights Richard Francis Burton Shahrazad keeps herself alive one story at a time, in Richard Burton's translation of the famous collection of Middle Eastern tales. 2 recommenders The Arcadian Friends Tim Richardson 1 recommender The Argonauts Maggie Nelson Nelson braids memoir and theory around queer family-making, pregnancy, and a love affair with a fluidly gendered partner. 1 recommender The Arguers Corinna Luyken Everyone in town argues until the arguing takes a shape of its own. Luyken draws conflict as something physical, which is the most useful thing for a child inside one. 1 recommender The Argumentative Indian Amartya Sen Sen's case that India's long tradition of public argument, not any single faith, is the real inheritance worth defending. 2 recommenders The Art and Business of Online Writing Nicolas Cole One of the most-read writers on Quora and Medium on finding your niche, writing headlines that land, and building an audience online. 1 recommender The Art of Closing the Sale Brian Tracy Tracy demystifies the close as a learnable skill, with techniques for objections, buying signals, and the hesitation that kills deals. The Art of Creative Thinking Rod Judkins Short lessons on how creative thinking actually works. 1 recommender The Art of Eating M.F.K. Fisher 1 recommender The Art of Memory Frances A. Yates The book that founded the academic study of mnemonics, from the Greek memory palace to Renaissance magic. 1 recommender The Art of Profitability Adrian Slywotzky Twenty-three distinct ways a business can make money, taught through conversation rather than framework. 1 recommender The Art of Seduction Robert Greene Seduction reframed as a form of power, dissected through the great charmers of history into nine types and their tactics The Art of Spending Money Morgan Housel How to spend money in ways that make a life better, from the author of The Psychology of Money.