Books

The Challenge of Affluence Avner Offer Why growing richer since 1950 has not made Britain and America happier, according to an economic historian. 1 recommender The Checklist Manifesto Atul Gawande Surgeon Atul Gawande shows how a tool as humble as a checklist can prevent catastrophic mistakes in medicine, aviation, and business, where expertise alone isn't enough. 1 recommender The Cherokees in War & at Peace 1670-1840 David Narrett A century and a half of Cherokee diplomacy, warfare and forced removal, told with the Cherokee as political actors negotiating among empires rather than as victims of history. 1 recommender The Chess Revolution: From the Ancient World to the Digital Age Peter Doggers From Indian origins to engines and streaming, taking in the game long entanglement with mathematics and war, and what changed once computers stopped losing. 1 recommender The Chicago Manual of Style University of Chicago Press Editorial Staff The definitive American reference on grammar, usage, and citation for writers and editors. 1 recommender The Chicken Sisters KJ Dell'Antonia Two rival family fried-chicken joints have faced off for a century, until a reality show arrives to film the feud. 1 recommender The Child’s Discovery of the Mind Janet Astington 1 recommender The Children of Athena: Greek Intellectuals in the Age of Rome: 150 BC-400 AD Charles Freeman Rome conquered Greece and then spent several centuries being educated by the Greek intellectuals it ruled. 1 recommender The China Study T. Colin Campbell, Thomas M. Campbell II A long-running nutrition study making the case that a whole-food, plant-based diet is linked to better long-term health. 1 recommender The Choice Ahmed Deedat Ahmed Deedat's collected works of Muslim-Christian comparative religion. 1 recommender The Christie Affair Nina de Gramont Agatha Christie's real eleven-day disappearance, narrated by the mistress her husband left her for. 1 recommender The Christmas Pig J.K. Rowling A standalone children's tale: on Christmas Eve, a boy who has lost his beloved toy pig sets off with its replacement into the Land of the Lost to get it back. The Church and the Left Adam Michnik The Polish dissident's argument that the secular left and the Catholic Church needed each other against the communist state. 1 recommender The Churchill Factor Boris Johnson A brisk, opinionated portrait of Churchill and the argument that individuals really do change history. 1 recommender The Circle Mats Strandberg & Sara Elfgren 1 recommender The Citadel A. J. Cronin Cronin's 1937 novel of an idealistic young doctor who leaves a Welsh mining town for London's private practice. 1 recommender The Clash of the Cultures John C. Bogle Vanguard founder John Bogle argues that long-term investing has been crowded out by short-term speculation, and makes the case to return to basics. 1 recommender The Club Ellery Lloyd A celebrity members' club opens on a private island, and its perfect launch weekend ends in bodies. 1 recommender The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff, Jonathan Haidt A free speech advocate and a social psychologist argue that well meant protection is leaving young Americans more anxious and less resilient. The Code Breaker Walter Isaacson How Jennifer Doudna and CRISPR gave humanity the power to edit its own genes, and the moral questions that came with it The Code, The Evaluation, The Protocols Jocko Willink A short, severe standard to measure yourself against, written to be re-read rather than finished. The Cold Dish Craig Johnson A Wyoming sheriff, his Cheyenne best friend, and a killing that looks a lot like revenge. 1 recommender The Cold Hard Truth on Men, Women, and Money Kevin O'Leary Fifty everyday money mistakes, sorted by life stage, each with O'Leary's blunt fix: spend less, automate saving, treat debt like a fire. The Collected Essex County Jeff Lemire Jeff Lemire's award-winning graphic novel of linked stories about small-town life in rural Ontario. 1 recommender The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas Dylan Thomas The poems Thomas chose to keep, in the order he settled on, including the villanelle he wrote as his father lay dying. 1 recommender The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens Wallace Stevens The complete poems of an insurance executive who wrote some of the century's most abstract and beautiful verse. 1 recommender The Color Purple Alice Walker Celie's letters trace a Black woman's journey from brutal abuse toward self-possession in the American South. 1 recommender The Comeback Ella Berman A vanished actress returns to face the producer who made her, and the pressure to call it luck. 1 recommender The Comfort Crisis Michael Easter Modern life has engineered away the discomfort humans evolved with, and we are worse off for it. 1 recommender The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year Margaret Renkl Fifty-two weeks of watching a single Nashville garden, written about loss and climate grief without that phrase appearing once anywhere. 1 recommender The Coming Wave Mustafa Suleyman Suleyman helped build the technology he is warning about, and argues that containment is the one problem AI and synthetic biology share and nobody has solved. 1 recommender The Common Reader Virginia Woolf Woolf wrote criticism for people without university Greek, on Montaigne, Austen and the obscure lives she liked rescuing from footnotes. The most companionable criticism in English. 1 recommender The Complete Persepolis Marjane Satrapi Satrapi's graphic memoir of growing up during and after the Iranian revolution, drawn in stark black and white. 1 recommender The Complete Poems William Blake A Penguin Classics edition of the poetry of William Blake, edited by Alicia Ostriker. 1 recommender The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain Mark Twain Sixty stories that start as frontier comedy and end somewhere considerably darker. 1 recommender The Complete Short Stories of W. Somerset Maugham W. Somerset Maugham Scandal and murder in the colonial Far East, recounted over a nightcap by a narrator who knew everyone. 1 recommender