Books

You Can’t Win Jack Black A burglar and hobo's frank memoir of the American underworld, a cult classic that shaped William S. Burroughs. 1 recommender You Don’t Have to Be a Shark Robert Herjavec A case that selling is a learnable life skill, not a shark's instinct: persuasion as understanding what people want and helping them get it. You Have a Match Emma Lord A DNA test turns up the older sister nobody mentioned, and the two end up at the same summer camp. 1 recommender You Look Like a Thing and I Love You Janelle Shane AI explained through its funniest failures, because each one shows precisely where the understanding stops. 1 recommender You Should See Me in a Crown Leah Johnson A scholarship depends on winning prom queen, a contest a poor, Black, queer honour student has every reason to dread. 1 recommender You Think It, I’ll Say It Curtis Sittenfeld Ten stories about people confidently misjudging each other, from a writer with a merciless eye for self-deception. 1 recommender You’re Not Listening Kate Murphy Everyone is talking and no one is listening. On a skill that has become rare enough to be transformative. 1 recommender Your Baby’s First Word Will Be Dada Jimmy Fallon Fallon's bestselling read-aloud picture book: animal parents coaxing babies to say Dada first, a goofy joke for exhausted new fathers everywhere. Your Money or Your Life Vicki Robin A classic of financial independence that reframes money as life energy, the hours of your life you trade away for it. 1 recommender Yumi and the Nightmare Painter Brandon Sanderson Two people from incompatible worlds start swapping bodies against their will: a sacred stacker of stones, and a man who paints away nightmares. Zealot Reza Aslan A bestselling and much-argued reconstruction of the historical Jesus, the Jewish revolutionary preacher standing behind the figure of Christian faith. Zero Zero Charles Seife Zero to One Peter Thiel, Blake Masters Thiel's contrarian guide to building companies that create something new rather than copy what works, arguing that real progress comes from going from zero to one, not one to many. 1 recommender Zhou Enlai: A Life Chen Jian Mao's premier survived every purge, and the question is what that survival actually cost. 1 recommender Zima Blue and Other Stories Alastair Reynolds Short science fiction from a writer known for enormous scale, with a title story about an artist, memory and one colour. 1 recommender Zombie Spaceship Wasteland Patton Oswalt Oswalt's genre-hopping debut of essays, parodies, and lists, built around his theory that every teenage misfit escapes into a zombie, spaceship, or wasteland.