Books

The Devil’s Financial Dictionary Jason Zweig A satirical A to Z of Wall Street jargon, with real investing lessons behind the jokes. The Devils of Loudun Aldous Huxley Huxley's study of a 17th-century French possession scandal, and how hysteria and power destroy individual autonomy. 1 recommender The Devotion of Suspect X Keigo Higashino A murder, and a brilliant neighbour who helps cover it up. Less a whodunit than a duel of intellects. 1 recommender The Diaries of Dawn Powell Dawn Powell Thirty-four years of a New York novelist's private record, published long after her death and largely responsible for her rediscovery. 1 recommender The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh Michael Davie Waugh's intermittent diaries, edited by Michael Davie: the drinking, the feuds, and life being turned into art. 1 recommender The Diary of a Provincial Lady E. M. Delafield A 1930 diary of unpayable dress bills and a silent husband, and the ancestor of every comic diary since. 1 recommender The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Volume 4 Anaïs Nin The years Nin hand-printed her own books because publishers refused them, recorded in the diary she treated as her real work. 1 recommender The Diary of Virginia Woolf Virginia Woolf The first volume of Virginia Woolf's diary, begun during the First World War, in which a novelist examines her days, her friends and her work. 1 recommender The Dichotomy of Leadership Jocko Willink Every leadership virtue has an opposite that is also true. The skill is knowing which one today calls for. The Dictionary of Lost Words Pip Williams A girl raised beneath the making of the Oxford English Dictionary collects the words its editors threw away. 1 recommender The Dip Seth Godin Quitting the wrong things fast is a skill, not a failure: winners quit constantly, just not in the dip before the payoff The Discovery of Insulin Michael Bliss Diabetes was a death sentence until a Toronto laboratory changed that in the 1920s, and then everyone involved began fighting over the credit. 1 recommender The Dispossessed Ursula K. Le Guin A physicist leaves his anarchist moon for its wealthy twin planet in Le Guin's prize-winning study of freedom, ownership and revolution. 1 recommender The Divine Reality Hamza Andreas Tzortzis An Islamic case for God against atheist arguments. 2 recommenders The Dog of the South Charles Portis A jilted husband chases his runaway wife to Mexico, in Charles Portis's 1979 comic novel. 1 recommender The Double Standard Jody McIntyre, Mohammed Hijab McIntyre and Hijab argue that Western media applies unequal standards to coverage of Israel and Palestine. The Downstairs Girl Stacey Lee A Chinese American maid in 1890 Atlanta secretly writes the city's most talked-about advice column from a hidden basement. 1 recommender The Dracula Tape Fred Saberhagen Dracula's own account of events, in which Stoker's novel is the propaganda of the men who killed him. 1 recommender The Dream Hotel Laila Lalami Detained for a crime an algorithm predicts from her dreams, in a system that keeps moving the release conditions. 1 recommender The Driver’s Seat Muriel Spark Lise flies south on holiday looking for a particular kind of man, and Spark tells you early how it ends. 1 recommender The Drowned World J. G. Ballard Solar radiation has melted the ice caps and drowned the cities, and the survivors find their minds regressing along with the landscape. 1 recommender The Drunkard’s Walk Leonard Mlodinow Why chance is harder to reason about than it looks, from the gambler's fallacy to the false patterns we find in noise. 1 recommender The Duel Anton Chekhov 1 recommender The Dutch House Ann Patchett Two siblings put out of the family house, and fifty years of parking outside to look at it. 1 recommender The E-Myth Revisited Michael E. Gerber Most small businesses fail because they are started by technicians, people good at the craft who assume that is the same as running a business. 2 recommenders The Earth Transformed: An Untold History Peter Frankopan Climate as the driver of human history, across an enormous span and a great deal of evidence. 1 recommender The Economic Approach: Unpublished Writings of Gary S. Becker Gary S. Becker Unpublished writing from the economist who applied price theory to crime, marriage and discrimination. 1 recommender The Economy of Cities Jane Jacobs 1 recommender The Economy of Esteem Geoffrey Brennan and Philip Pettit Two philosophers on esteem as a currency that shapes behaviour as reliably as money, and what follows if you take it seriously. 1 recommender The Edible Woman Margaret Atwood A woman's body starts refusing food as her engagement closes around her, in the comic first novel Atwood wrote before the term existed. The Effective Executive Peter F. Drucker Drucker's timeless guide to the habits that make executives effective, starting with managing their own time and decisions. 2 recommenders The Eighth Life (for Brilka) Nino Haratischwili Nino Haratischwili's family saga built around a chocolate recipe handed down through generations, in Scribe UK's English edition. The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld Visionary of Weimar Berlin Daniel Brook Magnus Hirschfeld built the world's first institute for sexual science, and the Nazis burned it. 1 recommender The Elegance of the Hedgehog Muriel Barbery A Paris concierge hides her brilliant mind until a precocious twelve-year-old in her building discovers it. 1 recommender The Elegant Universe Brian Greene String theory explained for readers who are not physicists, by one who is. 1 recommender The Elements of Power: A Story of War, Technology, and the Dirtiest Supply Chain on Earth Nicolas Niarchos The cobalt in your phone comes out of Congolese mines, and the supply chain is worse than you think. 1 recommender