Books

The Final Days Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein Woodward and Bernstein's account of Richard Nixon's last months in office, as Watergate and the White House tapes closed in. 1 recommender The Final Strife Saara El-Arifi 1 recommender The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission 1 recommender The Fire Is Upon Us Nicholas Buccola Two men argue the American dream at Cambridge in 1965, and neither ever really stops. 1 recommender The Fire Next Time James Baldwin Two letters from James Baldwin, one to his teenage nephew, that confront race, religion and the unfinished promise of American freedom. 1 recommender The First Islamic Travelogue 2003 Imran N. Hosein An account of the author's journeys and what he found in the Muslim world in 2003. The First King of England: Aethelstan and the Birth of a Kingdom David Woodman Alfred gets the fame, but it was his grandson who first ruled anything that could be called England. 1 recommender The Fish Can Sing Halldor Laxness An orphan raised in a turf cottage on the edge of Reykjavik meets Iceland's most famous singer. 1 recommender The Flamingo’s Smile Stephen Jay Gould Essays from Natural History magazine, arguing repeatedly that not every trait is an adaptation. 1 recommender The Folly of Fools Robert Trivers An evolutionary biologist asks why humans deceive themselves so readily, and what advantage it confers. 1 recommender The Food of China E. N. Anderson An anthropologist's comprehensive survey: ingredients, techniques, agriculture and history. 1 recommender The Food of Southern Thailand Austin Bush Recipes, maps, photographs and history from a region whose cooking gets explained by its underlying logic rather than as a list of finished dishes. 1 recommender The Forever War Dexter Filkins Afghanistan and Iraq in fragments, by a reporter who kept going back until the fragments were the story. 1 recommender The Forgery Ave Barrera Ave Barrera's novel Restauración, in which the architect Luis Barragán appears as a character, translated by Ellen Jones and Robin Myers. The Forgotten Highlander Alistair Urquhart Death Railway, then a torpedoed hellship, then Nagasaki. One man absorbed nearly every horror of the Pacific war 1 recommender The Forgotten Teachers: How Nature Wrote the Story of Life Brian Isett A neuroscientist and an artist trace the route from mitochondria to minds, treating evolution as a sequence of lessons rather than a ladder anyone was climbing. 1 recommender The Four Agreements Don Miguel Ruiz Drawing on Toltec wisdom, Ruiz distills a code for living into four agreements, be impeccable with your word, don't take things personally, don't assume, and always do your best. 2 recommenders The Four Heavens: A New History of the Ancient Maya David Stuart Stuart helped decipher Maya glyphs as a teenager. Here he turns decades of epigraphy into narrative history rather than another specialist monograph. 1 recommender The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive Patrick Lencioni A business fable following two CEOs, and the argument that what separates great leaders from good ones is disciplined obsession, not brilliance. 1 recommender The Four Steps to the Epiphany Steve Blank Startups rarely fail at building the product; they fail because nobody wanted it, and this is the process for finding out first. 1 recommender The Fourth Instinct Arianna Huffington Huffington argues that beyond survival, sex, and power lies a fourth instinct, the pull toward the spiritual, and that ignoring it leaves us hollow. The Franchise Affair Josephine Tey A schoolgirl accuses two women of kidnapping her, and a quiet solicitor sets out to prove her wrong. 1 recommender The Friedkin Connection William Friedkin The director of The Exorcist and The French Connection on a career built at maximum risk. 1 recommender The Friend Sigrid Nunez A grieving writer in Manhattan takes in her late mentor's Great Dane in a novel about loss and writing. 1 recommender The Friends of Eddie Coyle George V. Higgins A small-time Boston gunrunner tries to talk his way out of prison, in a novel told almost entirely in dialogue. 1 recommender The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England Brandon Sanderson A man wakes in medieval England with no memory, armed only with a budget guidebook to dimensional tourism that may be lying to him. The Fugitive Pramoedya Ananta Toer A failed rebel returns home disguised as a beggar for one night, and is recognised by no one, including his father. 1 recommender The Future of Freedom Fareed Zakaria Zakaria warns that elections alone don't make a country free, and that democracy without the rule of law and liberal institutions can curdle into a new kind of tyranny. The Future of Islam John L. Esposito What polling across Muslim-majority countries actually shows, versus what commentary assumes. The Future of Islam Wilfrid Scawen Blunt An English anti-imperialist asked in 1882 what Islam would become, and argued the answer had to come from Muslims. 1 recommender The Future of Islam in the Middle East Mahmud A. Faksh A 1997 verdict, ignored at the time, that Islamic fundamentalism could protest but could never govern. 1 recommender The Garden of Eden Ernest Hemingway Hemingway's posthumous novel about a young writer and his new wife, whose honeymoon on the Riviera turns into something stranger. 1 recommender The Gardener and the Carpenter Alison Gopnik Stop building the child to a plan. A developmental psychologist's case for tending conditions instead of engineering outcomes. 1 recommender The Gathering Storm Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson The first volume Sanderson completed from Robert Jordan's notes after his death, carrying the Wheel of Time toward its Last Battle. The General Jonathan Fenby 1 recommender The Genesis Machine Amy Webb, Andrew Hessel A futurist's account of synthetic biology, the technology that lets us write life rather than read it. 1 recommender