Books

Angle of Repose Wallace Stegner A historian writes about his frontier grandparents and learns more about himself than he wants to, in Stegner's Pulitzer winner. 1 recommender Animal Farm George Orwell Orwell's satirical fable in which farm animals overthrow their owner, only to watch the pigs rebuild the tyranny they rose against. 2 recommenders Animal Liberation Peter Singer Peter Singer's 1975 book arguing that the interests of animals deserve consideration because they can suffer. 1 recommender Animalia Jean-Baptiste Del Amo Jean-Baptiste Del Amo's novel on the transmission of violence through one family over a century and five generations, translated by Frank Wynne. Anita de Monte Laughs Last Xochitl Gonzalez A Cuban American artist falls from a window in 1985, and a student in 1998 has never been taught she existed. 1 recommender Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy Tolstoy's tragic epic of a married aristocrat's affair, set against a panorama of Russian society and one man's search for meaning. 3 recommenders Annihilation Jeff VanderMeer Four women enter the government-sealed Area X, where earlier expeditions ended in disappearance and trauma. Anthologie Secrète Ida Faubert 1 recommender Anthony Bourdain’s Les Halles Cookbook Anthony Bourdain The recipes from the New York brasserie where Bourdain was chef, taught in his voice: bossy, funny, and dead serious about technique. Antifragile Nassim Nicholas Taleb Beyond robust: things that improve under stress, and how suppressing small shocks guarantees larger ones. 2 recommenders Antiracist Baby Ibram X. Kendi A rhyming picture book that gives young children and their parents nine steps toward being antiracist. Anton Rupert: The Life of a Business Icon Ebbe Dommisse A very favourable life of the tobacco magnate who became the richest man in South Africa. 1 recommender Anxious People Fredrik Backman A failed bank robber takes the people at an apartment viewing hostage, and none of them is quite who they seem. Anything You Want Derek Sivers Forty short chapters of lessons from building and selling CD Baby, the music company Derek Sivers started almost by accident. 1 recommender Appetites Anthony Bourdain, Laurie Woolever Bourdain's home cookbook, the food he actually cooked for family and friends, aimed at feeding people you love rather than a dining room. Arabian Sands Wilfred Thesiger Five years crossing the Empty Quarter with Bedu companions, written by a man who preferred it to England. 1 recommender Arabs Tim Mackintosh-Smith Three thousand years of Arab history told through the thing that kept binding it together: the language. 1 recommender Arcanum Unbounded Brandon Sanderson The Cosmere short fiction gathered in one volume, with essays and star charts mapping how the worlds actually connect. Archive Sofia Coppola Collages, annotated scripts and set photographs, assembled like the films themselves. 1 recommender Arctic Dreams Barry Lopez Five years in the Canadian Arctic, told as natural history, anthropology and an argument about how landscape shapes the mind that observes it. 1 recommender Are Prisons Obsolete? Angela Davis Prisons feel permanent only because the alternative is unimagined. A short book against that. Arise, England: Six Kings and the Making of the English State Caroline Burt Six medieval kings, and the machinery of the English state that was assembled underneath them. 1 recommender Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger, Douglas Kent Hall Schwarzenegger's first book, part memoir and part training manual, written as his bodybuilding career ended and Hollywood began. Arnold’s Bodybuilding for Men Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bill Dobbins A practical, approachable programme for ordinary readers rather than competitors, from the man who wrote the sport's definitive reference. Arnold’s Bodyshaping for Women Arnold Schwarzenegger, Douglas Kent Hall An argument, made when almost no women lifted, that resistance training shapes and strengthens a body rather than bulking it. Arnold’s Fitness for Kids, Age 11-14 Arnold Schwarzenegger, Charles Gaines Health, exercise and nutrition through the pre-teen and early-teen years, the stretch where kids most often drop the habit for good. Arnold’s Fitness for Kids, Age 6-10 Arnold Schwarzenegger, Charles Gaines The middle volume of Schwarzenegger's fitness series for parents, written while he chaired the President's Council on Physical Fitness. Arnold’s Fitness for Kids, Ages Birth to Five Arnold Schwarzenegger, Charles Gaines The first of three parent guides from Schwarzenegger's years chairing the President's Council on Physical Fitness, covering the earliest childhood years. Around the World in Eighty Days Michael Palin Michael Palin's account of retracing Phileas Fogg's journey around the world in 80 days in 1988, without once boarding a plane. Art and the Creative Unconscious Erich Neumann Jung most original follower on where art comes from, taking in Leonardo, Chagall and the Great Mother, written at the end of a life cut short at fifty-five. 1 recommender Artemis Fowl Eoin Colfer A twelve-year-old criminal mastermind kidnaps a fairy to ransom her people's gold, and finds out the fairies are high-tech and armed. 1 recommender As I Lay Dying William Faulkner William Faulkner's novel follows a poor Mississippi family's grueling journey to bury their mother, told in fractured inner voices. 2 recommenders Ash Wednesday Ethan Hawke An AWOL soldier and his pregnant girlfriend drive across America toward marriage and parenthood, in Ethan Hawke's second novel. Astor Anderson Cooper, Katherine Howe The follow-up to Vanderbilt, tracing the Astors from a fur trader's fortune through Gilded Age society to feuds, folly and decline. Astrophysics for People in a Hurry Neil deGrasse Tyson The universe, from the Big Bang to dark matter, explained in short chapters for readers with no time and no physics At Home Bill Bryson A history of domestic life told room by room, from why the dining room exists to what made spice worth dying for.