Books

The German Historicist Tradition Frederick C. Beiser The German thinkers who decided history was the key to everything, and why almost nobody reads them now. 1 recommender The German Trauma Gitta Sereny A journalist who sat across from Nazi perpetrators reflects on how they explained themselves, and how Germany reckoned with them. 1 recommender The Ghost Robert Harris A ghostwriter takes over the memoirs of a former British prime minister and finds what his predecessor found. 1 recommender The Gilda Stories Jewelle Gomez A girl escapes slavery in 1850, is made immortal, and watches two hundred and fifty years of America. 1 recommender The Girl with the Louding Voice Abi Daré Fourteen, sold into service in Lagos, and determined to get the schooling that lets her speak. 1 recommender The Giver Lois Lowry In a painless, colorless utopia, a boy chosen to hold his society's memories discovers the cost of its perfect order. 1 recommender The Giver of Stars Jojo Moyes Depression-era women rode books into the Kentucky mountains, and one English bride found the first thing that was truly hers. 1 recommender The Glass Bead Game Hermann Hesse In a future order devoted to a game synthesising all knowledge, one master begins to doubt the whole enterprise. 1 recommender The Glass Palace Amitav Ghosh 1 recommender The Glorians: Visitations from the Holy Ordinary Terry Tempest Williams Williams finds the sacred in forests, oceans and moss rather than doctrine, carrying the desert-shaped attention of Refuge into a book about plural gods. 1 recommender The Go-Giver Bob Burg, John David Mann A short business parable: an ambitious striver learns from a mentor that the secret to success is giving more than you take. 1 recommender The Go-Giver Leader Bob Burg, John David Mann A hard-charging dealmaker learns from an unlikely mentor that real leadership is never about the leader, but about holding others up and giving your power away. The Goal Eliyahu M. Goldratt Told as a novel: a plant manager races to save his failing factory and learns that a system is only as fast as its constraint. 2 recommenders The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy Twins in Kerala, a drowning, and a love that crosses caste — told out of order so the ending arrives from every direction at once. 1 recommender The Gold Dinar and Silver Dirham Imran N. Hosein The Islamic case for commodity money, and the author's critique of the paper currency that replaced it. The Golden Hour Matthew Specktor The son of a CAA superagent on growing up inside the light thrown by the movies. 1 recommender The Golden Notebook Doris Lessing Four notebooks for the parts of a life that will not cohere, and a fifth that tries to join them. Lessing own preface is impatient with how it got read. 2 recommenders The Golden Spiders Rex Stout A boy hires Nero Wolfe with pocket change and is dead before the retainer clears. 1 recommender The Goldfinch Donna Tartt A boy survives an attack at the Met that kills his mother and walks away with a famous painting. Donna Tartt's Pulitzer winner. 1 recommender The Good Earth Pearl S. Buck Pearl S. Buck's novel follows a Chinese farmer's rise from poverty to wealth and the pull the land keeps on him. 2 recommenders The Good Lord Bird James McBride A boy freed by John Brown is mistaken for a girl, and decides not to correct anyone for years. 2 recommenders The Good School Peg Tyre What the research says makes a good school, turned into questions any parent can ask. The Good Soldier Ford Madox Ford Two perfect marriages recounted by the one person least equipped to understand either. 1 recommender The Gormenghast Novels Mervyn Peake 1 recommender The Gourmet Lu Wenfu A novella about a Suzhou gourmet whose appetite outlives every political turn around him. 1 recommender The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck The Joad family drives west from the Dust Bowl to California, and finds the promise waiting there already broken. 1 recommender The Grasshopper: Games, Life, and Utopia Bernard Suits A dying grasshopper and his disciples argue their way toward the claim that in utopia, with all work automated, game-playing would be the only thing left to do. 1 recommender The Great CEO Within Matt Mochary The operational playbook an executive coach uses with top founders, covering hiring, culture, meetings and the machinery of building a company. 1 recommender The Great Delusion John Mearsheimer Why spreading democracy by force failed: nationalism and realism are the stronger forces. The Great Depression: A Diary Benjamin Roth The Great Depression as it looked day by day to a small-town lawyer who did not know how it would end. 1 recommender The Great Divide Cristina Henriquez The Panama Canal told from underneath, by the people who dug it and the people it displaced. 1 recommender The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald A man rebuilds himself entirely around a woman who was never going to be worth it. 1 recommender The Great New Wilderness Debate ed. J. Baird Callicott and Michael P. Nelson 1 recommender The Great Rat Race Escape MJ DeMarco DeMarco's fastlane philosophy told as a parable: a fictional couple escapes wage slavery by building a purpose-driven business, framework by framework. The Great Ron Paul: The Scott Horton Show Interviews 2004-2019 Scott Horton Fifteen years of Ron Paul interviews, gathered by the antiwar broadcaster who conducted them. The Great Theft Khaled Abou El Fadl Islam argued back from puritanism using classical jurisprudence rather than liberal appeals.