Books

The Greeks and the Irrational E. R. Dodds The classic study of the irrational in Greek religion and thought, and of the daemon as a creative force. 2 recommenders The Greenhouse Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir's novel of a young man, a rare rose and sudden fatherhood, in Brian FitzGibbon's translation. 1 recommender The Guest List Lucy Foley A celebrity wedding on a storm-cut Irish island, where the guests all have grievances and one of them ends up dead. 1 recommender The Gunfighters Paul Trachtman The Time-Life Old West volume that sat on a generation of teenage bookshelves. 1 recommender The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood In the Republic of Gilead, fertile women are conscripted as breeders, and Offred remembers a world where she had a name. 4 recommenders The Happiness Hypothesis Jonathan Haidt Ancient wisdom put to the test of modern psychology, with a rider perched on an elephant he does not control. 1 recommender The Harpole Report James Lloyd Carr 1 recommender The Hate U Give Angie Thomas Starr is the only witness when a police officer kills her unarmed childhood friend, and her two worlds collide. 1 recommender The Hating Game Sally Thorne Two executive assistants compete for the same promotion and lose the plot entirely. 1 recommender The Haves and the Have-Nots Branko Milanovic Inequality explained through lively stories, from Jane Austen's heroines to today's global rich. The Healthcare Labyrinth: A Guide to Navigating Health Plans and Fixing American Health Insurance Marc S. Ryan How American health insurance actually works, priced and administered, rather than how the debate describes it. 1 recommender The Hearing Trumpet Leonora Carrington Leonora Carrington's 1974 surrealist novel about a hard-of-hearing woman in her nineties sent to a peculiar old-age home. 1 recommender The Heart Maylis de Kerangal Maylis de Kerangal's French novel about an organ transplant, in Sam Taylor's US translation. 1 recommender The Heart Goes Last Margaret Atwood A couple trade their freedom for security in a town where every second month is spent inside its prison, by design. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers Carson McCullers's debut gathers lonely souls in a 1930s Georgia town around a deaf-mute man they each turn to. 1 recommender The Heart Is a Shifting Sea Elizabeth Flock Ten years reporting on three Mumbai marriages, told with the access of a novelist. 1 recommender The Heart of a Woman Maya Angelou The fourth volume of Maya Angelou's autobiography, following her into activism, motherhood, and the civil rights movement. 1 recommender The Heartbeat of Trees Peter Wohlleben Peter Wohlleben on the ancient bond between people and woodland, translated by Jane Billinghurst. The Heir Apparent Rebecca Armitage Inside a royal household where the succession is at stake and someone on the staff has stopped cooperating. 1 recommender The Henna Artist Alka Joshi In 1950s Jaipur a woman escapes her marriage to become henna artist to the wealthy, until the sister she never knew arrives. 1 recommender The Heptameron Marguerite de Navarre 1 recommender The Hero and the Crown Robin McKinley A king's daughter with no magic teaches herself to kill dragons out of an old recipe and sheer stubbornness. 1 recommender The Hero of Ages Brandon Sanderson The mists are killing people, ash is burying the world, and the god-like Ruin walks free. The finale of the original Mistborn trilogy. The Hidden Life of Trees Peter Wohlleben Peter Wohlleben's bestselling case that trees live in social networks, in the 2016 English edition. The Highest Exam: How the Gaokao Shapes China Ruixue Jia One examination decides a Chinese teenager's future, and the country has organised itself around it. 1 recommender The Histories Herodotus Herodotus on the Greek and Persian wars, and on how history happens — in the Landmark edition with maps and appendices. 1 recommender The History Man Malcolm Bradbury 1 recommender The History of Pi Petr Beckmann 1 recommender The History of White People Nell Irvin Painter Whiteness as an invention with a traceable history, and a surprising amount of art criticism. 1 recommender The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams Seconds before Earth is demolished to make way for a hyperspace bypass, Arthur Dent is rescued by a friend who turns out to be from another planet. 1 recommender The Holocaust Industry Norman Finkelstein A survivors' son on how the memory became an institution, and who the reparations actually reached. The Honest Rainmaker A. J. Liebling Liebling's portrait of Colonel John R. Stingo, racetrack columnist and confidence man, assembled largely from his own talk. 1 recommender The Hottest State Ethan Hawke A young actor falls hard for a woman he meets at a New York bar, in Ethan Hawke's debut novel. The Hour of the Star Clarice Lispector Clarice Lispector's 1977 novel about a woman from Brazil's rural Northeast, in a New Directions edition. 1 recommender The Hours Michael Cunningham One day in three women's lives, braided together by Mrs Dalloway and the question of what makes a life bearable. 1 recommender The House in the Pines Ana Reyes Two young women dropped dead in front of the same man, and the only witness cannot trust her own memory. 1 recommender