Books

The House of Eve Sadeqa Johnson Two 1950s women, one facing a pregnancy that would end her scholarship, the other marrying into a Black elite that judges her. 1 recommender The House of the Spirits Isabel Allende Four generations of the Trueba family live through the upheavals of an unnamed Chile in Isabel Allende's celebrated first novel. The House on Mango Street Sandra Cisneros A girl's year in a Chicago barrio, built from fragments that add up to a decision about her life. 1 recommender The House on the Borderland William Hope Hodgson A recluse's manuscript records swine-things besieging his house and a vision of the death of the solar system. 1 recommender The Human Stain Philip Roth A classics professor is destroyed for a word he did not mean, while guarding a secret nobody suspects. 1 recommender The Humbling Philip Roth A great actor loses his gift in his sixties and looks for a second chance in a late love affair. 1 recommender The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine Rashid Khalidi A colonial war in six declarations, written by a historian with his family's papers to hand. The Hunger Whitley Strieber A vampire as a separate species rather than a curse, and the arithmetic of outliving everyone you love. 1 recommender The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins In a dystopian future, teenager Katniss volunteers for a televised fight to the death and becomes a symbol of rebellion. 1 recommender The Hurting Kind Ada Limón Ada Limón's 2022 collection on kinship between people, animals, plants and ancestors. The Husbands Holly Gramazio The attic keeps producing new husbands, which turns out to be a very sharp question about settling. 1 recommender The Ickabog J.K. Rowling A fairy tale about a prosperous kingdom, a monster that may or may not be real, and how a convenient lie, once told by those in power, can grow into something monstrous. The Idea Factory Jon Gertner How one lab produced the transistor, the laser and information theory, and what conditions made that possible. 1 recommender The Idea Machine: How Books Built Our World Joel J. Miller Scrolls, codices, marginalia, print and the paperback, told as episodes, arguing the book is less a container for ideas than a machine that keeps producing them. 1 recommender The Idea of Epilepsy: A Medical and Social History of Epilepsy in the Modern Era (1860-2020) Simon Shorvon A century and a half of epilepsy, the treatments, and the stigma that outlasted most of them. 1 recommender The Idiot Elif Batuman A Harvard freshman in 1995 falls into an email correspondence with an older Hungarian math student. 1 recommender The Idiot Fyodor Dostoevsky Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel of Prince Myshkin, a young man whose goodness sets him against a worldly society, in the Pevear and Volokhonsky translation. 1 recommender The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Rebecca Skloot The woman whose cells were taken without consent in 1951 and never stopped dividing, and the family left behind. 1 recommender The Importance of the Prohibition of Riba in Islam Imran N. Hosein A shorter statement of the case against riba and why the author holds it to be central. The Indo-Europeans Rediscovered: How a Scientific Revolution is Rewriting Their Story J.P. Mallory Ancient DNA has upended the story of where the Indo-European languages came from, and who carried them. 1 recommender The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman Angela Carter A war fought with illusions rather than weapons, as one doctor's machines dissolve the boundary between desire and reality. 1 recommender The Infinite Game Simon Sinek Business has no finish line, so playing to win misreads the game: a case for leading toward a cause that outlasts you The Inner Game of Tennis W. Timothy Gallwey W. Timothy Gallwey's classic on the mental side of tennis, and of performing well at almost anything. 1 recommender The Inner Life of Animals Peter Wohlleben Peter Wohlleben's follow-up to The Hidden Life of Trees, turning his attention to animals. The Innocents Abroad Mark Twain Twain's irreverent bestseller about a steamship tour of Europe and the Holy Land, puncturing guidebook piety and the American tourist alike. The Innovator’s Dilemma Clayton M. Christensen Christensen's classic on why well-run companies get toppled by disruptive innovation, and how to avoid it. 2 recommenders The Innovators Walter Isaacson Not one genius but a century of collaborators, from Ada Lovelace to the founders of Google, who together built the computer age The Intelligent Investor Benjamin Graham Benjamin Graham's foundational guide to value investing, built around margin of safety and treating a stock as a piece of a business. 1 recommender The Intermediaries: A Weimar Story Brandy Schillace A Weimar story about the people Hirschfeld's institute served, recovered from records long thought lost. 1 recommender The Invention of Wings Sue Monk Kidd A novel tracing the entwined lives of a Charleston slaveholder’s daughter and an enslaved girl she is given as a gift. 1 recommender The Invisible Kingdom Meghan O'Rourke A poet's account of a decade of mysterious illness, and of a medical system poorly equipped for patients whose symptoms do not fit. The Invisible Writing Arthur Koestler The second volume of Koestler's autobiography, covering his years in the Communist Party and his break with it. 1 recommender The Iron Heel Jack London Jack London's 1908 dystopian political novel about an American democracy that degenerates into an oligarchy. 1 recommender The ISIS Apocalypse: The History, Strategy, and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic State William McCants 1 recommender The Islamic Gold Dinar Ahamed Kameel Mydin Meera The case for a gold-based currency as an alternative to fiat money, from one of Islamic finance's most cited voices. The Islamic Travelogue 2008 Imran N. Hosein The author's account of his travels and lectures in 2008.