Books

The Island of Missing Trees Elif Shafak Two young lovers on opposite sides of Cyprus, and the buried history their London-raised daughter cannot get anyone to explain. 1 recommender The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy John Mearsheimer A contested case that a lobby has bent US policy away from its own interest, and the fight it started. The Jasmine Throne Tasha Suri 1 recommender The Jetsetters Amanda Eyre Ward A widow wins a Mediterranean cruise and gathers her three adult children, each concealing a disaster from the others. 1 recommender The Journalist and the Murderer Janet Malcolm A convicted murderer sued the writer profiling him, and Malcolm turns the case into an indictment of journalism itself. 1 recommender The King and I: The Uncensored Tale of Luciano Pavarotti’s Rise to Fame by his Manager, Friend, and Sometime Adversary Herbert Breslin The manager who ran Pavarotti's career for thirty-six years, settling accounts both fondly and otherwise. 1 recommender The King’s Two Bodies Ernst Kantorowicz The doctrine that a king has a mortal body and an undying body politic, and what it did to medieval law. 1 recommender The Kitchen House Kathleen Grissom An Irish orphan working in a plantation kitchen alongside enslaved people finds herself caught between two worlds. 1 recommender The Knights of Crystallia Brandon Sanderson Alcatraz reaches the free kingdom of Mokia and discovers he is a celebrity there, which turns out to be its own kind of trap. The Lack of Light Nino Haratischwili Nino Haratischwili's 736-page novel of four women whose friendship forms around Georgia's independence, from HarperVia in 2025. The Lady and the Peacock Peter Popham 1 recommender The Land in Winter Andrew Miller The great freeze of 1962, two marriages, and weather doing the work that the characters cannot. 1 recommender The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy Ursula K. Le Guin Le Guin on why fantasy is not escapism and why Americans are afraid of dragons, sharp about her field and sharper about the critics who condescended to it. 1 recommender The Last Barrier Reshad Feild 1 recommender The Last Days of Hitler Hugh Trevor-Roper Written in 1947 from the author's own intelligence investigation into how Hitler died and what the bunker was like. 1 recommender The Last Days of Mankind Karl Kraus A vast satirical drama of the First World War, much of it assembled from newspaper reports of the day. 1 recommender The Last Days of Pompeii Edward Bulwer-Lytton The 1834 novel that built a whole imagined city on top of the ruins, and shaped how the modern world pictures Pompeii. 1 recommender The Last Earth Ramzy Baroud Displacement told by the people who lived it, on the argument that they are the reliable witnesses. The Last House Guest Megan Miranda In a Maine resort town, a local girl refuses to accept that her wealthy summer friend's death was suicide. 1 recommender The Last Human Job: The Work of Connecting in a Disconnected World Allison Pugh The jobs that survive automation will be the ones that require actually connecting with people. 1 recommender The Last Mrs. Parrish Liv Constantine A calculating outsider sets out to steal a wealthy woman's perfect life, in a thriller that turns everything over midway. 1 recommender The Last Romantics Tara Conklin Four siblings raise each other through a mother's withdrawal, and spend decades settling the debt. 1 recommender The Last Story of Mina Lee Nancy Jooyoun Kim A daughter finds her mother dead in her Koreatown apartment, and discovers the life she never thought to ask about. 1 recommender The Last Thing He Told Me Laura Dave A husband disappears leaving cash and a two-word note, and his wife and hostile stepdaughter go looking for who he was. 1 recommender The Last Tycoon F. Scott Fitzgerald Fitzgerald died before finishing it, leaving the best portrait anyone wrote of a studio boss at work. 1 recommender The Last Unicorn Peter Beagle 1 recommender The Lathe of Heaven Ursula K. Le Guin George Orr dreams, and reality rearranges itself to match. His psychiatrist decides to aim those dreams at a better world, with the results you would expect. 1 recommender The Laughing Policeman Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö The fourth Martin Beck mystery by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, translated by Alan Blair, in the Vintage Crime paperback. 1 recommender The Law of Peoples John Rawls How should peoples with different values live together justly? Rawls's answer for the world stage. 1 recommender The Lawful and the Prohibited in Islam Yusuf al-Qaradawi What Islamic law permits and forbids across ordinary life, written for readers rather than jurists. The Laws of Human Nature Robert Greene Why people do what they do, and how to read the envy, aggression and self-deception they would rather you missed The Leader Who Had No Title Robin Sharma Leadership is a choice, not a rank. A fable arguing anyone can lead from wherever they stand, title or none The Least Worst Place Karen J. Greenberg Karen J. Greenberg's account of the first months of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, published by Oxford University Press in 2009. 1 recommender The Legend of the Christmas Witch Aubrey Plaza, Dan Murphy A wintry picture book introducing Kristtörn, the Christmas Witch and long-lost twin sister of Santa Claus, separated at birth and raised worlds apart. The Less You Know, the Better You Sleep David Satter David Satter’s case that post-Soviet Russia’s descent into authoritarianism was built on manufactured terror and manipulated truth. 1 recommender The Library Book Susan Orlean A forgotten 1986 fire destroyed a million books in Los Angeles, and Orlean uses it to ask what libraries are really for. 1 recommender