Books

The Lie Tree Frances Hardinge A Victorian girl inherits her father's specimen: a tree that feeds on lies told to it and fruits with truth. 1 recommender The Life of Muhammad Tahia Al-Ismail An accessible English narrative of the Prophet Muhammad's life. 1 recommender The Light in Hidden Places Sharon Cameron The true story of a Polish teenager who hid thirteen people in her attic while German soldiers lived downstairs. 1 recommender The Light We Carry Michelle Obama The practical follow-up to Becoming: the habits and mindsets Obama leans on to stay steady when everything feels unstable The Light We Lost Jill Santopolo Two students meet on September 11th, and spend thirteen years learning that loving each other and living their lives may not be compatible. 1 recommender The Line of Beauty Alan Hollinghurst A young gay man lodges with a Tory MP's family and mistakes proximity to power for belonging. 1 recommender The Little Book of Bull Moves in Bear Markets Peter Schiff Schiff's compact Little Book guide to defensive, globally diversified investing, foreign markets, commodities, and gold, for the turbulent times he expects. The Little Book of Common Sense Investing John C. Bogle Vanguard founder John Bogle makes the case that low-cost index funds, held for the long run, beat almost everything else for ordinary investors. 1 recommender The Little Book of Safe Money Jason Zweig How to protect your savings from bad markets, con artists and your own impulses. The Little Drummer Girl John le Carré An actress is recruited to play a part for Israeli intelligence, and stops knowing where the role ends. 1 recommender The Little Locksmith Katharine Butler Hathaway Strapped to a board for ten years of childhood, she emerged determined to build a life nobody thought she was owed. 1 recommender The Living Mountain Nan Shepherd Written in the 1940s and left in a drawer for thirty years: a walker's account of the Cairngorms as something you go into rather than up. 1 recommender The Log from the Sea of Cortez John Steinbeck Steinbeck and a marine biologist set out to collect specimens and came back with an argument about seeing, and why explaining a thing can explain it away. 1 recommender The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny Kiran Desai The Booker winner returns to displacement, not as subject but as the air two people breathe across India and America. 2 recommenders The Long and the Short of It John Kay A plain-spoken guide to investing your own money, from an economist who knows the industry from inside. The Long Goodbye Meghan O'Rourke A poet's memoir of losing her mother to cancer, and of how little modern life offers the bereaved in the way of shared mourning. The Long Slide Tucker Carlson A collection of Tucker Carlson's magazine journalism from three decades. The Look Michelle Obama Dressing under scrutiny: the former First Lady on clothes as authorship, and on what a public wardrobe is asked to carry. 1 recommender The Looming Tower Lawrence Wright 2 recommenders The Lord of the Rings J R R Tolkien 2 recommenders The Loss of Hindustan: The Invention of India Manan Ahmed Asif India was imagined as Hindustan for centuries, and the switch to India was a colonial act. 1 recommender The Lost Metal Brandon Sanderson Wax has traded law work for the Senate, but the conspiracy Wayne and Marasi are chasing reaches far beyond Elendel, and beyond the planet. The Love Secrets of Don Juan The Love Secrets of Don Juan Tim Lott A newly single man sets out to master the secrets of love, with mixed results. The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois Honoree Fanonne Jeffers Honoree Fanonne Jeffers's epic follows a Black family across centuries of American history through the eyes of a young scholar. 2 recommenders The Lover Marguerite Duras A French schoolgirl and a wealthy older man in colonial Vietnam, recalled decades later without apology. 1 recommender The Luck Factor Richard Wiseman A psychologist spent years studying people who consider themselves lucky or unlucky, and concluded that luck is largely a mindset you can cultivate. 1 recommender The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination Stuart A. Reid Congo's first prime minister lasted ten weeks, and Washington had already decided he should go. 1 recommender The Lying Game Ruth Ware Four school friends made a game of lying; seventeen years on, a three-word text drags them back to what they buried. 1 recommender The Machinery of Life David S. Goodsell Illustrations of the cell drawn to scale and in context, showing molecular machinery as it is actually crowded together. 1 recommender The Magic of Silence: Caspar David Friedrich’s Journey Through Time Florian Illies Who bought the paintings, who burned them, who found them again, and how the Nazi embrace nearly finished Friedrich. Art history written as the biography of objects. 1 recommender The Magic World E. Nesbit Twelve stories in which over-supervised Edwardian children finally get into proper trouble. 1 recommender The Magical Reality of Nadia Bassem Youssef, Catherine R. Daly A middle-grade adventure, co-written by Bassem Youssef, about an Egyptian American girl and a magical figure freed from an ancient amulet. The Magician’s Nephew C.S. Lewis How the wardrobe got there, how the lamp-post got there, and how Narnia was sung into being. 1 recommender The Mahabharata Anonymous & translated and abridged by John D. Smith 1 recommender The Making of a Manager Julie Zhuo Julie Zhuo became a manager at 25 with no idea what she was doing. This is the guide she wished she'd had. 1 recommender The Making of Addiction Louise Foxcroft How nineteenth-century doctors turned the use of opium into a disease called addiction.