Books

The Most Important Thing Howard Marks Oaktree's Howard Marks distills his investor memos into lessons on risk, cycles, and second-level thinking, the habits that separate good investors from the crowd. 1 recommender The Mother Tongue Bill Bryson Bill Bryson's lively history of English, from its Germanic roots to its spelling quirks, swearing and spread across the world. The Mothman Prophecies John A. Keel John A. Keel's 1975 account of a winged creature reported at Point Pleasant, West Virginia, and the strange events that followed. 1 recommender The Mountain in the Sea Ray Nayler First contact happens on Earth, with an octopus, and nobody is equipped for the conversation. 1 recommender The Muqaddimah Ibn Khaldun The fourteenth-century work that founded social science, on the group solidarity that wins power and then decays into comfort. 1 recommender The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Agatha Christie Agatha Christie's third novel starring Hercule Poirot, in the William Morrow edition. 1 recommender The Murderer Next Door David M. Buss An evolutionary psychologist argues that homicidal thinking is far more common than we admit, and asks why. 1 recommender The Museum of Other People: From Colonial Acquisitions to Cosmopolitan Exhibitions Adam Kuper Ethnographic museums were built to display other people, and are now unsure what they are for. 1 recommender The Mysteries of Udolpho Ann Radcliffe 1 recommender The Myth of Normal Gabor Maté, Daniel Maté Maté's synthesis: what we call normal in a stressful, disconnected culture is quietly making us sick, and healing begins by naming that. The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies Bryan Caplan Voters are not merely ignorant but wrong in predictable directions, and since one vote decides nothing, there is no personal cost to believing what feels good. The Names Florence Knapp Three futures branch from one exhausted decision at a registry office: what to call a newborn son. 1 recommender The Narrow Road to the Deep North Matsuo Bashō Bashō's account of a journey on foot through northern Japan in 1689, in prose and haiku. 1 recommender The Nasty Bits Anthony Bourdain A gleefully uneven grab-bag of Bourdain's shorter writing, from travel dispatches to rants, collecting the scraps that didn't fit his other books. The Net Delusion Evgeny Morozov Against the belief that connectivity brings democracy, argued from the states that use the same tools to control. 1 recommender The Neverending Story Michael Ende Michael Ende's German fantasy novel about a book that draws its reader in, in a Puffin paperback. 1 recommender The New Anthem Ahmede Hussain The New Black Darian Leader A psychoanalyst asks what the word depression hides, and finds unmourned loss underneath. 1 recommender The New Byzantines: The Rise of Greece and Return of the Near East Sean Mathews A case for reading Greece as part of the Middle East rather than the edge of Europe. 1 recommender The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man John Perkins Perkins returns to his account of steering poor countries into unpayable debt, and argues the same machinery now runs everywhere, including at home. The New Digital Age Eric Schmidt, Jared Cohen Schmidt and Cohen forecast how connectivity will reshape states, business, war, and privacy, as billions more people come online in the decades ahead. The New Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bill Dobbins Widely called the bible of bodybuilding: a vast, fully revised reference collecting everything Schwarzenegger knew about training. The New Industrial State John Kenneth Galbraith Galbraith's account of the mature corporation and the technostructure that runs it, in the Princeton edition with a foreword by James K. Galbraith. 1 recommender The New Jim Crow Michelle Alexander Alexander argues that mass incarceration has become a new system of racial control in America. 1 recommender The New Machiavelli H. G. Wells Wells wrote a scandal into a novel: a politician who wrecks everything for a love affair, and the English public life that made both possible. Publishers refused it. 1 recommender The New One Minute Manager Ken Blanchard, Spencer Johnson A young man searches for an effective manager and learns three techniques, starting with the one-minute goal. 1 recommender The New Rulers of the World John Pilger Essays on globalization, power, and Western foreign policy. 1 recommender The New Threat Jason Burke A reporter's history of militant movements, from the significance of 1979 to the conflicts of the present. 1 recommender The Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle The founding text of virtue ethics: happiness is not a feeling but an activity of the soul, built by habit. 1 recommender The Night Eternal Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan The trilogy's finale: two years after the vampires seized the world and blotted out the sun, the last human resistance makes a desperate bid to reclaim the day. The Night Manager John le Carré A hotel night manager is recruited to bring down an arms dealer he has good reason to hate. 1 recommender The Night Tiger Yangsze Choo A severed finger, a missing grave and a weretiger legend collide in 1930s colonial Malaya. 1 recommender The Night Watchman Louise Erdrich Erdrich's Pulitzer Prize novel about a night watchman who fights a 1950s bill to end tribal recognition. The Night-Comers Eric Ambler A mining engineer in a collapsing Southeast Asian republic finds himself holding the wrong secret. 1 recommender The Nightingale Kristin Hannah One sister smuggles airmen over the Pyrenees, the other endures a soldier in her kitchen, and the novel calls both courage. 1 recommender The Noodle Maker Ma Jian A dark political satire by Ma Jian, written after the Tiananmen massacre, in Flora Drew's English translation.