Books

The Reluctant Fundamentalist Mohsin Hamid 1 recommender The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro An aging English butler reflects on a life of dignified service and quiet regret in Ishiguro's Booker Prize-winning novel. 3 recommenders The Responsibility to Protect Gareth Evans The former Australian foreign minister on the doctrine adopted at the 2005 World Summit, and why it has not held. 1 recommender The Rest of Our Lives Benjamin Markovits 1 recommender The Revolution: A Manifesto Ron Paul Paul's 2008 bestseller distilling his creed, constitutional limits, sound money, non-intervention, and civil liberties, into an unlikely movement manifesto. The Rhetoric of Religion Kenneth Burke Burke reads Augustine and Genesis to show how theological language builds itself out of metaphor. 1 recommender The Ride of a Lifetime Robert Iger Fifteen years leading Disney, from steadying a troubled business to acquiring Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm and Fox. 1 recommender The Right Stuff Tom Wolfe Test pilots and the first astronauts, and the unnamed quality they were all measured against. 1 recommender The Righteous Mind Jonathan Haidt Why decent people disagree so bitterly about politics and religion. Intuition comes first, and reasoning mostly arrives to justify it. 3 recommenders The Rise and Fall of the EAST: How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success, and Why They Might Lead to Its Decline Yasheng Huang Exams and stability made China successful for a thousand years, and may now be the problem. 1 recommender The Rise of Modern Chinese Thought Wang Hui A landmark Chinese work of intellectual history, arguing modernity was not simply imported from the West. 1 recommender The Rise of the Meritocracy Michael Young 1 recommender The Rithmatist Brandon Sanderson At a school where chalk drawings fight for their lives, a talentless student is the only one paying attention when Rithmatists start disappearing. The River Is Waiting Wally Lamb Wally Lamb's novel follows a young father whose life collapses after a terrible accident sends him to prison. 1 recommender The River of Consciousness Oliver Sacks The essays Sacks chose two weeks before he died: Darwin flowers, Freud as neurologist, memory and plagiarism, and the speed at which perception actually runs. 1 recommender The Road Cormac McCarthy A father and son walk through a burned, lifeless America, carrying the fire of their bond, in McCarthy's stark Pulitzer-winning novel. 3 recommenders The Road from Damascus Robin Yassin-Kassab A militantly secular academic goes to Damascus for family heroism and comes home to find his wife has covered her hair. 1 recommender The Road to Wigan Pier George Orwell Orwell's documentary of poverty in England's industrial north, paired with a candid argument about socialism and class. The Rock Says… Dwayne Johnson, Joe Layden The wrestler's bestselling autobiography, tracing his path from a struggling third-generation grappler to WWE's most electrifying superstar. The Round House Louise Erdrich A thirteen-year-old on a North Dakota reservation sets out to find the man who attacked his mother. The Rule of Law Tom Bingham Britain's senior judge sets out what the rule of law actually requires, written for the general reader. 1 recommender The Rules of Magic Alice Hoffman The Owens siblings come of age in 1960s New York under a family curse that makes loving anyone dangerous. 1 recommender The Sacred Balance David Suzuki David Suzuki's Rediscovering Our Place in Nature, in the 2007 Greystone Books edition. 1 recommender The Safekeep Yael van der Wouden 1 recommender The Sales Acceleration Formula Mark Roberge HubSpot's former sales chief on building a sales team as a repeatable, measurable system rather than an art. 1 recommender The Sanatorium Sarah Pearse A converted Alpine tuberculosis sanatorium, now a luxury hotel, cut off by a storm as guests begin disappearing. 1 recommender The Sari Shop Rupa Bajwa A shop assistant in Amritsar unfolds saris for women whose lives he will never enter. 1 recommender The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne A woman branded for adultery in Puritan Boston refuses to name her lover, and outlasts her accusers. 1 recommender The Scent Keeper Erica Bauermeister A girl raised on a remote island among bottled scents must work out how much of her childhood her father invented. 1 recommender The Scent of Dried Roses Tim Lott A son's elegy for his family and for the English suburbs that shaped them. The Science Delusion Rupert Sheldrake A biologist challenges what he calls the dogmas of modern science. 1 recommender The Science Fiction Hall of Fame Robert Silverberg The short fiction voted best of the pre-Nebula era by the Science Fiction Writers of America. 1 recommender The Science of Fear Daniel Gardner Why we fear the wrong things, and how our instincts about risk lead us astray. 1 recommender The Science of Free Will: How Determinism Affects Everything from the Future of AI to Traffic to God to Bees Samir Varma A physicist's case that determinism and free will are compatible, and that the difference shows up everywhere. 1 recommender The Scientific Deception of the New Atheists Mohammed Hijab An argument that New Atheist writers overstate what science can prove. The Score Takes Care of Itself Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh The legendary NFL coach's leadership philosophy: obsess over the standard of performance and the details, and the wins, the score, will follow on their own. 1 recommender