Books

The Sophistic Movement G. B. Kerferd 1 recommender The Soul of a Butterfly Muhammad Ali, Hana Yasmeen Ali Muhammad Ali's late-life reflections, written with his daughter. 1 recommender The Soul of Civility: Timeless Principles to Heal Society and Ourselves Alexandra Hudson Civility is not politeness, and confusing the two is how societies lose the ability to disagree. 1 recommender The Souls of Animals Gary Kowalski Animals grieve, play and create, argued from behaviour rather than doctrine, for readers told that believing so is merely sentimental. The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner William Faulkner's novel tells of a fading Southern family through four wildly different narrators, one of them a disabled man. 1 recommender The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating Elisabeth Tova Bailey Bedridden by illness, the author watches a woodland snail in a pot of violets and learns its whole world. 1 recommender The Sound of Seas Gillian Anderson, Jeff Rovin The final book of the EarthEnd Saga brings child psychologist Caitlin O'Hara's story to its close. The Spanish Civil War Hugh Thomas A sweeping narrative of the Spanish Civil War that has been revised and read for over sixty years. 1 recommender The Spanish Civil War: A Very Short Introduction Helen Graham The Spanish Civil War in a short book, from the coup of 1936 to the long shadow it cast. 1 recommender The Spanish Holocaust Paul Preston A history of the mass killing of civilians during and after the Spanish Civil War. The Spartacus War Barry Strauss A Thracian trained by Rome turned its own military methods against it, and held out for two years. 1 recommender The Splendid and the Vile Erik Larson Churchill's first year as prime minister, told through the Blitz and the family living through it. 1 recommender The Spoils of Freedom Renata Salecl A Slovene philosopher reads the politics of post-socialist Europe through psychoanalysis. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold John le Carré An agent is sent east on one last operation whose real purpose nobody has told him. 1 recommender The Start-Up of You Reid Hoffman Run your career like a startup in permanent beta: take smart risks, build a network, and never stop adapting The State Philip Pettit A political philosopher asks what a state actually is, and what would make one legitimate. 1 recommender The Story of Edgar Sawtelle David Wroblewski David Wroblewski's novel, echoing Hamlet, follows a mute Wisconsin boy who breeds dogs and confronts his father's death. 1 recommender The Story of Sukus and Tukus Ahamed Kameel Mydin Meera A cartoon story about two peaceful island societies thrown into turmoil when strangers arrive with a printing machine and paper money. The Strain Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan Book one of del Toro and Hogan's trilogy: a plane lands dead at JFK and a CDC doctor uncovers not a virus but an ancient vampiric plague poised to consume New York. The Stranger Albert Camus Albert Camus's short novel of an indifferent man in French Algeria, in Matthew Ward's American translation from Vintage International. 1 recommender The Strangest Secret Earl Nightingale The 1956 spoken-word classic that sold a million copies on one disarmingly simple idea: we become what we think about. 1 recommender The Strategic Importance of Al-Isra and Al-Miraj Imran N. Hosein On the night journey and ascension, and what the author reads in their timing and destination. The Strategic Importance of Dreams and Visions in Islam Imran N. Hosein On true dreams as a source of guidance in Islam, and their place in the age of trials. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Thomas S. Kuhn Kuhn's classic on how science advances not smoothly but through disruptive paradigm shifts. 2 recommenders The Struggle for Taiwan: A History of America, China, and the Island Caught Between Sulmaan Wasif Khan Taiwan told as a triangle, with the island itself given as much agency as Washington or Beijing. 1 recommender The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck Mark Manson The anti-positivity self-help phenomenon: a good life comes from choosing the few things worth caring about and letting go of the rest. 1 recommender The Successor: Boris Nemtsov, Vladimir Putin, and the Death of Russian Democracy Mikhail Fishman Nemtsov was once Yeltsin likely successor and was shot within sight of the Kremlin in 2015. Fishman uses that career to trace how Russia turned. 1 recommender The Summer Book Tove Jansson A grandmother and granddaughter share a Finnish island, and neither of them mentions the death that put them there. 1 recommender The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway Expatriates drift from Paris cafes to Pamplona bullrings, all of them wounded in ways nobody will name. 2 recommenders The Sun Does Shine Anthony Ray Hinton Anthony Ray Hinton's memoir recounts thirty years he spent on Alabama's death row for a crime he did not commit. 1 recommender The Sun Sets in Singapore Kehinde Fadipe Three high-achievers in expatriate Singapore, where success is measured exactly and its cost never mentioned. 1 recommender The Sunlit Man Brandon Sanderson A fugitive runs for his life on a planet where the sunrise itself will kill him, staying ahead of a dawn that never stops coming. The Surrender Experiment Michael A. Singer A decades-long experiment in saying yes to whatever life presented, instead of following personal preference, from the author of The Untethered Soul. 1 recommender The Sweaty Startup Nick Huber The surest path to wealth isn't a flashy tech unicorn but an unglamorous, boring business nobody else wants to run. 1 recommender The Sweetness of Water Nathan Harris Nathan Harris's debut follows two freed brothers and a hidden pair of Confederate lovers in a Georgia town just after the Civil War. 1 recommender The Taking of Pelham 123 John Godey 1 recommender