Books

The Tea Party Goes to Washington Rand Paul Paul's first book, part 2010 victory account, part Tea Party manifesto against bailouts, deficits, and a bipartisan establishment he vowed to confront. The Tell Amy Griffin Amy Griffin's memoir follows a successful woman who, in midlife, recovers buried memories of childhood trauma and reckons with them. 1 recommender The Temple of the Golden Pavilion Yukio Mishima Yukio Mishima's 1956 novel, loosely based on the 1950 burning of Kyoto's Golden Pavilion by a young Buddhist acolyte, translated by Ivan Morris. 1 recommender The Terror Dan Simmons Dan Simmons's 2007 novel of a doomed Arctic expedition and the creature that hunts its crew. 1 recommender The Testaments Margaret Atwood Gilead told from inside its machinery, fifteen years on, by three women who could bring the regime down. Booker winner The Theft of Nations Ahamed Kameel Mydin Meera Subtitled Returning to Gold, an argument that fiat currency and fractional-reserve banking quietly transfer wealth from the many to the few. The Theory of Moral Sentiments Adam Smith Smith's first book, on sympathy as the foundation of morals — the work he thought his most important. 1 recommender The Theory of the Leisure Class Thorstein Veblen The 1899 book that named conspicuous consumption, and argued that much of economic life is display rather than need. 1 recommender The Things I Would Tell You Sabrina Mahfouz An anthology of fiction, poetry and essays by British Muslim women writing past the headlines about them. 1 recommender The Things That Nobody Knows William Hartston A tour of the big questions science still cannot answer. 1 recommender The Things We Make: The Unknown History of Invention from Cathedrals to Soda Cans Bill Hammack An engineer explains how things are actually made, from Gothic cathedrals to the aluminium can. 1 recommender The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World’s Most Coveted Microchip Stephen Witt Nvidia spent thirty years building chips almost nobody wanted, then the AI boom arrived. 1 recommender The Third Chimpanzee Jared Diamond Jared Diamond examines what the small genetic gap between humans and apes reveals about our rise, our habits, and our capacity for self-destruction. 1 recommender The Third Door Alex Banayan At eighteen he hacked a TV game show to fund the quest: track down the world's most successful people and ask how they actually got their start. 1 recommender The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries, II James J. Walsh A 1907 argument that the thirteenth century, not the Renaissance, is where the modern West actually starts. 1 recommender The Three Lives of Cate Kay Kate Fagan A famous author nobody has ever seen finally tells the story of the identities she shed to become her. 1 recommender The Three Marriages: Reimagining Work, Self and Relationship David Whyte Whyte argues that the commitments to a person, to work and to your own interior life cannot be balanced against one another, only lived at the same time. 1 recommender The Three-Body Problem Liu Cixin A physicist's suicide, a mysterious game, and first contact with a dying alien civilization open this landmark of Chinese science fiction. 2 recommenders The Time Paradox Philip Zimbardo and John Boyd Everyone leans habitually toward past, present or future, and it shapes more than they notice. 1 recommender The Time Traveler’s Wife Audrey Niffenegger Audrey Niffenegger's debut love story about a man whose genetic disorder pulls him through time, and the wife who waits for him. 1 recommender The Tipping Point Malcolm Gladwell Ideas spread the way viruses do. Gladwell asks what makes one catch and another die out. The Tragedy of American Diplomacy William Appleman Williams The revisionist account of US foreign policy as an open-door search for markets, published in 1959. 1 recommender The Tragedy of Great Power Politics John Mearsheimer Great powers pursue dominance because nothing above them guarantees survival, whoever is governing. The Traveler: One Man’s Quest for Humanity from the South Seas to Revolutionary Paris Andrea Wulf Georg Forster sailed with Cook at seventeen, changed European nature writing, and died in revolutionary Paris having lost everything he had to his own politics. 2 recommenders The Travels of Ibn Battutah Ibn Battutah 1 recommender The Tree John Fowles Fowles sets his father tidy orchard against tangled woodland, and argues that classifying nature is how we avoid experiencing it. 1 recommender The Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding Humberto R. Maturana The 1984 book that gave autopoiesis to a general readership, arguing that living and knowing are one activity. Quietly foundational for systems theory and cognitive science. 1 recommender The Tree Within: The Mexican Nobel Laureate Octavio Paz’s Years in India Indranil Chakravarty Octavio Paz spent six years as Mexico's ambassador to India, and it reshaped everything he wrote after. 1 recommender The Trees Conrad Richter A family settles the Ohio forest in the years after the Revolution, in the first novel of Richter's Awakening Land trilogy. 1 recommender The Trees Percival Everett A Mississippi procedural in which a body will not stay in the morgue, and the joke stops being one. 1 recommender The Trespasser Tana French A detective on the Murder Squad faces sabotage from her own colleagues while she works a routine-looking case. 1 recommender The Triumph of Numbers I B Cohen 1 recommender The Trolls of Wall Street: How the Outcasts and Insurgents are Hacking the Markets Nathaniel Popper The WallStreetBets crowd took on the hedge funds, and the joke turned into a market event. 1 recommender The Trouble with Boys Peg Tyre Why boys are falling behind at school, and what parents and educators can do about it. The Truth About Immigration: Why Successful Societies Welcome Newcomers Zeke Hernandez A business professor makes the economic case for immigration, and cites the numbers rather than the anecdotes. 1 recommender The Truth About Markets John Kay Why some countries are rich and others poor, and why markets depend on more than self-interest.