Books

The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair Joël Dicker A Swiss crime novel about a missing girl, a famous writer and an investigation that becomes a book. 1 recommender The Turnout Megan Abbott A family ballet school, an outsider inside the building, and the brutality underneath the discipline. 1 recommender The Twelve Tribes of Hattie Ayana Mathis Ayana Mathis follows Hattie and her many children through the Great Migration, in linked stories of a family scattered across the century. 1 recommender The Tyranny of Choice Renata Salecl More choice was supposed to make us free. Why it so often leaves us anxious and guilty instead. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath Sylvia Plath Everything that survives from 1950 to 1962, unedited, including what Ted Hughes cut. Ambition, rage and craft at a length that makes the poems look like distillations. 1 recommender The Underground Railroad Colson Whitehead Colson Whitehead reimagines the escape network as a literal railroad in a Pulitzer-winning novel of one woman’s flight from slavery. 1 recommender The Undertow Jeff Sharlet A reporter drives through the American right and finds grief where he expected rage. 1 recommender The Unfinished Metropolis: Igniting the City-Building Revolution Benjamin Schneider Why American cities have stopped being able to build, and what would have to change to reverse it. 1 recommender The Unforgivable Cristina Campo She published almost nothing and was revered by the handful who read her. Fairy tales, liturgy, attention, and the case for doing very few things exactly. 1 recommender The Universal History of Numbers Georges Ifrah A schoolteacher could not answer his pupils' question about where numbers came from, so he spent years finding out. 1 recommender The Unprejudiced Palate Angelo Pellegrini An Italian immigrant's 1948 argument that growing, cooking and eating your own food is not a chore but the point. 1 recommender The Unseen Roy Jacobsen Roy Jacobsen's novel in Don Bartlett and Don Shaw's translation, shortlisted for the 2017 Man Booker International Prize, in a Quercus paperback. The Untethered Soul Michael A. Singer The constant mental chatter and emotional reaction we mistake for ourselves, and what happens when you stop believing it is you. 3 recommenders The Unwinding of the Miracle Julie Yip-Williams Written for her daughters while dying, by someone whose life had already refused several endings. 1 recommender The Vagabond’s Way Rolf Potts A year of daily fragments on wanderlust and attention, built to be read one page at a time. 1 recommender The Vagina Monologues Eve Ensler The play built from interviews with hundreds of women that became a global movement against gender violence. 1 recommender The Varieties of Religious Experience William James James studies religion by setting doctrine aside and examining what conversion, mysticism and despair actually feel like. 2 recommenders The Viceroys Federico De Roberto Federico De Roberto's 1894 novel of a noble Sicilian family in the years of Italian unification, in Archibald Colquhoun's translation, published by Verso in 2016. 1 recommender The Vietnam War: A Military History Geoffrey Wawro A military historian takes the war as a campaign to analyse rather than a moral argument to settle: firepower, attrition, and why the operations could not deliver. 1 recommender The Violin Dacia Maraini A novel by Dacia Maraini, published in English by Arcadia Books in a 208-page paperback in April 2007. The Virgin Way Richard Branson Branson's contrarian leadership creed: listen more than you command, put staff before customers, and treat fun and kindness as competitive advantages. The Virtues of Dhul Hijjah Omar Suleiman On the merits of the first ten days of the Islamic month of Dhul Hijjah. The Vision Kahlil Gibran The parables Gibran wrote before The Prophet, working out what he believed human beings had forgotten about their own nature. 1 recommender The Vortex José Eustasio Rivera José Eustasio Rivera's 1924 novel of two lovers who flee Bogotá for the plains and the Amazon rainforest, in Charco Press's 2024 edition. 1 recommender The Wage Standard: What’s Wrong in the Labor Market and How to Fix It Arindrajit Dube The economist whose work overturned the textbook view that minimum wages cost jobs sets out the case that employers hold real discretion over what they pay. 1 recommender The Wager David Grann Two groups of survivors reached land with irreconcilable accounts, and only a court martial could decide. 1 recommender The Wanting Monster Martine Murray A creature appears whenever wanting more takes hold. An Australian writer and illustrator make a counter-myth to acquisition, pitched at children and aimed at adults. 1 recommender The War of Art Steven Pressfield A field guide to beating “Resistance,” the internal force that stops creative work, and showing up to do the work like a professional. 5 recommenders The War on Normal People Andrew Yang Yang's alarm about automation gutting ordinary work, and his signature fix: a universal basic income to give people a floor to stand on. The Warmth of Other Suns Isabel Wilkerson Isabel Wilkerson tells the story of the six million Black Americans who left the South between 1915 and 1970. 1 recommender The Warren Buffett Portfolio Robert G. Hagstrom Robert Hagstrom lays out the focus-investing strategy behind Warren Buffett's success, making the case for concentrated, long-term portfolios. 2 recommenders The Warrior: Rafael Nadal and His Kingdom of Clay Christopher Clarey Three decades covering Nadal: what the topspin forehand cost his body, the Mallorcan family that produced him, and the rivalry that defined the best era tennis has had. 1 recommender The Wars of the Roses Dan Jones Thirty years of English dynastic slaughter, told so clearly you can follow who is winning. 1 recommender The Water Dancer Ta-Nehisi Coates Ta-Nehisi Coates’s debut novel follows an enslaved man with a mysterious power and his path into the fight for freedom. 1 recommender The Waters Bonnie Jo Campbell A healer, her granddaughter and a Michigan swamp, with a suspicious town at the edge of it. 1 recommender The Way of Integrity Martha Beck Martha Beck's guide to living in alignment with your own truth, built on the structure of Dante's Inferno, and an Oprah's Book Club selection. 1 recommender