Books

The Wren, the Wren Anne Enright A celebrated poet walks out on his family, and Enright prints his poems beside the wreckage so readers can price one against the other. 1 recommender The Writer’s Journey Christopher Vogler Joseph Campbell's hero myth rebuilt as a working structure for screenwriters and novelists. 1 recommender The Year of the Flood Margaret Atwood The same catastrophe as Oryx and Crake, told from below by the people those corporate compounds had already thrown away. Theaetetus Plato 1 recommender Their Blood, Our Bullets: The Hidden Story of the US-Russia War for Ukraine Aaron Maté The proxy war in Ukraine argued as a policy the United States chose rather than inherited. Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston Janie Crawford grows from a voiceless teenager into a woman in charge of her own destiny, in Zora Neale Hurston's Harlem Renaissance classic. 1 recommender Theodore and Woodrow Andrew Napolitano Two presidents remembered as great reformers, recast here as the men who taught Washington to ignore its own constitutional limits. There and Back Jimmy Chin Two decades of Jimmy Chin's photographs from Everest to Yosemite's big walls, shot mid-climb, with the harrowing stories behind each image. There Are Rivers in the Sky Elif Shafak One drop of water links Victorian London, a Yazidi girl in 2014 Iraq and a hydrologist on the Thames, with Gilgamesh running somewhere underneath. 1 recommender There Is No Place for Us Brian Goldstone Full-time work and nowhere to live: the Pulitzer-winning account of families the housing market has priced out of their own city. 1 recommender There There Tommy Orange Twelve Native lives converging on an Oakland powwow, in a novel with no reservation in it. 2 recommenders There Were Giants in the Land: Episodes in the Life of W. Cleon Skousen Jo Ann Skousen The life of the Mormon anticommunist whose ideas keep resurfacing in American conservative politics. 1 recommender There’s Nothing Wrong With Her Kate Weinberg Bedridden with an illness doctors keep failing to find, she starts receiving visits from a dead Italian. 1 recommender These Wilds Beyond Our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity’s Search for Home Bayo Akomolafe Letters to a young daughter, moving between Nigerian village life and Western academia, asking what home means for someone who belongs fully to neither world. 1 recommender They F*** You Up Oliver James A psychologist's account of how early family life shapes who we become, and how to survive it. They Flew: A History of the Impossible Carlos M.N. Eire Levitating saints and bilocating friars, taken seriously by a Yale historian rather than explained away. 1 recommender Things Become Other Things Craig Mod Mod walks the Kii Peninsula writing letters to a friend who died young in Connecticut, on class, escape, and what an adopted country can and cannot give. 1 recommender Things We Didn’t See Coming Steven Amsterdam Linked stories follow one man from Y2K into a future of disasters he learns to live with. Think Again Adam Grant Grant makes the case that rethinking is a skill, and that the smartest people are the ones willing to be wrong. 1 recommender Think Big Grace Lordan An evidence-based guide to designing the career you actually want, from the behavioural scientist running the LSE's Inclusion Initiative. 1 recommender Think Like a Monk Jay Shetty Three years of monastic training rebuilt as a practical program for managing ego, fear, and purpose without leaving your ordinary life. Think Remarkable Guy Kawasaki, Madisun Nuismer Drawing on his podcast interviews with remarkable people, Kawasaki lays out nine paths, growth, grit, grace, and more, for building a life that makes a difference. Thinking in Bets Annie Duke A poker champion on separating a good decision from a good outcome, which are far less related than they feel. 1 recommender Thinking the Unthinkable Richard Cockett 1 recommender Thinking, Fast and Slow Daniel Kahneman The two systems behind every judgment you make: one fast, intuitive and often wrong, one slow and effortful. Kahneman's life's work for a general reader. 1 recommender Third World America Arianna Huffington Huffington's alarm at a hollowing-out middle class, crumbling infrastructure and a political system she argues has stopped working for ordinary people. This Bleeding City Alex Preston A young man trades his university friendships for a London hedge fund job, just before the crash. 1 recommender This Book Loves You PewDiePie A self-help parody in which the author keeps reminding you that you bought a motivational book from a video-game YouTuber. This Boy’s Life Tobias Wolff A boy invents a better version of himself to survive a stepfather and the Pacific Northwest. 1 recommender This Changes Everything Naomi Klein Klein argues that the climate crisis cannot be solved within free-market capitalism, and that confronting it could remake the economy for the better. This Day Wendell Berry Nearly forty years of Sunday sabbath poems made while walking one Kentucky farm, and left unpolished because they were written outdoors. 1 recommender This House of Grief Helen Garner A writer in a murder trial, recording her own shifting judgement rather than a verdict. 3 recommenders This Is Baby Jimmy Fallon Fallon names a baby's parts, head to toes to ticklish belly, in a warm, silly call-and-response read-aloud for the youngest listeners. This Is How It Always Is Laurie Frankel A family of five sons rearranges itself around the youngest, who knows she is a girl, and around the secret they choose to keep. 1 recommender This Is Marketing Seth Godin Marketing not as spam and pressure but as generous service to the smallest audience you can afford to serve 1 recommender This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage Ann Patchett Two decades of Patchett's essays on marriage, friendship, bookselling and the unglamorous discipline of writing. 1 recommender