Books

This Is Water David Foster Wallace A commencement speech about attention: how you choose to see the dull, irritating parts of adult life is the whole game 1 recommender This Motherless Land Nikki May Sent from Nigeria to an English family that will not quite have her, in a Mansfield Park recast. 1 recommender This Time Is Different Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff Eight hundred years of defaults and banking crises, assembled to show how reliably each generation believes its own case is unlike the last. 2 recommenders This Will Make You Smarter John Brockman More than a hundred scientists and thinkers each offer one idea that would make everyone think better. 1 recommender Thomas the Rhymer Ellen Kushner The old ballad of seven years in Elfland, told partly by the people who stayed behind and waited. 1 recommender Three Day Road Joseph Boyden Two young Cree men become snipers in the First World War, in Joseph Boyden's acclaimed debut novel. 1 recommender Three Guineas Virginia Woolf A man asked Woolf how to prevent war. Her 1938 answer ties it to the education and employment of women, and proposes a Society of Outsiders. 1 recommender Three Kingdoms Luo Guanzhong An abridged English translation by Moss Roberts of Luo Guanzhong's 14th-century historical novel about the fall of the Han dynasty. 1 recommender Three Seconds Anders Roslund and Börge Hellström Anders Roslund and Börge Hellström's thriller about a double agent and the Stockholm detective whose case threatens to expose him. Three Women Lisa Taddeo Eight years of reporting on the desire of three real women, told with the intimacy of fiction and none of its cover. 1 recommender Thrive Arianna Huffington After collapsing from exhaustion, Huffington argues that money and power are only two metrics of success, and a life needs a third: well-being. Through the Woods Emily Carroll Five illustrated horror tales in the fairy-tale tradition, where the woods are dark and something is always waiting. 1 recommender Throwback Maurene Goo A teenager is thrown back to 1995 and ends up at high school with her own mother, who turns out to be a stranger. 1 recommender Thursday Night Widows Claudia Piñeiro Claudia Piñeiro's novel of Argentina during a financial crisis, translated by Miranda France and published by Bitter Lemon Press in 2009. Time Power Brian Tracy Tracy's full time-management system, longer and more systematic than Eat That Frog, treating time as the one resource you cannot make more of. Time Shelter Georgi Gospodinov A Bulgarian novel about nostalgia turned into politics, translated by Angela Rodel and published by Liveright. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy John le Carré 1 recommender Tiny Beautiful Things Cheryl Strayed Strayed's Dear Sugar columns, in which she answers strangers' hardest questions mostly by telling them her own story. 1 recommender Tiny Tim Harry M. Stein A reporter simply hangs around the ukulele novelty act until the whole strange truth comes out. 1 recommender Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. Ron Chernow Ron Chernow's definitive biography of John D. Rockefeller, the driven, devout oil baron who became America's first billionaire. 1 recommender To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings John O'Donohue An Irish poet and former priest writes blessings for the occasions that otherwise pass unmarked: a new job, a death, leaving home, a marriage ending, a diagnosis. 1 recommender To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee Harper Lee's Pulitzer-winning story of childhood, conscience, and racial injustice in the Depression-era South. 3 recommenders To Sell Is Human Daniel Pink One in nine workers sells for a living, and the other eight now sell too. Pink on persuasion as a modern survival skill. To Stand and Fight Martha Biondi The civil rights movement began in the northern cities after the war, years before Montgomery. 1 recommender To the Linksland Michael Bamberger A young writer caddies his way across Europe and finds golf worth taking seriously. 1 recommender To the Moon and Back Eliana Ramage A Cherokee woman spends her life pursuing a place in space, and negotiating what leaving home is allowed to cost. 1 recommender To The Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement Benjamin Nathans Soviet dissidents mostly failed, mostly went to prison, and eventually turned out to be right. 1 recommender Today I Feel Silly Jamie Lee Curtis A girl tries on thirteen different moods in a rhyming picture book that helps children name their feelings. Together Is Better Simon Sinek An illustrated fable about leaving a job you've outgrown to find people worth working alongside: Sinek's ideas in miniature Tokyo Ever After Emiko Jean A Californian teenager learns her absent father is the Crown Prince of Japan, and is flown to Tokyo to meet him. 1 recommender Tolerance Is a Wasteland Saree Makdisi How the vocabulary of tolerance and coexistence can do political work its plain meaning conceals. Tom Lake Ann Patchett Three grown daughters press their mother for the story of the famous actor she loved one summer, long before them. 1 recommender Tombstone Yang Jisheng Yang Jisheng's history of the Great Chinese Famine of 1958 to 1962, translated by Stacy Mosher and Guo Jian. 1 recommender Too Big to Know David Weinberger Knowledge outgrew the container it was kept in. What replaces the book and the expert is the network itself. 1 recommender Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart Gordon Livingston Thirty plain truths from a psychiatrist who lost two sons in one year, written without consolation. 1 recommender Tools of Titans Tim Ferriss Distilled tactics and routines from hundreds of Ferriss's podcast guests, with a foreword by Arnold Schwarzenegger. 1 recommender