Books

Topkapi Eric Ambler A hapless con man is pressed into spying on a gang with its eye on the treasures of Istanbul. 1 recommender Tormented Hope Brian Dillon Darwin, Proust, Warhol and six others lived in fear of their own bodies. Dillon asks what that fear made of them. 1 recommender Total Recall Arnold Schwarzenegger A boy from postwar Austria wills himself into becoming the world's greatest bodybuilder, then Hollywood's biggest star, then governor of California. Towers of Midnight Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson The penultimate Wheel of Time volume, converging the scattered threads as Rand's reckoning approaches and Perrin finally faces his. Traction Gino Wickman The Entrepreneurial Operating System, a practical framework for getting a grip on a growing company. 1 recommender Traffic Secrets Russell Brunson The question every online business hits eventually: how do you actually get customers to your funnels? Brunson reframes traffic as finding people who already want you. 1 recommender Tragically I Was an Only Twin Peter Cook, William Cook The collected comic writing of Peter Cook, the leading figure of Britain's 1960s satire boom. 1 recommender Trailblazer Marc Benioff Benioff's argument that a company's values are its best strategy, told through building Salesforce and its 1-1-1 giving model Train to Budapest Dacia Maraini Dacia Maraini's novel of a Florentine journalist who travels behind the Iron Curtain in 1956 to search for a childhood friend, translated by Silvester Mazzarella. Trampoline Robert Gipe A teenage girl in coal-country Kentucky, drawn as well as written, watching the mountain go. 1 recommender Transcendent Kingdom Yaa Gyasi A neuroscientist studying addiction in mice, because her brother died of it and science has not helped. 1 recommender Transformed Marty Cagan Cagan's SVPG guide to the messy real-world work of shifting an established company onto the product operating model the best tech firms use. Transforming Noise: A History of Science and Technology from Disturbing Sounds to Informational Errors, 1900-1955 Chen-Pang Yeang Noise was a nuisance to engineers until it became the central concept in information theory. 1 recommender Travels with a Tangerine Tim Mackintosh-Smith Following a fourteenth-century Moroccan traveller across half the world, checking whether anything he described is still there. 1 recommender Travels With Charley John Steinbeck Steinbeck at sixty, driving the country with a poodle, looking for a place he still recognised. 1 recommender Tress of the Emerald Sea Brandon Sanderson A window-washer leaves her island to rescue the boy she loves, crossing seas of spore that kill on contact. Princess Bride by way of the Cosmere. Tribe of Mentors Tim Ferriss Ferriss poses the same eleven questions to a hundred world-class performers, crowd-sourcing their routines, book picks, and rules into a dip-in reference. Tribes Seth Godin The internet let any shared interest become a movement: what it needs is not more managers but someone willing to lead Trillion Dollar Coach Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, Alan Eagle The authors distill the coaching wisdom of Bill Campbell, the mentor to Steve Jobs and Google's founders, on building teams where trust and people come first. Tripwire Lee Child Reacher leaves the Florida Keys to learn why a private investigator came looking for him, and uncovers a Vietnam War secret someone will kill to keep. Tropic of Cancer Henry Miller Henry Miller's autobiographical novel of a struggling American writer in Paris, in the Grove Press paperback edition. 1 recommender Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class Rob Henderson Seven foster homes, then the Air Force, Yale and Cambridge, and the memoir where luxury beliefs got their fullest and most personal statement. 1 recommender True Biz Sara Nović A residential school for the deaf faces closure, told by a headmistress and two students on opposite sides of language. 1 recommender True Grit Charles Portis A fourteen-year-old hires a drunk marshal to avenge her father, and narrates it fifty years on. 2 recommenders True Love Jennifer Lopez Lopez's candid memoir of rebuilding after her divorce and the birth of her twins, a superstar's diaristic reckoning with heartbreak, motherhood, and self-worth. Truman David McCullough An ordinary man from Missouri inherits the presidency at the end of the Second World War, and rises to it. 1 recommender Trust Hernan Diaz The same fortune told four times, each version quietly correcting who was written out of the last. 1 recommender Trust Me, I’m Lying Ryan Holiday An insider account of laundering a rumour up the credibility chain, written by the man who did it. Truth Be Told Larry King King's chatty backstage scrapbook of a lifetime of interviews, the beloved guests, the surprises, the on-air mishaps, and the political encounters. Tudor England: A History Lucy Wooding A full narrative history of Tudor England that takes the religion seriously rather than as backdrop. 1 recommender Tunnel 29 Helena Merriman Students dug from a West Berlin basement under the new wall, and someone was informing throughout. 1 recommender TurboCoach Brian Tracy A workbook-style companion that puts the reader in the coaching chair, drawn from the programme Tracy ran with executives. TurboStrategy Brian Tracy Strategic planning stripped to what a small company can act on this quarter, rather than what a consultancy would bill for. Twelfth Knight Alexene Farol Follmuth She games under a male handle to avoid the abuse, then finds herself tutoring the quarterback in the same game. 1 recommender Twelve Against the Gods William Bolitho A 1929 collection of vivid biographical sketches of twelve great "adventurers," from Alexander the Great to Casanova to Woodrow Wilson, on the price and lure of defying convention. 1 recommender Twelve and a Half Gary Vaynerchuk Vaynerchuk makes the case that soft skills are the real hard skills, breaking down twelve emotional traits, from kindness to accountability, that drive lasting business success.