Books

Where I’m Calling From Raymond Carver The stories that taught a generation of writers how much can be left out. 1 recommender Where the Crawdads Sing Delia Owens A girl raised alone in the North Carolina marshes becomes a murder suspect in this coming-of-age mystery. 2 recommenders Where the Deer and the Antelope Play Nick Offerman Offerman's reflective turn to the land, three journeys, from backpacking with George Saunders to a Scottish sheep farm, wrestling with nature and how to live. Where the Heart Is Billie Letts Billie Letts's novel follows a pregnant teenager abandoned at a Walmart who quietly builds a family among small-town strangers. 1 recommender Where the Music Had To Go: How Bob Dylan and the Beatles Changed Each Other Jim Windolf McCartney first called Dylan folk crap. Windolf traces what happened next, when each act kept pushing the other somewhere neither would have gone alone. 1 recommender Whereas Layli Long Soldier Poems by an Oglala Lakota writer that answer the 2009 United States apology to Native peoples. 1 recommender While I Was Gone Sue Miller Sue Miller's novel unsettles a contented wife when a man from her secret past reappears, reviving an old, unsolved murder. 1 recommender Whiskey in a Teacup Reese Witherspoon Witherspoon's Southern scrapbook: the recipes, rituals and hospitality her grandmother taught her, told the way she would tell a friend. Whisper Network Chandler Baker Four colleagues have quietly warned each other for years; when their harasser is promoted, they decide whispering is not enough. 1 recommender White City Blue Tim Lott Four friends from west London are tested when one of them decides to get married. White Ivy Susie Yang A thief since childhood, pursuing the life she decided at fourteen she was owed. 1 recommender White Oleander Janet Fitch After her poet mother is imprisoned for murder, a teenage girl is passed through a series of foster homes, hardening and adapting in each. 1 recommender White Rage Carol Anderson A historian traces the backlash against Black progress in America, from the Civil War to the protests in Ferguson. 1 recommender White Shadow Roy Jacobsen Roy Jacobsen's novel Hvitt hav, published in Norwegian in 2015, in an English paperback from Quercus in 2020. Who Geoff Smart, Randy Street The most important problem in business is hiring, and the A Method is a structured way to stop getting it wrong. 1 recommender Who Is Government? Michael Lewis The unnamed civil servants running the machinery, profiled by the writer who has spent years insisting they matter. 1 recommender Who Is Rich? Matthew Klam A cartoonist teaches a week-long arts conference and conducts an affair he cannot afford. 1 recommender Who Needs College Anymore? Imagining a Future Where Degrees Don’t Matter Kathleen deLaski Employers are quietly dropping degree requirements, and this asks what could possibly replace the credential. 1 recommender Who Rules the World? Noam Chomsky Who sets the terms of the world order, and the duty to describe your own state accurately. Who Will Cry When You Die? Robin Sharma More than one hundred short lessons on living so that your death is mourned and your life was spent well Whoops! John Lanchester A novelist explains the 2008 crash, from subprime loans to bailouts, in plain language and with plenty of jokes. 1 recommender Whose Story Is This? Rebecca Solnit Solnit on who gets to be believed, who gets to narrate, and how the stories a culture tells begin to shift. 1 recommender Why Aquinas Matters Now Oliver Keenan Why a thirteenth-century friar is still worth arguing with, from a Dominican who teaches him. 1 recommender Why Civil Resistance Works Erica Chenoweth 1 recommender Why Don’t We Learn From History? B. H. Liddell Hart A military historian asks why humanity keeps making the same mistakes, and what history can teach. 1 recommender Why I Write George Orwell A short collection gathering Orwell's reflections on the craft and politics of writing, including his famous title essay. Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race Reni Eddo-Lodge Eddo-Lodge's essay-turned-book on structural racism in Britain and the exhaustion of explaining it. 1 recommender Why Immigration Policy is Hard and How to Make it Better Alan Manning A labour economist on why immigration debates go badly, and what evidence can and cannot settle. 1 recommender Why Leaders Lie John Mearsheimer Leaders lie to their own publics more than to each other, because the costs run the other way. Why Me? Omar Suleiman An Islamic reflection on suffering, tests, and destiny. Why Nations Fail Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson Two economists argue that the wealth of nations turns on whether their institutions are inclusive or extractive. 1 recommender Why Not Me? Mindy Kaling Kaling's second collection, on fame, impostor feelings, and the decade of work behind an overnight success, with the title as her thesis. Why Not Say What Happened? Ivana Lowell A Guinness heiress writes about the accident, the drinking, and the question of who her father actually was. 1 recommender Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes and How to Correct Them Gary Belsky, Thomas Gilovich Behavioural economics applied to your own wallet: the predictable errors that cost clever people money. 1 recommender Why the Ancient Greeks Matter: The Problematic Miracle that Was Greece Reviel Netz Greek science was a small corner of Greek culture, which is the puzzle this book is actually about. 1 recommender Why the Child Is Cooking in the Polenta Aglaja Veteranyi Aglaja Veteranyi's autobiographical novel about a Romanian circus family on the road, translated by Vincent Kling for Dalkey Archive Press. 1 recommender