Biography
- Ambition Monster: A Memoir by Jennifer Romolini
- Anna: The Biography by Amy Odell
- Diana Vreeland: Empress of Fashion by Amanda MacKenzie Stuart
- Didion and Babitz by Lili Anolik
- Dior by Dior
- Girl Interrupted By Susanna Kaysen
- Grace: A Memoir by Grace Coddington
- Innovators by Walter Isaacson
- It's Not About the Bike by Lance Armstrong
- Just Kids by Patti Smith
- Leonardo Da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
- Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life by Clare Mac Cumhaill & Rachel Wiseman
- The Last Love Song: A Biography of Joan Didion by Tracy Daugherty
- The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone by Olivia Laing
- The Ministry of Truth: A Biography of George Orwell's 1984 by Dorian Lynskey
- Things I Don't Want to Know: Living Autobiography 1 by Deborah Levy
- On The Front Line by Marie Colvin
- Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley by Charlotte Gordon
- Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
- Seven Deadly Sins: My Pursuit of Lance Armstrong by David Walsh
- The Taliban Shuffle by Kim Barker
- The Years by Annie Ernaux
- Three Women by Lisa Taddeo
Productivity
- A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in the Age of Overload by Cal Newport
- Atomic Habits by James Clear
- Expert: Understanding the Past to Mastery by Roger Kneebone
- Deep Work by Cal Newport
- Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport
- Feel Good Productivity by Ali Abdaal
- Four Thousand Weeks: Time and How to Use It by Oliver Burkeman
- How To Live On 24 Hours a Day by Arnold Bennett
- Indistractable by Nir Eyal
- Mastery by Robert Greene
- Master of Change by Brad Stulberg
- Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock by Jenny Odell
- Slow Productivity by Cal Newport
- The Bullet Journal Method by Ryder Carroll
- The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande
- The Deadline Effect by Christopher Cox
Feminism
- 12 Bytes by Jeanette Winterson
- A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
- Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art by Lauren Elkin
- Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
- Courage Calls to Courage Everywhere by Jeanette Winterson
- Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Difficult Women by Helen Lewis
- Everyday Sexism by Laura Bates
- Feminisms: A Global History by Lucy Delap
- Feminists Don't Wear Pink (and other lies) by Scarlett Curtis
- Fix the System, Not the Women by Laura Bates
- Forgotten Women: The Leaders by Zing Tsjeng
- Girlhood by Melissa Febos
- Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger by Rebecca Traister
- Heroines by Kate Zambreno
- How to be a Renaissance Woman: The Untold History of Beauty and Female Creativity by Jill Burke
- How To Be A Woman by Caitlin Moran
- In Defence of Witches: Why women are still on trial by Mona Chollet
- In Praise of Difficult Women by Karen Karbo
- Men Who Hate Women by Laura Bates
- Men Explain Things To Me by Rebecca Solnit
- Mercy: A Memoir of Medical Trauma and True Crime Obsession by Marcia Trahan
- Misogynation: The True Scale of Sexism by Laura Bates
- Mother of Invention: How Good Ideas Get Ignored In An Economy Built For Men by Katrine Marçal
- Rage Becomes Her by Soraya Chemaly
- Recollections of My Non-Existence by Rebecca Solnit
- Rise Up Women! The Remarkable Lives of the Suffragettes by Dr Diane Atkinson
- Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls by Mona Eltahawy
- Something Out of Place: Women & Disgust by Eimear McBride
- The Authority Gap: Why women are still taken less seriously than men, and what we can do about it by Mary Ann Sigehart
- The Double X Economy: The Epic Potential of Empowering Women by Linda Scott
- The Mother of All Questions: Further Feminisms by Rebecca Solnit
- The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule by Angela Saini
- The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote by Elaine Weiss
- Too Much: How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today by Rachel Vorona Cote
- Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino
- We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Who Cooked the Last Supper?: The Women's History of the World by Rosalind Miles
- Whose Story Is This?: Old Conflicts, New Chapters by Rebecca Solnit
- Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology by Jess Zimmerman
- Women & Power: A Manifesto by Mary Beard
Religion/Belief
- Against All Gods by A. C. Grayling
- Betrayal: The Crisis in the Catholic Church by Investigative Staff of the Boston Globe
- Sex, Priests, and Power by A.W. Richard Stipe
- Supersense: The Brain Science of Belief by Bruce Hood
- The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
- Them by Jon Ronson
Social Sciences
- A Lot of People Are Saying: The New Conspiracism and the Assault on Democracy by Nancy L. Rosenblum
- Against Elections: The Case for Democracy by David Van Reybrouck
- Am I Normal?: The 200-Year Search for Normal People (and Why They Don't Exist) by Sarah Chaney
- Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman
- And Then What? Inside Stories of 21st Century Diplomacy by Catherine Ashton
- Attention Span: Finding Focus for a Fulfilling Life by Gloria Mark
- Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
- Bad News: Why We Fall for Fake News by Rob Brotherton
- Breaking the Social Media Prism: How to Make Our Platforms Less Polarizing by Chris Ball
- Burning the Books: A History of Knowledge Under Attack by Richard Ovenden
- But What If We're Wrong? by Chuck Klosterman
- But What Can I Do?: Why Politics Has Gone So Wrong, and How You Can Help Fix It by Alastair Campbell
- Chasing the Scream by Johann Hari
- Conflicted: Why Arguments Are Tearing Us Apart and How They Can Bring Us Together by Ian Leslie
- Cultish by Amanda Montell
- Disorder: Hard Time in the 21st Century by Helen Thompson
- Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe by Niall Ferguson
- Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein
- Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else) by Olúfęmi Táíwò
- Everything I Need I Get from You: How Fangirls Created the Internet as We Know It by Kaitlyn Tiffany
- Exponential: How Accelerating Technology Is Leaving Us Behind and What to Do About It by Azeem Azhar
- Factfulness by Hans Rosling
- Farsighted: How We Make the Decisions That Matter the Most by Steven Johnson
- Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture by Kyle Chayka
- Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency by Olivia Laing
- Having and Being Had by Eula Biss
- How To Be a Liberal by Ian Dunt
- How To Be Right... in a world gone wrong by James O'Brien
- How to Disappear: Notes on Invisibility in a Time of Transparency by Akiko Busch
- How To Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell
- How To Stay Sane in an Age of Division by Elif Shafak
- How to Think Like a Philosopher: Essential Principles for Clearer Thinking by Julian Baggini
- How to Be You: Simone de Beauvoir and the art of authentic living by Skye Cleary
- How Westminster Works... and Why It Doesn't by Ian Dunt
- Human Compatible: AI and the Problem of Control by Stuart Russell
- Hype: How Scammers, Grifters, and Con Artists Are Taking Over the Internet--And Why We're Following by Gabrielle Bluestone
- Identity, Ignorance, Innovation: Why the old politics is useless - and what to do about it by Matthew d'Ancona
- Inside the Political Mind by Greg Power
- May Contain Lies:How Stories, Statistics and Studies Exploit Our Biases - And What We Can Do About It by Alex Edmans
- Mindf*ck: Inside Cambridge Analytica’s Plot to Break the World by Christopher Wylie
- Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma by Claire Dederer
- News and How to Use It by Alan Rusbridger
- On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
- Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life by Agnes Callard
- Politics: A Survivor's Guide, How to Stay Engaged without Getting Enraged by Rafael Behr
- Post-Truth by Matthew d'Ancona
- Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now by Douglas Rushkoff
- Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life by Winnifred Gallagher
- Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World by Maryanne Wolf
- Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy by David J. Chalmers
- Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World by Jane McGonigal
- Selfie: How the West Became Self-Obsessed by Will Storr
- Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians by Tara Isabella Burton
- Silicon States: The Power and Politics of Big Tech and What It Means for Our Future by Lucie Greene
- Stand Out of Our Light: Freedom and Resistance in the Attention Economy by James Williams
- Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention by Johann Hari
- Stop Reading the News by Rolf Dobelli
- Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet by Tim Hwang
- Superior: The Return of Race Science by Angela Saini
- Ten Arguments For Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier
- The Art of Disagreeing Well: How Debate Teaches Us to Listen and Be Heard by Bo Seo
- The Art of Rhetoric by Aristotle
- The Art of Thinking Clearly by Rolf Dobelli
- The Battle for Your Brain: Defending the Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology by Nita A Farahany
- The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World by Max Fisher
- The Death of Expertise by Tom Nichols
- The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-First Century's Greatest Dilemma by Mustafa Suleyman
- The Edge of Reason by Julian Baggini
- The Filter Bubble by Eli Pariser
- The Great Experiment: Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure by Yascha Mounk
- The Information Diet by Clay A. Johnson
- The Lonely Century: A Call to Reconnect by Noreena Hertz
- The Long View: Why We Need to Transform How the World Sees Time by Richard Fisher
- The March of Unreason by Dick Taverne
- The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread by Cailin O'Conner & James Owen Weatherall
- The Perils of Perception: Why We're Wrong About Nearly Everything by Bobby Duffy
- The Persuaders: Winning Hearts and Minds in a Divided Age by Anand Giridharadas
- The Science of Hate: How prejudice becomes hate and what we can do to stop it by Matthew Williams
- The Shame Machine by Cathy O'Neil
- The Trading Game: A Confession by Gary Stevenson
- The Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good? by Michael Sandel
- The Tyranny of Opinion by Russell Blackford
- The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis
- Think Again: How to Reason and Argue by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
- This is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality by Peter Pomerantsev
- To Save Everything, Click Here: Technology, Solutionism, and the Urge to Fix Problems that Don't Exist by Evgeny Morozov
- Too Much Information by Cass Sunstein
- True Story: What Reality TV Says About Us by Danielle Lindemann
- Uncontrolled: The Surprising Payoff of Trial-And-Error for Business, Politics, and Society by Jim Manzi
- Utopia for Realists: And How We Can Get There by Rutger Bregman
- Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
- Why Politics Fails: The Five Traps of the Modern World & How to Escape Them by Ben Ansell
- You Are What You Read by Robert DiYanni
Misc.
- A Scented Palace: The Secret History of Marie Antoinette's Perfumer by Elizabeth de Feydeau
- A Short History Of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
- All Made Up: The Power and Pitfalls of Beauty Culture, from Cleopatra to Kim Kardashian by Rae Nudson
- All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud and Fine Art by Orlando Whitfield
- All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess by Becca Rothfeld
- Antigone Rising: The Subversive Power of the Ancient Myths by Helen Morales
- Artemisia Gentileschi and Feminism in Early Modern Europe by Mary G. Garrard
- Decisions and Dissents of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Selection by Corey Brettschneider
- Die Hot with a Vengeance: Essays on Vanity by Sable Yong
- Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth by Natalie Haynes
- Dressed: A Philosophy of Clothes by Shahidha Bari
- Essential English for Journalists, Editors and Writers by Harold Evans
- Exposed: The Greek and Roman Body by Caroline Vout
- France: An Adventure History by Graham Robb
- Great Thinkers by The School of Life
- Heroines by Kate Zambreno
- How to Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens
- How to Write a Thesis by Umberto Eco
- In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing by Elena Ferrante
- Joan of Arc by Helen Castor
- Language and Manipulation in House of Cards by Sandrine Sorlin
- Learning to Look: Dispatches from the Art World by Alva Noë
- Let Me Tell You What I Mean by Joan Didion
- Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
- Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism by Mariana Mazzucato
- Modern Manners by The Gentlewoman
- On Photography by Susan Sontag
- Orwell's Roses by Rebecca Solnit
- Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths by Natalie Haynes
- Running Like a Girl by Alexandra Heminsley
- Skincare by Caroline Hirons
- Skincare Decoded by Victoria Fu & Gloria Lu
- Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century by Brad de Long
- So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson
- Sofia Coppola: Forever Young by Hannah Strong
- Sofia Coppola: The Politics of Visual Pleasure by Anna Backman Rogers
- Stoned: Jewellery, Obsession, and How Desire Shapes the World by Aja Raden
- Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe by Richard Holloway
- The Art of Thinking by Epictetus
- The Art of War by Sun-Tzu
- The Artemisia Files: Artemisia Gentileschi for Feminists and Other Thinking People edited by Mieke Bal
- The Beauty and the Terror: An Alternative History of the Italian Renaissance by Catherine Fletcher
- The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr
- The Emperor Of Scent by Chandler Burr
- The Entanglement: How Art and Philosophy Make Us What We Are by Alva Noë
- The Library: A Fragile History by Andrew Pettegree & Arthur der Weduwen
- The Premonition: A Pandemic Story by Michael Lewis
- The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
- The Rigour of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality by William Egginton
- The Scent of Empires by Karl Schlögel
- The Secret of Scent by Luca Turin
- The Short Story of Art by Susie Hodge
- The Symposium by Plato
- The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy by Mariana Mazzucato
- Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader by Vivian Gornick
- Ways of Seeing by John Berger
- William Blake vs the World by John Higgs
- Women vs Hollywood: The Fall and Rise of Women in Film by Helen O'Hara
dec 10 2011 ∞
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