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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