The Undoing Project Michael Lewis Business Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original papers that invented the field of behavioral economics. One of the greatest partnerships in the history of science,…
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down Anne Fadiman Memoir A Hmong child, her American doctors and the collision of two cultures.
The Small and the Mighty Sharon McMahon Non Fiction In The Small and the Mighty, Sharon McMahon proves that the most remarkable Americans are often ordinary people who didn’t make it into the textbooks. Not the presidents, but the telephone…
The Pride of Aggieland Homer Jacobs Non Fiction Few schools, if any, have undergone the transformation of Texas A&M University. Founded in 1876 as a land-grant college for men interested in agricultural and mechanical studies, Texas A&M today is a…
A New New Thing Michael Lewis Business In the weird glow of the dying millennium, Michael Lewis set out on a safari through Silicon Valley to find the world’s most important technology entrepreneur. He found this in Jim Clark, a…
In Cold Blood Truman Capote True Crime On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There…
House of Gucci Sara Gay Forden True Crime On the morning of March 27, 1995, four quick shots cracked through Milan’s elegant streets. Maurizio Gucci, heir to the fabulous fashion dynasty, had been ambushed, slain on the steps to his…
Hidden Girl Shyima Hall Memoir When Shyima Hall was eight years old, her impoverished parents sold her to pay a debt. Two years later, the wealthy family she was sold to moved to Orange County, California, and smuggled her with…
Gypsy Songman Jerry Jeff Walker Memoir The country music superstar shares the story of his life, career, and lyrics, including his collaboration with Jimmy Buffet and Willie Nelson, his early days in New Orleans, and the legendary Mr. Bojangles.
The Measure of a Man Sidney Poitier Memoir Here is Poitier’s own introspective look at what has informed his performances and his life. Poitier explores the nature of sacrifice and commitment, price and humility, rage and forgiveness, and paying the…