A–Z catalog · Part 1 of 21

Reviewed Book Summaries

1. "America for Americans!" The Typical American, Thanksgiving Sermon by John Philip Newman
2. "Honest Abe": A Study in Integrity Based on the Early Life of Abraham Lincoln by Alonzo Rothschild
3. "The story of my life" by Egerton Ryerson
4. 10% Happier by Dan Harris
5. 101 Essays That Will Change the Way You Think by Brianna Wiest
6. 12 Rules for Life by Jordan B. Peterson
7. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann
8. 168 Hours by Laura Vanderkam
9. 1984 by George Orwell
10. 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
11. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
12. 21st Century Nanoscience – A Handbook: Nanopharmaceuticals, Nanomedicine, and Food Nanoscience by Klaus D. Sattler
13. 2666 by Roberto Bolaño
14. 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know: Collective Wisdom from the Experts by Kevlin Henney (Editor)
15. A Behavioral Theory of the Firm by Richard M. Cyert and James G. March
16. A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul
17. A Book of the United States Exhibiting its geography, divisions, constitution, and government ... and presenting a view of the republic generally, and of the individual states; together with a condensed history of the land, from its first discovery to the present time. The biography of about two hundred of the leading men: a description of the principal cities and towns; with statistical tables by Grenville 1799-1841 [Editor] Mellen
18. A Boy's Trip Across the Plains by Laura Preston
19. A Brief History of the 20th Century by Geoffrey Blainey
20. A Brief History of the Middle East by James L. Gelvin
21. A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
22. A Century of Cosmic Discoveries: Heliophysics and Space Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology by Kanaris Tsinganos
23. A Century of Ideas: Perspectives from Leading Scientists of the 20th Century by B. G. Sidharth
24. A Century of Nature: Twenty-One Discoveries that Changed Science and the World by Laura Garwin, Tim Lincoln
25. A Century of Nature: Twenty-One Discoveries that Changed Science and the World by Laura Garwin
26. A Century of Physics by D. Allan Bromley
27. A Century of Science 1851-1951 by D. Allan Bromley
28. A Century of Science: Globalization of Scientific Collaborations, Citations, and Innovations by Yuxiao Dong et al.
29. A Century of Science: Globalization of Scientific Collaborations, Citations, and Innovations by Yuxiao Dong
30. A Change of Heart by Sonali Dev
31. A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas by Charles Dickens
32. A Companion to International History 1900–2001 by Gordon Martel
33. A Concise History of the Haitian Revolution by Jeremy D. Popkin
34. A Concise History of the Russian Revolution by Richard Pipes
35. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
36. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
37. A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
38. A Crack in Creation by Jennifer A. Doudna and Samuel H. Sternberg
39. A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution by Jennifer A. Doudna and Samuel H. Sternberg
40. A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution by Jennifer A. Doudna
41. A Critical History of Psychotherapy, Volume 2: From the Mid-20th to the 21st Century by Renato Foschi
42. A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer
43. A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab
44. A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik
45. A Death in Venice and Other Stories by Thomas Mann
46. A Description of Millenium Hall And the Country Adjacent Together with the Characters of the Inhabitants and Such Historical Anecdotes and Reflections As May Excite in the Reader Proper Sentiments of Humanity, and Lead the Mind to the Love of Virtue by Sarah Scott
47. A Distant Heart by Sonali Dev
48. A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara Tuchman
49. A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara W. Tuchman
50. A Few Words About the Devil, and Other Biographical Sketches and Essays by Charles Bradlaugh
51. A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
52. A General Theory of Love by Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, Richard Lannon
53. A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
54. A Guide to the Good Life by William B. Irvine
55. A Heart Speaks by LaVyrle Spencer
56. A History of Existential Psychology: Introduction to Existential Psychology, Volume 1 by Kovary
57. A History of Japan, 1582–1941: Internal and External Worlds by Lansé Brayfield
58. A history of social thought by Emory S. (Emory Stephen) Bogardus
59. A History of the Balkans in the 20th Century by Mark Mazower
60. A History of the World in the 20th Century by J.A.S. Grenville
61. A History of the World in the Twentieth Century by J.A.S. Grenville
62. A Horse Walks into a Bar by David Grossman
63. A Hundred Horizons: The Indian Ocean in the Age of Global Empire by Sugata Bose
64. A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland by Samuel Johnson
65. A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines
66. A Kidnapped Santa Claus by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum
67. A Knight of the Cumberland by John Jr. Fox
68. A Lady for a Duke by Alexis Hall
69. A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal, on the Affairs of North America, in Which the Mistakes in the Abbe's Account of the Revolution of America Are Corrected and Cleared Up by Thomas Paine
70. A Life in Parts by Bryan Cranston
71. A Life in Secrets: Vera Atkins and the Missing Agents of WWII by Sarah Helm
72. A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
73. A Little Maid of Massachusetts Colony by Alice Turner Curtis
74. A Little Maid of Ticonderoga by Alice Turner Curtis
75. A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
76. A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park
77. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
78. A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
79. A Mango-Shaped Space by Wendy Mass
80. A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785–1812 by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
81. A Mind for Numbers by Barbara Oakley
82. A Mind That Found Itself: An Autobiography by Clifford Whittingham Beers
83. A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
84. A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr
85. A Morbid Taste for Bones by Margaret Yorke
86. A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
87. A narrative of some remarkable incidents, in the life of Solomon Bayley by Solomon Bayley
88. A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa, but Resident above Sixty Years in the United States of America, Related by Himself by Venture Smith
89. A Narrative of the Life of Rev. Noah Davis, A Colored Man Written by Himself, At The Age of Fifty-Four by Noah Davis
90. A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle
91. A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly
92. A People's History of the French Revolution by Eric Hazan
93. A People’s History of the Russian Revolution by Neil Faulkner
94. A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
95. A People’s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1891-1924 by Orlando Figes
96. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
97. A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
98. A Roving Commission; Or, Through the Black Insurrection at Hayti by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
99. A sailor boy with Dewey by Edward Stratemeyer
100. A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy by Laurence Sterne
101. A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket
102. A Shellshocked Nation: Britain Between the Wars by Alwyn Turner
103. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
104. A Short History of the 20th Century by Geoffrey Blainey
105. A Short History of the Middle East by James L. Gelvin
106. A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park
107. A Social History of Psychology by Jeroen Jansz
108. A Song for a New Day by Sarah Pinsker
109. A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
110. A Study of Pueblo Pottery as Illustrative of Zuñi Culture Growth. Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1882-83, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1886, pages 467-522 by Frank Hamilton Cushing
111. A Study of Siouan Cults Eleventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1889-1890, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1861, pages 351-544 by James Owen Dorsey
112. A Study of the Textile Art in Its Relation to the Development of Form and Ornament Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1884-'85, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1888, (pages 189-252) by William Henry Holmes
113. A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
114. A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
115. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
116. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
117. A Treatise of Human Nature Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method Into Moral Subjects; and Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion by David Hume
118. A Treatise of Taxes and Contributions Shewing the nature and measures of crown-lands, assessements, customs, poll-moneys, lotteries, benevolence, penalties, monopolies, offices, tythes, raising of coins, harth-money, excize, &c.; with several intersperst discourses and digressions concerning warres, the church, universities, rents & purchases, usury & exchange, banks & lombards, registries for conveyances, beggars, ensurance, exportation of money [&] wool, free-ports, coins, housing, liberty of conscience, &c.; the same being frequently applied to the present state and affairs of Ireland. by William Sir Petty
119. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
120. A Very Short History of the First World War by James L. Stokesbury
121. A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
122. A Voyage to Cacklogallinia With a Description of the Religion, Policy, Customs and Manners of That Country by Samuel Brunt
123. A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks
124. A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
125. A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City — A Diary by Anonymous (Translator: Philip Boehm)
126. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
127. Abeni by Tolu Oloruntoba
128. Abstracts of Papers Read at the First International Eugenics Congress University of London, July, 1912 by International Eugenics Congress (1st : 1912 : London)
129. Abuela by Arthur Dorros
130. Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps by Nicole Forsgren
131. Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps by Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, Gene Kim
132. Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still Can't Get a Date by Robert X. Cringely
133. Account of the Last Voyage of Captain Cook by James Cook
134. Across Texas by Edward Sylvester Ellis
135. Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader by Herminia Ibarra
136. Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson
137. Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment by W. Richard Stevens, Stephen A. Rago
138. Adventures of a Young Naturalist by Lucien Biart
139. Adventures of Buffalo Bill from boyhood to manhood by Prentiss Ingraham
140. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
141. Adventures of the Comte de la Muette during the Reign of Terror by Bernard Capes
142. Advice to a Young Man upon First Going to Oxford In Ten Letters, From an Uncle to His Nephew by Edward Berens
143. Afar by Martine Leavitt
144. Afloat in the Forest; Or, A Voyage among the Tree-Tops by Mayne Reid
145. African and European Addresses by Theodore Roosevelt
146. African Pharmakon: The Asylum as Shrine from Slavery to the Return by Nana Osei Quarshie
147. AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future by Kai-Fu Lee, Chen Qiufan
148. AI Ethics by Mark Coeckelbergh
149. AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can't, and How to Tell the Difference by Arvind Narayanan, Sayash Kapoor
150. AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order by Kai-Fu Lee
151. AI: A Very Short Introduction by Margaret A. Boden
152. Aids to the Study of the Maya Codices Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1884-85, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1888, pages 253-372 by Cyrus Thomas
153. Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor
154. Akata Woman by Nnedi Okorafor
155. Akira by Katsuhiro Otomo
156. Akissi by Marguerite Abouet
157. Akissi: Tales of Mischief by Marguerite Abouet
158. Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
159. Alcuin of York by G. F. (George Forrest) Browne
160. Alex by Pierre Lemaitre
161. Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
162. Algorithmic Puzzles by Anany Levitin, Maria Levitin
163. Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs by Niklaus Wirth
164. Algorithms in a Nutshell by George T. Heineman, Gary Pollice, Stanley Selkow
165. Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions by Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths
166. Algorithms Unlocked by Thomas H. Cormen
167. Alice of Old Vincennes by Maurice Thompson
168. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
169. Alien Minds by E. Everett (Edward Everett) Evans
170. All About Love by bell hooks
171. All That I Am by Anna Funder
172. All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders
173. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
174. Almayer's Folly: A Story of an Eastern River by Joseph Conrad
175. Alone on the Wide, Wide Sea by Michael Morpurgo
176. Amal Unbound by Aisha Saeed
177. American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
178. American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
179. American ideals, and other essays, social and political by Theodore Roosevelt
180. American Men of Mind by Burton Egbert Stevenson
181. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
182. Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
183. Americanism Contrasted with Foreignism, Romanism, and Bogus Democracy in the Light of Reason, History, and Scripture; In which Certain Demagogues in Tennessee, and Elsewhere, are Shown Up in Their True Colors by William Gannaway Brownlow
184. Amina by Hawa Jibril
185. Amina's Song by Hawa Jibril and Ifrah Mansour
186. Amina's Voice by Hena Khan
187. Among the Red-skins; Or, Over the Rocky Mountains by William Henry Giles Kingston
188. Amos & Boris by William Steig
189. An Account of the Customs and Manners of the Micmakis and Maricheets Savage Nations, Now Dependent on the Government of Cape-Breton by Antoine Simon Maillard
190. An Address to Men of Science Calling Upon Them to Stand Forward and Vindicate the Truth.... by Richard Carlile
191. An American Childhood by Annie Dillard
192. An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
193. An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth by Mahatma Gandhi
194. An Egyptian Childhood by Jalal al-Din Rumi
195. An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management by Will Larson
196. An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir
197. An Englishwoman in Angora by Grace Ellison
198. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume
199. An Essay on Liberation by Herbert Marcuse
200. An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, Particularly the African Translated from a Latin Dissertation, Which Was Honoured with the First Prize in the University of Cambridge, for the Year 1785, with Additions by Thomas Clarkson