A–Z catalog · Part 13 of 21

Reviewed Book Summaries

1. The Divided Self by R.D. Laing
2. The divine comedy by Dante Alighieri
3. The Djinn Falls in Love & Other Stories by Mahvesh Murad
4. The Doctor and the DNA: How Molecular Biology Revolutionized Medicine and Changed Our View of Life by James D. Watson
5. The Dog Stars by Peter Heller
6. The Door by Magda Szabó
7. The Door to December by Dean Koontz
8. The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley
9. The Double Helix by James D. Watson
10. The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA by James D. Watson
11. The Dragon Tattoo Trilogy Companion by Stieg Larsson
12. The Drama of the Gifted Child by Alice Miller
13. The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self by Alice Miller
14. The Dreamer by Pam Muñoz Ryan
15. The Dresden Files: Storm Front by Jim Butcher
16. The Drowned Cities by Paolo Bacigalupi
17. The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard
18. The Dry by Jane Harper
19. The Duchess Deal by Tessa Dare
20. The Duke and I by Julia Quinn
21. The Dying Earth by Jack Vance
22. The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It by Michael E. Gerber
23. The Early Statistical Years: 1947–1967 A Conversation with Howard Raiffa by Stephen E. Fienberg
24. The Education of an Idealist by Samantha Power
25. The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir by Samantha Power
26. The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams
27. The Effective Engineer: How to Leverage Your Efforts in Software Engineering to Make a Disproportionate and Meaningful Impact by Edmond Lau
28. The Effective Executive by Peter F. Drucker
29. The Effective Executive in Action: A Journal for Getting the Right Things Done by Peter F. Drucker
30. The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done by Peter F. Drucker
31. The Ego and the Id by Sigmund Freud
32. The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte by Karl Marx
33. The Eighth Day of Creation: Makers of the Revolution in Biology by Horace Freeland Judson
34. The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
35. The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene
36. The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory by Brian Greene
37. The Elements of Programming Style by Brian W. Kernighan
38. The Elements of Programming Style by Brian W. Kernighan, P. J. Plauger
39. The Elephant's Child by Rudyard Kipling
40. The Elephant's Journey by Jose Saramago
41. The Embodiment of Mind by Mark Johnson
42. The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life by Joseph LeDoux
43. The Emotionally Absent Mother: A Guide to Self-Healing and Getting the Love You Missed by Jung Lee
44. The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
45. The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
46. The Emperor of Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
47. The Emperor's Blades by Brian Staveley
48. The Emperor's New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth by Irving Kirsch
49. The Emperor's New Genes: Science, Public Policy, and the Clash Over Human Heredity by Regina Nuzzo
50. The Emperor’s New Mind by Roger Penrose
51. The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics by Roger Penrose
52. The Empire of the East by Fred Saberhagen
53. The Empire of the Sultans: Ottoman History by Giancarlo Casale
54. The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo
55. The Enchantment of Jasmine by S.A. Chakraborty
56. The Enchiridion by Epictetus
57. The End of Alchemy: Money, Banking, and the Future of the Global Economy by Mervyn King
58. The End of Alzheimer’s by Dale Bredesen
59. The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking) by Katie Mack
60. The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time by Jeffrey D. Sachs
61. The Endearment by LaVyrle Spencer
62. The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition by Caroline Alexander
63. The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
64. The Epic Crush of Genie Lo by F.C. Yee
65. The Essence of Business by Chin-Ning Chu
66. The Estrella Project by Neal Asher
67. The Etched City by K.J. Bishop
68. The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples by Timothy J. Thornton
69. The Ethical Demand by Knud Ejler Løgstrup
70. The Ethics of Ambiguity by Simone de Beauvoir
71. The Eureka! Moment: 100 Key Scientific Discoveries of the 20th Century by Rupert Lee
72. The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope
73. The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone
74. The Evolution of Modern Capitalism: A Study of Machine Production by J. A. (John Atkinson) Hobson
75. The Examined Life by Stephen Grosz
76. The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves by Stephen Grosz
77. The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer
78. The Expats by Chris Pavone
79. The Expectation Effect by David Robson
80. The Experience Economy: Work Is Theatre & Every Business a Stage by B. Joseph Pine II & James H. Gilmore
81. The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin
82. The Extended Phenotype by Richard Dawkins
83. The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene by Richard Dawkins
84. The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
85. The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes and Its Implications by David Deutsch
86. The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality by Brian Greene
87. The Fabulous Sylvester: The Legend, the Music, the Seventies in San Francisco by Joshua Gamson
88. The Falklands War by Max Hastings
89. The Fall of Berlin 1945 by Antony Beevor
90. The Fall of British Tyranny; Or, American Liberty Triumphant by John Leacock
91. The Fall of the Kings by Ellen Kushner
92. The False Prince by Jennifer A. Nielsen
93. The Familiars by Adam Jay Epstein
94. The Famished Road by Ben Okri
95. The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore by William Joyce
96. The Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl
97. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
98. The Favorites by Layne Fargo
99. The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa
100. The Feather Thief by Kirk Wallace Johnson
101. The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century by Kirk Wallace Johnson
102. The Feeling of Life Itself by Christof Koch
103. The Feeling of Life Itself: Why Consciousness Is Widespread but Can't Be Computed by Christof Koch
104. The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness by Antonio Damasio
105. The Fertility of the Unfit by W. A. (William Allan) Chapple
106. The Feynman Lectures on Physics by Richard P. Feynman
107. The Feynman Lectures on Physics (Selected Volume) by Richard P. Feynman
108. The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Volume I: Mainly Mechanics, Radiation, and Heat by Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands
109. The Fifth Agreement by Don Miguel Ruiz and Don Jose Ruiz
110. The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization by Peter M. Senge
111. The Fifth Elephant by Terry Pratchett
112. The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk
113. The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
114. The Finisher by David Baldacci
115. The Fire Horse Girl by Kay Honeyman
116. The First Rule of Punk by Celia C. Pérez
117. The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T.J. Stiles
118. The First World War by John Keegan
119. The Fish Child by Lucía Puenzo
120. The Five Books of the Sacred Dark by James A. Moore
121. The Five Books of the Sacred Dark: Maimon’s Jewel by James A. Moore
122. The Five Chinese Brothers by Claire Huchet Bishop
123. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable by Patrick Lencioni
124. The Five Temptations of a CEO: A Leadership Fable by Patrick Lencioni
125. The Flatshare by Beth O'Leary
126. The Folded Leaf by William Maxwell
127. The Forest Habitat of the University of Kansas Natural History Reservation by Henry S. (Henry Sheldon) Fitch
128. The Forgotten Beasts of Eld by Patricia A. McKillip
129. The Forgotten Majority by Sylvia Molloy
130. The Forgotten Soldier by Guy Sajer
131. The Formation of the Soviet Union: Communism and Nationalism, 1917-1923 by Richard Pipes
132. The Fortress in the Eye of Time by C.J. Cherryh
133. The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits by C.K. Prahalad
134. The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup by Noam Wasserman
135. The Founder's Mentality: How to Overcome the Predictable Crises of Growth by Chris Zook & James Allen
136. The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
137. The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom by Don Miguel Ruiz
138. The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products that Win by Steve Blank
139. The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google by Scott Galloway
140. The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
141. The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle
142. The Fulfillment by LaVyrle Spencer
143. The Future of Capitalism: Facing the New Anxieties by Paul Collier
144. The Future of Life by Edward O. Wilson
145. The Fuzzy and the Techie by Scott Hartley
146. The Fuzzy and the Techie: Why the Liberal Arts Will Rule the Digital World by Scott Hartley
147. The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng
148. The Garden of Finzi-Continis by Giorgio Bassani
149. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis by Giorgio Bassani
150. The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield
151. The Garden Party and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield
152. The Gathering by Anne Enright
153. The Gene Machine by Venki Ramakrishnan
154. The Gene Machine: How Genetic Technologies Are Changing the Way We Have Kids—and the Kids We Have by Venki Ramakrishnan
155. The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee
156. The General Principles of Quantum Theory by Max Born
157. The Genome: Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters by Matt Ridley
158. The Geography of Love by Aminatta Forna
159. The Ghost by Robert Harris
160. The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson
161. The Ghost of Grania O'Malley by Josephine Phelan
162. The Ghost Writer by Philip Roth
163. The Ghosts of Stonewall by Jim Downs
164. The Gift of Fear by Gavin de Becker
165. The Gift of Fear and Other Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence by Gavin de Becker
166. The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence by Gavin de Becker
167. The Gift of Therapy by Irvin D. Yalom
168. The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients by Irvin D. Yalom
169. The Gifts of Imperfection by Brené Brown
170. The Gifts of Therapy by Irvin D. Yalom
171. The Gilded Wolves by Roshani Chokshi
172. The Girl and the Stars by Mark Lawrence
173. The Girl from Everywhere by Heidi Heilig
174. The Girl from the Other Side by Nagabe
175. The Girl from the Sea by Morgana McKenzie
176. The Girl from Venice by Martin Cruz Smith
177. The Girl in the Box Series: The Darkest Secret by Angela Marsons
178. The Girl in the Green Raincoat by Laura Lippman
179. The Girl in the Ice by Robert Bryndza
180. The Girl in the Spider's Web by David Lagercrantz
181. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
182. The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente
183. The Girl Who Could Fly by Victoria Forester
184. The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill
185. The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There by Catherynne M. Valente
186. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson
187. The Girl Who Leapt Through Time by Yasutaka Tsutsui
188. The Girl Who Lived by Christopher Greyson
189. The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses by Paul Goble
190. The Girl Who Owned a City by O.T. Nelson
191. The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson
192. The Girl Who Speaks Bear by Sophie Anderson
193. The Girl Who Was Saturday Night by Heather O'Neill
194. The Girl Who Wrote in Silk by Kelli Estes
195. The Girl with a Clock for a Heart by Peter Swanson
196. The Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
197. The Girl with All the Gifts by M.R. Carey
198. The Girl with Ghost Eyes by M.H. Boroson
199. The Girl with No Name by Kate Hannigan
200. The Girl with No Past by Karen M. McManus