A–Z catalog · Part 16 of 21

Reviewed Book Summaries

1. The Luddites: Machine-Breakers, Hand-Made Makers, and the Industrial Revolution by Gerry Bowler
2. The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
3. The Lying Game by Ruth Ware
4. The Magic Flute by E. T. A. Hoffmann
5. The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
6. The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True by Richard Dawkins
7. The Magic of Thinking Big by David J. Schwartz
8. The Magic Pudding by Norman Lindsay
9. The Magic Thief by Sarah Prineas
10. The Magic Tree House series: Dinosaurs Before Dark by Mary Pope Osborne
11. The Magician of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
12. The Magician's Elephant by Kate DiCamillo
13. The Magician's Guild by Trudi Canavan
14. The Magicians by Lev Grossman
15. The Magna Carta by Anonymous
16. The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington
17. The Magpie Lord by K.J. Charles
18. The Make-Up of the Universe: The Quest for the Ultimate Reality by Leon M. Lederman
19. The Making of a Transnational Capitalist Class: Corporate Power in the 21st Century by William K. Carroll
20. The Making of Modern Japan by Marius B. Jansen
21. The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
22. The Making of the English Working Class by E.P. Thompson
23. The Making of the Fittest by Sean B. Carroll
24. The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution by Sean B. Carroll
25. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
26. The Man Nobody Knows by Bruce Fairchild Barton
27. The Man Who Couldn’t Stop: OCD and the True Story of a Life Lost in Thought by David Adam
28. The Man Who Knew Infinity by Robert Kanigel
29. The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan by Robert Kanigel
30. The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo
31. The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead
32. The Man Who Loved Only Numbers by Paul Hoffman
33. The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdős and the Search for Mathematical Truth by Paul Hoffman
34. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
35. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks
36. The Man Who Spoke Snakish by Andrus Kivirähk
37. The Man Who Tasted Shapes by Richard E. Cytowic
38. The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton
39. The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil
40. The Man’s Search for Himself by Rollo May
41. The Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
42. The Management Myth: Why the Experts Keep Getting It Wrong by Matthew Stewart
43. The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change by Camille Fournier
44. The Managerial Revolution in Software Engineering by Mara Hvistendahl
45. The Mandarins by Simone de Beauvoir
46. The March Sisters at Home by Louisa May Alcott
47. The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline
48. The Mars Trilogy: Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
49. The Martian by Andy Weir
50. The Mass Psychology of Fascism by Wilhelm Reich
51. The Massive Mind: Theories of Social Cognition in the 21st Century by John H. Harvey
52. The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World by Pedro Domingos
53. The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World by Iain McGilchrist
54. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
55. The Master Builder by Henrik Ibsen
56. The master mind of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
57. The Master of Ballantrae: A Winter's Tale by Robert Louis Stevenson
58. The Master of Go by Yasunari Kawabata
59. The Masterpiece by Emile Zola
60. The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
61. The Maze Runner by James Dashner
62. The Meaning of Anxiety by Rollo May
63. The Meaning of Infancy by John Fiske
64. The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist by Richard P. Feynman
65. The Meaning of Things: Domestic Symbols and the Self by Irene Diamond and James F. Geller
66. The Medici Effect by Frans Johansson
67. The Mem Fox Collection by Mem Fox
68. The Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
69. The Memory Keeper of Kyiv by Erika Krouse
70. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
71. The Metropolis and Mental Life by George Simmel
72. The Migrant's Table: Meals and Memories in Bengali-American Households by Colleen Taylor Sen
73. The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
74. The Millionaire Fastlane by MJ DeMarco
75. The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko
76. The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy by Thomas J. Stanley
77. The Mind and its Place in Nature by Charlie-Dunbar Broad
78. The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps by Alfred Binet
79. The Mind Club: Who Thinks, What Feels, and Why It Matters by Daniel M. Wegner
80. The Mind in the Making: The Relation of Intelligence to Social Reform by James Harvey Robinson
81. The Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul by Douglas R. Hofstadter and Daniel C. Dennett
82. The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton
83. The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
84. The Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod
85. The Miracle of Mindfulness by Thich Nhat Hanh
86. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo
87. The Miraculous Mandarin by Béla Balázs (adaptation)
88. The Mirror Empire by Kameron Hurley
89. The Mirror Thief by Martin Seay
90. The Mirrored Heavens by David J. Williams
91. The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth
92. The Missing File by Dror Mishani
93. The Mistress of Spices by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
94. The Molecule of More by Daniel Z. Lieberman and Michael E. Long
95. The Monkey's Paw and Other Stories by W.W. Jacobs
96. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
97. The Moor's Account by Laila Lalami
98. The Moors Account by Laila Lalami
99. The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology by Robert Wright
100. The Motivation Myth by Jeff Haden
101. The Mountain Is You by Brianna Wiest
102. The Mountains of California by John Muir
103. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
104. The Music of the Primes: Searching to Solve the Greatest Mystery in Mathematics by Marcus du Sautoy
105. The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens
106. The Myth of Mental Illness by Thomas S. Szasz
107. The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct by Thomas S. Szasz
108. The Myth of Normal by Gabor Maté with Daniel Maté
109. The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
110. The Myth of the Garage: How Inventing the Personal Computer Changed the World by Gordon Bell and others
111. The Mythical Man-Month by Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
112. The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering by Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
113. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
114. The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson
115. The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
116. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
117. The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
118. The Nature of Code by Daniel Shiffman
119. The Nature of Prejudice by Gordon W. Allport
120. The Nature of Prejudice by Gordon Allport
121. The Nazi Hunters by Andrew Nagorski
122. The Network Imperative: How to Survive and Grow in the Age of Digital Business Models by Barry Libert
123. The Network Imperative: How to Survive and Grow in the Age of Digital Business Models by Barry Libert, Megan Beck & Jerry Wind
124. The Neverending Story by Michael Ende
125. The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins
126. The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story by Michael Lewis
127. The New Rules of Marketing and PR: How to Use Social Media, Online Video, Mobile Applications, Blogs, News Releases, and Viral Marketing to Reach Buyers Directly by David Meerman Scott
128. The New Science of Strong Materials or Why You Don’t Fall through the Floor by J.E. Gordon
129. The New York Times' 100 Best Books of the 21st Century by The New York Times
130. The Next Fifty Years: Science in the First Half of the Twenty-First Century by John Brockman
131. The Next Millionaire Next Door by Thomas J. Stanley and Sarah Stanley Fallaw
132. The nigger of the "Narcissus" by Joseph Conrad
133. The Night Angel Trilogy: The Way of Shadows by Brent Weeks
134. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
135. The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani
136. The Night Fairy by Laura Amy Schlitz
137. The Night Manager by John le Carré
138. The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo
139. The Night Watch by Serhiy Zhadan
140. The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
141. The Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko
142. The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
143. The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
144. The Nightjrnal by Haruki Murakami
145. The Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter
146. The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't by Robert I. Sutton
147. The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
148. The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (Children's Adaptation) by Alexander McCall Smith
149. The Noonday Demon by Andrew Solomon
150. The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression by Andrew Solomon
151. The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
152. The Notebook of Dawn by Marina Keegan
153. The Notebook of Lost Things by Celeste Fletcher McHale
154. The Now Habit by Neil Fiore
155. The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin
156. The Obscene Bird of Night by José Donoso
157. The Obsession by Joyce Carol Oates
158. The Obsidian Tower by Melissa Caruso
159. The Obstacle Is the Way by Ryan Holiday
160. The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph by Ryan Holiday
161. The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
162. The Odyssey by Homer
163. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
164. The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan
165. The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate
166. The One Minute Manager by Kenneth Blanchard & Spencer Johnson
167. The ONE Thing by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan
168. The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
169. The Open Society and Its Enemies by Karl Popper
170. The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli
171. The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life by Francis Parkman
172. The Organized Mind by Daniel J. Levitin
173. The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes
174. The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
175. The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin
176. The Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics by Eric D. Beinhocker
177. The Origins of Creativity by Edward O. Wilson
178. The Origins of the Cold War in the Near East by Richard H. Ullman
179. The Origins of the Cultural Revolution by Roderick MacFarquhar
180. The Origins of the Cultural Revolution: Contradictions and Change in Chinese Society by Roderick MacFarquhar
181. The Origins of the First World War by James Joll
182. The Origins of the Korean War by Bruce Cumings
183. The Origins of the Russian Revolution 1861-1917 by Alan Wood
184. The Origins of the Second World War by A.J.P. Taylor
185. The Origins of the Vietnam War by Gregory A. Daddis
186. The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
187. The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson
188. The Other Woman by Sandie Jones
189. The Outlaw King: Robert the Bruce, King of Scots by Michael Brown
190. The Outsider by Albert Camus
191. The Outsider: A Memoir by Tabish Khair
192. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
193. The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success by William N. Thorndike
194. The Overstory by Richard Powers
195. The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science by John L. Heilbron
196. The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosiński
197. The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham
198. The Palace of Illusions by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
199. The Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space by Carl Sagan
200. The Pale Blue Eye by Louis Bayard