A–Z catalog · Part 19 of 21

Reviewed Book Summaries

1. The Story of Science: Aristotle Leads the Way by Joy Hakim
2. The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante
3. The Story of the Odyssey by Alfred John Church
4. The Story of the Stone by Cao Xueqin
5. The Story of the Stone (Dream of the Red Chamber) by Cao Xueqin
6. The Story of Tracy Beaker by Jacqueline Wilson
7. The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music by Dave Grohl
8. The Storyteller's Candle by Lucia M. Gonzalez
9. The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
10. The Strange Chores by Geoff Rodkey
11. The Stranger by Albert Camus
12. The Stranger's Child by Alan Hollinghurst
13. The Strategy of the Genes by C. H. Waddington
14. The Strategy Paradox: Why committing to success leads to failure (and what to do about it) by Michael E. Raynor
15. The Structure of Evolutionary Theory by Stephen Jay Gould
16. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn
17. The Study of History by Arnold J. Toynbee
18. The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill
19. The Sublime Object of Ideology by Slavoj Žižek
20. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson
21. The Success Principles by Jack Canfield
22. The Summer Before the War by Helen Simonson
23. The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
24. The Summer Country by James A. Hetley
25. The Summer House by James Patterson
26. The Summer I Gave Up Boys by Nina Bocci
27. The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han
28. The Summer of Dead Toys by Antonio Hill
29. The Summer Prince by Alaya Dawn Johnson
30. The Summer Tree by Guy Gavriel Kay
31. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
32. The Sun Is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon
33. The Surrender Experiment by Michael A. Singer
34. The Survivor by Dean Koontz
35. The Suspect by Fiona Barton
36. The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher by Kate Summerscale
37. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
38. The Sweetness of Forgetting by Kristina McMorris
39. The Sword of Kaigen by M.L. Wang
40. The Sword of Truth: Wizard's First Rule by Terry Goodkind
41. The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
42. The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo
43. The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
44. The Tale of Genji (Children's adaptation) by Murasaki Shikibu
45. The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter
46. The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons by Sam Kean
47. The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery by Sam Kean
48. The Talent Code by Daniel Coyle
49. The Talent Code: Greatness Isn't Born. It's Grown. Here's How. by Daniel Coyle
50. The Talented Miss Highsmith by Joan Schenkar
51. The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
52. The Talented Mrs. Tyree by Darrell Bain
53. The Tangled Tree by David Quammen
54. The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life by David Quammen
55. The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati
56. The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See
57. The Tell-Tale Brain by V. S. Ramachandran
58. The Telomere Effect by Elizabeth Blackburn and Elissa Epel
59. The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow
60. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
61. The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney
62. The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
63. The Theory of Moral Sentiments Or, an Essay Towards an Analysis of the Principles by Which Men Naturally Judge Concerning the Conduct and Character, First of Their Neighbours, and Afterwards of Themselves. to Which Is Added, a Dissertation on the Origin of Languages. by Adam Smith
64. The Thief by Fuminori Nakamura
65. The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke
66. The Thing About Jellyfish by Ali Benjamin
67. The Thinking Woman's Guide to Real Magic by Emily Croy Barker
68. The Third Chimpanzee by Jared Diamond
69. The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal by Jared Diamond
70. The Thirst by Jo Nesbø
71. The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
72. The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
73. The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
74. The three musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
75. The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin
76. The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
77. The Tiger's Daughter by K. Arsenault Rivera
78. The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht
79. The Tigers of Bastogne: Voices of the 10th Armored Division in the Battle of the Bulge by Michael W. F. Stone
80. The Tigers Wife by Tea Obreht
81. The Time in Between by Maria Dueñas
82. The Time Machine by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
83. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
84. The Tin Drum by Günter Grass
85. The Tinguian: Social, Religious, and Economic Life of a Philippine Tribe by Fay-Cooper Cole
86. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
87. The Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey
88. The Tower of the Swallow by Andrzej Sapkowski
89. The Trail Book by Mary Austin
90. The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson
91. The Traitor's Blade by Sebastien de Castell
92. The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century by Jürgen Osterhammel
93. The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard
94. The Transit of Venus by Sharon Kay Penman
95. The Transit of Venuses by Sharon Kay Penman
96. The Translator by Salvador Benesdra
97. The Transnational Legacy of Jean Piaget: A View from the 21st Century by Latin American Voices
98. The Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding by Humberto R. Maturana and Francisco J. Varela
99. The Trespasser by Tana French
100. The Trial by Franz Kafka
101. The Troll's Daughter by Melanie Karsak
102. The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi
103. The True Story of Hansel and Gretel by Lemony Snicket
104. The True Story of My Parliamentary Struggle by Charles Bradlaugh
105. The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen
106. The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair by Joël Dicker
107. The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware
108. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
109. The Turning by Tim Winton
110. The Twentieth Century by Raffaele Romanelli
111. The Twenty-First Century in Space by Ben Evans
112. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
113. The Unbroken by C.L. Clark
114. The Uncommoners: The Crooked Sixpence by Jennifer Bell
115. The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
116. The Underneath by Kathi Appelt
117. The Undiscovered Self by Carl Gustav Jung
118. The Undoing of Addiction by Judith Grisel
119. The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis
120. The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds by Michael Lewis
121. The Unfinished Journey by William H. Chafe
122. The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren
123. The Unicorn Project by Gene Kim
124. The Unicorn Project: A Novel about Developers, Digital Disruption, and Thriving in the Age of Data by Gene Kim
125. The Unicorn Quest by Archana Rai
126. The United States and the Ends of Empire by Sean T. McMeekin
127. The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen Hawking
128. The Universe in Your Hand by Christophe Galfard
129. The Unix Programming Environment by Brian W. Kernighan, Rob Pike
130. The Untethered Soul by Michael A. Singer
131. The Upanishads by Swami 1884-1940 [Translator] Paramananda
132. The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home by Dan Ariely
133. The Upside of Stress by Kelly McGonigal
134. The Upside of Your Dark Side: Why Being Your Whole Self — Not Just Your 'Good' Self — Drives Success and Fulfillment by Todd B. Kashdan and Robert Biswas-Diener
135. The Uses of Enchantment by Bruno Bettelheim
136. The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales by Bruno Bettelheim
137. The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
138. The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James
139. The Vegetarian by Han Kang
140. The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
141. The Viceroy of Ouidah by Bruce Chatwin
142. The Vital Question by Nick Lane
143. The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life by Nick Lane
144. The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin
145. The Waiting Land by Dervla Murphy
146. The Waitress Was New by Mark Haddon
147. The Wall of Winnipeg and Me by Mariana Zapata
148. The Wandering Earth by Liu Cixin
149. The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
150. The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles by Steven Pressfield
151. The War of the Flowers by Tad Williams
152. The war of the worlds by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
153. The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
154. The Warded Man by Peter V. Brett
155. The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
156. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
157. The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
158. The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
159. The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi
160. The Water Mirror by Kai Meyer
161. The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
162. The Waves by Virginia Woolf
163. The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
164. The Way of Martha and the Way of Mary by Stephen Graham
165. The Way Past Winter by Katherine May
166. The Wedding by Nina George
167. The Wedding by Nicholas Sparks
168. The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory
169. The Wedding Party by Jasmine Guillory
170. The Weight of Feathers by Anna-Marie McLemore
171. The Weight of the Stars by K. Ancrum
172. The Weight of the World by Elizabeth Puller
173. The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
174. The Whisperer by Donato Carrisi
175. The Whisperers by John Connolly
176. The Whispering Land by Margi Preus
177. The Whispering Mountain by Joan Aiken
178. The White Bicycle by Mairead O'Connor
179. The White Castle by Orhan Pamuk
180. The White Conquerors: A Tale of Toltec and Aztec by Kirk Munroe
181. The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
182. The White Tiger: A Novel by Aravind Adiga
183. The Wild Girl by Christopher Wormell
184. The Wild Hunt by Elizabeth Chadwick
185. The Wild Robot by Peter Brown
186. The Wild Swans by Hans Christian Andersen
187. The Wild West Adventures: Calamity Jane by Stephanie True Peters
188. The Willoughby Captains by Talbot Baines Reed
189. The Willpower Instinct by Kelly McGonigal
190. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
191. The Wind Singer by William Nicholson
192. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
193. The Wind-Up Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
194. The Winter King by Bernard Cornwell
195. The Winter of the Witch by Katherine Arden
196. The Winter Queen by Boris Akunin
197. The Winter Sea by Susanna Kearsley
198. The Wisdom of Confucius with Critical and Biographical Sketches by Confucius
199. The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki
200. The Wisdom of Finance: Discovering Humanity in the World of Risk and Return by Mihir A. Desai