A–Z catalog · Part 2 of 21

Reviewed Book Summaries

1. An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization by Robert Kegan & Lisa Laskow Lahey
2. An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
3. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
4. An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears
5. An Intimate Life of Albert Camus by Camus, Olivier Todd
6. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose 1842-Bierce
7. An Outcast of the Islands by Joseph Conrad
8. An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
9. An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison
10. An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness by Kay Redfield Jamison
11. Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays by Northrop Frye
12. And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts
13. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
14. Anecdotes and memoirs of William Boen, a coloured man, who lived and died near Mount Holly, New Jersey by Anonymous
15. Angel of Darkness by Harlan Coben
16. Angela Davis: An Autobiography by Angela Davis
17. Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
18. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir by Frank McCourt
19. Angelic Wisdom about Divine Providence by Emanuel Swedenborg
20. Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway
21. Angels & Loners by Ramón Díaz Eterovic
22. Angels' Blood by Nalini Singh
23. Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins
24. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
25. Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
26. Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
27. Anne of Windy Poplars by L.M. Montgomery
28. Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid
29. Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden
30. Annie's Song by Kit Pearson
31. Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
32. Anthem by Ayn Rand
33. Anti-Intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter
34. Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
35. Antwerp by Roberto Bolaño
36. Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
37. Anya's Ghost by Vera Brosgol
38. Apology by Plato
39. Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C by Bruce Schneier
40. Architecting for Scale: High Availability for Your Growing Applications by Lee Atchison
41. Ardath: The Story of a Dead Self by Marie Corelli
42. Areopagitica A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England by John Milton
43. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
44. Arnold of Winkelried, the Hero of Sempach by Gustav Höcker
45. Around Old Bethany: A Story of the Adventures of Robert and Mary Davis by R. L. (Robert Lee) Berry
46. Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
47. Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans by Melanie Mitchell
48. Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach by Stuart Russell
49. Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach by Stuart Russell, Peter Norvig
50. Artificial Intelligence: A New Synthesis by Nils J. Nilsson
51. Artificial Intelligence: Foundations of Computational Agents by David L. Poole, Alan K. Mackworth
52. Aru Shah and the End of Time by Roshani Chokshi
53. Aru Shah and the Song of Death by Roshani Chokshi
54. As a man thinketh by James Allen
55. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
56. As the Goose Flies by Katharine Pyle
57. Ash by Malinda Lo
58. Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson
59. Atkinson & Hilgard's Introduction to Psychology by Ernest Hilgard
60. Atlantida by Pierre Benoît
61. Atlas of the Heart by Brené Brown
62. Atomic Habits by James Clear
63. Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear
64. Atomic Theories by Niels Bohr
65. Atonement by Ian McEwan
66. Attached by Amir Levine and Rachel Heller
67. Attached at the Heart: Eight Proven Parenting Principles for Raising Connected and Compassionate Children by Barbara Nicholson and Lysa Parker
68. Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find – and Keep – Love by Amir Levine and Rachel Heller
69. Attachment by John Bowlby
70. Attachment in Psychotherapy by David J. Wallin
71. Attachments by Rainbow Rowell
72. August by Shelby Mahurin
73. Augustus by John Williams
74. Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald
75. Autobiography by John Stuart Mill
76. Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
77. Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley
78. Automate the Boring Stuff with Python by Al Sweigart
79. Automate This: How Algorithms Came to Rule Our World by Christopher Steiner
80. Autonomy: The Quest to Build the Driverless Car — and How It Changed the World by Lawrence D. Burns, Christopher Shulgan
81. Awaken the Giant Within by Tony Robbins
82. Axis by Robert Charles Wilson
83. Aya by Marguerite Abouet
84. Azar Nafisi: Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
85. Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon
86. Bad Boy by Walter Dean Myers
87. Baldy of Nome by Esther Birdsall Darling
88. Ball Four by Jim Bouton
89. Balzac: A Biography by Graham Robb
90. Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar
91. Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco by Bryan Burrough
92. Battle Out of Time by Dwight V. Swain
93. Batu and the Search for the Golden Cup by Lilya Kalaus
94. Beach Read by Emily Henry
95. Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney
96. Become Who You Are: A New Theory of Self-Esteem, Human Greatness, and the Opposite of Depression by Ryan A. Bush
97. Becoming by Michelle Obama
98. Becoming a Scientist: The Role of Life Experiences and Personal Choices by Howard Gardner
99. Becoming Einstein: A Biography by Peter Michelmore
100. Becoming Michelle Obama by Michelle Obama
101. Becoming Myself: A Psychiatrist's Memoir by Irvin D. Yalom
102. Becoming Pablo Picasso by Maria Costa
103. Becoming Supernatural by Joe Dispenza
104. Bee: The Princess of the Dwarfs by Anatole France
105. Before I Go to Sleep by S.J. Watson
106. Before I Let Go by Kennedy Ryan
107. Before the Fall by Noah Hawley
108. Before We Were Strangers by Renée Carlino
109. Behave by Robert Sapolsky
110. Behave by Robert M. Sapolsky
111. Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert Sapolsky
112. Behind Closed Doors by B.A. Paris
113. Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo
114. Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo
115. Behind the Mirrors: The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington by Clinton W. (Clinton Wallace) Gilbert
116. Being and Event by Alain Badiou
117. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
118. Believe the Heart by Eleanor Burford
119. Beloved by Toni Morrison
120. Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan
121. Beneath the Lion's Gaze by Maaza Mengiste
122. Berlin 1936: Sixteen Days in August by Norman Stone
123. Berlin Noir by Philip Kerr
124. Bessie among the Mountains by Joanna H. (Joanna Hooe) Mathews
125. Bessie: The Life of Bessie Smith, the Empress of the Blues by Chris Albertson
126. Bet Me by Jennifer Crusie
127. Bethlehem to Jerusalem: A Century of Conflict in Palestine by Sami Hadawi
128. Better Than Before by Gretchen Rubin
129. Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
130. Beyond Boundaries: Changing the Rules of Neuroplasticity by Mark F. Bear
131. Beyond Freedom and Dignity by B.F. Skinner
132. Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life by Jordan B. Peterson
133. Beyond the City by Arthur Conan Doyle
134. Beyond the sunset by Arthur D. Howden (Arthur Douglas Howden) Smith
135. Beyond the Veil: Male-Female Dynamics in Modern Muslim Society by Fatema Mernissi
136. Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe by Simon Singh
137. Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert
138. Billions of Entrepreneurs by Tarun Khanna
139. Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
140. Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness Are the Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe by Robert Lanza
141. Biography of a Slave, Being the Experiences of Rev. Charles Thompson, a Preacher of the United Brethren Church, While a Slave in the South. Together with Startling Occurrences Incidental to Slave Life. by Charles Thompson
142. Birch Bark Legends of Niagara by Owahyah
143. Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole by Susan Cain
144. Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
145. Black Box Thinking: Why Most People Never Learn from Their Mistakes—But Some Do by Matthew Syed
146. Black Boy by Richard Wright
147. Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning by Timothy Snyder
148. Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space by Janna Levin
149. Black Ivory by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
150. Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James
151. Black Lips, Red Wine by Benjamin Black
152. Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon
153. Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse
154. Black Windmill by Desmond Bagley
155. Blackfish City by Sam J. Miller
156. Blackout by Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, Nicola Yoon
157. Blaming: A Fresh Look at an Old Issue by Harriet Lerner
158. Bleak House by Charles Dickens
159. Blindness by José Saramago
160. Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People by Mahzarin R. Banaji
161. Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies by Reid Hoffman
162. Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies by Reid Hoffman, Chris Yeh
163. Blix by Frank Norris
164. Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin Is Changing Money, Business, and the World by Don Tapscott & Alex Tapscott
165. Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur by Benjamin A. Kiernan
166. Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur by Ben Kiernan
167. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
168. Blood Oath by Christopher Farnsworth
169. Blood on the Forge by William Attaway
170. Blood on the Mat: The Others in Serbia's Wars by Marko Attila Hoare
171. Blood Red Road by Moira Young
172. Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder
173. Blue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie Stiefvater
174. Blue Monday by Nicci French
175. Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant by W. Chan Kim & Renée Mauborgne
176. Blue-beard: A Contribution to History and Folk-lore Being the history of Gilles de Retz of Brittany, France, who was executed at Nantes in 1440 A.D., and who was the original of Blue-beard in the tales of Mother Goose by Thomas Wilson
177. Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke
178. Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World by Peter H. Diamandis & Steven Kotler
179. Bone Gap by Laura Ruby
180. Book Lovers by Emily Henry
181. Booked by Kwame Alexander
182. Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
183. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
184. Born Confused by Tanuja Desai Hidier
185. Born for Love: Why Empathy Is Essential and Endangered by Bruce D. Perry, Maia Szalavitz
186. Born for Love: Why Empathy Is Essential and Endangered by Bruce D. Perry and Maia Szalavitz
187. Born Free: A Lioness of Two Worlds by Joy Adamson
188. Born Standing Up: A Comic’s Life by Steve Martin
189. Born to Be Hurt: The Untold Story of Imitation of Life by A. S. Hamrah
190. Born to Run by Christopher McDougall
191. Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall
192. Bossypants by Tina Fey
193. Boundaries by Henry Cloud and John Townsend
194. Boyfriend Material by Alexandra Rockey
195. Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience by Sander van der Linden
196. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
197. Braving the Wilderness by Brené Brown
198. Brazil and Her People of To-day An Account of the Customs, Characteristics, Amusements, History and Advancement of the Brazilians, and the Development and Resources of Their Country by Nevin O. (Nevin Otto) Winter
199. Bread and Roses, Too by Kekla Magoon
200. Breadcrumbs by Anne Ursu