A–Z catalog · Part 20 of 21

Reviewed Book Summaries

1. The Wisdom of Finance: Discovering Humanity in the World of Risk and Return by Mihir Desai
2. The Wisdom of Insecurity by Alan Watts
3. The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety by Alan Watts
4. The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success by Kevin Dutton
5. The Wise Company: How Companies Create Continuous Innovation by James M. Kerr
6. The Witch Elm by Tana French
7. The Witch’s Heart by Genevieve Gornichec
8. The Witcher: The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski
9. The Witching Hour by Anne Rice
10. The Witchmark by CL Polk
11. The Witchmark by C.L. Polk
12. The Wizard of Menlo Park by Randall E. Stross
13. The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World by Randall E. Stross
14. The Wolf of Oren-Yaro by K.S. Villoso
15. The Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken
16. The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins by Gail Lumet Buckley
17. The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware
18. The Woman in the Fifth by Douglas Kennedy
19. The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn
20. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
21. The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
22. The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston
23. The Woman Who Could Not Forget: Iris Chang Before and Beyond The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang
24. The Woman Who Raised Me: A Memoir by Toni Morrison
25. The Woman Who Smashed Codes by Jason Fagone
26. The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies by Jason Fagone
27. The Woman Who Walked into Doors by Roddy Doyle
28. The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt by Doris Lockhart Morkot
29. The Women of the Cousins' War: The Duchess, the Queen and the King's Mother by Philippa Gregory
30. The Wonderful Adventures of Nils by Selma Lagerlöf
31. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
32. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum
33. The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains by Thomas W. Laqueur
34. The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction by Matthew B. Crawford
35. The World in the Long Twentieth Century by Edward Ross Dickinson
36. The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century by Thomas L. Friedman
37. The World: A Brief Introduction by Richard Haass
38. The World's Desire by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard
39. The Worst Best Man by Mia Sosa
40. The Worst Witch by Jill Murphy
41. The Wretched of Muirwood by Jeff Wheeler
42. The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
43. The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
44. The Yard by Alex Grecian
45. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
46. The Year of the French by Thomas Flanagan
47. The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Master of the Senate by Robert A. Caro
48. The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Means of Ascent by Robert A. Caro
49. The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power by Robert A. Caro
50. The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
51. The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
52. The Young Emperor, William II of Germany A Study in Character Development on a Throne by Harold Frederic
53. The Zeronauts: Breaking the Sustainability Barrier by John Elkington
54. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
55. Thick: And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom
56. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
57. Things We Lost in the Fire by Mariana Enriquez
58. Think Again by Adam Grant
59. Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
60. Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts by Annie Duke
61. Thinking in Java by Bruce Eckel
62. Thinking in Systems: A Primer by Donella H. Meadows
63. Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
64. Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All by Laura Ruby
65. This Is Lean: Resolving the Efficiency Paradox by Niklas Modig & Pär Åhlström
66. This Song Will Save Your Life by Leila Sales
67. Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex by Sigmund Freud
68. Thrift by Samuel Smiles
69. Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters Between the Years 1913 and 1917 by Carl Lumholtz
70. Thunderbird by Sonia Nimr
71. Ti Amo by Hanne Ørstavik
72. Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay
73. Tiger Lily by Jodi Lynn Anderson
74. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré
75. Tintin in Tibet by Hergé
76. Tiny Habits by BJ Fogg
77. To End All Wars by Adam Hochschild
78. To Kill a Kingdom by Alexandra Christo
79. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
80. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
81. Tomboy Survival Guide by Ivan Coyote
82. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
83. Tools of Titans by Tim Ferriss
84. Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window by Tetsuko Kuroyanagi
85. Trade in the 21st Century by Bernard M. Hoekman and Ernesto Zedillo
86. Traffic in Women: Notes on the 'Political Economy' of Sex by Gayle Rubin
87. Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse
88. Train to Pakistan by Khushwant Singh
89. Tranquility by Tuesday by Laura Vanderkam
90. Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works by Kālidāsa
91. Trauma and Recovery by Judith Herman
92. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
93. Triggers by Marshall Goldsmith and Mark Reiter
94. True Refuge by Tara Brach
95. Truman by David McCullough
96. Turn the Ship Around! by L. David Marquet
97. Turning Pro by Steven Pressfield
98. Turtle in Paradise by Jennifer L. Holm
99. Turtles All the Way Down by John Green
100. Twenty Years at Hull House; with Autobiographical Notes by Jane Addams
101. Twenty-First Century Psychotherapies by Jay L. Lebow
102. Twenty-First Century Psychotherapies: Contemporary Approaches to Theory and Practice by Jay L. Lebow
103. Twice Loved by LaVyrle Spencer
104. Two Loves in Her Life by Eleanor Burford
105. Two Years Among New Guinea Cannibals A Naturalist's Sojourn Among the Aborigines of Unexplored New Guinea by A. E. (Antwerp Edgar) Pratt
106. Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana
107. Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover
108. Ultralearning by Scott H. Young
109. Ulysses of Ithaca by Karl Friedrich Becker
110. Under Heaven by Guy Gavriel Kay
111. Under the Net by Iris Murdoch
112. Under the Pendulum Sun by Jeannette Ng
113. Under the Udala Trees by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
114. Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta
115. Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
116. Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert Macfarlane
117. Understanding Computation by Tom Stuart
118. Understanding Computation: From Simple Machines to Impossible Programs by Tom Stuart
119. Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren
120. Unlimited Power by Tony Robbins
121. Unscripted by MJ DeMarco
122. Unshakeable by Tony Robbins
123. Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington
124. Uprooted by Naomi Novik
125. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
126. Veiled Desire by Alisha Rai
127. Vertigo by Boileau-Narcejac
128. Vicious Circle by Wilbur Smith
129. Victoria: A Life by A. N. Wilson
130. Vietnam: A History by Stanley Karnow
131. Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945–1975 by Max Hastings
132. Virgin Soil by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
133. Vision in White by Nora Roberts
134. Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century by Michio Kaku
135. Voyagers to the West: Emigrants from Britain to America on the Eve of the Revolution by Bernard Bailyn
136. Vuelo nocturno (Night Flight) by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
137. W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919 by David Levering Lewis
138. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
139. Waking Up by Sam Harris
140. Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
141. Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
142. Walt Whitman: A Life by Justin Kaplan
143. Warped by Koji Suzuki
144. Washington Square by Henry James
145. Watership Down by Richard Adams
146. We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
147. We Are Okay by Nina LaCour
148. We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
149. We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo
150. We Set the Dark on Fire by Tehlor Kay Mejia
151. We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates
152. We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates
153. We Were Guys by E. Lockhart
154. We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
155. Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy by Cathy O'Neil
156. Weaveworld by Clive Barker
157. Web Performance in Action: Building Faster Web Pages by Jeremy Wagner
158. Web Scalability for Startup Engineers by Artur Ejsmont
159. Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy by Eric D. Weitz
160. West with the Night by Beryl Markham
161. What I Was by Meg Rosoff
162. What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe
163. What Is Life? How Chemistry Becomes Biology by Addy Pross
164. What My Bones Know by Stephanie Foo
165. What We Cannot Know: Explorations at the Edge of Knowledge by Marcus du Sautoy
166. What's Life? How Chemistry Becomes Biology by Addy Pross
167. When by Daniel H. Pink
168. When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
169. When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon
170. When I Was Invisible by Marina Oswald Porter
171. When I Was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago
172. When McKinsey Comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm by Walt Bogdanich
173. When My Name Was Keoko by Linda Sue Park
174. When Other Hearts by Eleanor Burford
175. When the Body Says No by Gabor Maté
176. When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chödrön
177. When We Are Married by Eleanor Burford
178. When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut
179. When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
180. When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller
181. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
182. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin
183. Where the River Runs Gold by Sadia Quraeshi
184. Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
185. Where the Streets Had a Name by Randa Abdel-Fattah
186. Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
187. Wherever You Go, There You Are by Jon Kabat-Zinn
188. While I Remember by Stephen McKenna
189. White Noise by Don DeLillo
190. White Teeth by Zadie Smith
191. Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life by Spencer Johnson
192. Who Says Elephants Can't Dance? Inside IBM's Historic Turnaround by Louis V. Gerstner Jr.
193. Why Buddhism Is True by Robert Wright
194. Why Does He Do That? by Lundy Bancroft
195. Why Evolution Is True by Jerry A. Coyne
196. Why Evolution Works (and Creationism Fails) by Matt Young and Paul Strode
197. Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? by Julie Smith
198. Why Social Sciences Fail and How They Can Learn to Succeed by Bruno S. Frey
199. Why We Get Sick by Randolph M. Nesse
200. Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine by Randolph M. Nesse and George C. Williams