A–Z catalog · Part 5 of 21

Reviewed Book Summaries

1. Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman
2. Fragments of Earth Lore: Sketches & Addresses Geological and Geographical by James Geikie
3. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
4. Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
5. Franz Ferdinand: The Story of a Life by Greg King
6. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner
7. Freaks of Fanaticism, and Other Strange Events by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
8. Free from School by Rahul Alvares
9. Free Thought and Official Propaganda by Bertrand Russell
10. Free to Focus by Michael Hyatt
11. Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
12. Freud for the Twenty-First Century: The Science of Everyday Life by Robert Samuels
13. Frida Kahlo: The Paintings by Hayden Herrera
14. Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo by Hayden Herrera
15. Frindle by Andrew Clements
16. From Memory's Shrine: The Reminscences of Carmen Sylva by Carmen Sylva
17. From the 20th to the 21st Century by Panagiotis Kondylis
18. Full Catastrophe Living by Jon Kabat-Zinn
19. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
20. Fundamentals of Software Architecture: An Engineering Approach by Mark Richards
21. Fundamentals of Software Engineering Management by Mara Hvistendahl
22. Funky Business: Talent Makes Capital Dance by Kjell A. Nordström
23. Funny in Farsi by Firoozeh Dumas
24. Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America by Firoozeh Dumas
25. Furies of Calderon by Jim Butcher
26. Further Adventures of Lad by Albert Payson Terhune
27. Gadsby by Ernest Vincent Wright
28. Games People Play by Eric Berne
29. Games People Play: The Psychology of Human Relationships by Eric Berne
30. Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen
31. Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais
32. Gay Giant by Gabriel Ebensperger
33. Geek Heresy: Rescuing Social Change from the Cult of Technology by Kentaro Toyama
34. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity by Judith Butler
35. General Theory of Knowledge by Moritz Schlick
36. Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters by Matt Ridley
37. Germinal by Émile Zola
38. Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert
39. Get Good with Money by Tiffany Aliche
40. Getting Things Done by David Allen
41. Ghost by Jason Reynolds
42. Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes
43. Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 by Steve Coll
44. Ghosts by Raina Telgemeier
45. Ghosts I Have Seen, and Other Psychic Experiences by Violet Tweedale
46. Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
47. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
48. Ginny Moon by Benjamin Ludwig
49. Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
50. Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
51. Girls by Annet Schaap
52. Give and Take by Adam Grant
53. Gleanings in Buddha-Fields: Studies of Hand and Soul in the Far East by Lafcadio Hearn
54. Global Goliaths: Multinational Corporations in the 21st Century Economy by C. Fritz Foley
55. Globalization, Competitiveness, and Governability: The Three Disruptive Forces of Business in the 21st Century by Ricardo Ernst
56. Glutton for Pleasure by Alisha Rai
57. Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
58. Goat Days by Benyamin
59. God's Spy by Juan Gómez-Jurado
60. Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter
61. Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
62. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
63. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
64. Good Habits, Bad Habits by Wendy Wood
65. Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters by Richard P. Rumelt
66. Good to Great by Jim Collins
67. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't by Jim Collins
68. Gorgias by Plato
69. Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith
70. Governed by Affect: Hot Cognition and the End of Cold War Psychology by Michael Pettit
71. Grace: A Memoir by Grace Coddington
72. Graceling by Kristin Cashore
73. Grandfather's Journey by Allen Say
74. Grandpa's Magic Camera by Dagmar Geisler
75. Grant by Ron Chernow
76. Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith
77. Great by Choice by Jim Collins and Morten T. Hansen
78. Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck—Why Some Thrive Despite Them All by Jim Collins
79. Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck—Why Some Thrive Despite Them All by Jim Collins & Morten T. Hansen
80. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
81. Greenmantle by John Buchan
82. Grit by Angela Duckworth
83. Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth
84. Gulag Voices: An Anthology by Anne Applebaum (Editor)
85. Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum
86. Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
87. Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
88. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
89. H Is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
90. Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution by Steven Levy
91. Hacking: The Art of Exploitation by Jon Erickson
92. Half Magic by Edward Eager
93. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
94. Half the World Away by Emma Carroll
95. Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan
96. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
97. Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
98. Hanit the Enchantress by Garrett Chatfield Pier
99. Harbor Me by Jaqueline Woodson
100. Hardwiring Happiness by Rick Hanson
101. Harimaya by Tomi T. Sawyer
102. Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson
103. Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
104. Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom by Catherine Clinton
105. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
106. Haruki Murakami: A Biography by Philip Gabriel
107. Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
108. Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez by Kathryn Kellogg
109. Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
110. Head First Design Patterns by Eric Freeman, Elisabeth Robson, Kathy Sierra, Bert Bates
111. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
112. Heart's Afire by Eleanor Burford
113. Heaven by Vaddey Ratner
114. Heaven Eyes by David Almond
115. Hedy's Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr by Richard Rhodes
116. Heidi by Johanna Spyri
117. Heidi Heckelbeck by Wanda Coven
118. Heinz Guderian: The Father of Blitzkrieg by Dennis E. Showalter
119. Helplessness: On Depression, Development, and Death by Martin Seligman
120. Heretics by Leonardo Padura
121. Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
122. High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove
123. High Performance Browser Networking by Ilya Grigorik
124. High Performance Habits by Brendon Burchard
125. Highly Effective Agile Retrospectives: A Guide for Agile Teams by Ben Linders
126. Hilaire Belloc: No Alienated Man; A Study in Christian Integration by Frederick D. Wilhelmsen
127. His Dark Materials: Northern Lights by Philip Pullman
128. His last bow by Arthur Conan Doyle
129. Historical and Political Essays by William Edward Hartpole Lecky
130. History of Leningrad Mathematics in the First Half of the 20th Century by Alexander I. Nazarov and Galina I. Sinkevich
131. History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding
132. Hold Me Tight by Sue Johnson
133. Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
134. Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
135. Homer's Odyssey A Commentary by Denton Jaques Snider
136. Honeybee by Craig Silvey
137. Hooked by Nir Eyal
138. Horse by Geraldine Brooks
139. House of Huawei by Eva Dou
140. House of Huawei: The Untold Story of the World's Most Controversial Tech Giant by Eva Dou
141. Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
142. How Emotions Are Made by Lisa Feldman Barrett
143. How Much of These Hills Is Gold by C Pam Zhang
144. How Not to Age by Michael Greger
145. How Not to Die by Michael Greger with Gene Stone
146. How to Be an Adult in Relationships by David Richo
147. How to Fall in Love with a Jamaican by Alexia Arthurs
148. How to Know a Person by David Brooks
149. How to Live on 24 Hours a Day by Arnold Bennett
150. How to Love by Katie Cotugno
151. How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business by Douglas W. Hubbard
152. How to Teach Quantum Physics to Your Dog by Chad Orzel
153. How to Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell
154. How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie
155. How We Think by John Dewey
156. How Will You Measure Your Life? by Clayton M. Christensen, James Allworth, and Karen Dillon
157. Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
158. Humanocracy: Creating Organizations as Amazing as the People Inside Them by Gary Hamel
159. Humanocracy: Creating Organizations as Amazing as the People Inside Them by Gary Hamel & Michele Zanini
160. Humans Are Underrated: What High Achievers Know That Brilliant Machines Never Will by Geoffrey Colvin
161. Humility Is the New Smart: Rethinking Human Excellence in the Smart Machine Age by Edward D. Hess & Katherine Ludwig
162. Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay
163. Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor
164. Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick
165. Hyperfocus by Chris Bailey
166. I Am a Woman, Too: Voices from the Women's Movement by Kerri Greenidge
167. I Am Because We Are by Dr. Mamphela Ramphele
168. I Am Because We Are: Readings in Africana Philosophy by Dr. Mamphela Ramphele
169. I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
170. I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World (Young Readers Edition) by Malala Yousafzai
171. I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai
172. I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai with Christina Lamb
173. I Am Not Your Negro by James Baldwin
174. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sánchez
175. I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore
176. I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes
177. I Am Princess X by Cherie Priest
178. I Am Rigoberta Menchú by Rigoberta Menchú
179. I Am That Woman by Shirin Ebadi
180. I Am Wangari Maathai: The Woman Who Planted Millions of Trees by Wangari Maathai
181. I and Thou by Martin Buber
182. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
183. I Hunt Killers by Barry Lyga
184. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
185. I Was a Teenage Fascist: A Memoir by Kristina Olsen
186. I Was Amelia Earhart by Jane Mendelsohn
187. I Will Teach You to Be Rich by Ramit Sethi
188. I, Claudius by Robert Graves
189. I, Rigoberta Menchú: An Indian Woman in Guatemala by Rigoberta Menchú
190. I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
191. I, the Jury by Mickey Spillane
192. Ice by Anna Kavan
193. Ichinose, Tokiko by Kenji Miyazawa
194. Ida: A Sword Among Lions by Paula J. Giddings
195. Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching by Paula J. Giddings
196. If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All by Eliezer Yudkowsky, Nate Soares
197. If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo
198. If I Were Your Girl by Meredith Russo
199. If This Is a Man by Primo Levi
200. In a Lonely Place by Dorothy B. Hughes