Is a River Alive?
by
Robert MacFarlane
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Is a River Alive?
Shade
The Promise of a Forgotten Natural Resource
Abundance
The Wager
A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
The Anxious Generation
How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
Feminist City
Claiming Space in a Man-Made World
Happy City
Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design
Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies
The Dream Hotel
A Read with Jenna Pick
The Power of Your Subconscious Mind
Moderation
Our Share of Night
Translated by Megan McDowell • Illustrated by Pablo Gerardo Camacho
Millions, Billions, Zillions
Defending Yourself in a World of Too Many Numbers
Misquoting Jesus
The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why
The Invincible
Did Jesus Exist?
The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth
God's Problem
How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question--Why We Suffer
The Chaos Machine
The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World
Heaven and Hell
A History of the Afterlife
The Psychology of Time Travel
The Afterlife Project
Absalom, Absalom!
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
(Penguin Orange Collection)
The Saint of Bright Doors
On the Calculation of Volume (Book I)
Shortlisted for the 2025 International Booker Prize
Translated by Barbara J Haveland
On the Calculation of Volume (Book II)
Translated by Barbara J Haveland
On the Calculation of Volume (Book III)
Translated by Russell
On the Calculation of Volume (Book IV)
Enshittification
Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do about It
Underground Airlines
Small Things Like These (Oprah's Book Club)
When Breath Becomes Air
Pulitzer Prize Finalist
Vengeful
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs
A New History of a Lost World
The Great Alone
The Genius of Birds
The Art of the Impossible
Politics as Morality in Practice
Translated by Paul Wilson
The Power of the Powerless
Citizens Against the State in Central Eastern Europe
The Captive Mind
The Vegetarian
Translated by Deborah Smith
The Association of Small Bombs
The Land of My Fathers
A Son's Return to the Basque Country
Paper
Paging Through History
The Invention of Science
A New History of the Scientific Revolution
John Adams
Spread Me
Solo Faces
Capitalism
A Global History
To the Moon and Back (Reese's Book Club)
Helpless
If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies
Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All
Zorba the Greek (Revised)
kingsolver recco
Traversal
Careless People
A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
Mindf*ck
Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America
Superabundance
The Story of Population Growth, Innovation, and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet
Mother Tongue
A Memoir
Random Family
Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
Anand G from Ezra Klein
A World Appears
A Journey Into Consciousness
1929
Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History--And How It Shattered a Nation
Against the Machine
On the Unmaking of Humanity
We the People
A History of the U.S. Constitution
The Mystery of Capital
Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else
Project Maven
A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare
The Copywriter
Westward Women
The Beheading Game
Here Comes the Sun
A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization
10
04: A Novel
Transcription
Eating Ashes
Translated by Megan McDowell
How We Disappear
A Personal History of Information
The Irony of American History
From Fareed Zakaria on EK
The Quiet American
From Fareed Zakaria on EK
53 Days
How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy
Autocracy, Inc.
The Dictators Who Want to Run the World
Signs
The Secret Language of the Universe
Determined
A Science of Life Without Free Will
Julia Belluz re:EK Pod
Behave
The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
Julia Belluz re:EK Pod
The Poison Squad
One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Julia Belluz re:EK Pod
Ultra-Processed People
Why We Can't Stop Eating Food That Isn't Food
Julia Belluz re:EK Pod
Diary of a Very Bad Year
Confessions of an Anonymous Hedge Fund Manager
Matt Levine recco
Expected Returns
An Investor's Guide to Harvesting Market Rewards
Matt Levine recco
The Bond King
How One Man Made a Market, Built an Empire, and Lost It All
Matt Levine recco
Trading at the Speed of Light
How Ultrafast Algorithms Are Transforming Financial Markets
Matt Levine recco
A Deepness in the Sky
![Cover of The Dispossessed [50th Anniversary Edition] by Ursula K Le Guin](https://addabook.net/cdn-cgi/image/width=240,fit=cover,format=auto,quality=auto/https://adbk.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/9780063382930/v1.jpg)
The Dispossessed [50th Anniversary Edition]
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
Rainbows End
Accelerando
The Windup Girl
Schismatrix Plus
When Gravity Fails
Partita
The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State
| # | Title | Subtitle | Author(s) | Year | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Is a River Alive? | Robert MacFarlane | 2025 | ||
| 2 | Shade | The Promise of a Forgotten Natural Resource | Sam Bloch | 2025 | |
| 3 | Abundance | Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson | 2025 | ||
| 4 | The Wager | A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder | David Grann | 2025 | |
| 5 | The Anxious Generation | How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness | Jonathan Haidt | 2024 | |
| 6 | Feminist City | Claiming Space in a Man-Made World | Leslie Kern | 2020 | |
| 7 | Happy City | Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design | Charles Montgomery | 2014 | |
| 8 | Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies | Leslie Kern | 2022 | ||
| 9 | The Dream Hotel | A Read with Jenna Pick | Laila Lalami | 2025 | |
| 10 | The Power of Your Subconscious Mind | Joseph Murphy | 2019 | ||
| 11 | Moderation | Elaine Castillo | 2025 | ||
| 12 | Our Share of Night | Mariana Enriquez | 2023 | ||
| 13 | Millions, Billions, Zillions | Defending Yourself in a World of Too Many Numbers | Brian W Kernighan | 2020 | |
| 14 | Misquoting Jesus | The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why | Bart D Ehrman | 2007 | |
| 15 | The Invincible | Stanislaw Lem | 2020 | ||
| 16 | Did Jesus Exist? | The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth | Bart D Ehrman | 2013 | |
| 17 | God's Problem | How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question--Why We Suffer | Bart D Ehrman | 2009 | |
| 18 | The Chaos Machine | The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World | Max Fisher | 2023 | |
| 19 | Heaven and Hell | A History of the Afterlife | Bart D Ehrman | 2021 | |
| 20 | The Psychology of Time Travel | Kate Mascarenhas | 2022 | ||
| 21 | The Afterlife Project | Tim Weed | 2025 | ||
| 22 | Absalom, Absalom! | William Faulkner | 1991 | ||
| 23 | We Have Always Lived in the Castle | (Penguin Orange Collection) | Shirley Jackson | 2016 | |
| 24 | The Saint of Bright Doors | Vajra Chandrasekera | 2024 | ||
| 25 | On the Calculation of Volume (Book I) | Shortlisted for the 2025 International Booker Prize | Solvej Balle | 2024 | |
| 26 | On the Calculation of Volume (Book II) | Solvej Balle | 2024 | ||
| 27 | On the Calculation of Volume (Book III) | Solvej Balle | 2025 | ||
| 28 | On the Calculation of Volume (Book IV) | Solvej Balle and Russell | 2026 | ||
| 29 | Enshittification | Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do about It | Cory Doctorow | 2025 | |
| 30 | Underground Airlines | Ben H Winters | 2016 | ||
| 31 | Small Things Like These (Oprah's Book Club) | Claire Keegan | 2021 | ||
| 32 | When Breath Becomes Air | Pulitzer Prize Finalist | Paul Kalanithi | 2016 | |
| 33 | Vengeful | V E Schwab | 2018 | ||
| 34 | The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs | A New History of a Lost World | Steve Brusatte | 2018 | |
| 35 | The Great Alone | Kristin Hannah | 2018 | ||
| 36 | The Genius of Birds | Jennifer Ackerman | 2016 | ||
| 37 | The Art of the Impossible | Politics as Morality in Practice | Vaclav Havel | 1997 | |
| 38 | The Power of the Powerless | Citizens Against the State in Central Eastern Europe | Vaclav Havel and John Keane | 1985 | |
| 39 | The Captive Mind | Czeslaw Milosz | 1990 | ||
| 40 | The Vegetarian | Han Kang | 2016 | ||
| 41 | The Association of Small Bombs | Karan Mahajan | 2016 | ||
| 42 | The Land of My Fathers | A Son's Return to the Basque Country | Robert Laxalt | 2011 | |
| 43 | Paper | Paging Through History | Mark Kurlansky | 2016 | |
| 44 | The Invention of Science | A New History of the Scientific Revolution | David Wootton | 2015 | |
| 45 | John Adams | David McCullough | 2002 | ||
| 46 | Spread Me | Sarah Gailey | 2025 | ||
| 47 | Solo Faces | James Salter | 1988 | ||
| 48 | Capitalism | A Global History | Sven Beckert | 2025 | |
| 49 | To the Moon and Back (Reese's Book Club) | Eliana Ramage | 2025 | ||
| 50 | Helpless | Jessica Knoll | 2026 | ||
| 51 | If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies | Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All | Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares | 2025 | |
| 52 | Zorba the Greek (Revised) | Nikos Kazantzakis | 2014 | kingsolver recco | |
| 53 | Traversal | Maria Popova | 2026 | ||
| 54 | Careless People | A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism | Sarah Wynn-Williams | 2025 | |
| 55 | Mindf*ck | Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America | Christopher Wylie | 2019 | |
| 56 | Superabundance | The Story of Population Growth, Innovation, and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet | Marian L Tupy and Gale L Pooley | 2023 | |
| 57 | Mother Tongue | A Memoir | Sara Novic | 2026 | |
| 58 | Random Family | Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx | Adrian Nicole LeBlanc | 2004 | Anand G from Ezra Klein |
| 59 | A World Appears | A Journey Into Consciousness | Michael Pollan | 2026 | |
| 60 | 1929 | Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History--And How It Shattered a Nation | Andrew Ross Sorkin | 2025 | |
| 61 | Against the Machine | On the Unmaking of Humanity | Paul Kingsnorth | 2025 | |
| 62 | We the People | A History of the U.S. Constitution | Jill Lepore | 2025 | |
| 63 | The Mystery of Capital | Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else | Hernando de Soto | 2003 | |
| 64 | Project Maven | A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare | Katrina Manson | 2026 | |
| 65 | The Copywriter | Daniel Poppick | 2026 | ||
| 66 | Westward Women | Alice Martin | 2026 | ||
| 67 | The Beheading Game | Rebecca Lehmann | 2026 | ||
| 68 | Here Comes the Sun | A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization | Bill McKibben | 2025 | |
| 69 | 10 | 04: A Novel | Ben Lerner | 2015 | |
| 70 | Transcription | Ben Lerner | 2026 | ||
| 71 | Eating Ashes | Brenda Navarro | 2026 | ||
| 72 | How We Disappear | A Personal History of Information | Thomas S Mullaney | 2026 | |
| 73 | The Irony of American History | Reinhold Niebuhr | 2008 | From Fareed Zakaria on EK | |
| 74 | The Quiet American | Graham Greene | 2004 | From Fareed Zakaria on EK | |
| 75 | 53 Days | How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy | Timothy W Ryback | 2026 | |
| 76 | Autocracy, Inc. | The Dictators Who Want to Run the World | Anne Applebaum | 2025 | |
| 77 | Signs | The Secret Language of the Universe | Laura Lynne Jackson | 2020 | |
| 78 | Determined | A Science of Life Without Free Will | Robert M Sapolsky | 2024 | Julia Belluz re:EK Pod |
| 79 | Behave | The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst | Robert M Sapolsky | 2018 | Julia Belluz re:EK Pod |
| 80 | The Poison Squad | One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century | Deborah Blum | 2019 | Julia Belluz re:EK Pod |
| 81 | Ultra-Processed People | Why We Can't Stop Eating Food That Isn't Food | Chris Van Tulleken | 2025 | Julia Belluz re:EK Pod |
| 82 | Diary of a Very Bad Year | Confessions of an Anonymous Hedge Fund Manager | Anonymous Hedge Fund Manager, N+1, and Keith Gessen | 2010 | Matt Levine recco |
| 83 | Expected Returns | An Investor's Guide to Harvesting Market Rewards | Antti Ilmanen | 2011 | Matt Levine recco |
| 84 | The Bond King | How One Man Made a Market, Built an Empire, and Lost It All | Mary Childs | 2024 | Matt Levine recco |
| 85 | Trading at the Speed of Light | How Ultrafast Algorithms Are Transforming Financial Markets | Donald MacKenzie | 2023 | Matt Levine recco |
| 86 | A Deepness in the Sky | Vernor Vinge | 2023 | ||
| 87 | The Dispossessed [50th Anniversary Edition] | Ursula K Le Guin | 2024 | ||
| 88 | Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom | Cory Doctorow | 2018 | ||
| 89 | Rainbows End | Vernor Vinge | 2007 | ||
| 90 | Accelerando | Charles Stross | 2006 | ||
| 91 | The Windup Girl | Paolo Bacigalupi | 2015 | ||
| 92 | Schismatrix Plus | Bruce Sterling | 1996 | ||
| 93 | When Gravity Fails | George Effinger | 2005 | ||
| 94 | Partita | Barbara Kingsolver | 2026 | ||
| 95 | The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State | Jill Lepore | 2026 |