Ideas & Lives

Books across every Ideas & Lives genre

Hunting Snipe: and Other Notes on the East Texas Cattle Mutilations — Unknown author
La zona extractiva: Ecologías sociales y perspectivas descoloniales — Macarena Gómez-Barris
Exhume — Danielle Girard
Hex — Jenni Fagan
Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool — Emily Oster
Si te dicen que caí — Juan Marsé
Cuando el agua se acabe — Aitor Sáez
The Full Moon Coffee Shop — Mai Mochizuki
Hellraiser. El corazón condenado — Clive Barker
God and the gay Christian — Matthew Vines
The Memory Tree — Joseph Pittman
The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World — Laura Imai Messina
Notes from Underground — Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Chouans — Honoré de Balzac
The Call Of the Wild — Jack London
Clockwork Princess — Cassandra Clare
How Not to Hate Your Husband After Kids — Jancee Dunn
El invencible verano de Liliana — Cristina Rivera Garza
Witches, Midwives, and Nurses — Barbara Ehrenreich
Me Talk Pretty One Day — David Sedaris
The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding — La Leche League International
Transformation — Whitley Strieber
The Boy Who Followed Ripley — Patricia Highsmith
Revolucion feminista y politicas de lo comun frente a la extrema derecha

Every genre on this shelf

Non-Fiction — The world as it actually is, examined with the same rigor and care good fiction demands. Non-fiction that reads with novelistic urgency — memoir, essay, reportage, history — making true things as gripping as invented ones.
Biography — A life reconstructed from the outside. Written from letters, archives and interviews by someone who was not there — a real person given the shape and attention of a novel.
Literary Criticism — Reading, taken seriously as work. Essays and scholarship on how books do what they do, and what they are doing when they do it.
Medical Narrative — The body as case, and as person. Writing from clinics and sickbeds — doctors, patients and the gap between a diagnosis and what it means to live with one.
Philosophy — The questions that refuse to resolve. Ethics, mind, knowledge and being — primary texts and the writing that makes them approachable.
Grief Memoir — Writing from inside the loss. First-person accounts of bereavement — the disordered months, the practicalities, and the long revision of a life around an absence.
Memoir — One life, told by the person inside it. A remembered life rather than a documented one — shaped, selective, and answerable to feeling as much as to fact.
Theology — Belief, examined with rigour. Religious thought and scholarship — doctrine, scripture and the long argument about what any of it obliges.
Cultural Studies — The ordinary, read closely. Analysis of culture as it is actually lived — media, subcultures and the meanings carried by everyday things.
Political Theory — How power ought to be arranged, argued from first principles. Sovereignty, justice, rights and legitimacy — the texts the argument keeps returning to.
Inspirational — Written to be of use. Books offered as encouragement — faith, resilience and recovery, aimed squarely at the reader's own life.
Feminist Theory — The argument, not the story. Scholarship and essays on gender, power and labour — the thinking that feminist fiction is usually written alongside.
Art History — Objects, and the centuries around them. How images and artefacts were made, seen and argued over — from patronage and technique to what a period wanted from its art.
Anthropology — How people actually live, written down by someone who went and looked. Fieldwork, kinship, ritual and the long argument about what can be known about a culture from outside it.
Leadership — Responsibility for other people's work. Books on leading, deciding and being followed — the part of management that is a temperament rather than a technique.
Business — How organisations actually work, and how they fail. Strategy, markets and management — written for the person doing the job rather than the shareholder.

The world as it actually is, examined.

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