FSG Summaries and Reviews

See all summaries and reviews from Farrar, Straus & Giroux at a glance.

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The WEIRDest People in the World
How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
Joseph Henrich
FSG, 2020
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Draft No. 4
On the Writing Process
John McPhee
FSG, 2017
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Wildland
The Making of America's Fury
Evan Osnos
FSG, 2021
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Four Thousand Weeks
Time Management for Mortals
Oliver Burkeman
FSG, 2021
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Locking Up Our Own
Crime and Punishment in Black America
James Forman Jr.
FSG, 2018
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Good Habits, Bad Habits
The Science of Making Positive Changes That Stick
Wendy Wood
FSG, 2019
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The Tyranny of Merit
What's Become of the Common Good?
Michael J. Sandel
FSG, 2020
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Transaction Man
The Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American Dream
Nicholas Lemann
FSG, 2019
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User Friendly
How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play
Cliff Kuang and Robert Fabricant
FSG, 2019
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Thank You for Being Late
Finding a Job, Running a Country, and Keeping Your Head in an Age of Accelerations
Thomas L. Friedman
FSG, 2016
7 Book

The Wisdom of Psychopaths
What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success
Kevin Dutton
FSG, 2012
8 Book

What Money Can’t Buy
The Moral Limits of Markets
Michael J. Sandel
FSG, 2012
7 Book

The Shadow World
Inside the Global Arms Trade
Andrew Feinstein
FSG, 2011
6 Book

How the West Was Lost
Fifty Years of Economic Folly – and the Stark Choices Ahead
Dambisa Moyo
FSG, 2012
7 Book

Adapt
Why Success Always Starts with Failure
Tim Harford
FSG, 2011
8 Book

Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
FSG, 2011
9 Book

That Used to Be Us
How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back
Michael Mandelbaum and Thomas L. Friedman
FSG, 2011
8 Book

How Markets Fail
The Logic of Economic Calamities
John Cassidy
FSG, 2009
8 Book

Justice
What's the Right Thing to Do?
Michael J. Sandel
FSG, 2010
9 Book

Why the West Rules – for Now
The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future
Ian Morris
FSG, 2010
8 Book

Superclass
The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making
David Rothkopf
FSG, 2008
8 Book

Against Happiness
Eric G. Wilson
FSG, 2008
9 Book

Hot, Flat, and Crowded
Why We Need a Green Revolution – and How It Can Renew America
Thomas L. Friedman
FSG, 2008
7 Book

Pulse
The Coming Age of Systems and Machines Inspired by Living Things
Robert Frenay
FSG, 2006