Gurney Halleck in the Harkonnen slave pits, Duncan Idaho training on Ginaz, and Jessica sent from the Sisterhood to Caladan.
Thirty-five years before Dune: Leto is sent to Ix as a boy, Pardot Kynes reaches Arrakis, and Shaddam plots his own father's death.
An angel lands face-down in a courtyard after a storm, and the village starts charging admission to look at him.
Heywood Floyd lands on Halley's Comet, then a hijacking puts him down on Europa, the one world humanity was warned to stay away from.
A joint Soviet-American crew flies back to Jupiter to board the abandoned Discovery and find out what HAL was hiding.
A red star approaches the Disc and Rincewind is the only one who can read the spell.
Rincewind guides the Disc's first tourist; the world arrives on the back of four elephants and a turtle.
A robot boy built by a grieving scientist; Tezuka, the god of manga, from 1952.
Guts, the Band of the Hawk and the Eclipse; Miura's dark fantasy, unfinished at his death.
A disgraced executioner pushes his son across Edo Japan in a cart of hidden blades.
Miyazaki's seven-volume manga of the toxic jungle and the princess who understands it; darker than the film.
Two boys at an English grammar school fall in love; the webcomic that became a Netflix series.
A boy in Hiroshima on 6 August 1945, drawn by a survivor; the manga on the bomb.
Spiegelman's father in Auschwitz, Jews as mice and Nazis as cats; the only comic with a Pulitzer.
Eckhart Tolle on the present moment and the voice in your head.
Kiyosaki's two fathers and assets versus liabilities; the personal finance book most people started with.
Begin with the end in mind; Covey's character-based self-help.
Allen's system of inboxes, next actions and weekly reviews; the productivity book.
Cal Newport on concentration as the skill of the century.
Cue, routine, reward; Duhigg on how habits work at Alcoa, Starbucks and in you.
Csikszentmihalyi on the state of total absorption and how to live in it.
A bear of very little brain in the Hundred Acre Wood; Milne and Shepard.
Five golden tickets and Willy Wonka; Dahl's factory of sweets and punishment.
Patroclus and Achilles from boyhood to Troy; Miller's Orange Prize.
The witch of the Odyssey tells her own story; Madeline Miller.
A science teacher wakes alone on a starship with amnesia and meets an alien engineer; Weir's best.
A smuggler in the only city on the Moon takes a job that turns into sabotage; Weir after The Martian.
Mark Watney stranded on Mars grows potatoes in his own waste; Weir's self-published hit.
A Cultural Revolution scientist contacts an alien civilisation; Liu Cixin's Hugo winner.
The strongest girl in the world lives alone with a horse and a monkey; Lindgren's anarchist.
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