From Detroit Red to Mecca, told to Alex Haley in the year before his assassination.
Mandela's autobiography from the Transkei to Robben Island to the presidency.
Tom Wolfe on the test pilots and the Mercury Seven.
Shackleton's ship crushed in the ice and every man brought home; Lansing's telling.
T. E. Lawrence's own account of the Arab Revolt.
Robert Byron through Persia and Afghanistan in 1933 in search of the origins of Islamic architecture.
Steinbeck drives around America with a poodle in 1960 to see what it has become.
Peter Matthiessen walks to Dolpo with a zoologist looking for a cat he never sees.
Chatwin in the Australian outback on Aboriginal dreaming tracks and why humans walk.
Chatwin follows a piece of brontosaurus skin to the end of South America; the modern travel book.
Bryson's farewell tour of Britain before moving back to America; the Britons' favourite book about themselves.
Bill Bryson attempts the Appalachian Trail with an unfit friend and a fear of bears.
Cheryl Strayed walks 1,100 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail after her mother's death.
Chris McCandless walks into Alaska and dies in a bus; Krakauer reconstructs why.
Krakauer on the 1996 Everest disaster he survived.
The 1893 Chicago World's Fair and the serial killer who built a hotel beside it.
The murder of a Kansas farm family and the two men who did it; Capote's non-fiction novel.
The leveraged buyout of RJR Nabisco in 1988; the deal book.
Michael Lewis at Salomon Brothers in the 1980s; the Wall Street memoir.
The handful who bet against the housing bubble; Michael Lewis makes CDOs a story.
Theranos, Elizabeth Holmes and the blood test that never worked; Carreyrou's reporting.
Jim Collins on the eleven companies that made the leap and the hedgehog concept.
Peter Thiel on monopolies, secrets and why competition is for losers.
Build, measure, learn; Ries on the minimum viable product.
Isaacson's authorised biography from forty interviews; the reality distortion field.
Phil Knight on the first years of Nike, selling shoes from a car boot to a Japanese bank loan.
Morgan Housel's nineteen short lessons on how people actually think about money.
Malkiel on why you cannot beat the market and should buy the index.
Graham's value investing and Mr Market; the book Warren Buffett calls the best ever written on investing.
Carnegie's 1936 rules: remember names, never argue, let the other person feel the idea is theirs.
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