Carol Dweck's fixed versus growth mindset; the book every school quotes.
Susan Cain on the power of introverts in a world that cannot stop talking.
Matthew Walker on what eight hours do and what six hours cost.
Van der Kolk on trauma living in the body and how it heals; years on the bestseller list.
Mukherjee's intimate history of heredity, from Mendel's peas to CRISPR.
A German forester on how trees talk, share and remember.
A botanist and Potawatomi woman on what plants teach about gratitude; the slow bestseller.
The one we are causing, species by species; Kolbert's Pulitzer.
What humans will want once famine, plague and war are solved; Harari's sequel.
The fall of the Iranian monarchy in 1979 through photographs and fragments; Kapuscinski.
Kapuscinski's first assignments abroad with the first historian in his pocket.
Anne Applebaum's Pulitzer history of the Soviet camps from the archives.
Fourteen million killed between Hitler and Stalin in Poland, Ukraine and Belarus; Snyder's map of the killing.
Europe from 1945 to 2005 in one volume; Tony Judt's masterpiece.
Shirer, who was there, on Germany from 1933 to 1945 in 1,200 pages.
The first month of the First World War day by day; Tuchman's Pulitzer that Kennedy read during the missile crisis.
Mary Beard's thousand years of Rome from a village to an empire, without the togas.
World history recentred on Persia and Central Asia; Frankopan's bestseller.
American history from the losers' side, Columbus to Clinton; Zinn's two million copies.
Edward Said on how the West invented the East to rule it.
One is not born but becomes a woman; de Beauvoir's 1949 foundation of feminism.
Nietzsche on morality as the invention of the weak, in aphorisms.
Adam Smith, the pin factory and the invisible hand; economics begins in 1776.
Machiavelli's advice to a ruler: better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
Aristotle on virtue as a habit and happiness as an activity; the golden mean.
Socrates on justice, the philosopher-king and the cave; the book Western philosophy replies to.
Seneca writes to Lucilius on time, death and the cost of living well.
Marcus Aurelius' private notes to himself on campaign; the Stoic handbook for emperors and CEOs.
Viktor Frankl in Auschwitz and the psychology he built from it; those with a why can bear any how.
The improbable events that run history and the experts who never see them; Taleb's contempt.
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