Choice architecture and how a default option changes what people do; Thaler's Nobel idea.
Ten thousand hours, Canadian hockey birthdays and why the Beatles were good; Gladwell on success.
How small things become epidemics; Gladwell's connectors, mavens and salesmen.
Why drug dealers live with their mothers and what sumo wrestlers and teachers have in common.
System 1 and System 2, and every bias you have; Kahneman's Nobel work for readers.
A neurosurgeon diagnosed with lung cancer at 36 writes about it until he cannot.
Atul Gawande on what medicine gets wrong about dying, and what a good end looks like.
A biography of cancer from ancient Egypt to gene therapy; Mukherjee's Pulitzer.
The woman whose cells, taken without consent in 1951, are still alive in every lab.
Rachel Carson on DDT and the birds that stopped singing; the book that started environmentalism.
Darwin's one long argument for natural selection, still readable.
Evolution from the gene's point of view, and the word meme; Dawkins' 1976 classic.
Sagan's book of the series: the pale blue dot before the photo and the cosmic calendar.
Hawking on black holes and the beginning of time with one equation; the most unread bestseller.
Bill Bryson explains the universe, the atom and the dinosaurs as if to a friend in a pub.
Why Eurasia conquered the rest: geography, crops and animals rather than people; Diamond's Pulitzer.
The Pevensies through the wardrobe.
A mouse invents a monster and then meets it; Donaldson and Scheffler's rhymes.
One apple, two pears and a lot of cake; the board book with holes.
Max in his wolf suit sails to the island of the wild things; ten sentences and every child knows them.
A spider saves a pig with words in her web; E. B. White's barnyard.
A genius girl with telekinesis against Miss Trunchbull; Dahl's last great book.
Rabbits flee a doomed warren and found a new one; Adams' epic with its own mythology.
A girl against the grey men who steal people's time; Ende's fable about hurry.
Bastian reads a book and ends up inside Fantastica; Ende in red and green ink.
Goldman's "good parts version" of a book that never existed; Westley, Buttercup and Inigo.
A torturer, a barbarian and a vain officer in Abercrombie's First Law; grimdark begins.
A con artist in a Venice of alchemy and sharks; Scott Lynch's Gentleman Bastards.
Rand al Thor leaves the Two Rivers with an Aes Sedai; the Wheel of Time begins its fourteen books.
Bridge crews, highstorms and Shardblades on Roshar; the Stormlight Archive begins at 1,000 pages.
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