Tezuka's eight-volume life of Siddhartha, funny and profound.
Michelle Obama from the South Side of Chicago to the White House.
Carmack and Romero build id Software and Doom; the video-game industry's origin story.
Percy Fawcett vanishes in the Amazon in 1925 and Grann goes to look.
Jennifer Doudna and CRISPR; Isaacson on the gene-editing race.
Vasari on Giotto, Leonardo and Michelangelo; art history begins in 1550.
From Detroit Red to Mecca, told to Alex Haley in the year before his assassination.
Isaacson from Ada Lovelace to the web; the collaborative history of the computer.
Mandela's autobiography from the Transkei to Robben Island to the presidency.
Shackleton's ship crushed in the ice and every man brought home; Lansing's telling.
Chris McCandless walks into Alaska and dies in a bus; Krakauer reconstructs why.
Isaacson's authorised biography from forty interviews; the reality distortion field.
The woman whose cells, taken without consent in 1951, are still alive in every lab.
Three daughters of China: a warlord's concubine, a communist official and the author, through Mao's century.
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