The Pevensies through the wardrobe.
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.
Chatwin follows a piece of brontosaurus skin to the end of South America; the modern travel book.
Max in his wolf suit sails to the island of the wild things; ten sentences and every child knows them.
Five golden tickets and Willy Wonka; Dahl's factory of sweets and punishment.
Socrates on justice, the philosopher-king and the cave; the book Western philosophy replies to.
A spider saves a pig with words in her web; E. B. White's barnyard.
Aristotle on virtue as a habit and happiness as an activity; the golden mean.
Carnegie's 1936 rules: remember names, never argue, let the other person feel the idea is theirs.
T. E. Lawrence's own account of the Arab Revolt.
Adam Smith, the pin factory and the invisible hand; economics begins in 1776.
Robert Byron through Persia and Afghanistan in 1933 in search of the origins of Islamic architecture.
Machiavelli's advice to a ruler: better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
Graham's value investing and Mr Market; the book Warren Buffett calls the best ever written on investing.
Nietzsche on morality as the invention of the weak, in aphorisms.
Evolution from the gene's point of view, and the word meme; Dawkins' 1976 classic.
Rabbits flee a doomed warren and found a new one; Adams' epic with its own mythology.
A genius girl with telekinesis against Miss Trunchbull; Dahl's last great book.
Marcus Aurelius' private notes to himself on campaign; the Stoic handbook for emperors and CEOs.
The Library of Babel, the Garden of Forking Paths and Pierre Menard; Borges in seventeen stories.
The Monkey King escorts a monk to India in a hundred chapters; the Chinese classic behind every Goku.
The strongest girl in the world lives alone with a horse and a monkey; Lindgren's anarchist.
The Axis won and America is divided; Dick's alternate history.
A French girl and a Chinese man in colonial Saigon; Duras at 70 remembering.
Florentino waits fifty-one years, nine months and four days for Fermina; Garcia Marquez's romance.
Mobile infantry against the Bugs and a lecture on citizenship; Verhoeven turned it inside out.
A Tokyo dilettante and a geisha at a hot-spring town; Kawabata's Nobel novel.
Ged learns the true names of things and hunts his own shadow; the Earthsea cycle begins.
Warlords, strategists and the fall of the Han; the Chinese epic every game borrows.
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