Rachel Carson on DDT and the birds that stopped singing; the book that started environmentalism.
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.
Seneca writes to Lucilius on time, death and the cost of living well.
T. E. Lawrence's own account of the Arab Revolt.
The murder of a Kansas farm family and the two men who did it; Capote's non-fiction novel.
Viktor Frankl in Auschwitz and the psychology he built from it; those with a why can bear any how.
Sagan's book of the series: the pale blue dot before the photo and the cosmic calendar.
Edward Said on how the West invented the East to rule it.
Rabbits flee a doomed warren and found a new one; Adams' epic with its own mythology.
Robert Byron through Persia and Afghanistan in 1933 in search of the origins of Islamic architecture.
A genius girl with telekinesis against Miss Trunchbull; Dahl's last great book.
Steinbeck drives around America with a poodle in 1960 to see what it has become.
Machiavelli's advice to a ruler: better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
Evolution from the gene's point of view, and the word meme; Dawkins' 1976 classic.
The Pevensies through the wardrobe.
Marcus Aurelius' private notes to himself on campaign; the Stoic handbook for emperors and CEOs.
Max in his wolf suit sails to the island of the wild things; ten sentences and every child knows them.
Adam Smith, the pin factory and the invisible hand; economics begins in 1776.
Carnegie's 1936 rules: remember names, never argue, let the other person feel the idea is theirs.
A man arrives in Comala looking for his father and finds a town of the dead; the book that taught Garcia Marquez.
Ged learns the true names of things and hunts his own shadow; the Earthsea cycle begins.
The strongest girl in the world lives alone with a horse and a monkey; Lindgren's anarchist.
Deckard, the replicants and the mood organ; the book behind Blade Runner.
A Tokyo dilettante and a geisha at a hot-spring town; Kawabata's Nobel novel.
Case, Molly and the matrix; Gibson invented cyberspace in 1984.
A girl against the grey men who steal people's time; Ende's fable about hurry.
Street children in 1930s Salvador; Jorge Amado's most loved.
Florentino waits fifty-one years, nine months and four days for Fermina; Garcia Marquez's romance.
A novel you can read in two orders; Cortazar's Paris and Buenos Aires.
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