Snap judgement: the art historians who saw a fake kouros in two seconds, and the police shooting that shows when two seconds are not enough.
Gladwell reopens his own 2000 book with darker cases: Miami bank fraud, a Los Angeles cheetah enclosure and the opioid epidemic.
Why underdogs win more often than the odds allow, from a girls' basketball full-court press to dyslexic chief executives.
Hofstadter on self-reference in logic, art and music, and where minds come from; the Pulitzer nobody finishes.
Simon Singh on the 358-year problem and Andrew Wiles's seven secret years solving it.
Jennifer Doudna and CRISPR; Isaacson on the gene-editing race.
Harari's human story redrawn as a comic; the same argument in pictures.
James Gleick on the butterfly effect and the scientists who found order in disorder.
John Harrison's clocks solve the problem that sank ships; Dava Sobel's short classic.
The woman whose cells, taken without consent in 1951, are still alive in every lab.
Sagan's book of the series: the pale blue dot before the photo and the cosmic calendar.
Matthew Walker on what eight hours do and what six hours cost.
System 1 and System 2, and every bias you have; Kahneman's Nobel work for readers.
What humans will want once famine, plague and war are solved; Harari's sequel.
Why drug dealers live with their mothers and what sumo wrestlers and teachers have in common.
Hawking on black holes and the beginning of time with one equation; the most unread bestseller.
Atul Gawande on what medicine gets wrong about dying, and what a good end looks like.
How small things become epidemics; Gladwell's connectors, mavens and salesmen.
A biography of cancer from ancient Egypt to gene therapy; Mukherjee's Pulitzer.
Ten thousand hours, Canadian hockey birthdays and why the Beatles were good; Gladwell on success.
A German forester on how trees talk, share and remember.
Bill Bryson explains the universe, the atom and the dinosaurs as if to a friend in a pub.
Mukherjee's intimate history of heredity, from Mendel's peas to CRISPR.
Why Eurasia conquered the rest: geography, crops and animals rather than people; Diamond's Pulitzer.
Evolution from the gene's point of view, and the word meme; Dawkins' 1976 classic.
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