Read Walden

Viktor Frankl in Auschwitz and the psychology he built from it; those with a why can bear any how.

A father and son ride from Minnesota to California while Pirsig asks what quality is.

A botanist and Potawatomi woman on what plants teach about gratitude; the slow bestseller.

Rachel Carson on DDT and the birds that stopped singing; the book that started environmentalism.

A neurosurgeon diagnosed with lung cancer at 36 writes about it until he cannot.

Zweig's memoir of Vienna before 1914 and Europe after, finished the day before his suicide.

Orwell fights in the Spanish Civil War, is shot through the throat and sees the revolution betrayed.

Orwell as a dishwasher and a tramp; poverty from the inside.