Read When Breath Becomes Air

Atul Gawande on what medicine gets wrong about dying, and what a good end looks like.

Two years in a cabin by a pond; Thoreau on living deliberately.

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.

The woman whose cells, taken without consent in 1951, are still alive in every lab.

A biography of cancer from ancient Egypt to gene therapy; Mukherjee's Pulitzer.

Mukherjee's intimate history of heredity, from Mendel's peas to CRISPR.

Van der Kolk on trauma living in the body and how it heals; years on the bestseller list.