Read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

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

An old professor drives to receive an honour and revisits his life in dreams.

A dog detective and a rabbity thing on a road trip through American kitsch.

Sal and Dean across America on a benzedrine scroll; the Beat generation's bible.

Steinbeck drives around America with a poodle in 1960 to see what it has become.

A runaway heiress and a reporter on a bus; the romantic comedy blueprint, and the first clean sweep of the big five.